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Trans-local academic credentials and the (re)production of financial elites (2011)
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Hall, S., & Appleyard, L. (2011). Trans-local academic credentials and the (re)production of financial elites. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 9(2), 247-264. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2011.577177

This paper examines the ways in which credentials from a range of education providers are used to (re)produce transnational financial elites in London's international financial district. Extant research has examined the long-standing relationship bet... Read More about Trans-local academic credentials and the (re)production of financial elites.

A review of recent developments in climate change science. Part I: Understanding of future change in the large-scale climate system (2011)
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Good, P., Caesar, J., Bernie, D., Lowe, J. A., van der Linden, P., Gosling, S. N., …McNeall, D. (2011). A review of recent developments in climate change science. Part I: Understanding of future change in the large-scale climate system. Progress in Physical Geography, 35(3), 281-296. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309133311407651

This article reviews some of the major lines of recent scientific progress relevant to the choice of global climate policy targets, focusing on changes in understanding since publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessm... Read More about A review of recent developments in climate change science. Part I: Understanding of future change in the large-scale climate system.

Geographies of money and finance II: Financialization and financial subjects (2011)
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Hall, S. (2012). Geographies of money and finance II: Financialization and financial subjects. Progress in Human Geography, 36(3), 403-411. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132511403889

In this report, I examine the growing interest in financial subjects within economic geography and the wider social sciences. I begin by locating this literature within work on financialization and earlier geographical research on money and finance.... Read More about Geographies of money and finance II: Financialization and financial subjects.

Poo gurus? Researching the threats and opportunities presented by human waste (2011)
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Jewitt, S. (2011). Poo gurus? Researching the threats and opportunities presented by human waste. Applied Geography, 31(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2010.08.003

There is huge geographical variation in the extent to which excrement represents a threat to human and environmental health. In the UK, we tend to think little of such risks. By contrast, 52% of all people in Asia have no access to basic sanitation a... Read More about Poo gurus? Researching the threats and opportunities presented by human waste.

Making riverscapes real (2011)
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Carbonneau, P. E., Fonstad, M. A., Marcus, W. A., & Dugdale, S. J. (2012). Making riverscapes real. Geomorphology, 137(1), 74-86. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.09.030

Simulating current global river runoff with a global hydrological model: Model revisions, validation, and sensitivity analysis (2011)
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Gosling, S. N., & Arnell, N. W. (2011). Simulating current global river runoff with a global hydrological model: Model revisions, validation, and sensitivity analysis. Hydrological Processes, 25(7), 1129-1145. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.7727

Global hydrological models (GHMs) model the land surface hydrologic dynamics of continental-scale river basins. Here we describe one such GHM, the Macro-scale-Probability-Distributed Moisture model.09 (Mac-PDM.09). The model has undergone a number of... Read More about Simulating current global river runoff with a global hydrological model: Model revisions, validation, and sensitivity analysis.

Geographies of shit: spatial and temporal variations in attitudes towards human waste (2011)
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Jewitt, S. (2011). Geographies of shit: spatial and temporal variations in attitudes towards human waste. Progress in Human Geography, 35(5), https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132510394704

Taboos surrounding human waste have resulted in a lack of attention to spatial inequalities in access to sanitation and the consequences of this for human, environmental and economic health. This paper explores spaces where urgent environmental healt... Read More about Geographies of shit: spatial and temporal variations in attitudes towards human waste.

Commoditising Learning: Cultural Economy and the Growth of for-Profit Business Education Service Firms in London (2011)
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Hall, S., & Appleyard, L. (2011). Commoditising Learning: Cultural Economy and the Growth of for-Profit Business Education Service Firms in London. Environment and Planning A, 43(1), 10-27. https://doi.org/10.1068/a42488

ndividuals working in graduate labour markets are increasingly expected to enhance their employability and career progression by undertaking lifelong education and learning within the workplace. Research has examined how graduates navigate this dynam... Read More about Commoditising Learning: Cultural Economy and the Growth of for-Profit Business Education Service Firms in London.