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Regional variability in the atmospheric nitrogen deposition signal and its transfer to the sediment record in Greenland lakes (2018)
Journal Article
Anderson, N., Curtis, C., Whiteford, E., Jones, V., McGowan, S., Simpson, G., & Kaiser, J. (2018). Regional variability in the atmospheric nitrogen deposition signal and its transfer to the sediment record in Greenland lakes. Limnology and Oceanography, 63(5), 2250-2265. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.10936

Disruption of the nitrogen cycle is a major component of global environmental change. d15N in lake sediments is increasingly used as a measure of reactive nitrogen input but problematically, the characteristic depleted d15N signal is not recorded at... Read More about Regional variability in the atmospheric nitrogen deposition signal and its transfer to the sediment record in Greenland lakes.

Recent ecological change in ancient lakes (2018)
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Hampton, S. E., McGowan, S., Ozersky, T., Virdis, S. G. P., Vu, T. T., Spanbauer, T. L., Kraemer, B. M., Swann, G., Mackay, A. W., Powers, S. M., Meyer, M. F., Labou, S. G., O'Reilly, C. M., DiCarlo, M., Galloway, A. W. E., & Fritz, S. C. (2018). Recent ecological change in ancient lakes. Limnology and Oceanography, 63(5), 2277-2304. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.10938

Ancient lakes are among the best archivists of past environmental change, having experienced more than one full glacial cycle, a wide range of climatic conditions, tectonic events, and long association with human settlements. These lakes not only rec... Read More about Recent ecological change in ancient lakes.

Openness to social science knowledges? The politics of disciplinary collaboration within the field of UK food security research (2018)
Journal Article
Morris, C., Raman, S., & Seymour, S. (2019). Openness to social science knowledges? The politics of disciplinary collaboration within the field of UK food security research. Sociologia Ruralis, 59(1), 23-43. https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12221

This paper explores a form of knowledge politics played out within and between universities and research institutes as sites of certified disciplinary expertise in the agro-food domain. It investigates the ‘openness’ of this domain to the expertise o... Read More about Openness to social science knowledges? The politics of disciplinary collaboration within the field of UK food security research.

Trees in art (2018)
Book
Watkins, C. (2018). Trees in art. Reaktion Books

Long-term peatland condition assessment via surface motion monitoring using the ISBAS DInSAR technique over the Flow Country, Scotland (2018)
Journal Article
Alshammari, L., Large, D. J., Boyd, D. S., Sowter, A., Anderson, R., Andersen, R., & Marsh, S. (2018). Long-term peatland condition assessment via surface motion monitoring using the ISBAS DInSAR technique over the Flow Country, Scotland. Remote Sensing, 10(7), Article 1103. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10071103

Satellite Earth Observation (EO) is often used as a cost-effective method to report on the condition of remote and inaccessible peatland areas. Current EO techniques are primarily limited to reporting on the vegetation classes and properties of the i... Read More about Long-term peatland condition assessment via surface motion monitoring using the ISBAS DInSAR technique over the Flow Country, Scotland.

Playing with Poetry: Poetic Representation of Research in Children’s Geographies of Nature and Adventurous Play (2018)
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Coen, S. E., Tillmann, S., Ergler, C. R., McGuire, C., & Gilliland, J. A. (2018). Playing with Poetry: Poetic Representation of Research in Children’s Geographies of Nature and Adventurous Play. Geohumanities, 4(2), 557-575. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566x.2018.1516956

In this article, we undertake a methodological and creative exploration of poetic representation in children’s geographies. Drawing on qualitative approaches to poetry as a method, we consider how poetic techniques have the potential to bring us into... Read More about Playing with Poetry: Poetic Representation of Research in Children’s Geographies of Nature and Adventurous Play.

Sanitation sustainability, seasonality and stacking: improved facilities for how long, where and whom? (2018)
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Jewitt, S., Mahanta, A., & Gaur, K. (2018). Sanitation sustainability, seasonality and stacking: improved facilities for how long, where and whom?. Geographical Journal, 184(3), 255-268. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12258

Despite high-profile efforts to ‘reinvent the toilet’ (Gates Foundation, 2014) and ‘end open defecation’ (UNICEF, 2016a), WHO/UNICEF, (2017) estimated that in 2015, 2.3 billion lacked access to improved sanitation and 892 million practised open defec... Read More about Sanitation sustainability, seasonality and stacking: improved facilities for how long, where and whom?.

Evapotranspiration simulations in ISIMIP2a—Evaluation of spatio-temporal characteristics with a comprehensive ensemble of independent datasets (2018)
Journal Article
Wartenburger, R., Seneviratne, S. I., Hirschi, M., Chang, J., Ciais, P., Deryng, D., Elliott, J., Folberth, C., Gosling, S. N., Gudmundsson, L., Henrot, A.-J., Hickler, T., Ito, A., Khabarov, N., Kim, H., Leng, G., Liu, J., Liu, X., Masaki, Y., Morfopoulos, C., …Zhou, T. (2018). Evapotranspiration simulations in ISIMIP2a—Evaluation of spatio-temporal characteristics with a comprehensive ensemble of independent datasets. Environmental Research Letters, 13(7), Article 075001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aac4bb

© 2018 The Author(s). Actual land evapotranspiration (ET) is a key component of the global hydrological cycle and an essential variable determining the evolution of hydrological extreme events under different climate change scenarios. However, recent... Read More about Evapotranspiration simulations in ISIMIP2a—Evaluation of spatio-temporal characteristics with a comprehensive ensemble of independent datasets.

Environmental drivers of forest structure and stem turnover across Venezuelan tropical forests (2018)
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Vilanova, E., Ramírez-Angulo, H., Torres-Lezama, A., Aymard, G., Gámez, L., Durán, C., Hernández, L., Herrera, R., van der Heijden, G., Phillips, O. L., & Ettl, G. J. (2018). Environmental drivers of forest structure and stem turnover across Venezuelan tropical forests. PLoS ONE, 13(6), Article e0198489. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198489

Using data from 50 long-term permanent plots from across Venezuelan forests in northern South America, we explored large-scale patterns of stem turnover, aboveground biomass (AGB) and woody productivity (AGWP), and the relationships between them and... Read More about Environmental drivers of forest structure and stem turnover across Venezuelan tropical forests.

Next the Sea: Eccles and the Anthroposcenic (2018)
Journal Article
Matless, D. (2018). Next the Sea: Eccles and the Anthroposcenic. Journal of Historical Geography, 62, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2018.05.013

This paper considers the Anthroposcenic, whereby landscape becomes emblematic of processes marking the Anthropocene, through a specific site, Eccles on the northeast coast of Norfolk, England. The coast has become a key landscape for reflections on t... Read More about Next the Sea: Eccles and the Anthroposcenic.

Integrating slacks-based measure of efficiency and super-efficiency in data envelopment analysis (2018)
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Tran, T. H., Mao, Y., Nathanail, P., Siebers, P.-O., & Robinson, D. (2019). Integrating slacks-based measure of efficiency and super-efficiency in data envelopment analysis. Omega, 85, 156-165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2018.06.008

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd In this paper, we develop an integrated model for slacks-based measure (SBM) simultaneously of both the efficiency and the super-efficiency for decision-making units (DMUs) in data envelopment analysis (DEA). Unlike the traditiona... Read More about Integrating slacks-based measure of efficiency and super-efficiency in data envelopment analysis.

Toxic space and time: slow violence, necropolitics, and petrochemical pollution (2018)
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Davies, T. (2018). Toxic space and time: slow violence, necropolitics, and petrochemical pollution. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 108(6), 1537-1553. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2018.1470924

This article explores how time interacts forcefully with the experience of living within toxic spaces. Through ethnographic research and interviews with residents of a contaminated town in Louisiana, the article unpacks the uncertain temporalities of... Read More about Toxic space and time: slow violence, necropolitics, and petrochemical pollution.

Regional versus local drivers of water quality in the Windermere catchment, Lake District, United Kingdom: The dominant influence of wastewater pollution over the past 200 years (2018)
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Moorhouse, H. L., McGowan, S., Taranu, Z. E., Gregory-Eaves, I., Leavitt, P. R., Jones, M. D., Barker, P., & Brayshaw, S. A. (2018). Regional versus local drivers of water quality in the Windermere catchment, Lake District, United Kingdom: The dominant influence of wastewater pollution over the past 200 years. Global Change Biology, 24(9), 4009-4022. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14299

© 2018 The Authors. Global Change Biology Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd Freshwater ecosystems are threatened by multiple anthropogenic stressors acting over different spatial and temporal scales, resulting in toxic algal blooms, reduced water... Read More about Regional versus local drivers of water quality in the Windermere catchment, Lake District, United Kingdom: The dominant influence of wastewater pollution over the past 200 years.

Towards evaluation criteria in participatory flood risk management (2018)
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Maskrey, S. A., Priest, S., & Mount, N. J. (2019). Towards evaluation criteria in participatory flood risk management. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 12(2), Article e12462. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.12462

Flood risk consists of complex and dynamic problems, whose management calls for innovative ways of engaging with a wide range of local stakeholders, many of whom lack the technical expertise to engage with traditional flood risk management practices.... Read More about Towards evaluation criteria in participatory flood risk management.

Worldwide evaluation of mean and extreme runoff from six global-scale hydrological models that account for human impacts (2018)
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Zaherpour, J., Gosling, S. N., Mount, N. J., Müller Schmied, H., Veldkamp, T., Dankers, R., Eisner, S., Gerten, D., Gudmundsson, L., Haddeland, I., Hanasaki, N., Kim, H., Leng, G., Liu, J., Masaki, Y., Oki, T., Pokhrel, Y., Satoh, Y., Schewe, J., & Wada, Y. (2018). Worldwide evaluation of mean and extreme runoff from six global-scale hydrological models that account for human impacts. Environmental Research Letters, 13(6), https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aac547

Global-scale hydrological models are routinely used to assess water scarcity, flood hazards and droughts worldwide. Recent efforts to incorporate anthropogenic activities in these models have enabled more realistic comparisons with observations. Here... Read More about Worldwide evaluation of mean and extreme runoff from six global-scale hydrological models that account for human impacts.

Spatial-temporal fraction map fusion with multi-scale remotely sensed images (2018)
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Zhang, Y., Foody, G. M., Ling, F., Li, X., Ge, Y., Du, Y., & Atkinson, P. M. (2018). Spatial-temporal fraction map fusion with multi-scale remotely sensed images. Remote Sensing of Environment, 213, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.05.010

Given the common trade-off between the spatial and temporal resolutions of current satellite sensors, spatial-temporal data fusion methods could be applied to produce fused remotely sensed data with synthetic fine spatial resolution (FR) and high rep... Read More about Spatial-temporal fraction map fusion with multi-scale remotely sensed images.

Climate Change Amplifications of Climate-Fire Teleconnections in the Southern Hemisphere (2018)
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Mariani, M., Holz, A., Veblen, T. T., Williamson, G., Fletcher, M.-S., & Bowman, D. M. J. S. (2018). Climate Change Amplifications of Climate-Fire Teleconnections in the Southern Hemisphere. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(10), 5071-5081. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL078294

©2018. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. Recent changes in trend and variability of the main Southern Hemisphere climate modes are driven by a variety of factors, including increasing atmospheric greenhouse gases, changes in tropical s... Read More about Climate Change Amplifications of Climate-Fire Teleconnections in the Southern Hemisphere.

Reframing labour market mobility in global finance: Chinese elites in London’s financial district (2018)
Journal Article
Hall, S. (2019). Reframing labour market mobility in global finance: Chinese elites in London’s financial district. Urban Geography, 40(5), 699-718. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2018.1472442

In this paper, I use the case of elite Chinese financial mobility to London’s financial district to argue that comparatively neglected forms of elite financial migration from beyond the Global North provide important insights into the changing geogra... Read More about Reframing labour market mobility in global finance: Chinese elites in London’s financial district.