Outputs (103)

Challenging the financial inclusion-decent work nexus: evidence from Cambodia’s over-indebted internal migrants (2021)
Journal Article

In this paper, we question the promotion of financial inclusion, and microfinance specifically, as a means to achieve ‘Decent Work’ (DW) under the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) programme. Drawing upon original research findings from two ty... Read More about Challenging the financial inclusion-decent work nexus: evidence from Cambodia’s over-indebted internal migrants.

Remote Monitoring of Ground Motion Hazards in High Mountain Terrain Using InSAR: A Case Study of the Lake Sarez Area, Tajikistan (2021)
Journal Article

High mountain terrains, with steep slopes and deep valleys, are generally challenging areas to monitor using satellite earth observation techniques since the terrain creates perspective distortions and differences in illumination that can occlude or... Read More about Remote Monitoring of Ground Motion Hazards in High Mountain Terrain Using InSAR: A Case Study of the Lake Sarez Area, Tajikistan.

Making Dalmatia green again: reforestation at the ‘horrible edge’ of Empire 1870–1918 (2021)
Journal Article

Reforestation has been one of the main forestry activities in the karst terrain of Dalmatia, Croatia, for more than a century. This paper examines the history behind reforestation schemes in Dalmatia, a kingdom at the periphery of the Austro-Hungaria... Read More about Making Dalmatia green again: reforestation at the ‘horrible edge’ of Empire 1870–1918.

No-till alley cropping using leguminous trees biomass: a farmer- and eco-friendly sustainable alternative to shifting cultivation in the Amazonian periphery? (2021)
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Agricultural growth is essential for both alleviating poverty and feeding the population of the Brazilian Amazonian periphery, where slash-and-burn agriculture continues to support the livelihoods of between 3.5 and 4 million people. We developed a n... Read More about No-till alley cropping using leguminous trees biomass: a farmer- and eco-friendly sustainable alternative to shifting cultivation in the Amazonian periphery?.

Risk of forced labour embedded in the US fruit and vegetable supply (2021)
Journal Article

Sustainable food consumption studies have largely focused on promoting human health within ecological limits. Less attention has been paid to social sustainability, in part because of limited data and models. Globally, agriculture has one of the high... Read More about Risk of forced labour embedded in the US fruit and vegetable supply.

A climate resilience research renewal agenda: learning lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for urban climate resilience (2021)
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Learning lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic opens an opportunity for enhanced research and action on inclusive urban resilience to climate change. Lessons and their implications are used to describe a climate resilience research renewal agenda. Three... Read More about A climate resilience research renewal agenda: learning lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for urban climate resilience.

Plastic habitats: Algal biofilms on photic and aphotic plastics (2021)
Journal Article

Plastic pollution is abundant in aquatic environments worldwide and many of its detrimental impacts are well documented, but it also represents a novel substrate available to a diversity of organisms. Biofilms – assemblages of bacteria, algae, and fu... Read More about Plastic habitats: Algal biofilms on photic and aphotic plastics.

Cosmopolitanism, the global middle class and education: the case of universities in London (2021)
Journal Article

In this paper, I develop the idea of cosmopolitan stances–one ‘intellectual’ and the other ‘aesthetic’–to examine conceptions of cosmopolitanism within a range of university strategies. Recent research into cosmopolitanism has adopted a Bourdieusian... Read More about Cosmopolitanism, the global middle class and education: the case of universities in London.

Filmmaking practice and animals’ geographies: attunement, perspective, narration (2021)
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After being captured from the streets of Moscow, Laika was the first living creature to be sent into Earth’s orbit by the USSR in 1957. The 2019 film, Space Dogs, tells the story of Laika’s spectral return to Moscow, and searches for her ghosts in th... Read More about Filmmaking practice and animals’ geographies: attunement, perspective, narration.

Disentangling controls on animal abundance: Prey availability, thermal habitat, and microhabitat structure (2021)
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The question of what controls animal abundance has always been fundamental to ecology, but given rapid environmental change, understanding the drivers and mechanisms governing abundance is more important than ever. Here, we determine how multidimensi... Read More about Disentangling controls on animal abundance: Prey availability, thermal habitat, and microhabitat structure.