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Environmental and economic assessment of traffic-related air pollution using aggregate spatial information: A case study of Balneário Camboriú, Brazil (2019)
Journal Article
Tischer, V., Fountas, G., Polette, M., & Rye, T. (2019). Environmental and economic assessment of traffic-related air pollution using aggregate spatial information: A case study of Balneário Camboriú, Brazil. Journal of Transport and Health, 14, Article 100592. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2019.100592

Introduction
Transportation is one of the main determinants of atmospheric pollutant emissions in urban areas. This externality has direct environmental, economic and public health consequences. This paper aims at investigating the space-time patte... Read More about Environmental and economic assessment of traffic-related air pollution using aggregate spatial information: A case study of Balneário Camboriú, Brazil.

PM2.5 Pollution and Inhibitory Effects on Industry Development: A Bidirectional Correlation Effect Mechanism (2019)
Journal Article
Chen, J., Chen, K., Wang, G., Wu, L., Liu, X., & Wei, G. (2019). PM2.5 Pollution and Inhibitory Effects on Industry Development: A Bidirectional Correlation Effect Mechanism. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(7), Article 1159. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16071159

In this paper, a vector autoregression (VAR) model has been constructed in order to analyze a two-way mechanism between PM2.5 pollution and industry development in Beijing via the combination of an impulse response function and variance decomposition... Read More about PM2.5 Pollution and Inhibitory Effects on Industry Development: A Bidirectional Correlation Effect Mechanism.

Firewood usage and indoor air pollution from traditional cooking fires in Gazi Bay, Kenya (2019)
Journal Article
Jung, J., & Huxham, M. (2019). Firewood usage and indoor air pollution from traditional cooking fires in Gazi Bay, Kenya. Bioscience Horizons, 11, Article hzy014. https://doi.org/10.1093/biohorizons/hzy014

Mangroves are increasingly being recognised for the important ecosystem services they provide, including carbon fixation, shoreline protection and fisheries habitats. In addition, they provide typical forest goods such as timber and firewood; harvest... Read More about Firewood usage and indoor air pollution from traditional cooking fires in Gazi Bay, Kenya.

Creating optimised employee travel plans (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Urquhart, N., & Hart, E. (2015, September). Creating optimised employee travel plans. Presented at EuroGen 2015

The routing of employees who provide services such as home health or social care is a complex problem. When sending an employee between two addresses , there may exist more than one travel option, e.g. public transport or car. In this paper we examin... Read More about Creating optimised employee travel plans.

An overview of diffuse pollution inputs and their impacts upon organisms in the River Almond, Scotland (2018)
Thesis
Lawson, D. An overview of diffuse pollution inputs and their impacts upon organisms in the River Almond, Scotland. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1256210

The Water Framework Directive (WFD), published by the European Union in 2000, implemented by SEPA in Scotland, has been the main force behind changes to river environments within Scotland. The main focus is on improving water quality by not just cons... Read More about An overview of diffuse pollution inputs and their impacts upon organisms in the River Almond, Scotland.

Climate neutral urban districts in Europe: a comparative analysis (2018)
Thesis
Oye, T. K. Climate neutral urban districts in Europe: a comparative analysis. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1500147

The concept of climate neutral districts is a new field of discourse and a new planning approach facing many challenges. Climate neutral districts can make avaluable contribution to low carbon societies. The concept of climate neutral urban districts... Read More about Climate neutral urban districts in Europe: a comparative analysis.

Experimental Assessment and Modelling of Coupled Biochemical-Physical-Mechanical Biodegradation Process of a Municipal Solid Waste Sample from Michigan (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Datta, S., Zekkos, D., Fei, X., & McDougall, J. (2017, September). Experimental Assessment and Modelling of Coupled Biochemical-Physical-Mechanical Biodegradation Process of a Municipal Solid Waste Sample from Michigan. Presented at Coupled Phenomena in Environmental Geotechnics, Leeds

Municipal solid waste (MSW) is biodegradable in landfills under anaerobic conditions. The evolution of the biochemical, physical and mechanical characteristics of MSW are interdependent and is investigated first through an experiment and subsequently... Read More about Experimental Assessment and Modelling of Coupled Biochemical-Physical-Mechanical Biodegradation Process of a Municipal Solid Waste Sample from Michigan.

Hybrid life cycle assessment (LCA) will likely yield more accurate results than process-based LCA (2017)
Journal Article
Pomponi, F., & Lenzen, M. (2017). Hybrid life cycle assessment (LCA) will likely yield more accurate results than process-based LCA. Journal of Cleaner Production, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.12.119

We analyse the comparative investigation into truncation vs. aggregation errors of process-based and hybrid LCA by Yang et al. 2017. We analyse the validity of their findings when the hypothetical five-sector economy is altered to account for realist... Read More about Hybrid life cycle assessment (LCA) will likely yield more accurate results than process-based LCA.

A critical appraisal of BIM implementation in the context of environment performance enhancement in the construction industry. (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robinson, M. (2017, April). A critical appraisal of BIM implementation in the context of environment performance enhancement in the construction industry. Poster presented at CIBSE Technical Symposium, Loughborough, UK

A mismatch has been observed between predicted energy performance and actual measured consumption, often termed the ‘performance gap’. This is a major concern given the significant contribution of the building sector to global energy use and greenhou... Read More about A critical appraisal of BIM implementation in the context of environment performance enhancement in the construction industry..

Ecological status and sources of anthropogenic contaminants in mangroves of the Wouri River Estuary (Cameroon) (2016)
Journal Article
Fusi, M., Beone, G. M., Suciu, N. A., Sacchi, A., Trevisan, M., Capri, E., Daffonchio, D., Din, N., Dahdouh-Guebas, F., & Cannicci, S. (2016). Ecological status and sources of anthropogenic contaminants in mangroves of the Wouri River Estuary (Cameroon). Marine Pollution Bulletin, 109(2), 723-733. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.06.104

Mangroves are critically threatened by human activities, despite the important ecosystem functions and services they provide. Mangroves in Cameroon represent no exception to the worldwide trend of mangrove destruction, especially around Douala, on th... Read More about Ecological status and sources of anthropogenic contaminants in mangroves of the Wouri River Estuary (Cameroon).

No dominion over nature: why treating ecosystems like machines will lead to boom and bust in food supply (2014)
Report
Huxham, M., Hartley, S., Pretty, J., & Tett, P. (2014). No dominion over nature: why treating ecosystems like machines will lead to boom and bust in food supply. London: Friends of the Earth England and Wales

Healthy ecosystems are essential for the long-term wellbeing of humans as they provide vital services such as food production, pollination, climate regulation and flood protection.
Global trends including population growth, changing diets and consum... Read More about No dominion over nature: why treating ecosystems like machines will lead to boom and bust in food supply.

A framework for sustainable transport development (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Saleh, W., & Kumar, R. (2009, December). A framework for sustainable transport development. Presented at 12th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research

A framework for sustainable transport development

Research into attitudes to environmental noise from concerts. NANR292 Final Report. (2011)
Report
Lurcock, D., MacKenzie, R., & Smith, S. (2011). Research into attitudes to environmental noise from concerts. NANR292 Final Report

The purpose of this report is to analyse the results of the social study together
with the event noise to determine potential correlations that will help inform the
review of the Noise Council‟s Code of Practice on Environmental Noise Control
at C... Read More about Research into attitudes to environmental noise from concerts. NANR292 Final Report..

Motorcycle vehicle emissions - effect of driving cycle in urban and rural context (2010)
Book
Kumar, R., & Saleh, W. (2010). Motorcycle vehicle emissions - effect of driving cycle in urban and rural context

Climate change and global warming is challenging task ahead. This text book covers the fundamentals of estimating emission factor with special emphasis on motorcycle exhaust emissions. For the first time the text integrates various modelling techniqu... Read More about Motorcycle vehicle emissions - effect of driving cycle in urban and rural context.

Urban Road Traffic Pollution and Its Effect on Indoor Air Quality. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Currie, J., & Capper, G. (2009, June). Urban Road Traffic Pollution and Its Effect on Indoor Air Quality. Presented at 3rd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering , ICBBE 2009

Indoor and outdoor concentrations of various pollutants were measured in a naturally ventilated city centre office building in order to assess the effect upon indoor pollution levels of the closure of some streets in the city to road traffic. The rel... Read More about Urban Road Traffic Pollution and Its Effect on Indoor Air Quality..