Innovative solutions to air pollution
Co-created transdisciplinary approaches using methods such as interviews, storytelling, participatory mapping, theatre, playful activities and music can contribute to air pollution awareness and solutions to improved air quality. This approach accounts for local knowledge, cultural practices and priorities of the intended recipients of interventions, thereby making these interventions and respective air pollution abatement policies more effective and inclusive.
- Use of a mixture of qualitative, participatory and creative approaches to engage with a wide range of stakeholders can lead to an improved understanding of air pollution (and its effects on human and ecosystem health) and appropriateness of respective solutions
- Communication between affected communities and policymakers at equal and appreciative level
- Contrasting definitions of air pollution
- Unexpected solutions to the problem
- Differing perceptions of who was responsible for enacting solutions
- Overall view that air pollution cannot be seen in isolation from other socio-environmental issues faced by settlement residents