Tim involved in workshop at Bristol Leadership Festival

On Friday 18^th November, Tim will be involved in running a workshop on behaviour at the Bristol Leadership Festival with Fiona Spotswood (editor of 'Beyond Behaviour Change: Interdisciplinary approaches and future directions’ ), John Bromley (Director of The National Social Marketing Centre), Naomi Brook (Lifestyles Project Manager, Coventry City Council,), Andrew Darnton (author of The ISM Tool, A D Research) and Natalie Horne (Director of Prime-Decision behavioural insight consultancy) 

 

http://www.festivalofleadership.org/friday/4592977023

 

 

 

Tim speaks at Routes to Clean Air 2

Tim was invited to present the groups work on “Putting People at the Heart of Air Quality Management” at the recent IAQM Routes to Clean Air 2 conference.

The invitation was as a last minute replacement for Professor Frank Kelly who had to pull out at the last moment.

http://iaqm.co.uk/event/routes-to-clean-air-2016/

 

Ben and Jim pen an air polution blog for Healthy Cities Week

As part of Bristol Green Capital’s Healthy Cities Week, Ben and Jim penned a blog piece discussing air pollution progress over the last 60 years.

 

The blog piece and other articles can be found here: http://bristolgreencapital.org/air-pollution-a-global-crisis-or-a-problem-solved/ and here: http://bristolgreencapital.org/

 

 

 

 

 

 

The AQMRC out in force at RTCA 2

The AQMRC were out in force at the Routes to Clean Air Conference, held in The Grand Hotel Bristol on the 11^th and 12^th of October, with Jim, Tim, Jo, Ben and Emily in attendance.

 

Contributions were given from Jim Longhurst and Tim Chatterton on the first day. Jim discussed what has been achieved since the Clean Air Act of 1956, and Tim spoke on air pollution, exposure inequality and future research through the Clair-City project. Jim also chaired a number of sessions over both days. Other talks focused on health impacts, emissions monitoring and modelling and local solutions to the air pollution crisis.

 

The conference was considered a great success and we look forward to Routes to Clean Air 3 next year!

 

 

 

New Publications from AQMRC

The Proceedings of the 24^th Conference Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution held in Crete are now available.   The Proceedings are co-edited by Jim Longhurst, Carlos Brebbia and Jo Barnes and are available from WIT Press: Longhurst, J.W.S.,    Brebbia, C.A.  & Barnes, J.H. (Editors, 2016)   Air Pollution XXIV. WIT Press, Southampton and Boston. pp280,  ISBN: 978-1-78466-129-8

 

Selected papers from the 24^th Conference have been published in a Special issue of the International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning edited by Jim Longhurst and Carlos Brebbia: Longhurst J.W.S. & Brebbia, C.A (2016, editors) Special Issue: Air Pollution.  International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning 11 (4) pp157 ISSN 1743-7601

 

The special issue includes the Key Note conference paper authored by AQMRC staff: Longhurst, J.W.S.,   Barnes, J.H.,   Chatterton, T.J., Hayes, E.T.,   &   Williams, B.  (2016) Progress with Air Quality Management in the 60 years since the UK Clean Air Act, 1956. Lessons, failures, challenges and opportunities.  International Journal of Sustainable Development & Planning.       11 (4) 491–499

 

Other publications from the Air Pollution Conference are also available through the AQMRC Research Repository and several are shown below.

 

Williams, B., Barnes, J., Chatterton, T., Hayes, E. T. and Longhurst, J. (2016) A critical review of the robustness of the UK government’s air quality plan and expected compliance dates. WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, 207. pp. 1-9. ISSN 1743-3541 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/28958

 

Chatterton, T. and Barnes, J. (2016) A social and spatial analysis of emissions from private vehicle use in Great Britain. WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, 207. pp. 99-110. ISSN 1743-3541 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/28883

 

Barnes, J. and Chatterton, T. (2016) An environmental justice analysis of exposure to traffic-related pollutants in England and Wales. In: Air Pollution XXIV, Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution, Greece, 20-22 June 2016, Crete, Greece, 20-22 June 2016. Southampton, UK: Wessex Institute of Technology Press Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/28882

 

 

 

Jim to present at the Routes To Clean Air Conference

Jim Longhurst will be reviewing progress in air quality management since the Clean Air Act of 1956 at the Routes to Clean Air conference organised by IAQM and the IES and being held in Bristol on October 11-12, 2016. Full details are available at http://iaqm.co.uk/event/routes-to-clean-air-2016/   The AQMRC team have helped with the local organisation and will be chairing a session at the event.

 

 

 

Jo interviewed for Made in Bristol #BristolNews

Jo will be featuring in an interview on Bristol News on Made in Bristol TV tonight at 6pm and 9pm https://www.madeinbristol.tv/programme/bristolnews/. The feature focuses on air pollution in Bristol following the publication of a new WHO report last month http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2016/air-pollution-estimates/en/.

Enda invited to Brussels to explore synergies among EU funded projects

Enda has been invited to two workshops in Brussel on 11^th October to explore methods to enhance synergies among EU funded Research and Innovation projects related to air quality and carbon footprint in cities. Representing the ClairCity consortium (www.claircity.eu), the morning workshop will allow Enda to introduce the project to the Partnership on Air Quality (PAQ) of the Urban Agenda of the EU (http://urbanagendaforthe.eu/partnerships/air-quality/) as part of the European Week of Regions and Cities. The afternoon workshop will bring the three Horizon 2020 funded projects (ClairCity, ICARUS and iSCAPE) together with EASME to explore opportunities for collaboration.

 

Enda and Ben attend bioaerosol workshop

Enda and Ben attended a NERC/DSTL workshop in Cranfield University (30^th September) which brings the ENDOTOXII and RAMBIE projects together to explore synergies and collaboration opportunities. Ben presented on the dispersion modelling elements of the ENDOTOXII project while Enda introduced the basis of the ENDOTOXII analytical framework which will be developed with Cranfield to assess the SIBS and other datasets.