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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.

Carbon isotope discrimination in leaves of the common paperbark tree, Melaleuca quinquenervia, as a tool for quantifying past tropical and subtropical rainfall (2016)
Journal Article
Tibby, J., Barr, C., McInerney, F. A., Henderson, A. C., Leng, M. J., Greenway, M., …McNeil, V. (in press). Carbon isotope discrimination in leaves of the common paperbark tree, Melaleuca quinquenervia, as a tool for quantifying past tropical and subtropical rainfall. Global Change Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13277

Quantitative reconstructions of terrestrial climate are highly sought after but rare, particularly in Australia. Carbon isotope discrimination in plant leaves (?leaf) is an established indicator of past hydroclimate because the fractionation of carbo... Read More about Carbon isotope discrimination in leaves of the common paperbark tree, Melaleuca quinquenervia, as a tool for quantifying past tropical and subtropical rainfall.

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.

Perspectives on the Synoptic Climate Classification and its Role in Interdisciplinary Research (2016)
Journal Article
Dixon, P. G., Allen, M., Gosling, S. N., Hondula, D. M., Ingole, V., Lucas, R., & Vanos, J. K. (2016). Perspectives on the Synoptic Climate Classification and its Role in Interdisciplinary Research. Geography Compass, 10(4), 147-164. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12264

© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Synoptic climatology has a long history of research where weather data are aggregated and composited to gain a better understanding of atmospheric effects on non-atmospheric variables. This has resulted in an applied s... Read More about Perspectives on the Synoptic Climate Classification and its Role in Interdisciplinary Research.

Northern Mediterranean climate since the Middle Pleistocene: a 637 ka stable isotope record from Lake Ohrid (Albania/Macedonia) (2016)
Journal Article
Lacey, J. H., Leng, M. J., Francke, A., Sloane, H. J., Milodowski, A., Vogel, H., …Wagner, B. (2016). Northern Mediterranean climate since the Middle Pleistocene: a 637 ka stable isotope record from Lake Ohrid (Albania/Macedonia). Biogeosciences, 13, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-1801-2016

Lake Ohrid (Macedonia/Albania) is an ancient lake with unique biodiversity and a site of global significance for investigating the influence of climate, geological, and tectonic events on the generation of endemic populations. Here, we present oxygen... Read More about Northern Mediterranean climate since the Middle Pleistocene: a 637 ka stable isotope record from Lake Ohrid (Albania/Macedonia).

Banning the barmaid: time, space and alcohol licensing in 1900s Glasgow (2016)
Journal Article
Beckingham, D. (2017). Banning the barmaid: time, space and alcohol licensing in 1900s Glasgow. Social and Cultural Geography, 18(2), 117-136. doi:10.1080/14649365.2016.1155733

This article examines the decision of Glasgow’s magistrates at the beginning of the twentieth century to prohibit the employment of barmaids in the city's public houses, tracing the origins and advocates of the ban as well its effects on the licensed... Read More about Banning the barmaid: time, space and alcohol licensing in 1900s Glasgow.

Framing the agricultural use of antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance in UK national newspapers and the farming press (2016)
Journal Article
Morris, C., Helliwell, R., & Raman, S. (2016). Framing the agricultural use of antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance in UK national newspapers and the farming press. Journal of Rural Studies, 45, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.03.003

Despite links to animal disease governance, food and biosecurity, rural studies has neglected consideration of how actors make sense of the use of antibiotics in animal agriculture and the implications for animal and human health. As antimicrobial re... Read More about Framing the agricultural use of antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance in UK national newspapers and the farming press.

‘Emptying the cage, changing the birds’: state rescaling, path-dependency and the politics of economic restructuring in post-crisis Guangdong (2016)
Journal Article
Lim, K. F. (2016). ‘Emptying the cage, changing the birds’: state rescaling, path-dependency and the politics of economic restructuring in post-crisis Guangdong. New Political Economy, 21(4), 414-435. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2016.1153054

This paper evaluates how economic restructuring in Guangdong is entwined with the politicization of state rescaling during and after the global financial crisis of 2008. It shows how a key industrial policy known as ‘double relocation’ generated tens... Read More about ‘Emptying the cage, changing the birds’: state rescaling, path-dependency and the politics of economic restructuring in post-crisis Guangdong.

Learning-Based Superresolution Land Cover Mapping (2016)
Journal Article
Ling, F., Zhang, Y., Foody, G. M., Li, X., Zhang, X., Fang, S., …Du, Y. (2016). Learning-Based Superresolution Land Cover Mapping. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 54(7), 3794-3810. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2016.2527841

Super-resolution mapping (SRM) is a technique for generating a fine spatial resolution land cover map from coarse spatial resolution fraction images estimated by soft classification. The prior model used to describe the fine spatial resolution land c... Read More about Learning-Based Superresolution Land Cover Mapping.

A Superresolution Land-Cover Change Detection Method Using Remotely Sensed Images With Different Spatial Resolutions (2016)
Journal Article
Li, X., Ling, F., Foody, G. M., & Du, Y. (2016). A Superresolution Land-Cover Change Detection Method Using Remotely Sensed Images With Different Spatial Resolutions. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 54(7), 3822-3841. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2016.2528583

The development of remote sensing has enabled the acquisition of information on land-cover change at different spatial scales. However, a trade-off between spatial and temporal resolutions normally exists. Fine-spatial-resolution images have low temp... Read More about A Superresolution Land-Cover Change Detection Method Using Remotely Sensed Images With Different Spatial Resolutions.

‘An incredibly vile sport’: campaigns against otter hunting in Britain, 1900–39 (2016)
Journal Article
Allen, D., Watkins, C., & Matless, D. (2016). ‘An incredibly vile sport’: campaigns against otter hunting in Britain, 1900–39. Rural History, 27(1), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793315000175

Otter hunting was a minor field sport in Britain but in the early years of the twentieth century a lively campaign to ban it was orchestrated by several individuals and anti-hunting societies. The sport became increasingly popular in the late ninetee... Read More about ‘An incredibly vile sport’: campaigns against otter hunting in Britain, 1900–39.

Data-driven modelling approaches for socio-hydrology: Opportunities and challenges within the Panta Rhei Science Plan (2016)
Journal Article
Mount, N. J., Maier, H. R., Toth, E., Elshorbagy, A., Solomatine, D., Chang, F., & Abrahart, R. J. (2016). Data-driven modelling approaches for socio-hydrology: Opportunities and challenges within the Panta Rhei Science Plan. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 61(7), 1192-1208. https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2016.1159683

© 2016 IAHS. “Panta Rhei - Everything Flows” is the science plan for the International Association of Hydrological Sciences scientific decade 2013-2023. It is founded on the need for improved understanding of the mutual, two-way interactions occurrin... Read More about Data-driven modelling approaches for socio-hydrology: Opportunities and challenges within the Panta Rhei Science Plan.

Monitoring plant functional diversity from space (2016)
Journal Article
Jetz, W., Cavender-Bares, J., Pavlick, R., Schimel, D., Davis, F. W., Asner, G. P., …Ustin, S. L. (2016). Monitoring plant functional diversity from space. Nature Plants, 2(3), Article 16039. https://doi.org/10.1038/NPLANTS.2016.24

The world’s ecosystems are losing biodiversity fast. A satellite mission designed to track changes in plant functional diversity around the globe could deepen our understanding of the pace and consequences of this change and how to manage it.

A review of current energy systems and green energy potential in Kazakhstan (2016)
Journal Article
Karatayev, M., & Clarke, M. L. (2016). A review of current energy systems and green energy potential in Kazakhstan. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 55, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2015.10.078

Kazakhstan is rich in natural resources including coal, oil, natural gas and uranium and has significant renewable potential from wind, solar, hydro-power and biomass. In spite of this, the country is currently dependent upon fossil fuels for power g... Read More about A review of current energy systems and green energy potential in Kazakhstan.

Phosphorus recovery as struvite from farm, municipal and industrial waste: feedstock suitability, methods and pre-treatments (2016)
Journal Article
Kataki, S., West, H. M., Clarke, M. L., & Baruah, D. C. (2016). Phosphorus recovery as struvite from farm, municipal and industrial waste: feedstock suitability, methods and pre-treatments. Waste Management, 49, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2016.01.003

Global population growth requires intensification of agriculture, for which a sustainable supply of phosphorus (P) is essential. Since natural P reserves are diminishing, recovering P from wastes and residues is an increasingly attractive prospect, p... Read More about Phosphorus recovery as struvite from farm, municipal and industrial waste: feedstock suitability, methods and pre-treatments.

The Southern Annular Mode determines inter-annual and centennial-scale fire activity in temperate southwest Tasmania, Australia (2016)
Journal Article
Mariani, M., & Fletcher, M. (2016). The Southern Annular Mode determines inter-annual and centennial-scale fire activity in temperate southwest Tasmania, Australia. Geophysical Research Letters, 43(4), 1702-1709. doi:10.1002/2016GL068082

Southern Annular Mode (SAM) is the primary mode of atmospheric variability in the Southern Hemisphere. While it is well established that the current anthropogenic?driven trend in SAM is responsible for decreased rainfall in southern Australia, its ro... Read More about The Southern Annular Mode determines inter-annual and centennial-scale fire activity in temperate southwest Tasmania, Australia.

Geographically weighted evidence combination approaches for combining discordant and inconsistent volunteered geographical information (2016)
Journal Article
Comber, A., Fonte, C., Foody, G. M., Fritz, S., Harris, P., Olteanu-Raimond, A., & See, L. (in press). Geographically weighted evidence combination approaches for combining discordant and inconsistent volunteered geographical information. Geoinformatica Polonica, 20(3), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10707-016-0248-z

There is much interest in being able to combine crowdsourced data. One of the critical issues in information sciences is how to combine data or information that are discordant or inconsistent in some way. Many previous approaches have taken a majorit... Read More about Geographically weighted evidence combination approaches for combining discordant and inconsistent volunteered geographical information.

Impacts of forestry planting on primary production in upland lakes from north-west Ireland (2016)
Journal Article
Stevenson, M. A., McGowan, S., Anderson, N. J., Foy, R. H., Leavitt, P. R., McElarney, Y. R., …Pla-Rabés, S. (2016). Impacts of forestry planting on primary production in upland lakes from north-west Ireland. Global Change Biology, 22(4), 1490-1504. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13194

Planted forests are increasing in many upland regions worldwide, but knowledge about their potential effects on algal communities of catchment lakes is relatively unknown. Here, the effects of afforestation were investigated using palaeolimnology at... Read More about Impacts of forestry planting on primary production in upland lakes from north-west Ireland.