26-29 March: SEA-UEMA Project, MUST Training on UAQM in KL
The Asian Institute of Technology, through the SEA-UEMA Project, and the Malaysia University of Science and Technology (MUST), will jointly conduct the 'Professional Training on Urban Air Quality Management: Policy and Tools for Integrated Assessment' on March 26-29, 2007 at the Grand Season's Hotel in Kuala Lumpur (KL), Malaysia.
The 4-day training aims to:
- To provide an overview of air pollution in the urban environment, including the primary sources, pollutants, health impacts, and management strategies,
- Familiarize the participants with an integrated assessment approach to urban air quality management (UAQM) that emphasizes the simultaneous evaluation of various pollution abatement options and coordination among diverse stakeholders,
- To introduce tools and methodologies for health and risk assessment, emissions inventories and modeling, and sustainable transport planning (in 3 parallel sessions), and
- To encourage the establishment of a network of experts and sharing of experiences.
Around 40 participants from Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Timor-Leste and Vietnam are expected to attend the training. They are policy makers, urban environmental managers, and researchers who are directly involved in a relevant aspect of UAQM (air quality monitoring, emission inventories, air pollution modeling, public health, urban environmental policy, or transportation and/or urban planning), and are working in city authorities, government agencies, NGOs, academic and research institutions, and other organizations in the region.
The training will consist of lectures, exercises and a field trip. Lecturers from AIT, MUST, ETV Canada and OCETA will instruct and guide the participants on specific topics of the training.
The Southeast Asia Urban Environmental Management Applications (SEA-UEMA) Project—a joint initiative between Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)—aims to improve the urban environmental conditions in this region through good urban environmental management (UEM) policies and practices with gender equality and poverty reduction as crosscutting issues. The MUST, a post-graduate research university located outside Kuala Lumpur, offers Masters of Science degrees in Biotechnology, Information Technology, Transportation and Logistics, Systems Engineering and Management, Materials Science Engineering, Construction Engineering and Management, and Energy and Environment. The Energy and Environment program has been actively involved in the SEA-UEMA sub-sector network and has executed a JAR research project on urban air quality management for Kuala Lumpur.
For more information about this training, please visit http://www.sea-uema.ait.ac.th/ or send an e-mail to uemapplications@ait.ac.th