Tim attends IUAPPA Regional Conference

Tim will be presenting AQMRC at the IUAPPA regional conference in Paris on 29^th and 30^th September.

The event is hosted by APPA – the French Air Pollution and Environmental Protection Organisation.

 

 

Disruption begins!!!

The start of the month saw the beginning of the Disruption project. This is a 3-year project looking at low-carbon travel behaviour funded by the RCUK Energy programme.

The project is a £1.3million project involving 7 research groups (at UWE, Leeds, Aberdeen, Lancaster, Brighton, OU, and Glasgow). The project is taking an inter-disciplinary approach to look at the issue of travel behaviour, suggesting that travel habits may not be as fixed and resistant to change as is commonly held.

Jim and Jo attending Air Pollution 2011

Jim and Jo are both attending the 19th International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution 2011 in Malta this week. Jim will be co-chairing the confernce and presenting a keynote address entitled 'Towards a new framework for air quality management in Nigeria', Jo will be presenting 'Assessing the potential for local action to achieve EU limit values'. The papers will be available in the conference proceedings book published by WIT Press.

Tim Gives CTS Seminar as New Associate Member

On Wednesday 14th September, Tim gave a presentation on "Air Quality and Climate Change: Environment, Transport and Behaviour" at the Centre for Transport and Society at UWE http://www.transport.uwe.ac.uk/

The seminar marked the inclusion of Tim in CTS as an associate member in recognition of the close links between the two centres.

Latest AQMRC publications

Recently published
Bailey, R., Longhurst, J.W.S., Hayes, E.T., Hudson, L., Ragnarsdottir, K..V. & Thumim, J. (2011) Envisioning the Future: a methodology for city scale carbon management The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses. 2 (4) 51-66

Olowoporoku, A. O., Hayes, E. T., Longhurst, J. W. S. & Parkhurst, G. (2011) Improving road transport-related air quality in England through joint working between Environmental Health Officers and Transport Planners. Local Environment 16 (3) 603-618

Liu, J. , Pankhurst, L.J., Deacon, L.J. , Abate, W. , Hayes, E.T. , Drew, G.H. , Longhurst, P.J. , Pollard, S., Longhurst, J. , Tyrrel, S.F. , Jackson, S.K. (2011) Evaluation of inflammatory effects of airborne endotoxin emitted from composting sources. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 30, 3, 602-606

In Press
Longhurst, J.W.S., Olowoporoku, A. O., Barnes, J., Chatterton, T.J., Hayes, E.T. and Irwin, J.G. Exploring issues of process efficiency and outcome effectiveness in the United Kingdom’s Local Air Quality Management Regime. (In Press, 2011) The International Journal of Sustainable Development & Planning

Weitkamp, E.L.C & Longhurst, J.W.S., (In press, 2011) Mediating Consultation: insights from private sector consultancies involved in air quality consultations Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

A. O. Olowoporoku, J.W.S. Longhurst, J. Barnes & C. Edokpayi. (In press, 2011). Towards a new framework for air quality management in Nigeria. In Brebbia, C., Longhurst, J.W.S. & Popov, V. (Editors) Air Pollution XIX WIT Press. Southampton and Boston.

J. H. Barnes, T. J. Chatterton, E. T. Hayes, J. W. S. Longhurst, A. O. Olowoporoku. (In press, 2011). Assessing the potential for local action to achieve EU limit values. In Brebbia, C., Longhurst, J.W.S. & Popov, V. (Editors) Air Pollution XIX WIT Press. Southampton and Boston.

Brebbia, C., Longhurst, J.W.S. & Popov, V. (Editors, In press 2011) Air Pollution XIX WIT Press. Southampton and Boston.

A full list of AQMRC publications is available on the website.

Academy of Science of South Africa Low Carbon Consensus Panel report published

The Academy of Science of South Africa Low Carbon Consensus Panel has now published their report Towards a Low Carbon City. AQMRC Director Jim Longhurst served on the panel and the full report can accessed at http://www.assaf.org.za/2011/08/durban-on-a-pathway-towards-a-low-carbon-city/

Full reference details are as follows:

Academy of Science of South Africa (2011) Towards a Low Carbon City. Focus on Durban. Report of the ASSAf Consensus Study on Low Carbon Cities. ASSAf, Pretoria, South Africa. pp263 ISBN 97809869835-4-2