Reporting from DDRN workshop: Urban Environmental Management and Air Quality in Less Developed Countries

The overall objective of the workshop was to present and discuss air pollution problems in relation to capacity development, policy implementation, and research and technology knowledge sharing.

Date and venue: November 30, 2007 - Carlsberg Academy, Valby.
Main organiser: Peter Vangsbo Madsen, National Environmental Research Institute (NERI).

Please find below the presentations from the workshop:

1_Urban Environmental Management and Air Quality in Less Developed Countries, by Peter Vangsbo Madsen, National Environmental Research Institute, University of Aarhus, Denmark [pdf]
2_Urban Environmental Management and Air Quality in Urban Areas in Less Developed
Countries, by Dieter Schwela, Stockholm Environment Institute, University of York, United Kingdom [pdf]
3_Development of the South African National Framework on Air Quality, by Tim Chatterton, Air Quality Management Resource Centre, University of the West of England, Bristol [pdf]
4_Rapid Urban Air Quality Assessment (RUA): A Cost-effective Tool for Air Quality
Management in Less Developed Countries, by Julião J. Cumbane, Department of Physics, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique [pdf]
5_Academic capacity development and knowledge sharing as a development aid issue, by Kevin Hicks, Stockholm Environment Institute, University of York, UK [pdf]
6_How the Scandinavian air pollution research institutes can improve air quality in the growing urban spheres in the developing countries, by Bjarne Sivertsen, Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway [pdf]
7_Opportunities for Scientific Interrelation between research and the industrial sector in
the less developed world, by Avishkar Koosialee, SASOL, South Africa [pdf]
8_Air Pollution Management in South East Asia, by Noor Zaitun Haji Yahaya, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, UK [pdf] 
9_African emissions and air pollution: the need for monitoring network, by Adetutu Mary Aghedo, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany [pdf]
10_Public-Private Partnership in Air Quality Management: A case study from Nepal, by Karsten Fuglsang, FORCE Technology, Suman Sharma, MOEST & Chiranjibi Gautam, AEPN, Nepal [pdf]