IMPROVING THE CAPACITY TO MANAGING AIR QUALITY: THE ROLE OF AQMRC

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IMPROVING THE CAPACITY TO MANAGING AIR QUALITY
THE ROLE OF AQMRC

• Nurul Leksmono, Jim Longhurst, Enda Hayes Tim
  Chatterton

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Our mission is to assist the development of both
policy and practice in all areas of Air Quality
Management
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Key Partners
LOCAL AUTHORITIES
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AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT RESOURCE CENTRE WHO ARE
WE?

• Visiting Professors
• Jimi Irwin, Environment Agency
• Duncan Laxen, AQC

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WORK FOR DEFRA THE DEVOLVED ADMINISTRATIONS

• Played a key role in the development,
  implementation and evaluation of the LAQM
  components within England, Scotland, Wales and
  Northern Ireland
• Appraising local authorities air quality reports
• Provides a helpdesk to improve LAQM practice
• Maintain a database of air quality management
  progress
• Prepare technical and policy guidance on LAQM
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the LAQM process
• Run training workshops

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RESEARCH

• Recent international experience in Brazil, China,
  India, Mexico, and South Africa Indonesia (in
  the future)
• ASIA-URBS enhance the capability of the
  Environmental Management and Control Division of
  Bangkok Metropolitan Administration
• INTEGAIRE network co-ordinated by Eurocities. The
  network consists of 10 cities and four research
  institutions from across Europe. Providing direct
  feedback from cities to CAFÉ.
• GFORS Governance for Sustainability EU
  Framework 6 STREP project

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RESEARCH

• ESRC
• Science Society Consultation as science
  communication? The case of Local Air Quality
  Management
• EPSRC
• DISTILLATE (Design Implementation Support Tools
  for Integrated Local Land Use, Transport the
  Environment) with FBE.
• Signposting Sustainability with FBE Graphic
  Science

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Recent Current PhD Projects

• Relocating the risk of exposure - equality and
  inequality in exposure to air pollutants in and
  near areas subject to air quality management
  declarations. Ioanna Gegisian
• Sustainable, proportionate and cost effective
  action plans to deliver air quality objectives in
  Air Quality Management Areas. Nurul Leksmono
• A new approach to air quality management.
  Evaluating the process of LAQM in the second
  round of review and assessment. Sherif Hassan
• Conflict and consensus in the spatial and
  temporal designations of AQMAs in GB. Nicky
  Woodfield
• Comparing Approaches to Air Quality management in
  Asia and Europe UK and Hong Kong. Hui Tang
• Review and Assessment of Commuter Emissions
  (RACE). Nick Davey
• Source apportionment of PM10 during pollution
  episodes. Dave Muir

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Some journals we publish in

• 40 peer reviewed papers /chapters/books since
  2002
• Environment International
• Environmental Modelling Software
• Energy and the Environment
• Urban Studies
• Journal of Environmental Management.
• Atmospheric Environment
• Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
  
• Environmental Science and Policy
• Water Air and Soil Pollution
• Science of the Total Environment

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CONSULTANCY

• LAQM work for local authorities
• Advise assist on the LAQM duties
• Undertake reviews assessments, develop air
  quality action plans strategies, advise on
  consultation processes
• CPD activities
• Workshops on various aspects of LAQM for local
  authorities, Defra and Devolved Administrations
• Annual conference
• Recent suite of LAQM consultation workshops
• Regularly run training workshops at NSCA events

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• Air Quality Management Resource Centre
• Faculty of Applied Sciences
• University of the West of England,
• Bristol
• Email aqmrc_at_uwe.ac.uk
• www.uwe.ac.uk/aqm/centre
• Tel [phone]
• Fax [phone]