Dr Laura De Vito's Outputs (29)

Protecting everyday nature (2024)
Journal Article

‘Everyday nature’, understood as people’s ability to access nature nearby, should be protected in law and planning policy, facilitating three key benefits: (1) human health and wellbeing; (2) intrinsic and extrinsic ecological advantages; and (3) sup... Read More about Protecting everyday nature.

What does a just transition mean for urban biodiversity? Insights from three cities globally (2024)
Journal Article

Just transitions – responses to environmental change that minimise negative impacts on the most affected people and places, while ensuring nobody is left behind – are gaining scholarly and policy significance in areas beyond their original focus on c... Read More about What does a just transition mean for urban biodiversity? Insights from three cities globally.

Reflections on co-productive research in a youth-focused climate education project (2024)
Journal Article

The 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child emphasises the value of listening to young people’s voices. Since its inception, there have been significant moves to involve young people in research that concerns their lives in a time of environmen... Read More about Reflections on co-productive research in a youth-focused climate education project.

Learning from young people’s experiences of climate change education (2024)
Journal Article

This article centres on young people’s experiences of climate change education (CCE). There is much written on CCE (e.g. what it is, what it should be, how it should be taught, where it should be taught), but there is little exploring young people’s... Read More about Learning from young people’s experiences of climate change education.

Strategic foresight and policy evaluation: Insights for an integrated approach (2023)
Journal Article

Grand challenges are shaping twenty-first-century politics. Threats connected to health, climate, demographics and welfare are increasingly intruding on the lives of citizens. Still, governments are often found off-guard, and policymakers need strate... Read More about Strategic foresight and policy evaluation: Insights for an integrated approach.

Embedding citizens within airborne microplastic and microfibre research (2023)
Journal Article

Microplastics are ubiquitous in our environment but their presence in air is less well understood. Homes are likely a key source of airborne microplastics and microfibres to the environment owing to the frequent use and storage of plastics and textil... Read More about Embedding citizens within airborne microplastic and microfibre research.

Another brick in the wall? The case for embedded foresight (2023)
Report

Foresight can support policymakers to address long-term goals and navigate uncertainty in a context of poly- and perma-crisis. Common foresight methods like scenario planning and horizon scanning are commonly deployed to anticipate future risks and o... Read More about Another brick in the wall? The case for embedded foresight.

Airborne Microplastics measurement: Putting people at the heart of the science (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Policy fellowship schemes as a vehicle for co-production – insights from Welsh Government Fellowships (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper

Engagement between academic researchers and policy makers is becoming increasingly common. Although approaches to the so-called Science-Policy Interface (SPI) can vary substantially – based on disciplines, different degrees of engagement and focus on... Read More about Policy fellowship schemes as a vehicle for co-production – insights from Welsh Government Fellowships.

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.

Bristol Advisory Committee on Climate Change. Annual report year 2 (2022)
Report

Aligning green infrastructure to sustainable development: A geographical contribution to an ongoing debate (2021)
Journal Article

Blue and green infrastructure (BGI) is increasingly viewed as a promising solution to promoting a shift beyond traditionally engineered “grey” approaches towards more socially and environmentally sustainable infrastructure systems. The specific insig... Read More about Aligning green infrastructure to sustainable development: A geographical contribution to an ongoing debate.

UK industries decarbonisation report - 20 September (2021)
Report

Characteristics of real-world gaseous exhaust emissions from cars in heterogeneous traffic conditions (2021)
Journal Article

In this study, researchers have explored real-world driving conditions and developed emission factors for 58 passenger cars using on-board emission measurement technique while driving on five different routes in Delhi. The measured average emission f... Read More about Characteristics of real-world gaseous exhaust emissions from cars in heterogeneous traffic conditions.

A framework for assessing the contribution of UK local authorities toward compliance with the EU ambient air quality directive (2021)
Journal Article

Implementation outcomes of the Ambient Air Quality Directive (AAQD) (2008/50/EC)) are weak across European Union (EU) member states. In the UK, Local Authorities (LAs) must work toward reducing air pollution, however, means of assessing the extent an... Read More about A framework for assessing the contribution of UK local authorities toward compliance with the EU ambient air quality directive.

Unprecedented reduction in air pollution and corresponding short-term premature mortality associated with COVID-19 lockdown in Delhi, India (2021)
Journal Article

Countries around the world introduced strict restrictions on movement and activities known as ‘lockdowns’ to restrict the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) from the end of 2019. A sudden improvement in air quality was observed global... Read More about Unprecedented reduction in air pollution and corresponding short-term premature mortality associated with COVID-19 lockdown in Delhi, India.

Analysis of various transport modes to evaluate personal exposure to PM2.5 pollution in Delhi (2020)
Journal Article

Access to detailed comparisons of the air quality variations encountered when commuting through a city offers the urban traveller more informed choice on how to minimise personal exposure to inhalable pollutants. In this study we report on an experim... Read More about Analysis of various transport modes to evaluate personal exposure to PM2.5 pollution in Delhi.

Annual report on year one - Bristol Advisory Committee on Climate Change (2020)
Report

Exactly one year following its establishment, the Bristol Advisory Committee on Climate Change (BACCC) has published the Annual Report on Year One to review its first year of operations and key contributions to Bristol’s response to the climate emerg... Read More about Annual report on year one - Bristol Advisory Committee on Climate Change.

Cleaner air for Scotland – Air quality public attitudes & behaviour review – Final report (2020)
Report

The legacy of COVID-19: Lessons and challenges for city-scale air quality management in the UK (2020)
Journal Article

The lockdown enforced by the UK Government to prevent the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has led to an unparalleled reduction in traffic volumes and significant drop in nitrogen dioxide concentrations in most cities, although the picture emerging fro... Read More about The legacy of COVID-19: Lessons and challenges for city-scale air quality management in the UK.

Implementing the water framework directive and tackling diffuse pollution from agriculture: Lessons from England and Scotland (2020)
Journal Article

Tackling diffuse pollution from agriculture is a key challenge for governments seeking to implement the European Union's Water Framework Directive (WFD). In the research literature, how best to integrate and align effective measures for tackling diff... Read More about Implementing the water framework directive and tackling diffuse pollution from agriculture: Lessons from England and Scotland.

The Clean Air Strategy 2019. Is this a new start for the management of air quality? (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Introduction and context
A brief overview of the UK’s air pollution problem
The Clean Air Strategy 2019 – aims and intentions
Evaluating the Strategy
Conclusions

The new strategy was published in January 2019. The foreword by the Secretary... Read More about The Clean Air Strategy 2019. Is this a new start for the management of air quality?.

Challenges of mainstreaming green infrastructure in built environment professions (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019, © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Green infrastructure (GI) has been identified as a promising approach to help cities adapt to climate change through the provision of multiple ecosyst... Read More about Challenges of mainstreaming green infrastructure in built environment professions.

Air pollution in Delhi: A review of past and current policy approaches (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Delhi National Capital Region (Delhi NCR) is facing serious challenges linked to worrying levels of air pollution (mainly NO2, PM10 and PM2.5). The CADTIME prject (Clean Air in Delhi through Implementation, Mitigation and Engagement) aims to understa... Read More about Air pollution in Delhi: A review of past and current policy approaches.

Qualitative Assessment of Link Between Exposure to Noise and Air Pollution, and Socioeconomic Status (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

EU multilevel governance and air quality management in the UK (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presentation delivered at the EGPA Conference 2018

Qualitative assessment of links between exposure to noise and air pollution and socioeconomic status (2018)
Report

The scope of the work requested under this specific contract is to provide a report/assessment text that may be directly incorporated into EEA’s 2018 report exploring the linkages between socioeconomic status (SES) in Europe and exposure to air and n... Read More about Qualitative assessment of links between exposure to noise and air pollution and socioeconomic status.

Understanding policy integration in the EU—Insights from a multi-level lens on climate adaptation and the EU's coastal and marine policy (2018)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Integration of relatively new policy tasks like climate adaptation into established higher-level policy fields is insufficiently understood in the academic literature. This paper proposes a framework to evaluate the integration of... Read More about Understanding policy integration in the EU—Insights from a multi-level lens on climate adaptation and the EU's coastal and marine policy.

Rapid evidence assessment: Liveable and low traffic neighbourhoods
Report

The Bristol Advisory Committee on Climate Change (BACCC) has produced this rapid assessment of policy proposals linked to the theme of 'Low Traffic Neighbourhoods' (LTC) and 'Liveable Neighbourhoods' (LN).
LNs became a part of mainstream policy disc... Read More about Rapid evidence assessment: Liveable and low traffic neighbourhoods.