Author(s)

Qian Zhang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Foshan Sanshui Ecological Environment Monitoring Station, Foshan, Guangdong, 528100, China

Corresponding Author

Qian Zhang

ABSTRACT

Air pollution prevention and control is shifting from total emission control to targeted policy-making, and environmental monitoring networks have gradually evolved from basic technical infrastructures into core information systems supporting scientific decision-making and institutional operation. This study focuses on how to optimize environmental monitoring networks to effectively support targeted policy-making in air pollution control, and conducts a systematic analysis from three interrelated dimensions: theoretical framework, data-model coupling, and decision-making chain restructuring. We emphasize reconstructing the monitoring paradigm based on information efficiency, optimizing the network structure under multi-objective constraints, and establishing an indicator system that converts observational performance into governance performance. On this basis, the study further reveals the critical roles of data quality governance, explicit uncertainty expression, and multi-scale mechanism constraints in constructing the governance evidence chain, and clarifies the supporting mechanisms of monitoring network optimization in promoting targeted pollution identification, evidence-based decision-making, and closed-loop governance. The results show that embedding the optimization of environmental monitoring networks into the governance logic improves the rationality and institutional stability of air pollution prevention and control, while providing a solid information foundation and methodological support for targeted policy-making.

KEYWORDS

Environmental Monitoring Network; Air Pollution Prevention and Control; Targeted Policy-Making; Information Efficiency; Governance Evidence Chain

CITE THIS PAPER

Qian Zhang. Environmental Monitoring Network Optimization for Supporting Targeted Policy-making in Air Pollution Prevention and Control. Environment, Resource and Ecology Journal (2026). Vol. 10, No.1, 9-15. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/erej.2026.100102.

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