LAQM Guidance and tools now available

The LAQM Policy Guidance (England only); Practice Guidance (England only) and Technical Guidance (all of the UK) have been launched today (19th February 2009) in electronic format (hard copy to follow). New support tools are also now available and the Report Submission Website is now live. These documents and support tools can all be accessed at the links below:

LAQM Policy Guidance (England only): http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/airquality/local/guidance/pdf/laqm-policy-guidance-part4.pdf.
LAQM Technical Guidance (all of the UK): http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/airquality/local/guidance/pdf/tech-guidance-laqm-tg-09.pdf.
LAQM Technical Guidance Support Tools: http://laburnum.aeat.co.uk/archive/laqm/tools.php.

These documents and links for the LAQM Practice Guidance (England only) are also available on the LAQM Guidance pages of the Defra website: http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/airquality/local/guidance/index.htm.

Report Submission Website: http://www.airquality.co.uk/archive/la_report_admin/logon.php. Further information and login details, etc, will be sent out next week.

The Review and Assessment website FAQs will be updated tomorrow.

Bookmark these links and happy reading!

Rose and Mofoluso's abstracts accepted for RGS-IBG Conference

Rose and Mofoluso have both had abstracts accepted for presentation at the forthcoming RGS-IBG Postgraduate Forum mid-term conference, at the University of Plymouth on 7th March. The conference provides an opportunity for postgraduates working on aspects of geography to present their research, and also to participate in workshops addressing aspects of postgraduate development. More information on the conference can be found here.

Celebrating 10,000 subscribers - Science for Environment Policy goes from strength to strength

Now with 10,000 subscribers, Science for Environment Policy plays a key role in disseminating cutting edge, policy-relevant research findings in the environmental sciences. The news alert service is edited by the Science Communication Unit at the University of the West of England on behalf of the European Commission. It was first launched in January 2006 and quickly attracted a considerable number of subscriptions from old Member States of the EU. Recently, these figures have been buoyed by a notable and important increase in subscribers from new EU Member States.

Doubravka Nedvedova of the Ministry of Environment of the Czech Republic, the service’s 10,000th subscriber, said: “Being from the Czech Republic, I was delighted to find a service that directly addresses a number of the environmental problems we face both nationally and across the EU. It is very helpful to have such clearly written and relevant information delivered directly to my inbox.”

Brought to you FREE by DG Environment of the European Commission, this information service brings policy-relevant research findings in the following areas direct to the subscriber’s email inbox:

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Air Quality Management Resource Centre are very pleased to be working with SCU on this project.

Rose lectures at University of Iceland

Rose has just returned from giving three lectures at the University of Iceland, from 7th - 10th February. These included lectures on carbon management and carbon footprinting, for Masters students taking a course on 'Sustainable Futures', and a lecture on her research as a case study of carbon management, for Environmental Engineering Undergraduates. The lectures can be downloaded on her research page.

Rose is pleased that she managed to see some of Iceland's beautiful scenery whilst there, but isn't sorry to leave behind the sub-zero tempertures!

New LAQM training session in the south east

Due to massive demand, Air Quality Management Resource Centre, UWE, and Air Quality Consultants Ltd will be holding another LAQM Training session in the south east in addition to the previously advertised events in Bristol, Reading and York.

The new event will be held at the Hawth in Crawley on Tuesday 3rd March. Please click here to access further information and the registration form.

South West EP-UK & AQMRC 11th Annual Conference: Local Authority National Environmental Indicators – Where next?

Environmental Protection UK South West Division & Air Quality Management Resource Management Centre, UWE, are holding their 11th Annual Conference: Local Authority National Environmental Indicators – Where next? at Bristol Zoo on Friday, 20th March 2009.
Please click here for a copy of the flier and details of how to register.

Public Health publication

The journal Public Health has just published a paper jointly written by Tim Chatterton at AQMRC, with colleagues at UWE in the Centre for Transport and Society, and the British Market Research Board.  The paper provides a summary and discussion of key issues arising in research carried out by them for the Department of Transport.

 

Understanding how transport choices are affected by the environment and health: Views expressed in a study on the use of carbon calculators

T.J. Chatterton, A. Coulter, C. Musselwhite, G. Lyons and S. Clegg

doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2008.10.022  

Tim Exchanges Knowledge at IEMA

On 28th January, Tim presented the AQMRC's work in the UK, Europe, Africa and Asia to the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment's Knoledge Transfer (Exchange) Workshop.  The event, held in Oxford, was aimed at bringing the work of a range of accademic institutions to the the attention  of the practioner and business communities and was well attended by representatives from the UK Research Councils, Universities and businesses.  Further details of the meeting and presentations can be found on the IEMA website <a heref="http://www.iema.net/conferences/knowledgeexchange">here</a>.

Rose to lecture at University of Iceland, Reykjavik

Rose will be contributing to a weekend of lectures on sustainable futures, at the University of Iceland, Reykjavik. Rose will be lecturing Masters students on carbon management frameworks and accounting techniques. The lecture series has been organised by Professor Vala Ragnarsdottir, Dean of the Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Iceland, and one of Rose's supervisors, and will run from 6th-9th February.