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        Gary Haq

        Senior Research Associate

      • Expertise: urban air pollution, Climate change, transport, community resilience, behavioural change, public engagement and environmental assessment
      • gary.haq@sei.org
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      Dr Gary Haq is a Senior Research Associate at York. His research focuses on low emission mobility, transport policy, urban air pollution, climate change, ageing population, community resilience, behavioural change, public engagement and environmental assessment.

      Gary initially spent 15 years at the York centre (1997-2012) working on projects related to transport, air pollution, low carbon futures, and climate change and older people, Prior to returning to SEI in 2020 he spent 8 years (2012-2020) working at the Directorate for Energy, Transport and Climate, EC Joint Research Centre (Ispra, Italy) where he undertook research to support European transport and environmental policy making.

      Gary is a human ecologist with over twenty years of supporting the development and implementation of environmental policy in Africa, Asia and Europe. This has involved providing the evidence-base to support policy formulation, facilitating the policy process, building capacity, liaising with a wide range of stakeholders and communicating the result of his work to ensure it has maximum impact.

      He has led a number of international multi-partner transport and environment-related programmes. These have included the Sida funded Air Pollution in the Megacities of Asia (APMA) project in collaboration with UNEP, WHO and Clean Air Asia, the EU funded Clean Air Asia Training programme together with Clean Air Asia and the Thai Pollution Control Department and the Transport and Environment Science-Technology Network in collaboration with UN-HABITAT, UNEP and six African universities.

      He has also coordinated a UK regional climate change communication (Climate Talk) programme and held climate change workshops on the impact of climate change on older people (in collaboration with Age UK and Help Age International) and climate change communication for Pakistani media professionals (in collaboration with IUCN and Oxfam) and led regional and city-wide community pro-environmental behaviour change projects. He has been an advisor on low carbon transport for the former UK Department of International Development (DFID).

      More recently, he has assisted in the coordination of work for the European Commission’s DG CLIMA and DG GROW to reduce emissions from the transport sector. He supported the implementation of the Strategic Transport Research and Innovation Agenda (STRIA) and has contributed to policy impact assessments which involved cost-benefit analyses, policy reviews and stakeholder consultations on a pan-European level.

      Gary holds a Diploma in Economics, a PhD in Geography (Transport and Environmental Policy and Planning), an MSc in Environmental Impact Assessment and a BSc (Hons) in Human Ecology.

      He is the author/co-author of five books including a Short Guide to Environmental Policy  (2014), Environmentalism Since 1945  (2013), Urban Air Pollution in Asian Cities  (2006), World Transport Policy and Practice (2003) as well as numerous academic papers and policy reports.

      Publications by Gary Haq

      • Strengths and weaknesses of the WHO urban air pollutant database
      • Growing old in a changing climate
      • CO2 labelling of passenger cars in Europe: Status, challenges, and future prospects
      • Building community resilience: can everyone enjoy a good life?
      • Policy pathways towards achieving a zero carbon transport sector in the UK in 2050
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      Perspectives by Gary Haq

      • Your city could be exporting deadly air pollution – here’s why
      • Take a deep breath – here’s what 2016 revealed about the deadly dangers of air pollution
      • How can Asian cities better manage air quality?
      • ‘Win-win’ strategies to help older people face climate change
      • Why naming and shaming the world’s ‘most polluted cities’ is a terrible idea
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      Featured stories with Gary Haq

      • New guidance lays out a path to cleaner air in Asian cities
      • Q&A: Gary Haq on the evolution of environmental policy
      • Building community resilience: Lessons from York’s Good Life Initiative
      • New study highlights impact of environmental change on older people
      • York 2012 Seminar: Can Technology Save the Planet?
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      Projects and tools with Gary Haq

      • Inclusive climate-resilient transport in Africa
      • Biodiversity & Ecosystem Service Sustainability (BESS)
      • New Earswick Good Life Initiative
      • York Green Streets Challenge
      • Clean Development Mechanisms and urban air pollution (CURB-AIR)
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