Air quality management may fall within the remit of the 'Environment' but the sources of air pollution and ultimately the mitigation and adaptation policies to be implemented are often managed and always influenced by various other policy arenas e.g. transport, land use plans, industrial policy. 

Research, technical expertise and experience within the team results in and builds upon the Air Quality Management Resource Centre's inherent understanding of the process of policy development and the requirements for sound policy formulation.  AQMRC has a long standing history of working closely with the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the associated Environmental Departments in the Devolved Administrations (Welsh Assembly Government, Scottish Government, and Department of the Environment Northern Ireland) providing scientific underpinning for policy on the management and future developments of the Local Air Quality Management process. Staff at the AQMRC have also worked closely with government assisting policy evaluation in other national policy areas such as transport, public health, agriculture, waste management and industry.  Click here to view the Air Quality Review and Assessment Website which AQMRC maintain on behalf of Defra and the Devolved Administrations.

Dedicated to information dissemination and knowledge exchange, AQMRC has utilised its experiences in the UK to assist in the development of various air quality management frameworks elsewhere in the world including South Africa and Thailand.  Staff at AQMRC combine both the experiences and knowledge from relevant research and local, national and international scale projects to provide specialist policy advice and technical guidance. This combination of experience in active consultancy projects and high profile research places AQMRC in a unique position to provide support to all spheres of international, national and local governance.