All Outputs (119)

Epistemic geographies of climate change: science, space and politics (2016)
Journal Article
Mahony, M., & Hulme, M. (in press). Epistemic geographies of climate change: science, space and politics. Progress in Human Geography, https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132516681485

Anthropogenic climate change has been presented as the archetypal global problem, identified by the slow work of assembling a global knowledge infrastructure, and demanding a concertedly global political response. But this ‘global’ knowledge has dist... Read More about Epistemic geographies of climate change: science, space and politics.

The sensitivity of mapping methods to reference data quality: training supervised image classifications with imperfect reference data (2016)
Journal Article
Foody, G. M., Pal, M., Rocchini, D., Garzon-Lopez, C. X., & Bastin, L. (2016). The sensitivity of mapping methods to reference data quality: training supervised image classifications with imperfect reference data. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 5(11), Article 199. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi5110199

The accuracy of a map is dependent on the reference dataset used in its construction. Classification analyses used in thematic mapping can, for example, be sensitive to a range of sampling and data quality concerns. With particular focus on the latte... Read More about The sensitivity of mapping methods to reference data quality: training supervised image classifications with imperfect reference data.

A complex social-ecological disaster: Environmentally induced forced migration (2016)
Journal Article
Rechkemmer, A., O'Connor, A., Rai, A., Decker Sparks, J. L., Mudliar, P., & Shultz, J. M. (2016). A complex social-ecological disaster: Environmentally induced forced migration. Disaster Health, 3(4), 112-120. https://doi.org/10.1080/21665044.2016.1263519

In the 21st century, global issues are increasingly characterized by inter-connectedness and complexity. Global environmental change, and climate change in particular, has become a powerful driver and catalyst of forced migration and internal displac... Read More about A complex social-ecological disaster: Environmentally induced forced migration.

The role of remote sensing in the development of SMART indicators for ecosystem services assessment (2016)
Journal Article
Dawson, T. P., Cutler, M. E. J., & Brown, C. (2016). The role of remote sensing in the development of SMART indicators for ecosystem services assessment. Biodiversity, 17(4), 136-148. https://doi.org/10.1080/14888386.2016.1246384

Human beings benefit from a wide range of goods and services from the natural environment that are collectively known as ecosystem services. However, rapid natural habitat loss, overexploitation and climate change is causing accelerating losses of po... Read More about The role of remote sensing in the development of SMART indicators for ecosystem services assessment.

Subdecadal-scale vegetation responses to a previously unknown late-Allerød climate fluctuation and Younger Dryas cooling at Lake Meerfelder Maar (Germany) (2016)
Journal Article
Engels, S., Brauer, A., Buddelmeijer, N., Martín-Puertas, C., Rach, O., Sachse, D., & van Geel, B. (2016). Subdecadal-scale vegetation responses to a previously unknown late-Allerød climate fluctuation and Younger Dryas cooling at Lake Meerfelder Maar (Germany). Journal of Quaternary Science, 31(7), 741-752. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2900

Lake Meerfelder Maar (MFM) is the northernmost W European sediment record with annual laminations across the Younger Dryas (YD), and the onset of the YD in the record of MFM has previously been defined as an increase in non-arboreal pollen abundance... Read More about Subdecadal-scale vegetation responses to a previously unknown late-Allerød climate fluctuation and Younger Dryas cooling at Lake Meerfelder Maar (Germany).

Astronomical constraints on the duration of the Early Jurassic Pliensbachian Stage and global climatic fluctuations (2016)
Journal Article
Ruhl, M., Hesselbo, S. P., Hinnov, L., Jenkyns, H. C., Xu, W., Riding, J. B., …Leng, M. J. (2016). Astronomical constraints on the duration of the Early Jurassic Pliensbachian Stage and global climatic fluctuations. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 455, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.08.038

The Early Jurassic was marked by multiple periods of major global climatic and palaeoceanographic change, biotic turnover and perturbed global geochemical cycles, commonly linked to large igneous province volcanism. This epoch was also characterised... Read More about Astronomical constraints on the duration of the Early Jurassic Pliensbachian Stage and global climatic fluctuations.

Integration of remote-sensing and ground-based observations for estimation of emissions and removals of greenhouse gases in forests: methods and guidance from the Global Forest Observations Initiative (2016)
Report
Penman, J., Green, C., Olofsson, P., Raison, J., Woodcock, C., Balzter, H., …Foody, G. M. (2016). Integration of remote-sensing and ground-based observations for estimation of emissions and removals of greenhouse gases in forests: methods and guidance from the Global Forest Observations Initiative. U.N.Food and Agriculture Organization

The Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) was established by GEO in 2011, to assist countries to produce reliable, consistent reports on change in forest cover and forest use, and associated anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and removals.

Strategic Objective 11A. Assess the position of the Derwent Valley cotton industry in terms of the Empire, the slave trade and the pressures of global demand and supply? (2016)
Book Chapter
Seymour, S., & Haggerty, S. (2016). Strategic Objective 11A. Assess the position of the Derwent Valley cotton industry in terms of the Empire, the slave trade and the pressures of global demand and supply?. In D. Knight (Ed.), The Derwent Valley: the valley that changed the world: Derwent Valley Mills world heritage site research framework, 87. Derwent Valley Mills Partnership

Exploring support for shale gas extraction in the United Kingdom (2016)
Journal Article
Andersson-Hudson, J., Knight, W., Humphrey, M., & O'Hara, S. (in press). Exploring support for shale gas extraction in the United Kingdom. Energy Policy, 98, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2016.09.042

The development of shale gas in the United Kingdom (UK) using hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as ‘fracking’, remains in its infancy. Yet understanding public attitudes for this fledgling industry is important for future policy consideration... Read More about Exploring support for shale gas extraction in the United Kingdom.

Waging peace: militarising pacifism in Central Africa and the problem of geography, 1962 (2016)
Journal Article
Hodder, J. (2017). Waging peace: militarising pacifism in Central Africa and the problem of geography, 1962. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 42(1), 29-43. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12145

Despite the discipline having undergone a ‘peace turn’ in recent years, the history of the peace movement itself remains curiously under explored by geographers. This paper retraces the World Peace Brigade and its collaboration with the Northern Rhod... Read More about Waging peace: militarising pacifism in Central Africa and the problem of geography, 1962.

The ties that bind: Rural-urban linkages in the Cambodian migration system (2016)
Book Chapter
Lawreniuk, S. (2016). The ties that bind: Rural-urban linkages in the Cambodian migration system. In K. Brickell, & S. Springer (Eds.), The Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia. Routledge

The “miracle” (World Bank 2009) of Cambodia’s recent development has been driven by the movement of labor. Beginning in the 1990s, when the first garment factories opened their doors, a trickle of migrant workers to Phnom Penh’s nascent export indust... Read More about The ties that bind: Rural-urban linkages in the Cambodian migration system.

Phylogeny of the most species-rich freshwater bivalve family (Bivalvia: Unionida: Unionidae): Defining modern subfamilies and tribes (2016)
Journal Article
Lopes-Lima, M., Froufe, E., Do, V. T., Ghamizi, M., Mock, K. E., Kebapçı, Ü., …Bogan, A. E. (2017). Phylogeny of the most species-rich freshwater bivalve family (Bivalvia: Unionida: Unionidae): Defining modern subfamilies and tribes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 106, 174-191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2016.08.021

Freshwater mussels of the order Unionida are key elements of freshwater habitats and are responsible for important ecological functions and services. Unfortunately, these bivalves are among the most threatened freshwater taxa in the world. However, c... Read More about Phylogeny of the most species-rich freshwater bivalve family (Bivalvia: Unionida: Unionidae): Defining modern subfamilies and tribes.

Long-term CO? injection and its impact on near-surface soil microbiology (2016)
Journal Article
Gwosdz, S., West, J. M., Jones, D., Rakoczy, J., Green, K., Barlow, T., …Krüger, M. (2016). Long-term CO₂ injection and its impact on near-surface soil microbiology. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 92(12), Article fiw193. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiw193

Impacts of long-term CO₂ exposure on environmental processes and microbial populations of near-surface soils are poorly understood. This near-surface long-term CO₂ injection study demonstrated that soil microbiology and geochemistry is influenced mor... Read More about Long-term CO? injection and its impact on near-surface soil microbiology.

Biogeochemical cycling in the Bering Sea over the onset of major Northern Hemisphere glaciation (2016)
Journal Article
Swann, G. E., Snelling, A. M., & Pike, J. (in press). Biogeochemical cycling in the Bering Sea over the onset of major Northern Hemisphere glaciation. Paleoceanography, 31(9), https://doi.org/10.1002/2016PA002978

The Bering Sea is one of the most biologically productive regions in the marine system and plays a key role in regulating the flow of waters to the Arctic Ocean and into the subarctic North Pacific Ocean. Cores from IODP Expedition 323 to the Bering... Read More about Biogeochemical cycling in the Bering Sea over the onset of major Northern Hemisphere glaciation.

The diffusion of cholera in Egypt, 1947: a time-space analysis of one of the largest single outbreaks in the twentieth century (2016)
Journal Article
Smallman-Raynor, M., & Cliffe, A. (2016). The diffusion of cholera in Egypt, 1947: a time-space analysis of one of the largest single outbreaks in the twentieth century. Journal of Historical Geography, 54, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2016.07.010

The epidemic of cholera that spread through Egypt in the latter months of 1947 was one of the largest single outbreaks of the disease in the twentieth century. Using a swash–backwash model, this paper examines the geographical wave-like spread and su... Read More about The diffusion of cholera in Egypt, 1947: a time-space analysis of one of the largest single outbreaks in the twentieth century.

An iterative interpolation deconvolution algorithm for superresolution land cover mapping (2016)
Journal Article
Ling, F., Foody, G. M., Ge, Y., Li, X., & Du, Y. (2016). An iterative interpolation deconvolution algorithm for superresolution land cover mapping. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 54(12), 7210-7222. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2016.2598534

Super-resolution mapping (SRM) is a method to produce a fine spatial resolution land cover map from coarse spatial resolution remotely sensed imagery. A popular approach for SRM is a two-step algorithm, which first increases the spatial resolution of... Read More about An iterative interpolation deconvolution algorithm for superresolution land cover mapping.

A bear’s biography: hybrid warfare and the more-than-human battlespace (2016)
Journal Article
Forsyth, I. (in press). A bear’s biography: hybrid warfare and the more-than-human battlespace. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 35(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775816664098

This paper makes an intervention highlighting the animal dimension of military geographies as an overlooked yet illuminating aspect of the hybrid nature of warfare. By bringing animal geographies into dialogue with critical military geographies and... Read More about A bear’s biography: hybrid warfare and the more-than-human battlespace.

Toward a geography of black internationalism: Bayard Rustin, nonviolence and the promise of Africa (2016)
Journal Article
Hodder, J. (in press). Toward a geography of black internationalism: Bayard Rustin, nonviolence and the promise of Africa. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 106(6), https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2016.1203284

This article charts the trip made by civil rights leader Bayard Rustin to West Africa in 1952, and examines the unpublished ‘Africa Program’ which he subsequently presented to leading American pacifists. I situate Rustin’s writings within the burgeon... Read More about Toward a geography of black internationalism: Bayard Rustin, nonviolence and the promise of Africa.

‘Goodbye it's 1987’: generation of the new (2016)
Journal Article
Matless, D. (2016). ‘Goodbye it's 1987’: generation of the new. Area, 48(3), 384-388. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12291

This paper reflects on Cosgrove and Jackson's (1987) Area paper ‘New directions in cultural geography’ (Area, 19, 95–101), discussing its place within British geography in the 1980s, the associated conferences organised through the Institute of Briti... Read More about ‘Goodbye it's 1987’: generation of the new.

Situating 1816, the ‘year without summer’, in the UK (2016)
Journal Article
Veale, L., & Endfield, G. H. (2016). Situating 1816, the ‘year without summer’, in the UK. Geographical Journal, 182(4), 318-330. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12191

The immediate local impacts of the eruption of Mount Tambora, Sumbawa, Indonesia in April 1815 were devastating, resulting in the loss of an estimated 60 000 lives on this and neighbouring islands. However, the longer term effects of the largest know... Read More about Situating 1816, the ‘year without summer’, in the UK.