Twentieth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability

Abstract

In this paper, a comparative approach has been adopted for understanding the current levels of pollution within the cities of several developed as well as developing countries through the analysis of crucial environmental parameters. The objective of doing this is to identify, highlight and compile the best practices that can be adopted for tackling the significant challenges posed by air pollution in these diverse regions. The best practices so highlighted, from both the categories of countries (i.e., developed and developing countries) and their urban centers, can offer crucial guidance for mitigating the ever growing consequences of climate change and pollution. Such practices can also be identified as a set of important case examples, which can subsequently guide similar cities or regions while empowering them to deal with the challenges of air pollution through similar yet improvised approaches. This paper deals with the consideration of air pollution as a core issue, and considers the case of several cities in different countries. One of the major outcomes of the study is to initiate and set in motion a process of creative dialogues between different arrangements and stakeholders through the learnings about sustainable approaches to tackle air pollution and their associated implementation. Additionally, such an approach can serve as the starting point to understand how and why the air pollution is claustrophobic to human beings as well as to the concept of ‘city as an organism’.

Presenters

Navneet Munoth
Assistant Professor, Architecture and Planning, MANIT, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

Vidhi Goel
Student, PhD, Manit Bhopal, India

Anugrah Anilkumar Nagaich
Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture and Planning, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Madhya Pradesh, India