Better understanding of ecosystem responses to air quality impacts and of restoration trajectories / rates of recovery of impacted systems in response to policy interventions

Background

We need research to articulate the health and environmental costs and benefits of complex policy interventions that influence air and soundscape quality. This includes the environmental impacts and human health related ones.

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    The project focuses on ecological restoration, which is not directly related to the question.

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    The Environment Agency has a statutory duty to ensure that operations carried out by industrial operations do not have an unacceptable impact on habitats and species protected under the EU Habitats Directive 1992 and the...

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