All Outputs (102)

How just and just how? A systematic review of social equity in conservation research (2018)
Journal Article
Friedman, R. S., Law, E. A., Bennett, N. J., Ives, C. D., Thorn, J. P., & Wilson, K. A. (2018). How just and just how? A systematic review of social equity in conservation research. Environmental Research Letters, 13(5), https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aabcde

Background: Conservation decisions not only impact wildlife, habitat, and environmental health, but also human wellbeing and social justice. The inclusion of safeguards and equity considerations in the conservation field has increasingly garnered att... Read More about How just and just how? A systematic review of social equity in conservation research.

Late Pliocene marine pCO2 reconstructions from the Subarctic Pacific Ocean (2018)
Journal Article
Swann, G., Kendrick, C., Dickson, A., & Worne, S. (in press). Late Pliocene marine pCO2 reconstructions from the Subarctic Pacific Ocean. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, https://doi.org/10.1029/2017PA003296

The development of large ice-sheets across the Northern Hemisphere during the late Pliocene and the emergence of the glacial-interglacial cycles that punctuate the Quaternary mark a significant threshold in Earth's climate history. Although a number... Read More about Late Pliocene marine pCO2 reconstructions from the Subarctic Pacific Ocean.

Using volunteered geographic information (VGI) in design-based statistical inference for area estimation and accuracy assessment of land cover (2018)
Journal Article
Stehman, S. V., Fonte, C. C., Foody, G. M., & See, L. (2018). Using volunteered geographic information (VGI) in design-based statistical inference for area estimation and accuracy assessment of land cover. Remote Sensing of Environment, 212, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.04.014

Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) offers a potentially inexpensive source of reference data for estimating area and assessing map accuracy in the context of remote-sensing based land-cover monitoring. The quality of observations from VGI and t... Read More about Using volunteered geographic information (VGI) in design-based statistical inference for area estimation and accuracy assessment of land cover.

Tropical peatland vegetation structure and biomass: optimal exploitation of airborne laser scanning (2018)
Journal Article
Brown, C., Boyd, D., Sjögersten, S., Clewley, D., Evers, S., & Aplin, P. (2018). Tropical peatland vegetation structure and biomass: optimal exploitation of airborne laser scanning. Remote Sensing, 10(5), Article 671. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10050671

Accurate estimation of above ground biomass (AGB) is required to better understand the variability and dynamics of tropical peat swamp forest (PSF) ecosystem function and resilience to disturbance events. The objective of this work is to examine the... Read More about Tropical peatland vegetation structure and biomass: optimal exploitation of airborne laser scanning.

Uniqueness of protected areas for conservation strategies in the European Union (2018)
Journal Article
Hoffmann, S., Beierkuhnlein, C., Field, R., Provenzale, A., & Chiarucci, A. (2018). Uniqueness of protected areas for conservation strategies in the European Union. Scientific Reports, 8, Article 6445. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-24390-3

Protected areas (PAs) constitute major tools in nature conservation. In the European Union (EU), the Birds and Habitats Directives are the most important policies for conservation strategy, legally preserving Europe’s characteristic, rare, endemic an... Read More about Uniqueness of protected areas for conservation strategies in the European Union.

Aligning ancient and modern approaches to sustainable urban water management in China: Ningbo as a ‘Blue-Green City’ in the ‘Sponge City’ Campaign (2018)
Journal Article
Tang, Y., Chan, F. K. S., O'Donnell, E. C., Griffiths, J., Lau, L., Higgitt, D., & Thorne, C. R. (2018). Aligning ancient and modern approaches to sustainable urban water management in China: Ningbo as a ‘Blue-Green City’ in the ‘Sponge City’ Campaign. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 11(4), Article e12451. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.12451

Modern urban flood and water management emphasises holistic strategies that reduce flood risk while providing co- benefits to urban economies, societies and environments. The ‘Blue‐Green City’ concept provides a viable framework for putting this into... Read More about Aligning ancient and modern approaches to sustainable urban water management in China: Ningbo as a ‘Blue-Green City’ in the ‘Sponge City’ Campaign.

Endophytic Bacillus spp. from medicinal plants inhibit mycelial growth of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and promote plant growth (2018)
Journal Article
Ansary, M. W. R., Prince, M. F. R. K., Haque, E., Sultana, F., West, H. M., Rahman, M. M., …Islam, M. T. (2018). Endophytic Bacillus spp. from medicinal plants inhibit mycelial growth of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and promote plant growth. Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung C, 73(5-6), https://doi.org/10.1515/znc-2018-0002

Plant growth promoting bacteria that are also capable of suppressing plant pathogenic fungi play an important role in sustainable agriculture. There is a critical need of conducting research to discover, characterize and evaluate efficacy of new stra... Read More about Endophytic Bacillus spp. from medicinal plants inhibit mycelial growth of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and promote plant growth.

Tracing Improving Livelihoods in Rural Africa Using Local Measures of Wealth: A Case Study from Central Tanzania, 1991–2016 (2018)
Journal Article
Östberg, W., Howland, O., Mduma, J., & Brockington, D. (2018). Tracing Improving Livelihoods in Rural Africa Using Local Measures of Wealth: A Case Study from Central Tanzania, 1991–2016. Land, 7(2), Article 44. https://doi.org/10.3390/land7020044

We studied livelihood changes and poverty dynamics over a 25-year period in two villages in central Tanzania. The villages were, from the early 1990s and 2000s, strikingly poor with between 50% and 55% of families in the poorest wealth groups. 25 yea... Read More about Tracing Improving Livelihoods in Rural Africa Using Local Measures of Wealth: A Case Study from Central Tanzania, 1991–2016.

The Agriculture Gallery: displaying modern farming in the Science Museum (2018)
Book Chapter
Matless, D. (2018). The Agriculture Gallery: displaying modern farming in the Science Museum. In J. Agar, & J. Ward (Eds.), Histories of technology, the environment, and modern Britain (101-122). London, UK: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781911576570

Yellow-sticker shopping as competent, creative consumption (2018)
Journal Article
Kelsey, S., Morris, C., & Crewe, L. (2019). Yellow-sticker shopping as competent, creative consumption. Area, 51(1), 64-71. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12435

This paper presents the preliminary findings of an empirical study into a specific and novel form of contemporary consumption: ‘yellow sticker shopping’. This type of consumption involves the active targeting for purchase of food products that have b... Read More about Yellow-sticker shopping as competent, creative consumption.

The role of socio-economic factors in planning and managing urban ecosystem services (2018)
Journal Article
Wilkerson, M. L., Mitchell, M. G., Shanahan, D., Wilson, K. A., Ives, C. D., Lovelock, C. E., & Rhodes, J. R. (2018). The role of socio-economic factors in planning and managing urban ecosystem services. Ecosystem Services, 31A, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2018.02.017

How green spaces in cities benefit urban residents depends critically on the interaction between biophysical and socio-economic factors. Urban ecosystem services are affected by both ecosystem characteristics and the social and economic attributes of... Read More about The role of socio-economic factors in planning and managing urban ecosystem services.

Demanding the impossible: a strike zine (2018)
Other
Legg, S., Clare, N., Field, R., Forsyth, I., Freeman, C., French, S., …Soccorsy, E. (2018). Demanding the impossible: a strike zine

A co-authored and co-curated series of reflections on the 2018 UCU strikes in British Universities, protesting against proposed pension reforms.

A Feminist Menagerie (2018)
Journal Article
Giraud, E., Hollin, G., Potts, T., & Forsyth, I. (2018). A Feminist Menagerie. Feminist Review, 118(1), 61-79. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41305-018-0103-1

This paper appraises the role of critical-feminist figurations within the environmental humanities, focusing on the capacity of figures to produce situated environmental knowledges and pose site-specific ethical obligations. We turn to four environme... Read More about A Feminist Menagerie.

Understanding summertime thermal refuge use by adult Atlantic salmon using remote sensing, river temperature monitoring, and acoustic telemetry (2018)
Journal Article
Frechette, D. M., Dugdale, S. J., Dodson, J. J., & Bergeron, N. E. (2018). Understanding summertime thermal refuge use by adult Atlantic salmon using remote sensing, river temperature monitoring, and acoustic telemetry. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 75(11), 1999-2010. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2017-0422

Adult Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) return to natal rivers several months before spawning and during summer can be subjected to temperatures that exceed their upper temperature tolerance limits. Salmon use thermal refuges to minimize exposure to high... Read More about Understanding summertime thermal refuge use by adult Atlantic salmon using remote sensing, river temperature monitoring, and acoustic telemetry.

Competition for nutrients and light: testing advances in resource competition with a natural phytoplankton community (2018)
Journal Article
Burson, A., Stomp, M., Greenwell, E., Grosse, J., & Huisman, J. (2018). Competition for nutrients and light: testing advances in resource competition with a natural phytoplankton community. Ecology, 99(5), 1108-1118. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2187

A key challenge in ecology is to understand how nutrients and light affect the biodiversity and community structure of phytoplankton and plant communities. According to resource competition models, ratios of limiting nutrients are major determinants... Read More about Competition for nutrients and light: testing advances in resource competition with a natural phytoplankton community.

Human impact parameterizations in global hydrological models improves estimates of monthly discharges and hydrological extremes: a multi-model validation study (2018)
Journal Article
Veldkamp, T. I. E., Zhao, F., Ward, P. J., Moel, H. D., Aerts, J. C., Müller Schmied, H., …Wada, Y. (in press). Human impact parameterizations in global hydrological models improves estimates of monthly discharges and hydrological extremes: a multi-model validation study. Environmental Research Letters, 13(5), Article 055008. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aab96f

Human activities have a profound influence on river discharge, hydrological extremes, and water-related hazards. In this study, we compare the results of five state-of-the-art global hydrological models (GHMs) with observations to examine the role of... Read More about Human impact parameterizations in global hydrological models improves estimates of monthly discharges and hydrological extremes: a multi-model validation study.

For a few dollars more: Towards a translocal mobilities of labour activism in Cambodia (2018)
Journal Article
Lawreniuk, S., & Parsons, L. (2018). For a few dollars more: Towards a translocal mobilities of labour activism in Cambodia. Geoforum, 92, 26-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.03.020

This paper uses the context of Cambodia’s 2013/14 and 2015 minimum wage campaigns to demonstrate the translocally rural-urban nature of worker agency and activism within global production networks. In doing so, it first highlights the gendered and hi... Read More about For a few dollars more: Towards a translocal mobilities of labour activism in Cambodia.

Automated classification metrics for energy modelling of residential buildings in the UK with open algorithms (2018)
Journal Article
Beck, A., Long, G., Boyd, D. S., Rosser, J. F., Morley, J., Duffield, R., …Robinson, D. (2020). Automated classification metrics for energy modelling of residential buildings in the UK with open algorithms. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 47(1), 45-64. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399808318762436

Estimating residential building energy use across large spatial extents is vital for identifying and testing effective strategies to reduce carbon emissions and improve urban sustainability. This task is underpinned by the availability of accurate mo... Read More about Automated classification metrics for energy modelling of residential buildings in the UK with open algorithms.

Finance and the improved cookstove sector in East Africa: barriers and opportunities for value-chain actors (2018)
Journal Article
Hewitt, J., Ray, C., Jewitt, S., & Clifford, M. (2018). Finance and the improved cookstove sector in East Africa: barriers and opportunities for value-chain actors. Energy Policy, 117, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.02.044

Despite a long history of diverse approaches designed to increase the adoption of improved cookstoves (ICS), multiple barriers continue to exist which stunt their uptake in many developing countries. This paper focuses specifically on the financial b... Read More about Finance and the improved cookstove sector in East Africa: barriers and opportunities for value-chain actors.

Slavery from Space: Demonstrating the role for satellite remote sensing to inform evidence-based action related to UN SDG number 8 (2018)
Journal Article
Boyd, D. S., Jackson, B., Wardlaw, J., Foody, G. M., Marsh, S., & Bales, K. (2018). Slavery from Space: Demonstrating the role for satellite remote sensing to inform evidence-based action related to UN SDG number 8. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 142, 380-388. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2018.02.012

The most recent Global Slavery Index estimates that there are 40.3 million people enslaved globally. The UN’s Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development Goal number 8, section 8.7 specifically refers to the issue of forced labour: ending modern slavery... Read More about Slavery from Space: Demonstrating the role for satellite remote sensing to inform evidence-based action related to UN SDG number 8.