Danish Workshop

On 28th November, Tim will be helping run a stakeholder workshop at the Danish Centre for Environment and Energy in Roskilde, Denmark ad part of UWE's work to support the review of the Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution.

Tim in EU Meetings

On Tuesday 27th November, Tim will be in Brussels attending meetings with DG-ENV for UWE's projects on ozone and stakeholder recommendations.

'Air as a common good' paper published

AQMRC, UWE is pleased to announce the publication of a paper co-authored by members of the Faculties of Environment and Technology and Business and Law, and led by Dr Mark Everard. 'Air as a common good' has just been published online in the Journal of Environmental Science and Policy and can be found at:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2012.04.008. The paper explores the ecosystem services of air alongside its legal status and discusses how an ecosystem approach could improve management of air.

Europe's air story told in pictures

European Environment Agency (EEA)
www.eea.europa.eu

Air is a tricky subject to photograph, but this challenge has proved to be a source of inspiration for the winners of photo storycompetition ‘ImaginAIR’, organised by the European Environment Agency (EEA).

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What works in energy saving?

DECC has just published a new report on 'what works in changing energy behaviours in the home?' http://www.decc.gov.uk/assets/decc/11/tackling-climate-change/saving-energy-co2/6921-what-works-in-changing-energyusing-behaviours-in-.pdf

The report is from a project that Tim Chatterton undertook with RAND Europe and Charlie Wilson from the University of East Anglia.

It forms part of the wider evidence base for DECC's new Energy Efficiency Strategy http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/tackling/saving_energy/what_doing/eedo/eedo.aspx#

Jim chairs international expert panel in Portugal

The Environment and Global Changes Panel of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) met in Lisbon between the 7^th and  9^th of November 2012. The international expert panel, chaired by Jim Longhurst, evaluated 341 research proposals and made recommendations for funding to FCT.  

 

FCT Panel Members

Back row, left to right: Joel Knoery, Sabine Kleinsteuber, Christian Kjær, Alastair Grant, James Longhurst, Jürgen P. Kropp, Ingvar Brandt, José Miguel Rodríguez Maroto, Vincent O'Flaherty. Front row, left to right: Matt Bentley, Mara Silva, Georgina Mace, Ariana Zeka, Maryse Labriet, Lídia Ferreira, Jose Maria Baldasano Recio, Darren Reynolds, Petros Samaras.

 

Mo receives IAQM Ian McCrae Travel Award

One of our recently completed PhD students, Dr Mofoluso Fagbeja, has just been awarded the IAQM McCrae Travel Award.

The award is for a paper presentation at the 2013 American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Annual Conference in Baltimore, Maryland USA in March.

The paper is titled, "A subjective assessment of the suitability of SCIAMACHY total column CO measurements to interpolate reliable concentration estimates over a low-latitude region."

Congratualtions, Mo!

Tim at Behaviour, Energy and Climate Change in Sacramento

Tim is currently attending the BECC conference in Sacramento, California this week. He will be presenting the work that he has been doing with DECC, Defra and DfTon multi-model approaches to energy behaviour, and running a workshop for practitioners on the 'Four Dimensions of Behaviour' (4DB) framework that he has been developing with Charlie Wilson at UEA. The workshop "When is a behaviour not (simply) a behaviour?" Will take examples brought by participants and use the novel 4x5 framework tool to examine the key characteristics of each behaviour and explore how they differ and how different models and tools for understanding them and devising interventions might be more or less applicable.