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Ten years of the IAQM - lessons for air quality professionals A look at how the IAQM has changed over the last 10 years.	Issues associated with integrating transport and environmental models A look at how the intricacies of air quality modelling can sometimes be lost when attempting to combine transport and air quality modelling.	Defra modelling intercomparison exercise A description of Defra model evaluation exercises using examples from urban and regional modelling.
Regulatory and air quality management implications of setting particle number standards Particle size distributions and the meaning of particle number concentration Sources and environmental behaviour of nanoparticles Epidemiology of nanoparticle exposures Conclusions	Black carbon and elemental carbon as possible regulated metrics Soot concentration as a measure of air quality The role of soot in climate change Ways to measure soot concentration, including black carbon and elemental carbon Defra network measurements of black carbon and elemental carbon A possible regulated metric?	Seasonal and temporal behaviour of PM from biomass burning Measuring black carbon using aethalometers The UK black carbon / aethalometer network Apportioning black carbon sources PM from wood burning
Air quality implications of a decentralised energy scenario for London The Mayor’s objective is that 25% of London’s energy needs decentralised by 2025, this presentation uses the energy scenario with large scale deployment of CHP plants (& some renewables) as a case study to show a saving of 0.8 Mt CO2 per year. BUT moving energy generation into the city leads to questions being asked about the impacts on air quality.	Road Transport Emission Factors and Fleet Data Information from the National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory Recent trends in NOx emission factors Reasons for change What are the changes? Fleet composition Evidence What are the changes? PM, HC emission factors Factors for alternative vehicle technologies	Chimneys, Plumes and the Urban Environment A brief look at the urban landscape Planning and regulations Modelling impacts – a case study Reflections
FAIRMODE – The Forum for Air Quality Modelling in Europe: Implications for the United Kingdom Air quality management in Europe What is FAIRMODE? FAIRMODE guides and tools FAIRMODE and the Review of the Air Quality Directive	Economic Growth & the Environment: the Continuing Conundrum Environmental Economist Paul Ekins presentation at the 2012 Burntwood Lecture.	Rachel Carson Noel Nelson reviews the contribution of Rachel Carson to the field at the 2012 Burntwood Lecture.
The Sea Around Us Mike Depledge presentation at the Burntwood Lecture 2012. (Note that this has been edited from the original to reduce the size)	Highways Agency (draft) Significance Guidance Mark Chapman outlines the approach and key points of the draft guidance.	Air Quality and Emissions Mitigation Guidance for Sussex: what do we need post NPPF? Nigel Jenkins outlines the draft guidance for Sussex authorities to help deliver a consistent approach to assessing air quality impacts.
Uptake and Transformation of Environmental Contaminants Alaister Boxall explains through degradation kinetics how degradation products can be more persistent, more bio-accumulative and more toxic than their parent compounds.	Rachel Carson and the Pesticide Debate: DDT as a paradigm A short history of DDT use and human hazard.	The Precautionary Principle Keith Tyrell outlines the precautionary principle with respect to the use of neonicotinoids on crop plants and danger to bees.
The Changing Profile of Human Exposure to Persistent Organic Chemicals Stuart Harrad explains that the ways by which humans come into contact with persistent organic chemicals are changing.	The Remediation of Pesticide and Herbicide Contaminated Land for Redevelopment Steve Edgar from Vertase presents the former Bayer Crop Science site as a case study for remediating persistent organic chemicals.	In Pursuit of Safety: 100 years of toxicological risk assessment Joe Rodricks from Environ presents an American history of risk assessment dating back from Paracelsus in the 16th Century who hypothesized the existence of a toxicity threshold.
UK Pesticides Regulation Dave Bench from HSE gives an overview of the regulatory procedures surrounding pesticides in the UK and the continuing drive for higher standards.	Odour guidance: Why, What and How? Alun McIntyre outlines the technical approach to odour assessment.	Odour Management Plans Jon Pullen describd the use of Odour Management Plans.
IAQM Odour Guidance Michael Bull explains what IAQM are hoping to achieve in creating new odour guidance.	Green infrastructure and urban air quality Rob Mackenzie investigates how green infrastructure such as green walls and green roofs can improve urban air quality in street canyons.	The benefits of large tree species in urban landscapes Mark Job explains that the value of large tree species in urban settings extends beyond the purely aesthetic and how they can provide services that can be quantified and financially assessed.
Air Quality Actions Plans: illustrating ‘better practice’ in terms of the integrated environmental policies Simon Baldwin investigates and compares the frameworks for managing air quality and climate change amongst local authorities. His work focuses on south west England and found much room for better coordination of the two systems.	Barriers to developing and implementing local Air Quality Action Plans Jo Barnes from the University of the West of England reviews how air quality management systems work and finds that local authority responsibilities are muddled.	Effectiveness of local authority action plans Steve Moorcroft from Air Quality Consultants reports on a study of action plans, which was commissioned by Defra, and is soon to be published. He found that action plans lacked quantification of the measures proposed.
Local Air Quality Management Review –options for a future regime Emily Connolly and Robert Vaughan from the Atmosphere and Local Environment Programme at Defra discuss the future of local air quality management.	New IAQM Guidance: Construction Dust Impacts Claire Holman introduces the new IAQM guidance on assessing the impacts of dust from construction sites.	The Business Language of Sustainability Professor Erik Bichard of the University of Salford gives an overview of how business approaches sustainability.

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New IAQM Guidance: Construction Dust Impacts

Claire Holman introduces the new IAQM guidance on assessing the impacts of dust from construction sites.

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