Outputs (245)

Whole Earth? Meeting the university challenges (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Longhurst, J., Gough, G., Harris, V., & Howells, L. (2016, July). Whole Earth? Meeting the university challenges. Presented at Sustainability in Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, Kent, UK

Whole Earth is “a powerful exhibition of the environmental and sustainability challenges” that we face. The Hard Rain Project who curated the Whole Earth? exhibition, have invited students and universities to share their sustainability work that mig... Read More about Whole Earth? Meeting the university challenges.

Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals: A baseline study of the contribution of UWE, Bristol (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Gough, G., & Longhurst, J. (2016, July). Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals: A baseline study of the contribution of UWE, Bristol. Presented at Sustainability in Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, Kent, UK

On September 25th 2015 at the General Assembly of the United Nations, 193 nations adopted a set of goals to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda (1). These goals build on the M... Read More about Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals: A baseline study of the contribution of UWE, Bristol.

The Phenomenon that is Whole Earth? Facilitating engagement in sustainability issues for students, school children and the local community (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Agombar, J., Boom, K., Harris, V., Edwards, M., & Longhurst, J. (2016, May). The Phenomenon that is Whole Earth? Facilitating engagement in sustainability issues for students, school children and the local community. Presented at EAUC 20th Annual Conference, Bristol, UK

Workshop exploring the engagement by universities with the Whole Earth exhibition and evaluating the learning resulting from these activities.

Partnerships for ESD: Exploring UWE, Bristol’s integrated approach to engaging audiences in ESD (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Longhurst, J., Bigg, M., Gough, G., Brooks, I., Darwen, J., Hills, S., …Colley, R. (2016, May). Partnerships for ESD: Exploring UWE, Bristol’s integrated approach to engaging audiences in ESD. Presented at EAUC 20th Annual Conference, Bristol, UK

Workshop exploring the various engagement strategies used by UWE to encourage whole institution action in support of sustainability

Green Capital, Bristol 2015 plenary (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Longhurst, J., & Willmore, C. (2016, May). Green Capital, Bristol 2015 plenary. Presented at EAUC 20th Annual Conference, Bristol, UK

Plenary session at the EAUC 2016 Conference

Local Air Quality Management policy and practice in the UK: The case for greater Public Health integration and engagement (2016)
Journal Article
Brunt, H., Barnes, J., Longhurst, J. W. S., Scally, G., & Hayes, E. (2016). Local Air Quality Management policy and practice in the UK: The case for greater Public Health integration and engagement. Environmental Science and Policy, 58, 52-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2016.01.009

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd. The UK's Local Air Quality Management (LAQM) regime is designed to protect people's health from the ill-effects of air pollution, but it is failing to achieve its full potential. The Public Health aspects of, perspectives on, and... Read More about Local Air Quality Management policy and practice in the UK: The case for greater Public Health integration and engagement.

Review of the contribution of Green Capital: Student Capital to Bristol’s year as European Green Capital (2016)
Report
Clayton, W., Longhurst, J., & Willmore, C. (2016). Review of the contribution of Green Capital: Student Capital to Bristol’s year as European Green Capital

• Students in Bristol have given over 100,000 hours of their time to engaging with local organisations and tackling issues of sustainability in the city and wider region. This equates to 56.3 years’ worth of work provided to date, and an economic con... Read More about Review of the contribution of Green Capital: Student Capital to Bristol’s year as European Green Capital.

Progress with air quality management in the 60 years since the UK clean air act, 1956. Lessons, failures, challenges and opportunities (2016)
Journal Article
Williams, W. B., Hayes, E. T., Chatterton, T. J., Longhurst, J. W., Longhurst, J., Barnes, J. H., …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 and Planning, 11(4), 491-499. https://doi.org/10.2495/SDP-V11-N4-491-499

© 2016 WIT Press, www.witpress.com. This paper explores the challenges, opportunities and progress made with managing air quality since the United Kingdom parliament passed the Clean Air Act, 1956. It seeks to identify the factors contributing to suc... Read More about Progress with air quality management in the 60 years since the UK clean air act, 1956. Lessons, failures, challenges and opportunities.

Air Pollution XXIV (2016)
Book
Longhurst, J., Brebbia, C., & Barnes, J. (2016). J. Barnes, C. Brebbia, & J. Longhurst (Eds.), Air Pollution XXIV. Southampton and Boston: WIT Press

In these proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution, international academics and air pollution practitioners contribute to the evolving understanding of the science and policy contexts of... Read More about Air Pollution XXIV.

Meeting the sustainable Development Goals: A baseline study of the contribution of UWE, Bristol (2016)
Book Chapter
Gough, G., & Longhurst, J. (2016). Meeting the sustainable Development Goals: A baseline study of the contribution of UWE, Bristol. In 2. Canterbury Christ Church University (Ed.), Sustainability in Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities. Canterbury Christ Church University

On September 25th 2015 at the General Assembly of the United Nations, 193 nations adopted a set of goals to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda (1). These goals build on the M... Read More about Meeting the sustainable Development Goals: A baseline study of the contribution of UWE, Bristol.