Urban Planning and Policy Tools Against Climate Change and Air Pollution: Scope and Application of Common Policy Framework to Solve the Problem of Climate Change and Air Pollution

The issue of climate change (CC) and air pollution (AP) is a matter of integration due to the interaction at their happening and impact creation. In this book the impact on each other is described and compared at urban setting. To mitigate and adapt the problem CC and AP Urban Planning and Policy(UPP) Tools are listed based on two dimensions: one is emission control and another one in effect adaptation dimension. Among the emission control planning and policy tools urban density, urban spatial form, urban design aspects, Floor area Ratio, Zoning, Transport oriented development, Travel Demand Management and livelihood improvement strategy are discussed as indirect emission control tools. On the other hand as direct emission control tools development mitigation fee and emission density zoning are discussed. The second dimension of the integrated problem is effect dimension. At city level only urban heat island (UHI) is an effect dimension of the climate change and air pollution. To adapt this problem different tools are discussed under three broad categories. Based on the analysis of all tools finally a common policy framework is developed and discussed for the application.