Staff Details

Dr. Caroline Gallagher

Dr. Gallagher has extensive experience in environmental legislation as applied to industry and the problems encountered in complying. This also involves enabling an appreciation of the practicalities and problems relating to the enforcement of legislation. She is also involved in development of curriculum for Sustainable development. She is a member of an international team with the remit of explaining why sustainability should be incorporated into the curriculum in Eastern European countries.

Research Interests

• How environmental legislation can play a role in achieving sustainability
• How ecological design can become practical, affordable and comfortable
• Achieving urban sustainability: focusing on the Castlemilk area of Glasgow
• The use of GIS

Publications

• Gallagher C, Your Insurance Cover under Environmental Legislation, Presentation for Glasgow and West of Scotland Energy Forum at Moat House, Glasgow, March 1997.
• Gallagher C, Employers view of Health, Safety and Environmental Legislation and Critical appraisal of the use of LEV, in prep for Health and Safety Practitioner, 2000.
• Gallagher C, Local Exhaust Ventilation, For Air 2000 series Editor MJ Hepher. Submitted for publication Jan 2001. Kluwar
• Burek, S, Gallagher C, Initial Feasibility Study for a Castlemilk Windfarm. Submitted and presented to Castlemilk Economic Development Agency, January 2003.
• Gallagher C, Mumovic D, Liyanage C L, A Three Stage Approach for Assessment of Outdoor Air Quality in Facilities Management ~ Paper accepted for Conference in Salford, April 2004.
• Gallagher C, Burek S, Pahl, O, The Vertical Project and the Castlemilk wind farm; an innovative method for teaching sustainability. Paper submitted for Sustainability conference in Barcelona, October 2004.

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