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Landscape Management (2017)
Book Chapter
Watkins, C. (2017). Landscape Management. In Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows exhibited 1831 by John ConstableTate Research

The viewpoint taken for Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows exhibited 1831 (Tate T13896) obscures the city and emphasises the rural landscape; much of the middle ground consists of trees, shrubs and grassland. This allows us to explore the way Const... Read More about Landscape Management.

(Post)graduate Education Markets and the Formation of Mobile Transnational Economic Elites (2017)
Book Chapter
Hall, S. (2017). (Post)graduate Education Markets and the Formation of Mobile Transnational Economic Elites. In J. Glückler, E. Lazega, & I. Hammer (Eds.), Knowledge and Networks (103-116). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45023-0_6

Undergraduate and postgraduate education has increasingly been framed by policymakers and employers in advanced economies as an important way of improving graduate employability and enhancing economic growth within knowledge-based economies. This is... Read More about (Post)graduate Education Markets and the Formation of Mobile Transnational Economic Elites.

C/N ratios and carbon isotope composition of organic matter in estuarine environments (2017)
Book Chapter
Leng, M. J., & Lewis, J. P. (2017). C/N ratios and carbon isotope composition of organic matter in estuarine environments. In K. Weckström, K. Saunders, P. Gell, & G. Skilbeck (Eds.), Applications of Paleoenvironmental Techniques in Estuarine Studies. Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0990-1_9

The sediments that are preserved in estuarine environments (saltmarsh, riverine estuaries, mangrove habitats, lagoons, isolation basins and fjords) contain organic matter that allows investigation of the provenance of that material. These data can th... Read More about C/N ratios and carbon isotope composition of organic matter in estuarine environments.

The Cedar of Lebanon in England: the introduction and reception of a sacred tree (2016)
Book Chapter
Watkins, C. (2016). The Cedar of Lebanon in England: the introduction and reception of a sacred tree. In M. Guest, & M. M. Le Mon (Eds.), Death, life and laughter: essays on religion in honour of Douglas Davies. Routledge

Douglas Davies (1988: 33-34) argued in his paper on ‘evocative symbolism’ that trees had a practical symbolism that derived ‘both literally and metaphorically’ from their being living entities ‘spanning many generations’. He saw trees as ‘historical... Read More about The Cedar of Lebanon in England: the introduction and reception of a sacred tree.

On the physical and operational rationality of data-driven models for suspended sediment prediction in rivers (2016)
Book Chapter
Mount, N., Abrahart, R., & Dawson, C. (2016). On the physical and operational rationality of data-driven models for suspended sediment prediction in rivers. River System Analysis and Management (31-46). Verlag: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1472-7_3

Suspended sediment remains an important variable for prediction in river studies. Knowledge of suspended sediment concentration or load at different downstream locations within a channel allows the temporal and spatial patterns of catchment sediment... Read More about On the physical and operational rationality of data-driven models for suspended sediment prediction in rivers.

Strategic Objective 11A. Assess the position of the Derwent Valley cotton industry in terms of the Empire, the slave trade and the pressures of global demand and supply? (2016)
Book Chapter
Seymour, S., & Haggerty, S. (2016). Strategic Objective 11A. Assess the position of the Derwent Valley cotton industry in terms of the Empire, the slave trade and the pressures of global demand and supply?. In D. Knight (Ed.), The Derwent Valley: the valley that changed the world: Derwent Valley Mills world heritage site research framework, 87. Derwent Valley Mills Partnership

The ties that bind: Rural-urban linkages in the Cambodian migration system (2016)
Book Chapter
Lawreniuk, S. (2016). The ties that bind: Rural-urban linkages in the Cambodian migration system. In K. Brickell, & S. Springer (Eds.), The Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia. Routledge

The “miracle” (World Bank 2009) of Cambodia’s recent development has been driven by the movement of labor. Beginning in the 1990s, when the first garment factories opened their doors, a trickle of migrant workers to Phnom Penh’s nascent export indust... Read More about The ties that bind: Rural-urban linkages in the Cambodian migration system.

What can participant-generated drawing add to health geography’s qualitative palette? (2016)
Book Chapter
Coen, S. (2016). What can participant-generated drawing add to health geography’s qualitative palette?. In N. E. Fenton, & J. Baxter (Eds.), Practicing Qualitative Methods in Health Geographies (131-152). Abingdon, Oxon & New York, NY: Routledge

Deploying participant-generated drawing as a research method presented me with two new challenges. The first is rather personal. Although I am convinced that drawing is a valuable method and stand by what I have written in this chapter, I wrestled wi... Read More about What can participant-generated drawing add to health geography’s qualitative palette?.

Spatial frames of reference for literature using geospatial technologies (2016)
Book Chapter
Priestnall, G. (2016). Spatial frames of reference for literature using geospatial technologies. In D. Cooper, C. McDonald, & P. Murrieta-Flores (Eds.), Literary mapping in the digital age. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315592596

This book chapter focuses on the use of three-dimensional representations of landscape, where digital terrain data is used as a backdrop to place cultural heritage information including passages from works of literature, diaries, and sketches, into a... Read More about Spatial frames of reference for literature using geospatial technologies.

Leveraging affect: mobilizing enthusiasm and the co-production of the musical economy (2016)
Book Chapter
Leyshon, A., Thrift, N., Crewe, L., French, S., & Webb, P. (2016). Leveraging affect: mobilizing enthusiasm and the co-production of the musical economy. In B. J. Hracs, M. Seman, & T. E. Virani (Eds.), The production and consumption of music in the digital age (248-262). London: Routledge

This chapter considers the promises and problems of fandom and enthusiasm within capitalism, with particular reference to rise of crowdsourcing as a means of mobilising fan enthusiasm to fund new creative projects, with a particular focus on the musi... Read More about Leveraging affect: mobilizing enthusiasm and the co-production of the musical economy.

Redefining risk from below: political responses to landslide risk assessments in the informal settlements of Bogota, Colombia (2016)
Book Chapter
Fraser, A. (2016). Redefining risk from below: political responses to landslide risk assessments in the informal settlements of Bogota, Colombia. In M. Roy, S. Cawood, M. Hordijk, & D. Hulme (Eds.), Urban poverty and climate change: life in the slums of Asia, Africa and Latin AmericaTaylor & Francis (Routledge)

This chapter examines the construction of urban risk as an entry point to urban adaptation, with emphasis on the what, who and how' questions of adaptation. It examines three case study communities with differential exposure and vulnerability to la... Read More about Redefining risk from below: political responses to landslide risk assessments in the informal settlements of Bogota, Colombia.

Understanding risk in the context of urban development (2016)
Book Chapter
Fraser, A., Pelling, M., & Solecki, B. (2016). Understanding risk in the context of urban development. In S. Bartlett, & D. Satterthwaite (Eds.), Cities on a finite planet: towards transformative responses to climate change, 17-40. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

This chapter presents the conceptual landscape used in this book to analyse urban disaster and climate change risk. As well as providing working definitions to be taken forward in subsequent chapters, it discusses the implications for urban adaptatio... Read More about Understanding risk in the context of urban development.