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Sticks and Stones: The Impact of the Definitions of Brownfield in Policies on Socio-Economic Sustainability (2012)
Journal Article

Many countries encourage brownfield regeneration as a means of sustainable development but define “brownfield” differently. Specifically, the definitions of brownfield in the regeneration policies of countries with higher population densities usually... Read More about Sticks and Stones: The Impact of the Definitions of Brownfield in Policies on Socio-Economic Sustainability.

DAMP: a protocol for contextualising goodness-of-fit statistics in sediment-discharge data-driven modelling (2011)
Journal Article

The decision sequence which guides the selection of a preferred data-driven modelling solution is usually based solely on statistical assessment of fit to a test dataset, and lacks the incorporation of essential contextual knowledge and understanding... Read More about DAMP: a protocol for contextualising goodness-of-fit statistics in sediment-discharge data-driven modelling.

Servicing the super-rich: new financial elites and the rise of the private wealth management retail ecology (2011)
Journal Article

The ways in which individuals' everyday lives have become increasingly tied into the international financial system has become a widely studied dimension of research on financialization. However, the ways in which financial elites consume financial s... Read More about Servicing the super-rich: new financial elites and the rise of the private wealth management retail ecology.

The benefits of quantifying climate model uncertainty in climate change impacts assessment: An example with heat-related mortality change estimates (2011)
Journal Article

The majority of climate change impacts assessments account for climate change uncertainty by adopting the scenario-based approach. This typically involves assessing the impacts for a small number of emissions scenarios but neglecting the role of clim... Read More about The benefits of quantifying climate model uncertainty in climate change impacts assessment: An example with heat-related mortality change estimates.

Towards corporate professionalization: The case of project management, management consultancy and executive search (2011)
Journal Article

This article explores patterns of professionalization in a number of 'new' knowledge-based occupations: management consultancy, project management and executive headhunters. Against a general assumption in the literature that such occupations are unw... Read More about Towards corporate professionalization: The case of project management, management consultancy and executive search.

A review of recent developments in climate change science. Part II: The global-scale impacts of climate change (2011)
Journal Article

This article presents a review of recent developments in studies assessing the global-scale impacts of climate change published since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4). Literature covering six main im... Read More about A review of recent developments in climate change science. Part II: The global-scale impacts of climate change.

A review of recent developments in climate change science. Part I: Understanding of future change in the large-scale climate system (2011)
Journal Article

This article reviews some of the major lines of recent scientific progress relevant to the choice of global climate policy targets, focusing on changes in understanding since publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessm... Read More about A review of recent developments in climate change science. Part I: Understanding of future change in the large-scale climate system.