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According to FARN's research, the
following benefits in air and noise quality may occur in a sustainable city:
- Preservation and improvement of air and noise quality
so as to guarantee human health and environmental protection;
- Assessment, in a systematic and continuous way, of
noise level and air quality in the city;
- Interdisciplinary, scientific and applied research,
improving knowledge bases regarding air quality of the city, mechanisms
for its preservation, as well as the causes and effects of air pollution
on public health;
- Information systematization;
- Design of public participation instances in the
process of planning, performance and control of air pollution programmes,
plans and/or policies;
- Strengthening the competence of local authorities, as
well as the decentralization of enforcement and control functions
according to an institutional coordination framework;
- Implementation of inter-jurisdictional coordination
mechanisms for air pollution control and prevention;
- Connection between local policies on air quality -
emission control and the responsibilities assumed by the countries at
international conventions related to ozone protection and global warming
issues.
Likewise, some benefits related to water
quality in sustainable cities are the following:
- Promoting the rational use and equitable distribution
of water resources in order to ensure meeting the needs of current and
future generations.
- Preservation, restoration and improvement of water
resources for all cyclical phases.
- Inter-institutional coordination in water policy
design;
- Prevention, mitigation and control of negative impacts
that human activity may cause on water, ensuring the ecological,
economic and social sustainability of the resource;
- Maintenance of an adequate level of water quality,
preventing and controlling activities that may degrade the resource
directly or indirectly;
- Promoting technological innovation in productive
processes, encouraging those aiming towards the achievement of
sustainability;
- Incorporation of prevention and mitigation of all
those pernicious effects that may affect water resources according to
urban planning criteria;
- Decentralization of water resources management within
the framework of a coordinated policy;
- Public participation when determining water uses.
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Central
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Sweden
Argentina
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