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A review of recent developments in climate change science. Part II: The global-scale impacts of climate change (2011)
Journal Article
Gosling, S. N., Warren, R., Arnell, N. W., Good, P., Caesar, J., Bernie, D., Lowe, J. A., van der Linden, P., O'Hanley, J. R., & Smith, S. M. (2011). A review of recent developments in climate change science. Part II: The global-scale impacts of climate change. Progress in Physical Geography, 35(4), 443-464. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309133311407650

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.

Iron fertilisation and biogeochemical cycles in the sub-Arctic northwest Pacific during the late Pliocene intensification of northern hemisphere glaciation (2011)
Journal Article
Bailey, I., Liu, Q., Swann, G. E., Jiang, Z., Sun, Y., Zhao, X., & Roberts, A. P. (2011). Iron fertilisation and biogeochemical cycles in the sub-Arctic northwest Pacific during the late Pliocene intensification of northern hemisphere glaciation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 307(3-4), 253-265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2011.05.029

Increases in the low-field mass-specific magnetic susceptibility (χ), dropstones and the terrigenous sediment component from Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 882 (~ 45°N) have been interpreted to indicate a major onset of ice-rafting to the sub-Arct... Read More about Iron fertilisation and biogeochemical cycles in the sub-Arctic northwest Pacific during the late Pliocene intensification of northern hemisphere glaciation.

Trans-local academic credentials and the (re)production of financial elites (2011)
Journal Article
Hall, S., & Appleyard, L. (2011). Trans-local academic credentials and the (re)production of financial elites. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 9(2), 247-264. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2011.577177

This paper examines the ways in which credentials from a range of education providers are used to (re)produce transnational financial elites in London's international financial district. Extant research has examined the long-standing relationship bet... Read More about Trans-local academic credentials and the (re)production of financial elites.

A review of recent developments in climate change science. Part I: Understanding of future change in the large-scale climate system (2011)
Journal Article
Good, P., Caesar, J., Bernie, D., Lowe, J. A., van der Linden, P., Gosling, S. N., Warren, R., Arnell, N. W., Smith, S., Bamber, J., Payne, T., Laxon, S., Srokosz, M., Sitch, S., Gedney, N., Harris, G., Hewitt, H., Jackson, L., Jones, C. D., O'Connor, F., …McNeall, D. (2011). A review of recent developments in climate change science. Part I: Understanding of future change in the large-scale climate system. Progress in Physical Geography, 35(3), 281-296. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309133311407651

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.

Geographies of money and finance II: Financialization and financial subjects (2011)
Journal Article
Hall, S. (2012). Geographies of money and finance II: Financialization and financial subjects. Progress in Human Geography, 36(3), 403-411. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132511403889

In this report, I examine the growing interest in financial subjects within economic geography and the wider social sciences. I begin by locating this literature within work on financialization and earlier geographical research on money and finance.... Read More about Geographies of money and finance II: Financialization and financial subjects.

Poo gurus? Researching the threats and opportunities presented by human waste (2011)
Journal Article
Jewitt, S. (2011). Poo gurus? Researching the threats and opportunities presented by human waste. Applied Geography, 31(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2010.08.003

There is huge geographical variation in the extent to which excrement represents a threat to human and environmental health. In the UK, we tend to think little of such risks. By contrast, 52% of all people in Asia have no access to basic sanitation a... Read More about Poo gurus? Researching the threats and opportunities presented by human waste.

Simulating current global river runoff with a global hydrological model: Model revisions, validation, and sensitivity analysis (2011)
Journal Article
Gosling, S. N., & Arnell, N. W. (2011). Simulating current global river runoff with a global hydrological model: Model revisions, validation, and sensitivity analysis. Hydrological Processes, 25(7), 1129-1145. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.7727

Global hydrological models (GHMs) model the land surface hydrologic dynamics of continental-scale river basins. Here we describe one such GHM, the Macro-scale-Probability-Distributed Moisture model.09 (Mac-PDM.09). The model has undergone a number of... Read More about Simulating current global river runoff with a global hydrological model: Model revisions, validation, and sensitivity analysis.

Geographies of shit: spatial and temporal variations in attitudes towards human waste (2011)
Journal Article
Jewitt, S. (2011). Geographies of shit: spatial and temporal variations in attitudes towards human waste. Progress in Human Geography, 35(5), https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132510394704

Taboos surrounding human waste have resulted in a lack of attention to spatial inequalities in access to sanitation and the consequences of this for human, environmental and economic health. This paper explores spaces where urgent environmental healt... Read More about Geographies of shit: spatial and temporal variations in attitudes towards human waste.

Commoditising Learning: Cultural Economy and the Growth of for-Profit Business Education Service Firms in London (2011)
Journal Article
Hall, S., & Appleyard, L. (2011). Commoditising Learning: Cultural Economy and the Growth of for-Profit Business Education Service Firms in London. Environment and Planning A, 43(1), 10-27. https://doi.org/10.1068/a42488

ndividuals working in graduate labour markets are increasingly expected to enhance their employability and career progression by undertaking lifelong education and learning within the workplace. Research has examined how graduates navigate this dynam... Read More about Commoditising Learning: Cultural Economy and the Growth of for-Profit Business Education Service Firms in London.

Climate: observations, projections and impacts (2011)
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Met Office, (., Gosling, S. N., Dunn, R., Carrol, F., Christidis, N., Fullwood, J., Gusmao, D. D., Golding, N., Good, L., Hall, T., Kendon, L., Kennedy, J., Lewis, K., McCarthy, R., McSweeney, C., Morice, C., Parker, D., Perry, M., Stott, P., Willett, K., …Warren, R. (2011). Climate: observations, projections and impacts. Met Office

An overview of recent remote sensing and GIS based research in ecological informatics (2011)
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Boyd, D. S., & Foody, G. M. (2011). An overview of recent remote sensing and GIS based research in ecological informatics. Ecological Informatics, 6(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2010.07.007

This article provides an overview of some of the recent research in ecological informatics involving remote sensing and GIS. Attention focuses on a selected range of issues including topics such as the nature of remote sensing data sets, issues of ac... Read More about An overview of recent remote sensing and GIS based research in ecological informatics.

Application of Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) for assessing biogenic silica sample purity in geochemical analyses and palaeoenvironmental research (2011)
Journal Article
Swann, G. E., & Patwardhan, S. V. (2011). Application of Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) for assessing biogenic silica sample purity in geochemical analyses and palaeoenvironmental research. Climate of the Past, 7(1), https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-7-65-2011

The development of a rapid and non-destructive method to assess purity levels in samples of biogenic silica prior to geochemical/isotope analysis remains a key objective in improving both the quality and use of such data in environmental and palaeocl... Read More about Application of Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) for assessing biogenic silica sample purity in geochemical analyses and palaeoenvironmental research.

Violent Memories: South Asian Spaces of Postcolonial Anamnesis (2011)
Book Chapter
Legg, S. (2011). Violent Memories: South Asian Spaces of Postcolonial Anamnesis. In P. Meusburger, M. Heffernan, & E. Wunder (Eds.), Cultural Memories: The Geographical Point of View (287-303). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8945-8_16

The ambiguous phrase “violent memories” strikes at two of the key conceptual matters about which scholars of India have theorized: memories of violent acts and the violence that such recollections can do to those who remember them, those who are reme... Read More about Violent Memories: South Asian Spaces of Postcolonial Anamnesis.

Educational ties, social capital and the translocal (re)production of MBA alumni networks (2010)
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Hall, S. (2011). Educational ties, social capital and the translocal (re)production of MBA alumni networks. Global Networks, 11(1), 118-138. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-0374.2011.00310.x

Research on elite, transnational networks has identified social and cultural capital associated with particular academic credentials as being an important element in network formation. How and why such networks are reproduced after graduation, howeve... Read More about Educational ties, social capital and the translocal (re)production of MBA alumni networks.

Professionalization, legitimization and the creation of executive search markets in Europe (2010)
Journal Article
Beaverstock, J. V., Faulconbridge, J. R., & Hall, S. J. (2010). Professionalization, legitimization and the creation of executive search markets in Europe. Journal of Economic Geography, 10(6), 825-843. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbp058

There is a longstanding interest in the 'production of markets' and the various political-and cultural-economic strategies associated with demand-creation. This article shows how the professions, because of their central role in contemporary economy,... Read More about Professionalization, legitimization and the creation of executive search markets in Europe.

Geographies of money and finance I: Cultural economy, politics and place (2010)
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Hall, S. (2011). Geographies of money and finance I: Cultural economy, politics and place. Progress in Human Geography, 35(2), 234-245. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132510370277

In this report, I review the intersection between cultural economy and economic geography research on money and finance. To date, economic geographers have engaged most extensively with cultural economy work on the calculative practices that (re)prod... Read More about Geographies of money and finance I: Cultural economy, politics and place.

Evidence needed to manage freshwater ecosystems in a changing climate: Turning adaptation principles into practice (2010)
Journal Article
Wilby, R., Orr, H., Watts, G., Battarbee, R., Berry, P., Chadd, R., Dugdale, S., Dunbar, M., Elliott, J., Extence, C., Hannah, D., Holmes, N., Johnson, A., Knights, B., Milner, N., Ormerod, S., Solomon, D., Timlett, R., Whitehead, P., & Wood, P. (2010). Evidence needed to manage freshwater ecosystems in a changing climate: Turning adaptation principles into practice. Science of the Total Environment, 408(19), 4150-4164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.05.014