Foundation Course on Air Quality Management in Asia

Global Environment Outlook 4

UNEP (2007)

The fourth report in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4) assessment series provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the state of the environment. GEO-4 addresses the key challenges facing our planet, highlights emerging environmental issues that require policy attention and makes recommendations for decision-makers to act.

http://www.unep.org/geo/geo4/report/GEO-4_Report_Full_en.pdf

Urban Air Pollution in Asian Cities

Earthscan (2006)

Air pollution has become part of the daily existence of many people who work, live and use the streets in Asian cities. Each day millions of city dwellers breathe air polluted with concentrations of chemicals, smoke and particles that dramatically exceed World Health Organization guideline values. Deteriorating air quality has resulted in significant impacts on human health and environment in Asia.

This book provides a comprehensive and comparative assessment of the current status and challenges in urban air pollution management in 20 cities in the Asian region. It examines the effects on human health and the environment and future implications for planning, transport and energy sectors. National and local governments have begun to develop air quality management strategies to address the deterioration in urban air quality; however, the scope and effectiveness of such strategies vary widely. This book benchmarks these air quality management strategies, examines successes and failures in these cities and presents strategies for improving air quality management in cities across Asia and the rest of our rapidly urbanizing world.

Information on air quality in Asia is clearly presented with easy-to-read city profiles, tables and graphs. This is an essential resource for all those concerned with urban air quality management, not just in Asia but in cities across our rapidly urbanizing world.

http://www.earthscan.co.uk/default.aspx?tabid=1455

Urban Air Quality Management Toolbook for Developing Countries Toolkit

UNEP (2006)

The general purpose of the Handbook is to give urban managers in developing countries an overview of the general process of urban air quality management. The tools found in the Toolkit portion of the Toolbook/CD-ROM - for example, the case studies, spreadsheets, simple mathematical models, and maps - are designed to give an indication of the seriousness of air pollution in order to encourage policymakers and stakeholders to support strategy development, action planning, and implementation of proven practices to deal with air quality issues.

http://www.unep.org/urban_environment/PDFs/handbook.pdf

http://www.unep.org/urban_environment/PDFs/toolkit.pdf

Country Synthesis Reports on Urban Air Quality Management in Asia

CAI-Asia (2006)

The country and city synthesis report (CSR) is the first comprehensive overview of urban air quality management (AQM) for 17 countries and 1 city (Hong Kong, SAR) in Asia. The research for these CSRs was led by the Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities (CAI-Asia) Secretariat with inputs by a range of organizations and air quality experts from across Asia and elsewhere.

http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia/1412/channel.html

Journal of World Transport Policy and Practice

World Transport Policy & Practice (WTPP) is a FREE quarterly journal which provides a high quality medium for original and creative work in world transport.WTPP has a philosophy based on the equal importance of academic rigour and a strong commitment to ideas, policies and practical initiatives that will bring about a reduction in global dependency on cars, lorries and aircraft.WTPP has a commitment to sustainable transport which embraces the urgent need to cut global emissions of carbon dioxide, to reduce the amount of new infrastructure of all kinds and to highlight the importance of future generations, the poor, those who live in degraded environments and those deprived of human rights by planning systems that put a higher importance on economic objectives than on the environment and social justice.To help it to reach a wide readership, encompassing advocates and activists as well as academics and advisers, WTPP is available free of charge as PDF files on the internet

http://www.ecoplan.org/wtpp/wtj_index.htm .

GTZ's Sustainable Transport Sourcebook

This Sourcebook on Sustainable Urban Transport addresses the key areas of a sustainable transport policy framework for a developing city. The Sourcebook consists of more than 26 modules. It is also complemented by a series of training documents and other material. It is intended for policy-makers in developing cities, and their advisors.

http://www.sutp.org/index.php?option=
com_content&task=view&id=427&Itemid=73&lang=en

Climate Change: assessing the environmental burden of disease at national and local levels

WHO (2007)

Climate change is an emerging risk factor for human health. There is now widespread consensus among the scientific community that the earth is warming, that this is mainly due to human activities, and that this will continue for at least the next several decades. It is therefore important to obtain the best possible assessment of the likely health impacts of climate change. This is a particularly challenging task. The guidance presented outlines a general approach, and describes how the methods that were applied in the World Health Organization global comparative risk assessment project. It should be useful in generating preliminary estimates of some of the health effects of climate change, and as a guide to developing more comprehensive and accurate assessment in the future.

http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2007/9789241595674_eng.pdf

The Clean Development Mechanism and Urban Air Pollution: A Handbook for Policymakers

Curb-Air (2008)

The handbook is aims to guide policymakers, civil servants and anyone interested in the issue of CDM, urban air pollution and climate change.

http://www.curb-air.org/