Rose and Jo present at IUAPPA 2010

Rose Bailey and Jo Barnes presented their research at the 15th IUAPPA World Clean Air Congress on 12th - 16th September 2010.

Rose presented City-scale Carbon Management: An Innovative Methodology for Imagining a Low Carbon Future in the Urban Sustainability Issues session, which she also chaired. Jo presented Reframing the United Kingdom's Air Quality Management Challenge: From Diagnosis to Solutions in the Approaches to Environmental Management session. Jo was also asked to present on What Scope is there for Demand Management to Deliver Better Urban Air Quality Environments in the Special Session: Greener Transport in a Post-Recession World.

The presentations were well received and generated a lot of interesting debate.

Visit the IUAPPA website and download the book of abstracts and the conference presentations.

For further information on Rose's and Jo's research, please email rosemary.bailey@uwe.ac.uk and jo.barnes@uwe.ac.uk respectively or visit their webpages: http://www.uwe.ac.uk/aqm/rose.html and http://www.uwe.ac.uk/aqm/jo.html.

Enda and Jim meet with Rob Hannaby from New Zealand Transport Agency

Enda and Jim recently had a lengthy, engaging and very informative meeting with Rob Hannaby, Principal Environmental Specialist from the New Zealand Transport Agency. Rob, an ex-air quality officer from Stoke-on-Trent City Council, contacted AQMRC as he wanted to learn more about the strengths and weaknesses local air quality management processes and the future challenges we face in the UK. Rob envisaged that the experiences of the UK highlighted by Enda and Jim may be beneficial in assisting the New Zealand transport authority in recognising their key role in managing local air quality and the lessons learned may be useful in informing future NZ policy.    

Enda presents at the Welsh Air Quality Forum

Enda gave a presentation at the annual Welsh Air Quality Forum Conference in Cwmbran on the 22^nd September 2010. The presentation entitled “Local Air Quality Management Update: Reviewing the Reviews” gave the delegates an insight into the findings and recommendations of the recent Local Air Quality Management Review (for which Enda was responsible for an extensive questionnaire survey of local authority opinions on the strengths and weakness of the LAQM process) and the Environmental Audit Committee inquiry into air quality in the UK.

Enda gives a presentation and chairs the annual SEPA Conference

Enda gave a presentation entitled “Setting the Scene: Local Air Quality Management in the UK” and also chaired the recent Urban Air Quality Annual Conference organised by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency. The Conference was directed at local authority land use planners, transport planners and sustainability staff can help to improve air quality, minimise the risk to human health and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The event, hosted by the Scottish Government in Victoria Quay, Edinburgh, on the 8^th September 2010, was well attended with over 90 delegates from environmental health, transport planning, land-use planning, environmental consultancies and academics.

Recent publication with the Department of Marine Sciences, University of Lagos, Nigeria

Dotun recently co-authored a journal paper on the pollution status of water bodies that feeds the Lagos Lagoon. The paper was published in collaboration with colleagues from the Department of Marine Sciences, University of Lagos, Nigeria.

Edokpayi, C. A., Olowoporoku, A. O. and Uwadiae, R. E. (2010). The hydrochemistry and macrobenthic fauna characteristics of an urban draining creek. International Journal of Biodiversity and Conservation 2(8), 196-203. Available online on here

More recent publications...

The following short articles have been published in the August 2010 issue of the Environmental Scientist which is devoted to Imagining Britain in 2050.

Dotun Olowoporoku and Jim Longhurst (2010)
Cities and the vision of a green, pleasant and low carbon UK.
Environmental Scientist 19 (2) 8-11

Rose Bailey and Jim Longhurst (2010)
Case Study: 2050 Bristol. A world leader in green business and sustainable living.
Environmental Scientist 19 (2) 29-34

The Environmental Scientist is the Journal of the Institution of Environmental Sciences, ISSN 09668411.
For information on the IES visit http://www.ies-uk.org.uk/

AQMRC Publications Update

Recent publications from AQMRC:

Dorfman, P., Gibbs, D.C., Leksmono, N.S., Longhurst, J. W. S., Weitkamp, E.L.C. (2010) Exploring the context of consultation. The case of Local air Quality Management. Local Environment 15:1 15 – 26.

Olowoporoku, A. O., Hayes, E. T., Leksmono, N. S., Longhurst, J. W. S. & Parkhurst, G. (2010) A longitudinal study of the links between Local Air Quality Management and Local Transport Planning policy processes in England. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 53 (3), 385 – 403.

AQMRC/EPUK-SW Annual conference - 12th October 2010 - BOOK NOW!!

The Air Quality Management Resource Centre, UWE and Environmental Protection SW are proud to announce their collaboration once more with the launch of the 2010 Annual Conference. The theme of this year's event is "Healing the Rift: Health Effects of Air Quality and Noise" and includes distinguished speakers such as Robert Vaughan, Bob Maynard, Frank Kelly and Dick Derwent. You can also meet EPUK's new Chief Executive Officer, James Grugeon.

UWE will be hosting the event at their purpose-built Exhibition and Conference Centre in Bristol. The venue is easily accessible by road, rail, bus or cycle - in fact we will be offering free mugs for those travelling by sustainable means, so keep your tickets! - and there is also a nearby Holiday Inn for those planning on travelling a little further.

The conference is to be held on Tuesday 12th October - just 5 weeks away! - so make sure you book your place for what promises to be a fascinating insight into cross-policy interaction with plenty of relevance for Action Planning for both Air Quality and Noise.

Click here to download a flier and booking form.

Air Pollution 2011 Call for Papers

Air Pollution 2011, 19th International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution, 19 - 21 September 2011 Malta

The call for papers has now been published at http://www.wessex.ac.uk/11-conferences/airpollution-2011.html

Further details from Claire Shiell
Conference Secretariat,

Wessex Institute of Technology,

Ashurst Lodge,

Ashurst,

Southampton, SO40 7AA

Tel: 44 (0) 238 0293223

Fax: 44 (0) 238 0292853

cshiell@wessex.ac.uk

Air Pollution 2010 - Post conference report now available

Air Pollution 2010 18th International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution, 21 - 23 June 2010, Kos, Greece

Post Conference Report Now Available at http://www.wessex.ac.uk/10-conferences/air-pollution-2010.html

The 18th International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution (Air Pollution 2010) has recently taken place on the island of Kos, Greece, organised by Professor Jim Longhurst from the University of the West of England and Professor Carlos A Brebbia from Wessex Institute of Technology (WIT).
This successful international meeting built upon the prestigious outcomes of the 17 preceding conferences beginning in Monterrey, Mexico in 1993 and most recently in Tallinn, Estonia, in 2009. These meetings have always attracted outstanding contributions from leading researchers from around the world. The presented papers have been permanently stored in the WIT eLibrary as Transactions of the Wessex Institute (see http://library.witpress.com/). These papers provide an important online record of the development of science and policy pertaining to air pollution and they remain permanently available for researchers to access. Read the full conference report at http://www.wessex.ac.uk/10-conferences/air-pollution-2010.html