All Outputs (103)

TIME to Change: An Evaluation of Practical Action Nepal’s Results Based Finance Program (2021)
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Set against the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 7, and the need to increase biomass Improved Cookstove (ICS) adoption and sustained use across the globe, this paper presents an evaluation of Practical Action Nepal’s (PAN) Results Based Fi... Read More about TIME to Change: An Evaluation of Practical Action Nepal’s Results Based Finance Program.

Channel crossings: offshoring asylum and the afterlife of empire in the Dover Strait (2021)
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In 2020, over 8,400 people made their way from France to the UK coast using small vessels. They did so principally in order to claim asylum in the United Kingdom (UK). Much like in other border-zones, the UK state has portrayed irregular Channel cros... Read More about Channel crossings: offshoring asylum and the afterlife of empire in the Dover Strait.

Understanding the current market enablers for Nepal’s biomass cookstove industry (2021)
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This paper applies the market map tool to the Nepalese biomass cookstove market highlighting existing weaknesses in government policy, cookstove market chains and providing a framework for cookstove interventions that better address the social, econo... Read More about Understanding the current market enablers for Nepal’s biomass cookstove industry.

Informing action for United Nations SDG target 8.7 and interdependent SDGs: Examining modern slavery from space (2021)
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This article provides an example of the ways in which remote sensing, Earth observation, and machine learning can be deployed to provide the most up to date quantitative portrait of the South Asian ‘Brick Belt’, with a view to understanding the exten... Read More about Informing action for United Nations SDG target 8.7 and interdependent SDGs: Examining modern slavery from space.

Equity in climate scholarship: a manifesto for action (2021)
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Values influence public perceptions of flood management schemes (2021)
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Natural Flood Management (NFM) is now well established as a paradigm for reducing flood risk. It is characterised by adopting a catchment-wide hydrological perspective and implementing solutions that work with natural processes such as wetlands, ripa... Read More about Values influence public perceptions of flood management schemes.

UNCERTAIN GROUNDS: Cartographic Negotiation and Digitized Property on the Urban Frontier (2021)
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Based on ethnographic research with cadastral land surveyors and revenue bureaucrats in Gurgaon, North India, this article examines how the desire to etch out and impose digitized private property titles on India's urban frontier is mediated by the s... Read More about UNCERTAIN GROUNDS: Cartographic Negotiation and Digitized Property on the Urban Frontier.

Patterns of use, gathering, processing and administration of herbal and alternative medicines among people and livestock in Kenya: a study of local knowledge for One Health (2021)
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Background Although much has been written about efficacy of various herbal and plant-based medicines, significantly less is known about patterns of use in humans, and even less about how these are used in livestock. This paper addresses that gap i... Read More about Patterns of use, gathering, processing and administration of herbal and alternative medicines among people and livestock in Kenya: a study of local knowledge for One Health.

rasterdiv—An Information Theory tailored R package for measuring ecosystem heterogeneity from space: To the origin and back (2021)
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Ecosystem heterogeneity has been widely recognized as a key ecological indicator of several ecological functions, diversity patterns and change, metapopulation dynamics, population connectivity or gene flow. In this paper, we present a new R package—... Read More about rasterdiv—An Information Theory tailored R package for measuring ecosystem heterogeneity from space: To the origin and back.

Tracking small-scale tropical forest disturbances: Fusing the Landsat and Sentinel-2 data record (2021)
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Information on forest disturbance is crucial for tropical forest management and global carbon cycle analysis. The long-term collection of data from the Landsat missions provides some of the most valuable information for understanding the processes of... Read More about Tracking small-scale tropical forest disturbances: Fusing the Landsat and Sentinel-2 data record.

Plant gathering and people-environment interactions at Epipalaeolithic Kharaneh IV, Jordan (2021)
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This paper presents the first archaeobotanical results on plant macroremains other than charcoal from the Early and Middle Epipalaeolithic site of Kharaneh IV in the Azraq basin, one of the largest Epipalaeolithic sites in the southern Levant and one... Read More about Plant gathering and people-environment interactions at Epipalaeolithic Kharaneh IV, Jordan.

The Elusive History of the Pan-African Congress, 1919–27 (2021)
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This paper considers the meetings of the interwar Pan-African Congress movement. It examines the Congress in the context of how conferencing became a dominant mode of international politics in the 1920s and the opportunities this offered to non-state... Read More about The Elusive History of the Pan-African Congress, 1919–27.

Supply-Chain Urbanism: Constructing and Contesting the Logistics City (2021)
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With the development of global logistical systems to coordinate the movement of goods, cities around the world are being reconceived as nodes in circuits of commodity capital. These efforts are reshaping urban environments and provoking novel forms o... Read More about Supply-Chain Urbanism: Constructing and Contesting the Logistics City.

Private Spirits, Public Lives: Sober Citizenship, Shame and Secret Drinking in Victorian Britain (2021)
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This article considers Victorian concerns about the rise of secret drinking amongst respectable women. These new, apparently dangerous, practices were blamed on licensed grocers and even railway station refreshment rooms. Understandings of different... Read More about Private Spirits, Public Lives: Sober Citizenship, Shame and Secret Drinking in Victorian Britain.

Anthropocene climate warming enhances autochthonous carbon cycling in an upland Arctic lake, Disko Island, West Greenland (2021)
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The Arctic is rapidly changing, disrupting biogeochemical cycles and the processing, delivery and sedimentation of carbon (C), in linked terrestrial-aquatic systems. In this investigation, we coupled a hydrogeomorphic assessment of catchment soils, s... Read More about Anthropocene climate warming enhances autochthonous carbon cycling in an upland Arctic lake, Disko Island, West Greenland.

A multiproxy database of western North American Holocene paleoclimate records (2021)
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Holocene climate reconstructions are useful for understanding the diverse features and spatial heterogeneity of past and future climate change. Here we present a database of western North American Holocene paleoclimate records. The database gathers p... Read More about A multiproxy database of western North American Holocene paleoclimate records.

Sea-ice response to climate change in the Bering Sea during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (2021)
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Sea-ice is believed to be an important control on climatic changes through the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT; 0.6-1.2 Ma). However, the low resolution/short timescale of existing reconstructions prevents a full evaluation of these dynamics. Here, d... Read More about Sea-ice response to climate change in the Bering Sea during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition.

Impacts of ignorance on the accuracy of image classification and thematic mapping (2021)
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Thematic maps are often derived from remotely sensed imagery via a supervised image classification analysis. The training and testing stages of a supervised image classification may proceed ignorant of the presence of some classes in the region to be... Read More about Impacts of ignorance on the accuracy of image classification and thematic mapping.

Do Intervention Studies to Promote Physical Activity and Reduce Sedentary Behavior in Children and Adolescents Take Sex/Gender Into Account? A Systematic Review (2021)
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Background: Physical inactivity is often reported in youth and differs among boys and girls. The aim of this study is to assess sex/gender considerations in intervention studies promoting physical activity and reducing sedentary behavior in youth usi... Read More about Do Intervention Studies to Promote Physical Activity and Reduce Sedentary Behavior in Children and Adolescents Take Sex/Gender Into Account? A Systematic Review.

Synthesis of dominant plastic microfibre prevalence and pollution control feasibility in Chinese freshwater environments (2021)
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Microplastic pollution of freshwaters is known to be a great concern in China and these pollutants can be discharged into the coastal environment through fluvial processes, posing threats to the global marine ecosystem. This paper reviewed the litera... Read More about Synthesis of dominant plastic microfibre prevalence and pollution control feasibility in Chinese freshwater environments.