Guidance Framework for Better Air Quality in Asian Cities - Air Quality Governance

The chapter begins by presenting regulatory instruments employed independently and in combination to manage air quality; then discusses how these instruments are embedded in different governance arrangements. It is understood that there is unlikely to be a universal approach for different contexts in Asia, hence the instruments and arrangements will vary across countries and cities. Instead, this guidance area illustrates how core governance principles can help make the policy instruments and governance arrangements actionable in many settings. The chapter then presents various stages of air quality governance and a roadmap that can help policymakers move forward until they reach the fully developed stage, where various challenges would have been addressed to harness the energies and insights of more stakeholders at different levels.