Friday 13 February 2009

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:

Agriculture
Air pollution
Biodiversity
Biotechnology
Chemicals
Climate Change & Energy
Environment and Health
Environmental Information Services
Environment Technologies
Forests
Land use Marine Ecosystem
Natural Hazards
Noise
Risk Assessment
Soil
Sustainable Consumption and Production
Sustainable Development and Policy Assessment
Sustainable Mobility
Urban Environment
Waste Water

The service is weekly and covers recently published studies. The articles are written in easy-to-read, non-scientific English specifically to allow non-scientists and non-native speakers of English easy access to the latest scientific research.
To subscribe to the service, send an email to
sfep@uwe.ac.uk with the message line: 'subscribe-SfEP' or visit the news alert website at: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/integration/research/research_alert_en.htm
For more information please contact:

Emma Weitkamp, Managing Editor
Tel +44 (0) 117 32 82081
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Or Michelle Kilfoyle, Production Editor
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Michelle.kilfoyle@uwe.ac.uk

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!