AQMRC article published in Atmospheric Environment

The AQMRC are pleased to announce the publication of their paper, "The development of effects-based air quality management regimes", in the forthcoming issue of Atmospheric Environment. The article may be accessed via the journal website www.elsevier.com/locate/atmosenv.

Longhurst, J.W.S., Irwin, J.G, Chatterton, T.J., Hayes, E.T., Leksmono, N.S. and Symons, J.K., (2009). The development of effects-based air quality management regimes, Atmospheric Environment, 43, 64-78. [doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.09.050]

AQMRC Air Quality and Climate Change Seminars

This morning saw the first of a series of Monday morning seminars presented by the Air Quality Management Resource Centre's staff and PhD students. Professor Jim Longhurst entertained a packed auditorium with his take on 'Air quality in historical perspective', reflecting on lessons that may be learnt and the length of time it takes to learn them!

The next seminar on 15th December will be given by Dr Tim Chatterton, who will be speaking on 'South Africa's National Framework on air quality' and exploring UWE's role in an exemplar of integrated environmental governance.

Further details are available on this seminar schedule. If you are interested in attending this or any of the future seminars (or just fancy a free croissant and coffee!) please notify aqmrc@uwe.ac.uk in advance.

Simon and Jim present at first annual GWR Research Symposium

Professor Jim Longhurst and PhD student Simon Baldwin gave presentations to a large audience at 'Future Imperfect': the first annual Great Western Research Symposium. Simon presented in the Sustainability Workshop on the opportunities and barriers to the 'Integration of air quality and climate change at a regional and local governance level'.  He also presented a poster on the same subject during the lunchtime interval.  Jim, speaking in the main Plenary Session, had the slightly more challenging task of discussing 'Major environmental challenges and responses' in which he examined some of the major environmental issues of current and future generations.

Nurul attends Better Air Quality Workshop 2008

Nurul will be presenting 2 posters at the Better Air Quality Workshop 2008, which will be held in Bangkok on 12-14 November 2008. The workshop theme is "Air Quality and Climate Change: scaling up win-win solutions for Asia," representing two important trends that are shaping the future direction of urban air quality management in Asia. Nurul will share the experience of local authorities on Local Air Quality Management consultation to Asian colleagues and the transferability of the research outcomes to other locally based environmental management issues. The posters are entitled "Applying lessons from local air quality management consultation to climate change" and "The potential impact from increased use of wood-fuelled biomass to local air quality in London: lessons to exchange with mega-cities in Asian countries.

Sustainable Urban Transport Seminar

Sustainable Urban Transport:Bristol Environmental Technologies& Services (BETS) Networking Seminar

Date: Monday, 17 November, 2008
Time: 17:30 - 19:45
Venue: Street Café, Frenchay Campus, BS16 1QY
Cost: Free of charge

Programme:
1730: Registration and light refreshments1800: Welcome - Professor James Longhurst, Co-Director, Institute for Sustainability, Health and Environment
1810: Technologies for Sustainable Transport - Dr Jose Marquez and Martin Volny, Egis Mobilité
1830: Lessons and Reflections on Recent Developments in Sustainable Urban Transport - Dr Graham Parkhurst, UWE
1850: The UWE Travel Plan - Steve Ward
1910: Thanks and Close - Professor James Longhurst, Co-Director, Institute for Sustainability, Health and Environment
1915: Networking
1945: Close

This event is hosted by the Faculty of Environment and Technology and Research, Business and Innovation, University of the West of England, in collaboration with Egis Mobilité.
You can register for the event here
Or for further information, please contact:Tel 0117 32 82808Email rbi@uwe.ac.uk

Defra LAQM TG08 consultation meeting

Consultation responses to the new LAQM Technical Guidance were reviewed and appraised at a meeting of air quality consultants and government representatives at the Defra offices in London last week. Around 25 in-depth responses were gratefully received and the points raised were laboriously discussed and debated to create a useful and workable set of guidance for local government. The document will be reworked and completed over the next couple of months with a provisional deadline for publication before Christmas. Join the Review and Assesment mailing list to receive email notification of further updates on LAQM Guidance.

EP-UK: 'Local Action on Air Quality and Climate Change'

Environmental Protection UK held their training event: Local Action on Air Quality and Climate Change at the Aston Business Centre in Birmingham last Wednesday. The sell-out meeting was attended by Jo Barnes, on behalf of the AQMRC, and included a range of interesting speakers from central and local government, consultancies, industry and lobbyists. Presentations are available from the EP-UK website http://www.environmental-protection.org.uk/events/details/?id=1234.

Interreg IV - PARM

Jo Barnes represented the AQMRC last week at a meeting of potential western UK partners of a major new INTERREG IV project: Partuculates Air Rives Manche (PARM). The multi-million euro investigation links air quality experts in northern France and southern England to monitor particulates (PM10 and PM2.5) and disseminate data, best practice and public awareness materials. Other potential western partners include the Air Quality Unit at Cornwall College, Cornwall Council, Teignbridge District Council, Torbay District Council, Weymouth & Portland District Council and Plymouth City Council. The eastern contingent are represented by EP-UK, Sussex Air Quality Partnership and Kent District Council. The project bid will be submitted in February 2009, so watch this space for further information...

Global visitor distribution map

Visitors click here to see the latest global distribution of interest in our work. Please drop us a line if you were one of our global visitors and tell us what you liked (or didn't!) about our site. Email aqmrc@uwe.ac.uk.

Tim is invited participant in major Asian Governance workshop

Tim has gone to the Philippines to participate in a workshop funded by the Asia-Europe Foundation and the Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration (EROPA).

The workshop is part of a move to develop a pan-Asian higher education curriculum for teaching environmental governance.

 

http://ecogov.blogspot.com/2007/08/asia-europe-workshop-towards.html

 

Tim will be presenting aspects of AQMRC's work in relation to South Africa and Asia, as well as discussing the special role of academia within environmental governance and the current work for Herda developing higher education materials for air quality and carbon management.

 

The workshop is being held as part of a major conference looking at 3 core aspects of governance in Asia "Governance in a Triptych: Environment, Migration, and Peace and Order"

Air Quality & Carbon Management Project Steering Group

AQMRC welcome members of Air Quality & Carbon Management Project Steering Group for the first Steering Group meeting which will be held on 16th October 2008 at UWE. This project, funded by HERDA-SW, will develop training materials on the subjects of air quality and carbon management to meet the higher level skills needs of air quality professionals. Members of the Steering Group are Prof. Bernard Fisher (the Institute of Air Quality Management), Ed Dearnley (Environmental Protection UK), Dr Nick Davey (entran Ltd) and representatives of South West Local Authorities - Steve Crawshaw (Bristol City Council), Denise Powell (Gloucestershire Pollution Group), and Sarah Hodgson (Teignbridge District Council).

Jim in Science Cafes - October 27th at the Tobacco Factory

Jim will be speaking about Air Quality Management at the Tobacco Factory on 27th October, at 7.30pm. His talk will discuss why, when we know so much about the cause and composition of air quality problems, are we not making more progress in improving air quality?

Science Cafes are informal and free meetings to explore the latest ideas in science and technology.

Click here to get directions to the Tobacco Factory.

Enda attends NACA Conference in South Africa

Enda presented two papers at the 16th International Union of Air Pollution Prevention and Environmental Protection Associations (IUAPPA) regional conference in association with the annual meeting of the National Association for Clean Air (NACA) in South Africa last  week. The conference was held from 1st - 3rd October near the Kruger National Park under the theme of "Where did all the Clean Air go?". Enda presented papers co-authored with AQMRC colleagues  entitled: "Ten years of air quality management in the UK: A model for the South African National Framework on air quality" and "The potential impact from increased use of wood-fuelled biomass on local air quality in London: Lessons to exchange with mega-cities in developing countries". Enda was also invited to sit on an IUAPPA special panel on "Linking air pollution and climate change: The challenge for Africa".

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Air Pollution 2008 - Jim's opening address

Air Pollution 2008
Sixteenth International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution
22-24th September 2008
Skiathos, Greece.

Read conference co-Chair Jim Longhurst's opening address to the Air Pollution 2008 conference here.

AQMRC Responds to Consultations

This autumn has seen a frenzy of consultation deadlines, and over last week AQMRC has sent in responses to the consultations on the new UK LAQM Guidance and the National Health Service Carbon Reduction Strategy.  For further information on our views, please contact us at aqmrc@uwe.ac.uk

Enda presents...IUAPPA - NACA conference South Africa

Dr Enda Hayes will be presenting two papers at the 16th International Union of Air Pollution Prevention and Environmental Protection Associations (IUAPPA) regional conference in association with the annual meeting of the National Association for Clean Air (NACA) in South Africa this week. The conference will be held from 1st - 3rd October near the beautiful Kruger National Park under the theme of "Where did all the Clean Air go?". Enda will be presenting papers entitled: "Ten years of air quality management in the UK: A model for the South African National Framework on air quality" and "The potential impact from increased use of wood-fuelled biomass on local air quality in London: Lessons to exchange with mega-cities in developing countries". Photos have been promised...as promised.

Research showcase posters

The Sustainable Energy and the Environment Research Showcase at Bath University on Wednesday 17th September was a resounding success with hundreds of delegates attending from academia and industry. The event provided a perfect opportunity for dissemination of the broad range of PhD and research projects currently being undertaken by the AQMRC.

Click on the following titles to link to the posters posted on the AQMRC website:

Integrated Management of Nitrogen Dioxide in Wales (Ross Hunter);
Innovative Learning Opportunities to Build Capacity and Capability in Air Quality and Carbon Management (Nurul Leksmono);
Progress, Barriers and Opportunities for the Co-management of Air Pollution and Carbon Emissions in South West England (Simon Baldwin);
Applying Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques to Air Quality and Carbon Management - a Case Study of Gas Flaring in the Niger Delta (Mofoluso Fagbeja);
Carbon Management at the City Scale: An Exploration of the Carbon Futures for the Bristol Region (Rose Bailey);
Managing Air Quality through the Local Planning Process: Challenges, Barriers and Opportunities (Dotun Olowoporoku).

Air Pollution 2008 Skiathos, Greece, 22-24 September

The 16th annual conference on Air Pollution Modelling, Monitoring and Management opens on Monday 22nd September. Organised by the Wessex Institute of Technology and co-chaired by Professor Carlos Brebbia of WIT and AQMRC's Professor Jim Longhurst, this conference will debate contemporary issues in the science and management of air pollution. AQMRC will be well represented at the conference with research students Dotun Olowoporoku , Simon Baldwin and Mofoluso Fagbeja presenting at their first international conference. Visiting Professor Jimi Irwin and Jim Longhurst will also be presenting.

The following papers will be published in the conference book published in hard back by WIT Press:

J.W.S. Longhurst, J.G. Irwin, T.J. Chatterton, E.T. Hayes, N.S. Leksmono &J.K. Symons (2008, forthcoming). The Development and Operation of the United Kingdom’s Air Quality Management Regime. In Brebbia, C.A. & Longhurst, J.W.S. (Editors) Air Pollution XVI. WIT Press. Southampton and Boston.

M.A., Fagbeja, T. Chatterton, J.W.S. Longhurst, J.O. Akinyede & J.O. Adegoke (2008, forthcoming). Air pollution and management in the Niger Delta - emerging issues. In Brebbia, C.A. & Longhurst, J.W.S. (Editors) Air Pollution XVI. WIT Press. Southampton and Boston.

S.T. Baldwin, M. Everard, E.T. Hayes, J.W.S. Longhurst & J.R. Merefield (2008, forthcoming) Integrating local air quality and carbon management at a regional and local governance level: a case study of south west England. In Brebbia, C.A. & Longhurst, J.W.S. (Editors) Air Pollution XVI. WIT Press. Southampton and Boston.

A.O. Olowoporoku, E. T. Hayes, N.S. Leksmono, J.W.S. Longhurst, & G. P. Parkhurst (2008, forthcoming) Are environmental health officers and transport planners in English local authorities working together to achieve air quality objectives? In Brebbia, C.A. & Longhurst, J.W.S. (Editors) Air Pollution XVI. WIT Press. Southampton and Boston.

I. Gegisian, M. Grey, J.W.S. Longhurst & J.G. Irwin (2008, forthcoming) Potential contribution of local air quality management to environmental justice in England. In Brebbia, C.A. & Longhurst, J.W.S. (Editors) Air Pollution XVI. WIT Press. Southampton and Boston.

Sustainable Energy and the Environment Research Showcase

The AQMRC and PhD students will be presenting eight posters of their research at the Sustainable Energy and the Environment Research Showcase at Bath University on Wednesday 17th September www.bath.ac.uk/engineering/showcase/ . The event will showcase a range of innovative and cutting-edge research in sustainable energy and the environment, including: climate change, energy demand reduction, energy infrastructure, integration and economics, energy storage, healthy environments, integrated appraisal of low carbon energy technologies, energy sources, vehicle and transportation systems, sustainable fuels, power generation and supply.

AQMRC research presented will cover:

A National Framework for Air Quality in South Africa (Tim Chatterton);

Ten Years of Local Air Quality Management: Lessons for Regulation and Practice (Enda Hayes);

Innovative Learning Opportunities to Build Capacity and Capability in Air Quality and Carbon Management (Nurul Leksmono);

Integrated Management of Nitrogen Dioxide in Wales (Ross Hunter);

Progress, Barriers and Opportunities for the Co-management of Air Pollution and Carbon Emissions in South West England (Simon Baldwin);
Applying Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques to Air Quality and Carbon Management - a Case Study of Gas Flaring in the Niger Delta (Mofoluso Fagbeja);
Carbon Management at the City Scale: An Exploration of the Carbon Futures for the Bristol Region (Rose Bailey);
Managing Air Quality through the Local Planning Process: Challenges, Barriers and Opportunities (Dotun Olowoporoku).

RSC Environmental Chemistry Group

Jo Barnes, Honorary Secretary of the Royal Society of Chemistry's Environmental Chemistry Committee, attended their 152nd meeting at Burlington House, Piccadilly on Wednesday 3rd September. Topics of discussion included the forthcoming annual Distinguished Guest Lecture on 4th March 2009 entitled 'The Future of Water'; preparation for a student seminar on Atmospheric Chemistry next spring; and a Contaminated Land meeting planned for the autumn. Details of forthcoming events will appear on the website http://www.rsc.org/Membership/Networking/InterestGroups/Environmental/index.asp along with other information about the ECG, including back copies of their bi-annual Bulletin newsletter.

Jo has been acting as Hon. Sec. for this eminent Interest Group for the last three years and is pleased to continue the role with the support of the AQMRC.