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Recent disruptions in the timing and intensity of precipitation in Calakmul, Mexico (2019)
Journal Article
Mardero, S., Schmook, B., Christman, Z., Metcalfe, S. E., & De La Barreda-Bautista, B. (2020). Recent disruptions in the timing and intensity of precipitation in Calakmul, Mexico. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 140, 129–144. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-019-03068-4

This study addresses changes in the timing and intensity of precipitation from 1982 to 2016 from three meteorological stations around Calakmul, Mexico, a landscape balancing biodiversity conservation and smallholder agricultural production. Five meth... Read More about Recent disruptions in the timing and intensity of precipitation in Calakmul, Mexico.

‘No place for hate’: community-led research and the geographies of Nottingham citizens’ hate crime commission (2019)
Journal Article
Legg, S., & Citizens, N. (2021). ‘No place for hate’: community-led research and the geographies of Nottingham citizens’ hate crime commission. Social and Cultural Geography, 22(8), 1164-1186. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2019.1697460

© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper recounts the Hate Crime Commission carried out in 2014 by Nottingham Citizens, a charity and community organiser. It provides an insider account of... Read More about ‘No place for hate’: community-led research and the geographies of Nottingham citizens’ hate crime commission.

Saxitoxin and tetrodotoxin bioavailability increases in future oceans (2019)
Journal Article
Roggatz, C. C., Fletcher, N., Benoit, D. M., Algar, A. C., Doroff, A., Wright, B., …Hardege, J. D. (2019). Saxitoxin and tetrodotoxin bioavailability increases in future oceans. Nature Climate Change, 9(11), 840-844. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0589-3

Increasing atmospheric CO2 levels are largely absorbed by the ocean, decreasing surface water pH1. In combination with increasing ocean temperatures, these changes have been identified as a major sustainability threat to future marine life2. Interact... Read More about Saxitoxin and tetrodotoxin bioavailability increases in future oceans.

Market mapping for improved cookstoves: barriers and opportunities in East Africa (2019)
Journal Article
Stevens, L., Santangelo, E., Muzee, K., Clifford, M., & Jewitt, S. (2020). Market mapping for improved cookstoves: barriers and opportunities in East Africa. Development in Practice, 30(1), 37-51. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2019.1658717

The East African region has been a hub for the development and marketing of improved cookstoves from the 1980s. However, there are differences in the rates of uptake of stoves between Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. To investigate, we use a participatory... Read More about Market mapping for improved cookstoves: barriers and opportunities in East Africa.

Loving the mess: navigating diversity and conflict in social values for sustainability (2019)
Journal Article
Kenter, J. O., Raymond, C. M., van Riper, C. J., Azzopardi, E., Brear, M. R., Calcagni, F., …Thankappan, S. (2019). Loving the mess: navigating diversity and conflict in social values for sustainability. Sustainability Science, 14(5), 1439-1461. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-019-00726-4

© 2019, The Author(s). This paper concludes a special feature of Sustainability Science that explores a broad range of social value theoretical traditions, such as religious studies, social psychology, indigenous knowledge, economics, sociology, and... Read More about Loving the mess: navigating diversity and conflict in social values for sustainability.

Macroinvertebrate community structure as an indicator of phosphorus enrichment in rivers (2019)
Journal Article
EVERALL, N., JOHNSON, M., WOOD, P., PAISLEY, M., TRIGG, D., & FARMER, A. (2019). Macroinvertebrate community structure as an indicator of phosphorus enrichment in rivers. Ecological Indicators, 107, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.105619

Nutrient enrichment represents one of the most important causes of detriment to river ecosystem health globally. Monitoring nutrient inputs can be particularly challenging given the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of nitrogen and phosphorus concen... Read More about Macroinvertebrate community structure as an indicator of phosphorus enrichment in rivers.

Social work students’ perspective on environmental justice: gaps and challenges for preparing students (2019)
Journal Article
Sparks, J., Massey Combs, K., & Yu, J. (2019). Social work students’ perspective on environmental justice: gaps and challenges for preparing students. Journal of Community Practice, 27(3-4), 476-486. https://doi.org/10.1080/10705422.2019.1655124

The integration of environmental justice into social work education, research, and practice has grown substantially in the past decade. However, social workers still report feeling unprepared to address these challenges with their clients and communi... Read More about Social work students’ perspective on environmental justice: gaps and challenges for preparing students.

Mapping a Many-Headed Hydra: Transnational Infrastructures of Extraction and Resistance (2019)
Book Chapter
Mazer, K., Danyluk, M., Hunchuck, E., & Cowen, D. (2019). Mapping a Many-Headed Hydra: Transnational Infrastructures of Extraction and Resistance. In N. Estes, & J. Dhillon (Eds.), Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

It is prophecy. A Black Snake will spread itself across the land, bringing destruction while uniting Indigenous nations. The Dakota Access Pipeline is the Black Snake, crossing the Missouri River north of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. The oil... Read More about Mapping a Many-Headed Hydra: Transnational Infrastructures of Extraction and Resistance.

Reduced rainfall drives biomass limitation of long‐term fire activity in Australia’s subtropical sclerophyll forests (2019)
Journal Article
Mariani, M., Tibby, J., Barr, C., Moss, P., Marshall, J. C., & McGregor, G. B. (2019). Reduced rainfall drives biomass limitation of long‐term fire activity in Australia’s subtropical sclerophyll forests. Journal of Biogeography, 46(9), 1974-1987. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13628

Aim To understand the long?term drivers of biomass burning in the sclerophyll?dominated forests of Australia. Location Swallow Lagoon, North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, Australia. Time period Last ca. 8 kyr. Major taxa studied Eucalyptus se... Read More about Reduced rainfall drives biomass limitation of long‐term fire activity in Australia’s subtropical sclerophyll forests.

Achieving urban flood resilience in an uncertain future (2019)
Journal Article
Fenner, R., O’Donnell, E., Ahilan, S., Dawson, D., Kapetas, L., Krivtsov, V., …Vercruysse, K. (2019). Achieving urban flood resilience in an uncertain future. Water, 11(5), Article 1082. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11051082

Preliminary results of the UK Urban Flood Resilience research consortium are presented and discussed, with the work being conducted against a background of future uncertainties with respect to changing climate and increasing urbanization. Adopting a... Read More about Achieving urban flood resilience in an uncertain future.

Effects of mussels on nutrient cycling and bioseston in two contrasting tropical freshwater habitats (2019)
Journal Article
Zieritz, A., Najwa Binti Mahadzir, F., Ning, C. W., & Mcgowan, S. (2019). Effects of mussels on nutrient cycling and bioseston in two contrasting tropical freshwater habitats. Hydrobiologia, 835(1), 179-191. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-019-3937-4

Freshwater mussels (Unionida) can strongly affect nutrient cycling in temperate ecosystems but data from the tropics is lacking. We quantified the effects of mussel filtration, excretion and biodeposition on nutrient and photosynthetic pigment concen... Read More about Effects of mussels on nutrient cycling and bioseston in two contrasting tropical freshwater habitats.

Slow violence and toxic geographies: ‘Out of sight’ to whom? (2019)
Journal Article
Davies, T. (2019). Slow violence and toxic geographies: ‘Out of sight’ to whom?. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654419841063

Toxic pollution is a form of violence. This article explores the gradual brutalities that communities surrounded by petrochemical infrastructure endure over time. Contributing to political geographies of violence and environmental justice, this paper... Read More about Slow violence and toxic geographies: ‘Out of sight’ to whom?.

The stream evolution triangle: Integrating geology, hydrology, and biology (2019)
Journal Article
Castro, J. M., & Thorne, C. R. (2019). The stream evolution triangle: Integrating geology, hydrology, and biology. River Research and Applications, 35(4), 315-326. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3421

The foundations of river restoration science rest comfortably in the fields of geology, hydrology, and engineering, and yet, the impetus for many, if not most, stream restoration projects is biological recovery. Although Lane's stream balance equatio... Read More about The stream evolution triangle: Integrating geology, hydrology, and biology.

sPlot : a new tool for global vegetation analyses (2019)
Journal Article
Bruelheide, H., Dengler, J., Jiménez-Alfaro, B., Purschke, O., Hennekens, S. M., Chytrý, M., …and other 116 authors. (2019). sPlot : a new tool for global vegetation analyses. Journal of Vegetation Science, 30(2), 161-186. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12710

Questions: Vegetation-plot records provide information on presence and cover or abundance of plants co-occurring in the same community. Vegetation-plot data are spread across research groups, environmental agencies and biodiversity research centers,... Read More about sPlot : a new tool for global vegetation analyses.

Making science public: challenges and opportunities (2019)
Report
Raman, S., Nerlich, B., Cartelet, C., de Saille, S., Hadley Kershaw, E., Hartley, S., …Tsouvalis, J. (2019). Making science public: challenges and opportunities. Leverhulme Trust

This Programme investigated the relationship between science, politics and publics in the aftermath of an influential 2000 UK House of Lords Science and Society report. We conceptualised top-down initiatives promising greater transparency around the... Read More about Making science public: challenges and opportunities.

An intersectionality-based analysis of high seas policy making stagnation and equity in United Nations negotiations (2019)
Journal Article
Sparks, J., & Silva, S. M. (2019). An intersectionality-based analysis of high seas policy making stagnation and equity in United Nations negotiations. Journal of Community Practice, 27(3-4), 260-278. https://doi.org/10.1080/10705422.2019.1647325

© 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This paper used an intersectionality-based policy analysis to critically dissect systemic power structures within the UN that likely contributed to marine policy making’s stagnation. An empirical analysis of UN o... Read More about An intersectionality-based analysis of high seas policy making stagnation and equity in United Nations negotiations.