Assistant Vice Chancellor, Environment and Sustainability Jim Longhurst's Outputs (151)

What has been achieved in the 60 years since the first Clean Air Act? (2016)
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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?.

Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals: A baseline study of the contribution of UWE, Bristol (2016)
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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.

Whole Earth? Meeting the university challenges (2016)
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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.

Student Capital: The role of students in city transformation (2016)
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Student Capital is a huge and unique collaborative project aimed at creating, promoting, and celebrating student sustainability engagement at Bristol’s two universities – The University of the West of England, Bristol, and the University of Bristol.... Read More about Student Capital: The role of students in city transformation.

The Phenomenon that is Whole Earth? Facilitating engagement in sustainability issues for students, school children and the local community (2016)
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Workshop exploring the engagement by universities with the Whole Earth exhibition and evaluating the learning resulting from these activities.

Green Capital, Bristol 2015 plenary (2016)
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Plenary session at the EAUC 2016 Conference

Partnerships for ESD: Exploring UWE, Bristol’s integrated approach to engaging audiences in ESD (2016)
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Workshop exploring the various engagement strategies used by UWE to encourage whole institution action in support of sustainability

60 years of Health Protection under the Clean Air Acts (2016)
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2016 marks 60 years of UK Clean Air Acts. This presentation explores the challenges, opportunities and progress since the Clean Air Act, 1956. It reflects upon historical attempts to manage air pollution noting success factors and barriers to progres... Read More about 60 years of Health Protection under the Clean Air Acts.

Air Pollution. Why we fail to learn the lessons of history (2015)
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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)
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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.

Green Capital Student Capital: Working across institutions to deliver value to the city (2015)
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Bristol is the European Green Capital for 2015. To support this, the University of the West of England and the University of Bristol are working in partnership on a joint project – Green Capital: Student Capital funded by Hefce. This project seeks to... Read More about Green Capital Student Capital: Working across institutions to deliver value to the city.

Exploring the postgraduate ESD experience in UWE’s MSc Environmental Management (2015)
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This paper will examine the ESD experience of postgraduate students taking the MSc Environmental Management at UWE, Bristol. It will do this through the lens provided by the Education for Sustainable Development guidance produced by the HEA and QAA i... Read More about Exploring the postgraduate ESD experience in UWE’s MSc Environmental Management.

Utilising the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) agenda to embed PRME in the HE curriculum: A case study of the University of the West of England (2015)
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Through a case study of the University of the West of England this presentation explores the relationship between Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME).
The paper considers the al... Read More about Utilising the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) agenda to embed PRME in the HE curriculum: A case study of the University of the West of England.

Experiences of the development and use of a national quality enhancement guidance document on Education for Sustainable Development – lessons learnt from three UK universities. (2015)
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Introduction: In 2013 the UK Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) and the Higher Education Academy (HEA) commissioned
an expert group of UK academics to develop guidance for UK Higher Education Institutions on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD).... Read More about Experiences of the development and use of a national quality enhancement guidance document on Education for Sustainable Development – lessons learnt from three UK universities..

Learning from Bristol: A novel method for local air quality action planning (2015)
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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.

Urban air quality in historical perspective – or why we fail to learn the lessons of history (2015)
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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.

Has UK local government action improved local air quality? (2015)
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The QAA and HEA Guidance for UK HEIs on Education for Sustainable Development (2015)
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This invited conference presentation explored the expectations of the 2014 QAA and HEA Guidance for UK HEIs on Education for Sustainable Development.

The Guidance was prepared by representatives of the UK higher education community with experti... Read More about The QAA and HEA Guidance for UK HEIs on Education for Sustainable Development.

Collaborative approaches to embedding sustainability across the curriculum (2015)
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This conference contribution explores the approach by UWE, Bristol to embed education for sustainable development in the curricula of the university.

Embedding the expectations of the Quality Assurance Agency – Higher Education Academy Guidance on Education for Sustainable Development in the institutional Quality Management and Enhancement Framework of UWE, Bristol (2015)
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