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What has been achieved in the 60 years since the first Clean Air Act? (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Longhurst, J., Barnes, J., Bushel, C., Chatterton, T., Hayes, E. T., Prestwood, E., & Williams, B. (2016, October). What has been achieved in the 60 years since the first Clean Air Act?. Presented at Routes to Clean Air 2, Bristol, UK

2016 marks 60 years since the first UK Clean Air Act. This presentation considers the factors contributing to successful management of air quality and the factors that act as barriers to progress. The public health catastrophe of the 1952 Londo... Read More about What has been achieved in the 60 years since the first Clean Air Act?.

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.

Sixty years since the 1956 Clean Air Act: Are we really doing enough to reduce air pollution?​ (2016)
Journal Article
Williams, B. (2016). Sixty years since the 1956 Clean Air Act: Are we really doing enough to reduce air pollution?​

In the year that the UK’s Clean Air Act turns sixty, the head of public health at the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared air pollution as a global health emergency [1]. Globally, air pollution is responsible for 7 million premature deaths per y... Read More about Sixty years since the 1956 Clean Air Act: Are we really doing enough to reduce air pollution?​.

Air quality, cars and health in Bristol (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Williams, B. (2015, November). Air quality, cars and health in Bristol. Presented at The Sixth Annual "A" Level Geography Lecture Afternoon, Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, Bath, UK

Sustainable development: The impacts of UK university research (2015)
Journal Article
Williams, B. (2015). Sustainable development: The impacts of UK university research. Environmental Scientist, 24(3), 8-12

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
Williams, B. (2015). Air quality: The impacts of UK university research. Environmental Scientist, 24(3), 40-45

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.

Source apportionment of industrial fugitive dusts: Developments in passive dust monitoring (2012)
Book Chapter
Datson, H., Fowler, M., & Williams, B. (2012). Source apportionment of industrial fugitive dusts: Developments in passive dust monitoring. In R. D. Morrison, & G. O'Sullivan (Eds.), Environmental Forensics : Proceedings of the 2011 INEF Conference (319-331). Royal Society of Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1039/9781849734967-00319

DustScan is a passive (i.e. unpowered) dust sampling method. It uses a transparent adhesive ‘sticky pad’ to sample dust in flux and in deposition for subsequent image-based quantification and, as appropriate, geochemical analysis. Samples are obtaine... Read More about Source apportionment of industrial fugitive dusts: Developments in passive dust monitoring.

Elemental chemistry of fugitive dusts from quarries and associated sites (2012)
Book Chapter
Fowler, M., Datson, H., & Williams, B. (2012). Elemental chemistry of fugitive dusts from quarries and associated sites. In E. Hunger, & G. Walton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th Extractive Industry Geology Conference (146-159). Extractive Industry Geology Conferences Ltd

Fugitive dust from quarrying and related extractive industry activities is a long-standing and intractable problem. Attempts to control emissions are directed by legislation and informed by statutory guidance, within the overall context of national a... Read More about Elemental chemistry of fugitive dusts from quarries and associated sites.