The New Zealand Branch of the Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand is very pleased to announce the 20th CASANZ Conference will be held in Christchurch in July 2011.

At the 2011 CASANZ conference, we welcome your papers and encourage debate about the basics of understanding and managing health effects due to air quality, and how we achieve balance between these health issues and the sometimes conflicting demands of local, regional and global air quality issues, nuisance avoidance, and practical solutions.

Air Quality: A Healthy Balance.  Avoiding adverse effects on health due to air quality is a foremost responsibility of all people involved in air quality science and engineering.  How are we defining, measuring, assessing and managing these health effects?  And does a focus on health effects take away from other pressures to manage nuisance effects, and global effects such as greenhouse gas emissions. 

The conference programme, SIG's and workshops are currently being worked on and details will be published on our conference website as finalised.

Christchurch is a fantatsic conference destination and we encourage you to take the opportunity and extend your stay. Christchurch Convention Centre is a purpose built convention centre with many hotels and apartments within easy walking distance.

On behalf of the Conference Organising Committee, I invite you to join us to consider the challenges and solutions of Air Quality: A Healthy Balance.

Tracy Freeman
Conference Chair