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Introduction: What difference do sex and gender make? (2012)
Book Chapter
Coen, S., & Banister, E. (2012). Introduction: What difference do sex and gender make?. In S. Coen, & E. Banister (Eds.), What a Difference Sex and Gender Make: A Gender, Sex and Health Research Casebook. CIHR Institute of Gender and Health

In this collection, you will find examples from a diversity of disciplines and health foci where accounting for sex and gender in health research has advanced what we know, improved how we do research and made the products of health research more use... Read More about Introduction: What difference do sex and gender make?.

What do we mean by wet? Geoarchaeology and the reconstruction of water availability (2012)
Journal Article
Jones, M. D. (2013). What do we mean by wet? Geoarchaeology and the reconstruction of water availability. Quaternary International, 308-309, 76-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.12.015

Geoarchaeology has a key role to play in the human-climate-environment debate, including research into the controls and variability of water availability. However its interdisciplinarity can cause complications as well as advantages and leads to conf... Read More about What do we mean by wet? Geoarchaeology and the reconstruction of water availability.

Financial business education: The remaking of gendered investment banking subjects in the (post-crisis) City of London (2012)
Journal Article
Hall, S., & Appleyard, L. (2012). Financial business education: The remaking of gendered investment banking subjects in the (post-crisis) City of London. Journal of Cultural Economy, 5(4), 457-472. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2012.691894

In this paper, we reveal the neglected role of business education in legitimizing and performing gendered discourses in financial services work in London's financial district. In particular, by combining research on gendered subjectivities in elite l... Read More about Financial business education: The remaking of gendered investment banking subjects in the (post-crisis) City of London.

Stimulation, segregation and scandal: geographies of prostitution regulation in British India, between Registration (1888) and Suppression (1923) (2012)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2012). Stimulation, segregation and scandal: geographies of prostitution regulation in British India, between Registration (1888) and Suppression (1923). Modern Asian Studies, 46(6), https://doi.org/10.1017/+S0026749X11000503

This paper explores the regulation of prostitution in colonial India between the abolition of the Indian Contagious Diseases Act in 1888 and the passing of the first Suppression of Immoral Traffic Act in 1923. It challenges the commonly held assumpti... Read More about Stimulation, segregation and scandal: geographies of prostitution regulation in British India, between Registration (1888) and Suppression (1923).

Multiproxy evidence for abrupt climate change impacts on terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems in the Ol'khon region of Lake Baikal, central Asia (2012)
Journal Article
Mackay, A. W., Bezrukova, E. V., Boyle, J. F., Holmes, J. A., Panizzo, V. N., Piotrowska, N., …White, D. (2013). Multiproxy evidence for abrupt climate change impacts on terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems in the Ol'khon region of Lake Baikal, central Asia. Quaternary International, 290-291, 46-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.09.031

A palaeolimnological study of Lake Khall was undertaken to reconstruct impacts from five thousand years of climate change and human activity in the Ol'khon region of Lake Baikal. Taiga biome dominated regional landscapes, although significant composi... Read More about Multiproxy evidence for abrupt climate change impacts on terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems in the Ol'khon region of Lake Baikal, central Asia.

Influence of the ratio of planktonic to benthic diatoms on lacustrine organic matter ? 13 C from Erlongwan maar lake, northeast China (2012)
Journal Article
Wang, L., Mackay, A. W., Leng, M. J., Rioual, P., Panizzo, V. N., Lu, H., …Kendrick, C. P. (2013). Influence of the ratio of planktonic to benthic diatoms on lacustrine organic matter δ 13 C from Erlongwan maar lake, northeast China. Organic Geochemistry, 54, 62-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2012.09.010

Carbon isotope ratio (δ 13 C org ) values of organic matter in lake sediments are commonly used to reconstruct environmental change, but the factors which influence change are varied and complex. Here we report δ 13 C values for sediments from Erlong... Read More about Influence of the ratio of planktonic to benthic diatoms on lacustrine organic matter ? 13 C from Erlongwan maar lake, northeast China.

The island–mainland species turnover relationship (2012)
Journal Article
Stuart, Y. E., Losos, J. B., & Algar, A. C. (2012). The island–mainland species turnover relationship. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279(1744), https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.0816

Many oceanic islands are notable for their high endemism, suggesting that islands may promote unique assembly processes. However, mainland assemblages sometimes harbour comparable levels of endemism, suggesting that island biotas may not be as unique... Read More about The island–mainland species turnover relationship.

'The life of individuals as well as of nations': international law and the League of Nations' anti-trafficking governmentalities (2012)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2012). 'The life of individuals as well as of nations': international law and the League of Nations' anti-trafficking governmentalities. Leiden Journal of International Law, 25(3), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0922156512000325

This paper will address an often-neglected agenda of the much-derided League of Nations: its ‘social’ and ‘technical’ works. These targeted human security through regulating different forms of international mobility, including the fight against traff... Read More about 'The life of individuals as well as of nations': international law and the League of Nations' anti-trafficking governmentalities.

Making space for markets in economic geography (2012)
Journal Article
Hall, S. (2012). Making space for markets in economic geography. Dialogues in Human Geography, 2(2), 142-145. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820612449311

In this commentary, I respond to Peck's (2012) call to position markets as central conceptual, methodological and political research objects within economic geography. In particular, I suggest that cultural economy work on market devices and market a... Read More about Making space for markets in economic geography.

Competing for talent: Global mobility, immigration and the City of London's labour market (2012)
Journal Article
Beaverstock, J. V., & Hall, S. (2012). Competing for talent: Global mobility, immigration and the City of London's labour market. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 5(2), 271-287. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rss005

The City of London's competitiveness is founded on its global talent pool and ability to attract and retain workers of all nationalities. Drawing on ONS Long-Term International Migration data and fieldwork-based studies of banking, professional servi... Read More about Competing for talent: Global mobility, immigration and the City of London's labour market.

The likelihood and potential impact of future change in the large-scale climate-earth system on ecosystem services (2012)
Journal Article
Gosling, S. N. (2013). The likelihood and potential impact of future change in the large-scale climate-earth system on ecosystem services. Environmental Science and Policy, 27(Supplement 1), S15-S31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2012.03.011

This article reviews the level of current scientific understanding regarding the impact of future change in the large-scale climate-earth system on ecosystem services. Impacts from sea level rise, ocean acidification, increases in ocean temperature,... Read More about The likelihood and potential impact of future change in the large-scale climate-earth system on ecosystem services.

Risk, wealth and agrarian change in India: household-level hazards vs. late-modern global risks at different points along the risk transition (2012)
Journal Article
Jewitt, S., & Baker, K. (2012). Risk, wealth and agrarian change in India: household-level hazards vs. late-modern global risks at different points along the risk transition. Global Environmental Change, 22(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.11.010

The global poor often prioritise immediate hazards of food insecurity over temporally more distant risks like global warming. Yet the influence of socio-economic factors, temporal and spatial distance on risk perception remains under-researched. Data... Read More about Risk, wealth and agrarian change in India: household-level hazards vs. late-modern global risks at different points along the risk transition.

Impact of land cover patch size on the accuracy of patch area representation in HNN-based super resolution mapping (2012)
Journal Article
Muad, A. M., & Foody, G. M. (2012). Impact of land cover patch size on the accuracy of patch area representation in HNN-based super resolution mapping. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 5(1418 - 1427), 1418-1427. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2012.2191145

Mixed pixels are one of the largest sources of error and uncertainty in mapping from remotely sensed data. A Hopfield neural network based approach to super-resolution mapping has become popular for mapping at a sub-pixel scale, partly because it see... Read More about Impact of land cover patch size on the accuracy of patch area representation in HNN-based super resolution mapping.

Geographies of money and finance III: Financial circuits and the 'real economy' (2012)
Journal Article
Hall, S. (2013). Geographies of money and finance III: Financial circuits and the 'real economy'. Progress in Human Geography, 37(2), 285-292. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132512443488

This report focuses on the intersection between finance and the 'real economy'. I begin by examining how political economy approaches to money and the wider financialization literature reveal the entangled relationship between finance and broader eco... Read More about Geographies of money and finance III: Financial circuits and the 'real economy'.

The need for operational reasoning in data-driven rating curve prediction of suspended sediment (2012)
Journal Article
Mount, N. J., Abrahart, R., Dawson, C., & Ab Ghani, N. (2012). The need for operational reasoning in data-driven rating curve prediction of suspended sediment. Hydrological Processes, 26(26), https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.8439

The use of data-driven modelling techniques to deliver improved suspended sediment rating curves has received considerable interest in recent years. Studies indicate an increased level of performance over traditional approaches when such techniques a... Read More about The need for operational reasoning in data-driven rating curve prediction of suspended sediment.

Enclosure stories: narratives from Northamptonshire (2012)
Journal Article
McDonagh, B., & Daniels, S. (2012). Enclosure stories: narratives from Northamptonshire. cultural geographies, 19(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474011427361

This paper rethinks and revises enclosure narratives, thickening the concept of enclosure by researching a particular place and period: the English Midland county of Northamptonshire in the period between the 16th and the 19th centuries. It argues th... Read More about Enclosure stories: narratives from Northamptonshire.

Neuroemulation: definition and key benefits for water resources research (2012)
Journal Article
Abrahart, R., Mount, N. J., & Shamseldin, A. (2012). Neuroemulation: definition and key benefits for water resources research. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 57(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2012.658401

Neuroemulation is the art and science of using a neural network model to replicate the external behaviour of some other model and it is an activity that is distinct from neural-network-based simulation. Whilst is has become a recognised and establish... Read More about Neuroemulation: definition and key benefits for water resources research.

Ideal point error for model assessment in data-driven river flow forecasting (2012)
Journal Article
Dawson, C., Mount, N. J., Abrahart, R., & Shamseldin, A. (2012). Ideal point error for model assessment in data-driven river flow forecasting. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 16(8), https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-16-3049-2012

When analysing the performance of hydrological models in river forecasting, researchers use a number of diverse statistics. Although some statistics appear to be used more regularly in such analyses than others, there is a distinct lack of consisten... Read More about Ideal point error for model assessment in data-driven river flow forecasting.