The Ministry of Environment & Natural Resources published the Air Emissions Standards, Fuel Quality Standards, Vehicle Importation Standards by the Extraordinary Gazette notification No: 1295/11 to be effective from 01st July 2003.

Monitoring

•   Recent Activites of AirMAC [ File size: 11.6 Kb ]
•   What will be the severity of the problem of Air Pollution in Colombo City? [ File size: 1082.7 Kb ]
•   Community Led Environmental Awareness Network (CLEAN) [ Project Profile, File size: 208.5 Kb ]
•   Community Led Environmental Awareness Network (CLEAN) [ Project Profile, File size: 56 Kb ]
•   Sri Lanka Clean Air Initiative [ Project Profile, File size: 22 Kb ]

Standards, methodologies and guidelines
•   Eligibility of Passive Sampling Techniques for Rural Air Quality Monitoring
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•   Identification of Critical and Sinking Areas in Colombo by Means of Spatial Air Quality Monitoring
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•   Assessment of Air Quality Using Lichens [ File size: 340 Kb ]
•   Monitoring Air Pollution Levels in Kandy City Using Low Cost Air Sampling[ File size: 1379.9Kb ]
•   Monitoring Air Pollution in Anuradhapura Using Passive Gas Sampling Techniques: Possible
        Transboundary Effects[ File size: 980.5Kb ]

Air quality information systems
•   Sri Lanka Air Quality Index a Guide to Air Quality and Public Health [ File size: 500.6Kb ]
•   Air Pollution Monitoring Using Nuclear Related Analytical Technique-Energy
         Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence (ED- XRF) in Colombo [ File size: 1264.7Kb ]

Air quality data
•   What Colombo's Air Quality Data Tell Us? [ File size: 679.4Kb]
•   Air Pollution Trends in The Largest Industrial Area in Sri Lanka [ File size: 5708.6Kb]
• Emission Source and Estimates

Modeling

•   Power Plant Emissions in Colombo as a Tool for Urban Planning [ File size: 645.3Kb ]
•   Degradation of Sulfur Containing Pollutants Using ZnO Based Photocatalysts [ File size: 3061.1Kb ]
•   A Hybrid Mesoscale Wind Model for Air Quality Modeling [ File size: 273.8Kb ]
•   Sri Lanka Clean Air Initiative - Project Profile [ File size: 203.9Kb ]

Emissions inventories

•   Urban Air Quality Management in Sri Lanka [ File size: 3142.9Kb ]
•   Emission Testing and I/M Programmes for Reducing Emissions of Bajaj Brand of Vehicles in Sri Lanka - Project Profile [ File size: 210.6Kb ]

Methodologies
•   Vehicle emission inventory for Sri Lanka [ File size: 836.3Kb ]

Measuring impacts

Health impacts
•   Cooking or Being Cooked [ File size: 1604.4Kb ]
•   Urban Air Quality Management in Sri Lanka [ File size: 3142.9Kb ]
•   Risk of Cataract Formation with Exposure to Biomass [ File size: 142.5Kb ]
•   Investigation of Lung Cancer to Human Activities in Sri Lanka [ File size: 75.9Kb ]
•   Investigation of Air Pollution on Respiratory Diseases of Children - Project Profile [ File size: 207.9Kb ]
•   Sri Lanka Clean Air Initiative - Project Profile [ File size: 203.9Kb ]
•   Vehicle Emission health hazard carves inroads to country's economy [ News ]
Economic impacts
•   Property Damages from Urban Air Pollution [ File size: 58.4Kb ]
Environmental impacts
•   Effect of Air Pollution on a Few Selected Agricultural Crops in Sri Lanka [ File size: 2346.3Kb ]
•   Investigation of Air Pollution on Agricultural Crops - Project Profile [ File size: 207.8Kb ]

Transboundary Air Pollution

•   Development of passive sampling techniques for monitoring air quality in cities - Project Profile [ File size: 208.5Kb ]

Policies and instruments

•   Political Economics in the Vehicle Emission Reduction Programme in Sri Lanka [ File size: 451.2Kb ]
•   National Environmental Regulation No. 01 of 2000 [ File size: 12.9Kb ]
•   Mitigation of Urban Air Pollution through Implementation of Successful Vehicular Emission Testing Programme: Issues and Strategies [ File size: 140.3Kb ]
•   Educational Meterial four [ File size: 50 Kb ]
•   Educational Meterial five [ File size: 230 Kb ]

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