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Impervious surface change mapping with an uncertainty-based spatial-temporal consistency model: a case study in Wuhan city using Landsat time-series datasets from 1987 to 2016 (2017)
Journal Article
Shi, L., Ling, F., Ge, Y., Foody, G. M., Li, X., Wang, L., …Du, Y. (2017). Impervious surface change mapping with an uncertainty-based spatial-temporal consistency model: a case study in Wuhan city using Landsat time-series datasets from 1987 to 2016. Remote Sensing, 9(11), Article 1148. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9111148

Detailed information on the spatial-temporal change of impervious surfaces is important for quantifying the effects of rapid urbanization. Free access of the Landsat archive provides new opportunities for impervious surface mapping with fine spatial... Read More about Impervious surface change mapping with an uncertainty-based spatial-temporal consistency model: a case study in Wuhan city using Landsat time-series datasets from 1987 to 2016.

Spatial scale influences how people value and perceive green open space (2017)
Journal Article
Ives, C. D., Gordon, A., Oke, C., Raymond, C. M., Hehir, A., & Bekessy, S. A. (2018). Spatial scale influences how people value and perceive green open space. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 61(12), 2133-2150. https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2017.1388219

It is important for landscape planners and managers to understand how urban residents value and interact with green open spaces. However, the effect of spatial scale on values and perceptions of green open spaces has to date received little attention... Read More about Spatial scale influences how people value and perceive green open space.

The incidence function model as a tool for landscape ecological impact assessments (2017)
Journal Article
Graham, L. J., Haines-Young, R., & Field, R. (2018). The incidence function model as a tool for landscape ecological impact assessments. Landscape and Urban Planning, 170, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.10.008

Landscape-scale approaches to assessing the impact of land-use change on species' persistence are necessary because species depend on processes acting at varying scales, yet existing approaches to ecological impact assessment tend only to be site-bas... Read More about The incidence function model as a tool for landscape ecological impact assessments.

Africa’s urban risk and resilience (2017)
Journal Article
Fraser, A., Leck, H., Parnell, S., & Pelling, M. (2017). Africa’s urban risk and resilience. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 26, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.09.050

The literature on disaster risk and its reduction in Africa’s urban centres remains limited, despite evidence of disaster risks increasing with urban growth. This Special Issue brings together new synthetic reviews, detailed empirical case studies an... Read More about Africa’s urban risk and resilience.

“It's gym, like g-y-m not J-i-m”: Exploring the role of place in the gendering of physical activity (2017)
Journal Article
Coen, S. E., Rosenberg, M. W., & Davidson, J. (2018). “It's gym, like g-y-m not J-i-m”: Exploring the role of place in the gendering of physical activity. Social Science and Medicine, 196, 29-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.10.036

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Physical activity is a highly gendered health behaviour, with women less likely than men to meet internationally accepted physical activity guidelines. In this article, we take up recent arguments on the potential of indoor spaces... Read More about “It's gym, like g-y-m not J-i-m”: Exploring the role of place in the gendering of physical activity.

Variola minor in England and Wales: the geographical course of a smallpox epidemic and the impediments to effective disease control, 1920–1935 (2017)
Journal Article
Rafferty, S., Smallman-Raynor, M., & Cliff, A. D. (2018). Variola minor in England and Wales: the geographical course of a smallpox epidemic and the impediments to effective disease control, 1920–1935. Journal of Historical Geography, 59, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2017.09.006

The 1920–1935 epidemic of variola minor in England and Wales is a prime example of a major smallpox outbreak that spread in a national population with waning levels of vaccine-induced immunity. This paper examines the geographical course of the epide... Read More about Variola minor in England and Wales: the geographical course of a smallpox epidemic and the impediments to effective disease control, 1920–1935.

Researching state rescaling in China: methodological reflections (2017)
Journal Article
Lim, K. F. (2018). Researching state rescaling in China: methodological reflections. Area Development and Policy, 3(2), 170-184. https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2017.1382380

This paper foregrounds and evaluates the research design associated with the study of Chinese state rescaling. It first synthesizes the existing gaps in the original, western-based state rescaling framework. The paper then explores how different meth... Read More about Researching state rescaling in China: methodological reflections.

“The vice of distant knowledge”: Licensing and the geography of jurisdiction on the Scottish wartime Home Front (2017)
Journal Article
Beckingham, D. (2017). “The vice of distant knowledge”: Licensing and the geography of jurisdiction on the Scottish wartime Home Front. Geoforum, 87, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.09.015

This article considers how licensing law conceives and practices jurisdiction. It examines the limits of attempts to define and exploit jurisdiction in the regulation of social problems connected to alcohol. Using the case study of a prohibition on t... Read More about “The vice of distant knowledge”: Licensing and the geography of jurisdiction on the Scottish wartime Home Front.

The missing politics of urban vulnerability: The state and the co-production of climate risk (2017)
Journal Article
Fraser, A. (2017). The missing politics of urban vulnerability: The state and the co-production of climate risk. Environment and Planning A, 49(12), 2835-2852. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X17732341

© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. Studies of urban disaster and climate change risk have increasingly invoked governmentality as a theoretical frame for understanding how urban risk governance functions. This article argues that the use of governmentalit... Read More about The missing politics of urban vulnerability: The state and the co-production of climate risk.

Variation in beliefs about 'fracking' between the UK and US (2017)
Journal Article
Evensen, D., Stedman, R. C., O'Hara, S., Humphrey, M., & Andersson-Hudson, J. (2017). Variation in beliefs about 'fracking' between the UK and US. Environmental Research Letters, 12(12), Article 124004. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa8f7e

In decision-making on the politically-contentious issue of unconventional gas development, the UK Government and European Commission are attempting to learn from the US experience. Although economic, environmental, and health impacts and regulatory c... Read More about Variation in beliefs about 'fracking' between the UK and US.

What's for dinner? Gendered decision-making and energy efficient cookstoves in Benue State, North Central Nigeria (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Atagher, P., Clifford, M., Jewitt, S., & Ray, C. (2017). What's for dinner? Gendered decision-making and energy efficient cookstoves in Benue State, North Central Nigeria. In C. Brebbia, & J. Sendra (Eds.), WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, volume 224, (101-111). https://doi.org/10.2495/ESUS170101

Solid biomass collection such as firewood rests mostly on women and children in settings where traditional fuels dominates household energy choices. A 2015 World Health Organisation (WHO) report estimated that 3.5 million people globally rely on soli... Read More about What's for dinner? Gendered decision-making and energy efficient cookstoves in Benue State, North Central Nigeria.

(Dis)entangling Barad: Materialisms and ethics (2017)
Journal Article
Hollin, G., Forsyth, I., Giraud, E., & Potts, T. (2017). (Dis)entangling Barad: Materialisms and ethics. Social Studies of Science, 47(6), 918-941. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312717728344

In the wake of the widespread uptake of and debate surrounding the work of Karen Barad, this article revisits her core conceptual contributions. We offer descriptions, elaborations, problematizations and provocations for those intrigued by or investe... Read More about (Dis)entangling Barad: Materialisms and ethics.

The water-energy-food nexus in Kazakhstan: challenges and opportunities (2017)
Journal Article
Karatayev, M., Rivotti, P., Sobral Mourão, Z., Konadu, D. D., Shah, N., & Clarke, M. (in press). The water-energy-food nexus in Kazakhstan: challenges and opportunities. Energy Procedia, 125, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.08.064

The concept of the water, energy, food nexus is extremely relevant to Kazakhstan as the country faces population growth, economic progress and environmental challenges such as water scarcity, desertification, and climate change. Furthermore, poor sec... Read More about The water-energy-food nexus in Kazakhstan: challenges and opportunities.

Mapping and the citizen sensor (2017)
Book
Foody, G., See, L., Fritz, S., Mooney, P., Olteanu-Raimond, A., Costa Fonte, C., & Antoniou, V. (2017). G. Foody, L. See, S. Fritz, P. Mooney, A. Olteanu-Raimond, C. C. Fonte, & V. Antoniou (Eds.). Mapping and the citizen sensor. Ubiquity Press. https://doi.org/10.5334/bbf

Maps are a fundamental resource in a diverse array of applications ranging from everyday activities, such as route planning through the legal demarcation of space to scientific studies, such as those seeking to understand biodiversity and inform the... Read More about Mapping and the citizen sensor.