“…Air pollution is one of the major environmental problems facing the modern world, leading to adverse impacts on human health (Brook et al, 2004;Brunekreef and Holgate, 2002;Cook et al, 2005;Dockery et al, 1993;Lelieveld et al, 2015;Nel, 2005;Pope III and Dockery, 2006;Samet et al, 2000;Yim and Barrett, 2012;Yim et al, 2013Yim et al, , 2015Yim et al, , 2019a, the environment (Gu et al, 2018;Lee et al, 2005;Rodhe et al, 2002), climate (Guo et al, 2016;Koren et al, 2012;Li et al, 2011;Liu et al, 2018, and economic costs (Y. J. Yin et al, 2017). This study focuses specifically on the phenomenon of transboundary air pollution (TAP; Yim et al, 2019b), which creates problems of assigning attribution and thwarts the implementation of effec-S. H. L. Yim et al: Air quality and acid deposition impacts tive policies.…”