Forthcoming paper

Everard, M., Pontin, B., Appleby, T., Staddon, C., Hayes, E.T., Barnes, J.H., Longhurst, J.W.S. (In press) Air as a common good.  Environmental Science & Policy

AQMRC’s Jo Barnes, Enda Hayes and Jim Longhurst have collaborated with lawyers Tom Appleby and Ben Pontin and ecosystem services expert Mark Everard to explore the question of air as a common good. In the paper, to be published later this year in Environmental Science & Policy,  legal, technical, social and systems approaches are used to explorer  how the ecosystem services framework might inform management of the air.

Farewell, Mo!

Following his  successful PhD viva  Mofoluso is returning to Nigeria after 4 years in AQMRC, UWE  researching  for his PhD. Mo rejoins the Nigerian National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) in Abuja and will continue to collaborate with AQMRC on a range of air quality and carbon management issues. Mo will return to the UK in July 2012 to attend his graduation ceremony and in the meantime will continue to publish the findings of his PhD in the peer review literature.

All colleagues in AQMRC wish Mo a safe journey home and send best wishes for the resumption of his career in NASRDA.

Jo presents at IAQM Action Planning meeting

Jo was invited to speak at the IAQM meeting on Action Planning last Wednesday (18th April) and presented her research on: "Barriers to developing and implementing local Air Quality Action Plans". She was joined by Simon Baldwin (Welsh Government), Steve Moorcroft (Air Quality Consultants Ltd), and Robert Vaughan and Emily Connolly (Defra). The presentations were well-received and prompted a very intense and interesting debate around the future of Air Quality Action Planning in the UK. The presentations will be uploaded to the IAQM website shortly - http://www.iaqm.co.uk/. Thanks to Bernard Fisher and Clare Beattie for organizing and Roger Barrowcliffe for chairing.

Congratulations to Jo

The Air Quality Management Resource Centre is pleased to announce the promotion of Jo Barnes to Research Fellow. Congratulations to Jo on this well-earned promotion!

Jo delivering LAQM training to Devon local authorities

Jo will be delivering a two-day workshop of LAQM training to Environmental Health Officers from across Devon on 19th-20th April. The event, hosted by Plymouth City Council, will provide an introduction to LAQM for EHOs who have recently taken on an air quality role. The training materials are drawn from the Air Quality and Carbon Management short courses which the AQMRC run in conjunction with the MSc Air Quality and Carbon Management. Further details on the MSc and on the short courses can be found on the UWE website (http://courses.uwe.ac.uk/H22A1/2012). Alternatively, if you would like us to come and deliver bespoke training for your local authority or region, please contact jo.barnes@uwe.ac.uk.

Jo to present at IAQM Action Planning meeting

Jo will be presenting at the IAQM Action Planning meeting in London this afternoon. Her presentation, entitled 'Barriers to developing and implementing local Air Quality Action Plans', will draw on the findings of her PhD research so far and the LAQM review questionnaire undertaken by AQMRC, UWE and Air Quality Consultants as part of a report to Defra in 2010. Other presentations include Simon Baldwin, Welsh Government: 'Examples of Actions Plans illustrating ‘better practice’ in terms of the integrated environmental policies', Steve Moorcroft, Air Quality Consultants ‘Efficiency of Action Plans (Defra study)’, Emily Connolly and Robert Vaughan, Defra: ‘Review of LAQM – outlining the options for a future regime’.