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Towards nuclear geography: zones, bodies, and communities (2017)
Journal Article
Alexis-Martin, B., & Davies, T. (2017). Towards nuclear geography: zones, bodies, and communities. Geography Compass, 11(9), Article e12325. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12325

Since the discovery of radioactivity in 1895, ionising radiation has become an increasingly prominent part of modern life. Here, we explore the diverse modes of interaction that occur between bodies and nuclear technology and point towards the scope... Read More about Towards nuclear geography: zones, bodies, and communities.

An ensemble of spatially explicit land-cover model projections: prospects and challenges to retrospectively evaluate deforestation policy (2017)
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Bradley, A. V., Rosa, I. M. D., Brandão, A., Crema, S., Dobler, C., Moulds, S., Ahmed, S. E., Carneiro, T., Smith, M. J., & Ewers, R. M. (2017). An ensemble of spatially explicit land-cover model projections: prospects and challenges to retrospectively evaluate deforestation policy. Modeling Earth Systems and Environment, 3(4), 1215-1228. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40808-017-0376-y

Ensemble techniques, common in many disciplines, have yet to be fully exploited with spatially explicit projections from land-change models. We trial a land-change model ensemble to assess the impact of policies designed to conserve tropical rainfore... Read More about An ensemble of spatially explicit land-cover model projections: prospects and challenges to retrospectively evaluate deforestation policy.

Equity trade-offs in conservation decision making (2017)
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Law, E. A., Bennett, N. J., Ives, C. D., Friedman, R., Davis, K. J., Archibald, C., & Wilson, K. A. (2018). Equity trade-offs in conservation decision making. Conservation Biology, 32(2), 294-303. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13008

Conservation decisions increasingly involve multiple environmental and social objectives, which result in complex decision contexts with high potential for trade-offs. Improving social equity is one such objective that is often considered an enabler... Read More about Equity trade-offs in conservation decision making.

Stream temperature under contrasting riparian forest cover: Understanding thermal dynamics and heat exchange processes (2017)
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Dugdale, S. J., Malcolm, I. A., Kantola, K., & Hannah, D. M. (2018). Stream temperature under contrasting riparian forest cover: Understanding thermal dynamics and heat exchange processes. Science of the Total Environment, 610-611, 1375-1389. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.08.198

Climate change is likely to increase summer temperatures in many river environments, raising concerns that this will reduce their thermal suitability for a range of freshwater fish species. As a result, river managers have pursued riparian tree plant... Read More about Stream temperature under contrasting riparian forest cover: Understanding thermal dynamics and heat exchange processes.

Impacts of sample design for validation data on the accuracy of feedforward neural network classification (2017)
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Foody, G. (2017). Impacts of sample design for validation data on the accuracy of feedforward neural network classification. Applied Sciences, 7(9), Article 888. https://doi.org/10.3390/app7090888

Validation data are often used to evaluate the performance of a trained neural network and used in the selection of a network deemed optimal for the task at-hand. Optimality is commonly assessed with a measure, such as overall classification accuracy... Read More about Impacts of sample design for validation data on the accuracy of feedforward neural network classification.

Adaptation to climate change: a comparative analysis of modelling methods for heat-related mortality (2017)
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Gosling, S. N., Hondula, D. M., Bunker, A., Ibarreta, D., Liu, J., Zhang, X., & Sauerborn, R. (2017). Adaptation to climate change: a comparative analysis of modelling methods for heat-related mortality. Environmental Health Perspectives, 125(8), Article 087008. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP634

Background: Multiple methods are employed for modelling adaptation when projecting the impact of climate change on heat-related mortality. The sensitivity of impacts to each is unknown because they have never been systematically compared. In addition... Read More about Adaptation to climate change: a comparative analysis of modelling methods for heat-related mortality.

Deep coal mining and meningococcal meningitis in England and Wales, 1931–38: ecological study, with implications for deep shaft mining activities worldwide (2017)
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Smallman-Raynor, M. R., & Cliff, A. D. (2017). Deep coal mining and meningococcal meningitis in England and Wales, 1931–38: ecological study, with implications for deep shaft mining activities worldwide. Health and Place, 47, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2017.08.002

The hypothesized role of deep coal mining in the development of community-based outbreaks of meningococcal meningitis has gone largely unexplored. Taking the coalfields of Britain as a historical testbed, techniques of linear and binomial logistic re... Read More about Deep coal mining and meningococcal meningitis in England and Wales, 1931–38: ecological study, with implications for deep shaft mining activities worldwide.

Satellite remote sensing of ecosystem functions: opportunities, challenges and way forward (2017)
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Pettorelli, N., Schulte to Bühne, H., Tulloch, A., Dubois, G., Macinnis-Ng, C., Queirós, A. M., Keith, D. A., Wegmann, M., Schrodt, F., Stellmes, M., Sonnenschein, R., Geller, G. N., Roy, S., Somers, B., Murray, N., Bland, L., Geijzendorffer, I., Kerr, J. T., Broszeit, S., Leitão, P. J., …Nicholson, E. (2018). Satellite remote sensing of ecosystem functions: opportunities, challenges and way forward. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 4(2), 71-93. https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.59

Societal, economic and scientific interests in knowing where biodiversity is, how it is faring and what can be done to efficiently mitigate further biodiversity loss and the associated loss of ecosystem services are at an all‐time high. So far, howev... Read More about Satellite remote sensing of ecosystem functions: opportunities, challenges and way forward.

Making space for failure in geographic research (2017)
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Harrowell, E., Davies, T., & Disney, T. (2018). Making space for failure in geographic research. Professional Geographer, 70(2), 230-238. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2017.1347799

The idea that field research is an inherently “messy” process has become widely accepted by geographers in recent years. There has thus far been little acknowledgment, however, of the role that failure plays in doing human geography. In this article... Read More about Making space for failure in geographic research.

Piracy on the high sands: covert military mobilities in the Libyan desert, 1940-1943 (2017)
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Forsyth, I. (2017). Piracy on the high sands: covert military mobilities in the Libyan desert, 1940-1943. Journal of Historical Geography, 58, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2017.07.007

This paper explores the history of the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) who gained notoriety in the Second World War by conducting a new form of covert warfare deep behind enemy lines. The LRDG waged a psychological war; continuously appearing and di... Read More about Piracy on the high sands: covert military mobilities in the Libyan desert, 1940-1943.