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Ambition, collaboration and the race for decarbonisation. Presented at the launch of the West of England local industrial decarbonisation project (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Presentation discussing the challenges and opportunities of decarbonising a major industrial area covering Royal Portbury, Avonmouth and Severnside.
Local policies and interventions to reduce a city’s carbon footprint using plant-based diets: Bristol as a case study (2025)
Journal Article
Net zero strategies are needed to mitigate the effects of the climate emergency. Food systems are responsible for one third of global GhG emissions. This study explores policies and interventions that can be applied at a local level to decarbonise th... Read More about Local policies and interventions to reduce a city’s carbon footprint using plant-based diets: Bristol as a case study.
Case study eight, from James Longhurst, takes a longer-term view of policy delivery in practice, analysing how Local Air Quality Management has been delivered through local government. The case study provides a perspective on the limiting factors th... Read More about The missed opportunity of local air quality management. In Lewis J. (Ed) Speaking up for science and the environment. Case studies for effective environmental engagement throughout the policy process..
An updated analysis of air pollution and its management viewed through the lens of the UN sustainable development goals (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fellowship address to the Institute of Air Quality Management (IAQM) on the occasion of Professor Longhurst being awarded Honorary Fellowship of IAQM.
Taking stock of progress. Presentation at the Bristol climate and nature partnership gathering (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
A review of climate action in Bristol five years after the One City Climate Strategy was published in 2019.
An updated analysis of air pollution and its management viewed through the lens of the UN sustainable development goals (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This presentation provides a high-level assessment of air pollution and its management viewed through the lens of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It updates the 2018 publication of Longhurst et al
It contains
a short ove... Read More about An updated analysis of air pollution and its management viewed through the lens of the UN sustainable development goals.
C.Env at 20 (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Review of the progress made by Society for the Environment (SocEnv) and its constituent licensed bodies in awarding the designation Chartered Environmentalist to appropriately qualified and experienced environmental practitioners.
Air and climate challenges in the city region. Perspectives from research, policy and practice over a 40 year career (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
A review of the causes, impacts and opportunities for mitigation of atmospheric pollution over the last 40 years.
Bristol advisory committee on climate change: One City climate strategy progress review - February 2023 (2023)
Report
This report from the Bristol Advisory Committee on Climate Change (BACCC) reviews citywide progress on tackling the climate crisis and concludes that, although there is some positive progress, the city is still way off meeting its 2030 carbon neutra... Read More about Bristol advisory committee on climate change: One City climate strategy progress review - February 2023.
A university’s transformational change agenda (2023)
Book Chapter
This chapter presents a chronological review of the University of West of England, Bristol (UWE) and its engagement with the environmental agenda of the late 20th century before reviewing its transformational sustainability agenda over the last twent... Read More about A university’s transformational change agenda.
Air and Water Pollution XXX (2022)
Book
Proceedings of the 30th Air and Water Pollution Conference organised by the Wessex Institute of Technology and the University of the West of England. The merger of two successful events to form the 30th International Conference on Modelling, Monitori... Read More about Air and Water Pollution XXX.
Challenges and opportunities for local action to improve air quality (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This brief presentation considers the role of Local Authorities (LA) in providing local air quality management (LAQM) and public health protection.
It will focus on the role of LAs in reviewing and assessing air quality, declaring Air Quality Ma... Read More about Challenges and opportunities for local action to improve air quality.
Review of year three of the climate emergency action plan. Report for South Gloucestershire Council (2022)
Digital Artefact
The University of the West of England supports South Gloucestershire Council in their Climate Emergency work through a University Advisory Group. This group meets monthly with representatives of South Gloucestershire Council’s Climate Emergency Team... Read More about Review of year three of the climate emergency action plan. Report for South Gloucestershire Council.
Higher education and the sustainability agenda. Opportunities and challenges (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Part one will consider the changing expectations of current and future students as they confront the reality of the climate and ecological emergencies.
Part two will be a discussion of whole institution responses to the sustainability challenge... Read More about Higher education and the sustainability agenda. Opportunities and challenges.
Enforcing local environmental protection (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This presentation considers the role of Local Authorities (LA) in providing environmental protection services.
It considers the challenges faced by LAs in 12 years or more of austerity.
It reflects on in the capability and competency to deliver... Read More about Enforcing local environmental protection.
Sustainability-at-UWE-Bristol: A 28-year journey (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
In this presentation I will briefly discuss the role of higher education as both a cause and a solution to our multiple sustainability crises
explore the changing expectations of current and future students as they confront the reality of the clima... Read More about Sustainability-at-UWE-Bristol: A 28-year journey.
Sustainability at UWE Bristol: A 28 year Journey (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This presentation:
Briefly discusses the role of higher education as both a cause and a solution to our multiple sustainability crises;
Explores the changing expectations of current and future students as they confront the reality of the climate... Read More about Sustainability at UWE Bristol: A 28 year Journey.
Setting the strategic direction for environmental sustainability in higher education (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This presentation explores the place of sustainability in the teaching, research and innovation, civic engagement and campus operations in universities. Using UWE as a case study example opportunities and challenges are discussed in the context of... Read More about Setting the strategic direction for environmental sustainability in higher education.