integrated urban governance and air quality management in europe

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integrated urban governance and air quality
management in europe
INTEGAIRE Integrated Urban Governance and Air
Quality Management UWE Bristol
Bristol 23-24 September 2002
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Work Plan Strands of Activity

• Development of a strongly integrated model and
  appropriate tools that link air quality science
  and technology to the needs of the policy end
  user at the urban level
• Facilitate identification of RTD gaps and future
  RTD priorities in urban air quality management
  and urban governance to assist the development of
  the new research agenda

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WP 2 Dissemination and Exploitation

• Aim dissemination local and regional decision
  makers/elected members local and regional
  officers scientific community EU institutions
• Lead UWE (specific responsibility for the
  internet based dissemination and management
  outputs of the project) Eurocities (specific
  responsibility for paper based dissemination
  outputs),
• Partners TNO (dissemination to academic and
  scientific), Birmingham (urban specialists)

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WP 2 Dissemination and Exploitation

• Target Groups
• Local and regional decision makers / elected
  members
• Local and regional officers / experts
• Other local and regional actors
• Scientific Community
• European Institutions - European Commission
  (CAFÉ)

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WP 2 Dissemination and Exploitation

• Web Features
• bi-lingual interactive framework - project work
  and outreach
• dedicated intranet (password protected) for
  project management
• public information on project progress
• platform for exchange of experience
• good practice database - policy,tools, methods,
  systems, instruments
• discussion forum and helpdesk - to assist the
  network

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WP 2 Dissemination and Exploitation

• Web Functions
• key dissemination instrument of the project
• raising awareness and understanding at the local
  level
• networking between stakeholders
• channeling dissemination, feedback and
  exploitation
• build consensus at a political level for future
  policy options

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WP 2 Dissemination and Exploitation

• Other Promotion
• Electronic News Service - regular news service to
  disseminate articles and news item
• Magazine - publication of a bi-annual printed
  magazine
• News Briefs - focussed on issues developed in the
  framework of the thematic work packages
• Key Conferences - and press releases

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WP 2 Dissemination and Exploitation

• Final Conference
• major synthesis conference - Integrated Urban
  Governance and Air Quality
• Interim RTD Synthesis Report - key support
  document for conference
• Final RTD Synthesis Report - holistic approach
  to integrating the three thematic WPs plus
  examples of best practice

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WP 4 Governance and Air Quality Management

• Aimdevelop vertical and horizontal
  co-ordination, urban governance, define
  appropiate level to locate innovations in urban
  governance, maximise citizen participation
• Lead UWE (overall responsibility for outcomes of
  WP)
• Partners Eurocities, Birmingham, Gothenburg,
  Dusseldorf (preparation of basic discussion
  documents for preparatory meetings and active
  participation in workshops. Co-responsible for
  workshop reports)

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WP 4 Governance and Air Quality Management

• Work Package Stages - Post Kick Off
• state of the art collection and assessment on
  relevance to the project and potential
  contribution to governance and urban air quality
• good practice review initiated through the
  development of questionnaire to local
  authorities.

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WP 4 Governance and Air Quality Management

• Work Package Stages - Workshop
• focus on presentation of the state of the art
• debate and agreement on key challenges and
  barriers to implementation of efficient
  governance for urban air quality

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WP 4 Governance and Air Quality Management

• Issues for Governance
• policy effectiveness
• relationship levels of government
• relevance to citizens
• democracy and legitimacy

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WP 4 Governance and Air Quality Management

• Policy Problems
• problems cross cutting
• levels of government
• sectoral policy domains
• institutional policy domains

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WP 4 Governance and Air Quality Management

• Governance Requires
• holistic approach that integrates
• central role to subnational government
• partnerhip between stakeholders
• strategic approach based on consensus
• institutional integration
• systematic dialogue
• multi level governance

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WP 4 Governance and Air Quality Management

• Integration and Integaire
• Integaires recommendations - how to integrate
  the urban air quality policy with other aspects
• WP4 - Integrate AQ policy between governance
  levels AQ policy of a city with regional policy
•  WP5 - Integrate air quality (AQ) policy of a
  city with other fields within the city spatial
  planning, traffic management, noise, etc.
• WP 6 3 Integrate AQ policy between governance
  levels AQ policy of city with CAFE (EUs Clean
  Air For Europe programme)
•  WP3-6 - Integrate AQ policy of cities with
  science 

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WP 4 Governance and Air Quality Management

• Target groups for Integaire
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• Integaire will develop recommendations for three
  targets
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• cities in Europe, in particular municipal air
  quality officers for improving their practice.
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• CAFE programme of European Commission DG
  Environment, in particular the CAFE secretariat
  (and/or CAFEs Technical Analysis Group for
  improving integration of the city level in EU
  policy development.
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• Scientific community - for improving the
  relevance of research for cities in particular
  DG Research - for urban AQ related research (6th
  Framework Programme).

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WP 4 Governance and Air Quality Management

• Interaction with three target groups
• Interaction implies
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• Identification of needs (problems, specific
  questions) to be addressed by Integaire (input
  from target to Integaire)
• Recommendations on problems and questions
  (output from Integaire to target).

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WP 4 Governance and Air Quality Management

• Interaction organised differently for three
  target groups
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• Interaction with cities
• o        Identification of needs through
• Own experience of Integaire city partners (WP4-6)
• Questionnaires (WP4-6)
• Literature survey (WP4-6)
• o        Recommendations through
• Interim WP reports by WP4-6?
• Final WP reports by WP4-6?
• Integaires interim and final report (WP3-6)
• Integaire Good Practice Database ( WP2 6)
• Publications, presentations, etc (WP2)

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WP 4 Governance and Air Quality Management

• Interaction with CAFE
•    Identification of needs
• Ask CAFE secretariat what they need (WP3)
• Ask CAFE Steering Group what should be discussed
  in Integaire? (WP3)
• Identify relevant issues that we wish CAFE to
  take on board (WP4-6, facilitated by WP3)
• Recommendations through
• Written recommendations to CAFE (WP4-6,
  facilitated by WP3)
• A special chapter in Integaire Final report (WP3,
  based on results by WP4-6)

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WP 4 Governance and Air Quality Management

• Interaction with the scientific community
• Identification of needs
• The needs of the scientific community are already
  defined by Integaires work programme what are
  the research priorities for the future concerning
  air quality research
•         Recommendations through
• Separate chapter in Final report, composed of
  recommendations on research needs (WP4-6,
  facilitated by WP3)
• Presentations on workshops (by WP3-6)
• Dissemination through website (by WP2)
• Special document to DG Research (WP3)

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WP 4 Governance and Air Quality Management

• Reporting Structures
• Introduction
• Overview of state of the art. Review of good
  practice, overview literature, related projects
  and activities, key challenges and barriers.
• Method and Approach
• Description of the working method and approach
  in WP4.
• Issues
• Individual issues are discussed (definition of
  issue, background, analysis, recommendations)
  according to a well-defined common structure.  
• General conclusions on governance and management

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WP 4 Governance and Air Quality Management

• Work Package Stages - Post Workshop
• development of strategies and actions to overcome
  the challenges via the use of Internet based
  discussion

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WP 4 Governance and Air Quality Management

• Work Package Stages - 2nd Workshop
• mid-term workshop (year 2) to bring
  representatives of all Work Packages together to
  assess progress
• workshop also to identify the remaining work and
  prepare for the final workshop