UWE and Cranfield NERC funded research on impacts of commercial composting

Read the recent press release on this NERC funded project at http://info.uwe.ac.uk/news/uwenews/article.asp?item=1470&year=2009.

Institute for Sustainability, Health and the Environment Inaugural Conference

More than 100 invited guests drawn from practitioners, researchers and policy makers in public health, local authorities, environment, planning, business and other organisations attended the inaugural conference of the Institute on April 21st . The conference entitled Anticipating Tomorrow for Change Today featured amongst others a presentation from the co-directors of ISHE, Judy Orme and Jim Longhurst outlining the vision, aims, capacity and capability of the Institute .

Read the associated press release here. http://info.uwe.ac.uk/news/uwenews/article.asp?item=1468&year=2009

The presentations from the conference will be available on the ISHE web site (http://www.uwe.ac.uk/ishe/) soon.

AQMRC Work Featured in Research and Knowledge Exchange Conference

The work of the Air Quality Management Resource Centre was presented at the Faculty of Environment and Technology’s Research and Knowledge Exchange Conference held on April 23rd 2009. Click here to see the presentation on AQMRC delivered by Jim Longhurst.

Biomass and Air Quality Guidance Consultation Now Online

The draft biomass and air quality guidance is now available on the Environmental Protection UK website for consultation. The link is:

www.environmental-protection.org.uk/biomass

The consultation period will run until Friday 8th May, responses should be sent to Ed Dearnley via post or email.

Environmental Protection UK
44 Grand Parade
Brighton
BN2 9QA

Email - ed.dearnley@environmental-protection.org.uk

AQMRC at Environmental Protection UK Spring Workshop

The AQMRC team attended the Environmental Protection UK Spring Workshop in beautiful Northamptonshire last week and contributed a couple of presentations and a workshop to the proceedings. Dotun struck a chord amongst the delegates with his presentation on 'Air Quality and the Local Transport Planning Process', while Jo addressed the 'Capacity development and capability enhancement opportunities for air quality and carbon management professionals', introducing the Masters level CPD training course that is currently being developed by the AQMRC, and Tim gave an animated introduction to the LAQM process in his 'LAQM for beginners' workshop (pictured). The presentations are available from the Environmental Protection UK website http://www.environmental-protection.org.uk/events/details/?id=1743.