Politics of Improving Urban Air Quality

Edited by Wyn P. Grant, Emeritus Professor of Politics, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK, Anthony Perl, Professor of Urban Studies and Political Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada and Peter Knoepfel, Professor of Public Policy Analysis and Environmental Policies, Institute for Advanced Studies in Public Administration, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

• Contents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. When Policy Networks Collide: The Institutional Dynamic of Air Pollution Policy-making in two Canadian Cities 3. ‘Soft’ Institutions for Hard Problems: Instituting Air Pollution Policies in Three Italian Regions 4. Improving Air Quality in Italian Cities: The Outcome of an Emergency Policy Style 5. Shifting Tools and Shifting Meanings in Urban Traffic Policy: The Case of Turin 6. Changing Definitions and Networks in Clean Air Policy in France 7. Lyon’s Urban Transportation Policy and the Air Quality Problem: A Policy Network Approach 8. Clean Air and Transport Policy in Switzerland: The Case of Berne 9. Conclusion: Institution Building for Sustainable Urban Mobility Policies Bibliography Index