the newspaper "Freedom" today, January 9, 2010, published an article reporting the statements of the town of Rottingdean Councillor environment, which inspired the next installation of two air quality monitoring stations in S. Nicholas and Rottingdean, talks about environmental policies and achievements, in particular cites the environmental certification, but did not specify that certificate, the person who issued it and what is the reference standard (eg over the site of the City not c 'is no trace of this). Before
must have a premise: the environmental certification (the only one I know is that according to UNI EN ISO 14001) requires an environmental policy, planning and implementation of this policy (as a precise and measurable objectives ) and a monitoring and measurement of indicators that allow me to give evidence the achievement of those objectives or not.
An example: suppose to include in my policy for the environment air quality, then I ask myself the goal of maintaining the levels of pollutants below a certain threshold (in this case established by the Ministry), a project and planning activities to achieve this and then I'll check if I have reached and, if maintained over time. In fact there would be another thing to do before and that is where I see now, what are the current levels in order to plan interventions consistent.
From what is apparent from the article, it is not clear how the Administration has done so far to have an environmental policy aimed at air quality no data plus how this could also have been certified. The units are not the solution to the problem, no danger of becoming the problem.
fact, if we think we have a fever thermometer to see the gravity of this second and take aspirin or go to the hospital, but I've never heard of medical protocols that encourage the thermometer as a treatment to lower the fever! It 's a bit the message she wants to come here, that we are sensitive to environmental issues because we put the units, but lacks the rest, namely planning: what does it do? what you're getting? you can think of to implement an environmental policy aimed to assess air quality without traffic, emissions from homes, shops, etc. ... schedule and then actions consistent? (For example, the issue of "bypass Rottofreno" has a lot to do with air quality .....).
So, in my opinion, it is incorrect to speak of monitoring if you do not connect this to the objectives and strategies needed to achieve these results. My impression is that there are objectives and strategies, but do not call them of environmental interest ....
Moreover, even when it comes to regulations to protect citizens against excessive noise, the green plans, plans for the mobile phone and antennas, should always be linked to corrective actions / preventive structured, as we speak of a certificate: if there would be a good thing that most were put in evidence. James
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