Air quality, cars and health in Bristol
(2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Outputs (15)
UWE response to the Defra Air Quality Plan consultation (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sustainable development: The impacts of UK university research (2015)
Journal Article
Sustainable development by its very definition is an approach that aims to balance competing needs within social, economic and environmental boundaries for both current and future generations. Without practising sustainable development on all fronts,... Read More about Sustainable development: The impacts of UK university research.
Air quality: The impacts of UK university research (2015)
Journal Article
Air pollution is the biggest environmental risk facing humanity in modern times. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 7 million people died as a result of exposure to air pollution worldwide in 2012, equivalent to one in every eight reco... Read More about Air quality: The impacts of UK university research.
Air Pollution. Why we fail to learn the lessons of history (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This presentation explores contemporary issues of air pollution through the lens provided by history. It presents a perspective drawn from an analysis of historical, and mostly failed, attempts to manage air pollution from classical times until to... Read More about Air Pollution. Why we fail to learn the lessons of history.
Air pollution. Why we fail to learn the lessons of history (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This presentation will explore contemporary issues of air pollution through the lens provided by history. It will present a perspective drawn from an analysis of historical, and mostly failed, attempts to manage air pollution from classical times unt... Read More about Air pollution. Why we fail to learn the lessons of history.
Learning from Bristol: A novel method for local air quality action planning (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The primary source of air pollution in urban areas is road traffic with >60% UK local authorities exceeding the health-based annual mean air quality objective for nitrogen dioxide (NO2). Ambient air pollution is carcinogenic and the cardiovascular an... Read More about Learning from Bristol: A novel method for local air quality action planning.
Has UK Local Government Action Improved Local Air Quality? A Bristol Case Study (2015)
Journal Article
© 2015 WIT Press. In 2013, the UK exceeded the EU limit value for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) annual mean at 31 of its 43 zones and agglomerations. Current government predictions are that full compliance will not be achieved until after 2030, with 65% zon... Read More about Has UK Local Government Action Improved Local Air Quality? A Bristol Case Study.
Has UK local government action improved local air quality? (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Urban air quality in historical perspective – or why we fail to learn the lessons of history (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This keynote presentation explored contemporary issues of air pollution through the lens provided by history. It presents a perspective drawn from an analysis of historical, and mostly failed, attempts to manage air pollution from classical time... Read More about Urban air quality in historical perspective – or why we fail to learn the lessons of history.
Energy justice? A spatial analysis of variations in household direct energy consumption in the UK (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Targets for reductions in carbon emissions and energy use are usually framed in terms of national and international percentage reductions. However, the amount of energy used by households varies greatly, with some households using considerably more t... Read More about Energy justice? A spatial analysis of variations in household direct energy consumption in the UK.
Understanding car ownership elasticities in England and Wales: Advancing the evidence base with new data sources (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This study presents global and local models explaining household car ownership elasticity in England and Wales based on new datasets from Experian household median income and 2011 Census released by UK Government agencies. Latest empirical evidence o... Read More about Understanding car ownership elasticities in England and Wales: Advancing the evidence base with new data sources.
Environmental chemistry: A twenty year perspective: Air quality management (2015)
Journal Article
Anniversary article in ECG Bulletin
Air Pollution XXIII (2015)
Book
A GIS-based assessment of the suitability of SCIAMACHY satellite sensor measurements for estimating reliable CO concentrations in a low-latitude climate (2015)
Journal Article
© 2015, Springer International Publishing Switzerland. An assessment of the reliability of the Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Cartography (SCIAMACHY) satellite sensor measurements to interpolate tropospheric concentrations o... Read More about A GIS-based assessment of the suitability of SCIAMACHY satellite sensor measurements for estimating reliable CO concentrations in a low-latitude climate.