Jo presents at Care4Air conference

Jo attended the Care4Air Clearer Future conference "Air Quality in 2012" held at the Mansion House, Doncaster, yesterday. The one-day conference was well-attended and included presentations from ITN's Clare Nasir, talking about the Healthy Air Campaign, ClientEarth's Karla Hill, who spoke about taking the government to task for their failure to meet the EU Limt Values, and Defra's Robert Vaughan, who gave an update on UK air quality policy. Jo presented the findings from the local authority questionnaire survey, conducted by AQMRC and Air Quality Consultants, to voice Environmental Health Officers' concerns about Local Air Quality Management and to identify the barriers to local air quality action planning in the UK. The presentation was well-received and chimed with the earlier presentations from Karla and Robert.

Jim to serve on FCT Environment and Global Change Panel

Following a recommendation from the Portuguese Scientific Council for Natural & Environmental Sciences, the Board of Directors of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) have invited Professor Jim Longhurst to serve as a member of the Environment and Global Change panel. Jim will participate in the evaluation of research applications received under the 2012 call for proposals in the sub themes of Global Environmental Change, Sustainable Management of Resources, Environmental Technologies and Environmental Modelling and Assessment.

FCT is the public research-funding agency in Portugal which selects and distributes research funds for a wide range of scientific fields of research.

For further information about FCT visit http://www.fct.pt/

Rose's paper included in European Commission 'Science for Environmental Policy' news bulletin

Rose's recent paper published in the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, entitled 'Exploring a city's potential low carbon futures using Delphi methods: some preliminary findings', was selected for inclusion in this week's 'Science for Environmental Policy' news alert.
Science for Environmental Policy is a free news and information service published by Directorate-General Environment, European Commission. It is designed to help the busy policymaker keep up-to-date with the latest environmental research findings needed to design, implement and regulate effective policies. 
More information on Rose's research can be found on her webpage.

Rose wins the 2012 John Rose Award from the Institution of Environmental Sciences

Rose has been announced as the 2012 winner of the John Rose Award from the Institution of Environmental Sciences, for her research exploring the low carbon futures for the Bristol region. The award aims to help exceptional research fulfil its potential by communicating it beyond the scientific community. A £1,000 grant is awarded to a project that demonstrates innovative, quality research in environmental sciences. The grant will be used for media training and the dissemination of the winner’s project, aiding in promoting the work as widely as possible and so maximise its value.

Rose intends to use the grant, with support from project partners Bristol City Council and in collaboration with the Create Centre, to produce an exhibition of her work, and hopes to collaborate with UWE's award winning animation department to produce an animation of life in 2050 low carbon Bristol!

More information on the award can be found here: http://www.ies-uk.org.uk/awards/awards.php

More information on Rose and her research can be found here: http://www.uwe.ac.uk/aqm/rose.html

18th International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment

18th International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment
15 - 17 May 2012, A Coruña, Spain

Jim Longhurst is co-chairing the 18^th meeting of the Urban Transport conference series and will deliver the conference Keynote address on the 15^th of May. With Carlos Brebbia Jim has also edited  the proceedings of the conference which are published by WIT Press. The conference has been organised by the Wessex Institute of Technology and UWE, Bristol and is the latest in a successful series of collaborations between the two institutions.

Keynote Address

J.W.S. Longhurst, J.H. Barnes, T.J. Chatterton & E.T. Hayes (2012) Managing transport induced urban air quality – A review of British experience. Presented at Urban Transport XVIII,  A Coruña, Spain, May 2012

20th International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution

20th International Conference on Modelling,
Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution
16 - 18 May,
A Coruña, Spain

Jim Longhurst is co-chairng the 20^th meeting of the Air Pollution conference  series and will deliver the conference Keynote address on the 16^th of May. With Carlos Brebbia Jim has also  edited  the proceedings of the conference which are published by WIT Press. The conference has been organised by the Wessex Institute of Technology and UWE, Bristol and is the latest in a successful series of collaborations between the two institutions.

Keynote address:

M.A. Fagbeja, J.L. Hill, T.J. Chatterton, J.W.S. Longhurst  & J.O. Akinyede (2012)  Managing air quality in the Niger delta. Presented at Air Pollution XX, A Coruña, Spain, May 2012

The research of Jo Barnes and Dotun Olowoporoku is also being presented at the conference.

J. H. Barnes, E. T. Hayes & J. W. S. Longhurst (2012) Air quality action planning: barriers to remediation in local air quality management. Presented at Air Pollution XX,  A Coruña, Spain, May 2012

A. O. Olowoporoku, J. W. S. Longhurst & J. H. Barnes (2012) Framing air pollution as a major health risk in Lagos, Nigeria. Presented at Air Pollution XX, A Coruña, Spain, May 2012

Forthcoming Title - Air Pollution XX

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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’.

Tim speaking at international development conference

Tim giving a presentation on Air Quality, Climate Change and Development, and participating in a panel discussion today at the Bristol International Development Conference. http://www.bristolidc.org/index.html

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Energy Behaviour Review

On Wednesday, Tim attended the inception meeting with DECC for the review of energy use and behaviour change in the domestic sector.  The work is being led by the RAND Europe, with Tim and Dr Charlie Wilson from the Tyndall Centre at the University of East Anglia employed as additional energy experts.

 

Dotun's new publication available online

Dotun Olowoporoku, Enda Hayes, James Longhurst, and Graham Parkhurst (2012) The rhetoric and realities of integrating air quality into the local transport planning process in English local authorities. Journal of Environmental Management 101 (2012). pp. 23 -32.

This paper highlights the policy and practice of integrating air quality management into transport planning. It provided evidence of the deprioritisation of air quality management within the LTP2 process.  The paper is available online, at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.01.017

Mofoluso's presentation at the 2012 AAG Annual General Meeting in New York

Manhattan skyline taken while aboard a ferry from Staten Island. Picture by Fagbeja Mofoluso

Mofoluso attended the 2012 Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Conference at the Hilton Hotel, New York 24 - 28 February 2012. He presented a paper titled, 'Developing an emission inventory of air pollutants and GHGs from residential sources in the Niger Delta'. The paper focused on the methodological approach used to develop the area-source component of the Niger Delta Emission Inventory (NDEI) infrastructure, which he constructed for his PhD study. The process of generating input data for the infrastructure are also discussed during the presentation. The presentation has been developed into a journal paper, which will be submitted for peer review and publication. Find out more about Mofoluso's research here

Publication in the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

Bailey, R., Longhurst, J.W.S., Hayes, E.T., Hudson, L., Ragnarsdottir, K.V., and Thumim, J. (2012) Exploring a city’s potential low carbon futures using Delphi methods: some preliminary findings. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management (In Press.)

Rose’s paper is now available online, at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09640568.2011.635192

The paper discusses the results from the first round of Delphi questionnaire survey that Rose undertook with a large expert group, to create scenarios for a low carbon 2050 Bristol region.

More information about Rose's research can be found on her webpage here.

Ozone Contract - Inception Meeting

On Thursday 16^th February Tim  represented UWE along with other colleagues from the EU AQDD Review consortium to present the inception report for the review of ozone contract to the European Commission.

TfL Olympics Travel Behaviour Legacy

 

On Wedesday 22^nd February, Tim has been invited to attend a TfL workshop on how to maximise the legacy of the Olympics in terms of improvements in travel behaviour.  He will be representing the Disruption project www.disruptionproject.net