GLOBALSMOG
Researching air pollution in cities of the Global South
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As the research project will unfold over the coming years, we will share results, accounts from the field and news through this website.
Global Car Seminar
A joint seminar between members of the Global Car project and members of the Globalsmog team will be held on Oct 18 at the CERMES3 Lab (Site Saints Pères Paris). This seminar will discuss the global market of second hand cars and its impact for the Global South countries. Two of our colleagues will present their work:
Jessica Pourraz (Sciences Po Bordeaux) - Du statut de déchet à celui de véhicule d’occasion :
la construction du marché automobile au Ghana
Bérénice Bon (CESSMA, IRD, Université de Paris) - Du Japon à Nairobi, remonter les filières des véhicules d'occasion au Kenya
Globalsmog Seminar Series #1
The degradation of air quality in Africa and Asia exacerbates health inequalities, economic burdens, and governance struggles. Despite increasing efforts to measure, regulate, and mitigate air pollution, critical questions remain regarding its effects on public health, the effectiveness of current policies, the expansion of monitoring systems, and the role of social movements in shaping air quality governance.
As part of the Globalsmog research project, this first seminar series brings together academics and activists to explore these themes through case studies spanning India, Iran, Ivory Coast, Mexico, Morocco, Thailand, Senegal, and Vietnam.
In order to attend the online sessions (Zoom) you need to pre-register with the following link: https://lnkd.in/gpyf7MXj
A link will be sent to your registered email before each session.
The Project
Air pollution is a global environmental and health problem. Although it has become a major concern in the large cities of the Global South, few of them manage to tackle this pollution effectively. This multidisciplinary research project proposes to better understand what causes such hindrance by analyzing the perceptions of this public health problem, the orientations of public action and the obstacles to its implementation in five African and five Asian cities.
Research Objectives
To better understand the role of international cooperation and globalization processes for the framing of air pollution issues and circulation of knowledge.
To better understand the interplay between scientific knowledge and policy in the context of the Global South.
To explain and analyse the local social processes of issue framing and agenda setting around ambient air pollution in LMIC cities.
To analyse cross-sectoral policy making in the context of large LMIC cities.
To formulate policy recommendations in order to foster better policymaking and implementation for the cities of the Global South.