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Clean Air South

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We pool ideas, resources and expertise to step up to a health challenge that is costing lives and livelihoods across our region. Our focus is on evidence-based action and results. Our ambition is simple: to improve the quality of air we breathe across the Central South.

Part of the Sustainability and Resilience Institute (SRI)

Clean Air South was created by the Sustainability and Resilience Institute, Wessex Health Partners and Local Authorities across Hampshire and the Solent. We unite a growing consortium of academics, health leaders, local government, environmentalists, business and industry. The University has a strategic commitment to being a civic university and having a purposeful, positive impact on the region. Working with the research-led Sustainability and Resilience Institute, Clean Air South is a major civic initiative for the University.

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Sue Littlemore
Director of Civic University, University of Southampton
In our role as a Civic University, we harness the powers of research, innovation, and civic partnership, in order to transform lives and livelihoods across Hampshire and the Solent. Clean Air South is an outstanding example of our Civic role and impact.
Craig Hutton
Director Sustainability&Resilience Inst.
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In order that research and research related activities are well focused and impactful, it is critical we hear from the stakeholders and actors on the ground. Not just to improve our research but to enhance our impact in the real world.

Research highlights

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Highlighting risks from car brake dust emissions

Health and wellbeing
Environment, sustainability and clean growth
Brake pad emissions can be more toxic than diesel exhaust.

Transforming chronic respiratory disease care

Health and wellbeing
Groundbreaking sticker could monitor breathing and help save lives.
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Cutting international shipping carbon emissions

Engineering
Environment, sustainability and clean growth
Marine and maritime
Researchers from Southampton have coordinated sea trials of a 20-metre high wing-sail that could be fitted to large cargo vessels, cutting carbon emissions by a third.
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Sustainability and Resilience Institute (SRI)

We bring together colleagues from across the University, and work with experts from around the world to answer one of the most pressing questions of our time: “How will we choose to manage our planet for ourselves and future generations?”

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We welcome email enquiries:
SRI@soton.ac.uk