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Pandemic Geographies of Physical Activity (2021)
Book Chapter
Coen, S., Cook, S., & Hayes, S. (2021). Pandemic Geographies of Physical Activity. In G. Andrews, V. Crooks, J. Pearce, & J. Messina (Eds.), COVID-19 and Similar Futures: Pandemic Geographies (165-172). Springer

Public health measures implemented to control COVID-19 (e.g., lock downs, social distancing) have dramatically changed the geographies of recreational physical activity, closing off traditional exercise places, and pushing people both inside homes an... Read More about Pandemic Geographies of Physical Activity.

Root traits explain plant species distributions along climatic gradients yet challenge the nature of ecological trade-offs (2021)
Journal Article
Laughlin, D. C., Mommer, L., Sabatini, F. M., Bruelheide, H., Kuyper, T. W., McCormack, M. L., …Weigelt, A. (2021). Root traits explain plant species distributions along climatic gradients yet challenge the nature of ecological trade-offs. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 5(8), 1123-1134. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01471-7

Ecological theory is built on trade-offs, where trait differences among species evolved as adaptations to different environments. Trade-offs are often assumed to be bidirectional, where opposite ends of a gradient in trait values confer advantages in... Read More about Root traits explain plant species distributions along climatic gradients yet challenge the nature of ecological trade-offs.

Cross-Sectoral Zoonotic Disease Surveillance in Western Kenya: Identifying Drivers and Barriers Within a Resource Constrained Setting (2021)
Journal Article
Thomas, L. F., Rushton, J., Bukachi, S. A., Falzon, L. C., Howland, O., & Fèvre, E. M. (2021). Cross-Sectoral Zoonotic Disease Surveillance in Western Kenya: Identifying Drivers and Barriers Within a Resource Constrained Setting. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 8, Article 658454. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2021.658454

Background: Collaboration between the human and animal health sectors, including the sharing of disease surveillance data, has the potential to improve public health outcomes through the rapid detection of zoonotic disease events prior to widespread... Read More about Cross-Sectoral Zoonotic Disease Surveillance in Western Kenya: Identifying Drivers and Barriers Within a Resource Constrained Setting.

A Multi-Method Approach to Prioritize Locations of Labor Exploitation for Ground-Based Interventions (2021)
Journal Article
Kougkoulos, I., Cakir, M. S., Kunz, N., Boyd, D. S., Trautrims, A., Hatzinikolaou, K., & Gold, S. (2021). A Multi-Method Approach to Prioritize Locations of Labor Exploitation for Ground-Based Interventions. Production and Operations Management, 30(12), 4396-4411. https://doi.org/10.1111/poms.13496

Recent estimates suggest that more than 40 million people worldwide are in situations of modern slavery and other forms of labor exploitation. UN Sustainable Development Goal 8.7 addresses this problem and urges stakeholders to take effective measure... Read More about A Multi-Method Approach to Prioritize Locations of Labor Exploitation for Ground-Based Interventions.

Microplastic pollution in Chinese urban rivers: The influence of urban factors (2021)
Journal Article
Xu, Y., Chan, F. K. S., Johnson, M., Stanton, T., He, J., Jia, T., …Yu, X. (2021). Microplastic pollution in Chinese urban rivers: The influence of urban factors. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 173, Article 105686. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105686

Microplastics are being widely discussed as an emerging global environmental contaminant. Microplastic pollution usually originates from land-based sources, which are then mainly transported through hydrological and atmospheric pathways and accumulat... Read More about Microplastic pollution in Chinese urban rivers: The influence of urban factors.

Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots (2021)
Journal Article
van der Heijden, G., Blundo, C., Carilla, J., Grau, R., Malizia, A., Malizia, L., …do Espírito Santo, M. (2021). Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots. Biological Conservation, 260, Article 108849. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108849

Tropical forests are the most diverse and productive ecosystems on Earth. While better understanding of these forests is critical for our collective future, until quite recently efforts to measure and monitor them have been largely disconnected. Netw... Read More about Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots.

TIME to Change: An Evaluation of Practical Action Nepal’s Results Based Finance Program (2021)
Journal Article
Robinson, B. L., Clifford, M. J., & Jewitt, S. (2021). TIME to Change: An Evaluation of Practical Action Nepal’s Results Based Finance Program. Energies, 14(10), Article 2891. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14102891

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)
Journal Article
Davies, T., Isakjee, A., Mayblin, L., & Turner, J. (2021). Channel crossings: offshoring asylum and the afterlife of empire in the Dover Strait. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 44(13), 2307-2327. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2021.1925320

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)
Journal Article
Robinson, B. L., Jewitt, S., Clifford, M. J., & Hewitt, J. (2022). Understanding the current market enablers for Nepal’s biomass cookstove industry. Development in Practice, 32(1), 52-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2021.1893659

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)
Journal Article
Boyd, D. S., Perrat, B., Li, X., Jackson, B., Landman, T., Ling, F., …Foody, G. M. (2021). Informing action for United Nations SDG target 8.7 and interdependent SDGs: Examining modern slavery from space. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8, Article 111. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00792-z

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.

Values influence public perceptions of flood management schemes (2021)
Journal Article
D'Souza, M., Johnson, M. F., & Ives, C. D. (2021). Values influence public perceptions of flood management schemes. Journal of Environmental Management, 291, Article 112636. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112636

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)
Journal Article
Cowan, T. (2021). UNCERTAIN GROUNDS: Cartographic Negotiation and Digitized Property on the Urban Frontier. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 45(3), 442-457. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13016

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)
Journal Article
Howland, O. (2021). 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. Journal of Global Health Reports, 5, Article e2021042. https://doi.org/10.29392/001c.22245

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)
Journal Article
Rocchini, D., Thouverai, E., Marcantonio, M., Iannacito, M., Da Re, D., Torresani, M., …Wegmann, M. (2021). rasterdiv—An Information Theory tailored R package for measuring ecosystem heterogeneity from space: To the origin and back. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12(6), 1093-1102. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13583

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)
Journal Article
Zhang, Y., Ling, F., Wang, X., Foody, G. M., Boyd, D. S., Li, X., …Atkinson, P. M. (2021). Tracking small-scale tropical forest disturbances: Fusing the Landsat and Sentinel-2 data record. Remote Sensing of Environment, 261, Article 112470. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112470

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.

Climate change is class war: Global labour’s challenge to the Capitalocene (2021)
Book Chapter
LAWRENIUK, S. (2021). Climate change is class war: Global labour’s challenge to the Capitalocene. In N. Natarajan, & L. Parsons (Eds.), Climate Change in the Global Workplace: Labour, Adaptation and Resistance. Routledge

Long viewed as a global issue, scholars are increasingly aware of the inequalities inherent in the manifestation of climate change. Among the hardest hit are workers in the South, facing a unique double jeopardy as contemporary climate precarity erod... Read More about Climate change is class war: Global labour’s challenge to the Capitalocene.