Outputs (233)

Beyond nudge and improving transport infrastructure: the real task of tackling poor air quality (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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Progress with air quality management in the 60 years since the UK Clean Air Act of 1956: Lessons, failures, challenges and opportunities (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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What has been achieved in the 60 years since the first Clean Air Act? (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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?.

Air pollution, deprivation and health: Understanding relationships to add value to local air quality management policy and practice in Wales, UK (2016)
Journal Article

© The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Faculty of Public Health. All rights reserved. Background Air pollution exposure reduces life expectancy. Air pollution, deprivation and poor-health status combinations can create i... Read More about Air pollution, deprivation and health: Understanding relationships to add value to local air quality management policy and practice in Wales, UK.

A critical review of the robustness of the UK government’s air quality plan and expected compliance dates (2016)
Journal Article

Globally, poor air quality is the most significant environmental health concern. Across Europe, 400,000 deaths were attributed to air pollution in 2012, whilst in the UK over 50,000 deaths per year are due to a combination of gaseous and particulate... Read More about A critical review of the robustness of the UK government’s air quality plan and expected compliance dates.

Local Air Quality Management policy and practice in the UK: The case for greater Public Health integration and engagement (2016)
Journal Article

© 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.

60 years of Health Protection under the Clean Air Acts (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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 XXIV (2016)
Book

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.

International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning. Special Issue: Air Pollution (2016)
Other

This special issue contains a selection of reviewed papers presented at the International
Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution, which took place
in Crete, organised by the University of the West of England and the Wes... Read More about International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning. Special Issue: Air Pollution.

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? (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.

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.

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.

A Study of ozone concentrations and trends across Europe: 1996-2010 (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Air Pollution XXII: Twenty Second Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution (2014)
Book

A study of ozone exposure across Europe: 2004–2010 (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Summary
This study presents an assessment of exposure to ozone exceedences across Europe using a new methodology based around the Eurostat degree of urbanisation (DEGURBA) classification, which provides the ability to categorise exposure into ‘Urban... Read More about A study of ozone exposure across Europe: 2004–2010.