Reader’s guide

Who should read this guidebook?

This guidebook has been written for city professionals involved in the assessment and management of air quality. It discusses topics of good practice, giving recommendations and examples.

How to read this guidebook?

It is easy to find the way in this book. The topics are arranged the following sections:

Governance	Geographical integration
	Participation of stakeholders
	Resources for air quality management
	Collaboration between city departments
	Tools for air quality management
	Collaboration between regions and cities
Legislation	Legislation and interpretation of directives
	Implementation of EC air quality directives
Assessment	Air quality monitoring methods Air quality assessment tools and methods
Planning and measures	Air quality strategies and action plan development
	Traffic measures
	Land use measures
	Models for planning

The reader may browse through the sections of interest, or may go through the content list (see the back pages of this guidebook) to find topics of interest.

All topics can be read and understood on their own. Each topic ends with a recommendation, and many topics have one or more practical examples. The examples are not printed in the book, but can be looked up in the CD-ROM or at www.integaire.org. The examples are listed at the back of this guidebook.

Is there another way to read the guidebook?

This guidance is also available as a searchable database on the CD-ROM. The database includes the examples of good practice. The database is also available on www.integaire.org (section “Good Practice Database”).

Who wrote this guidebook?

This guidebook has been written by INTEGAIRE, a network of air pollution experts from cities and research institutes. The topic descriptions, recommendations and examples have been drafted by individual members, and have subsequently been discussed and improved by the entire network.

INTEGAIRE was established and funded under the Fifth Framework Research Programme of the European Union, under the key action ‘City of Tomorrow and Cultural Heritage’.

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