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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)
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Wartenburger, R., Seneviratne, S. I., Hirschi, M., Chang, J., Ciais, P., Deryng, D., …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., …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)
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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., & 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., …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.

Refining area of occupancy to address the modifiable areal unit problem in ecology and conservation (2018)
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Moat, J., Bachman, S. P., Field, R., & Boyd, D. S. (2018). Refining area of occupancy to address the modifiable areal unit problem in ecology and conservation. Conservation Biology, 32(6), 1278-1289. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13139

© 2018 The Authors. Conservation Biology published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society for Conservation Biology. The modifiable areal unit problem is prevalent across many aspects of spatial analysis within ecology and conservation. The p... Read More about Refining area of occupancy to address the modifiable areal unit problem in ecology and conservation.

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.

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.

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., …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.

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., & 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)
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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.

Economic growth, rural assets and prosperity: exploring the implications of a 20-year record of asset growth in Tanzania (2018)
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Brockington, D., Howland, O., Loiske, V., Mnzava, M., & Noe, C. (2018). Economic growth, rural assets and prosperity: exploring the implications of a 20-year record of asset growth in Tanzania. Journal of Modern African Studies, 56(2), 217-243. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x18000186

Measures of poverty based on consumption suggest that recent economic growth in many African countries has not been inclusive, particularly in rural areas. We argue that measures of poverty using assets may provide a different picture. We present dat... Read More about Economic growth, rural assets and prosperity: exploring the implications of a 20-year record of asset growth in Tanzania.

Modelling silicon supply during the Last Interglacial (MIS 5e) at Lake Baikal (2018)
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Panizzo, V., Swann, G., Mackay, A., Pashley, V., & Horstwood, M. (2018). Modelling silicon supply during the Last Interglacial (MIS 5e) at Lake Baikal. Quaternary Science Reviews, 190, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.04.006

Limnological reconstructions of primary productivity have demonstrated its response over Quaternary timescales to drivers such as climate change, landscape evolution and lake ontogeny. In particular, sediments from Lake Baikal, Siberia, provide a val... Read More about Modelling silicon supply during the Last Interglacial (MIS 5e) at Lake Baikal.

Vegetation transitions drive the autotrophy-heterotrophy balance in Arctic lakes (2018)
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McGowan, S., Anderson, N. J., Edwards, M. E., Hopla, E., Jones, V., Langdon, P. G., …Wiik, E. (in press). Vegetation transitions drive the autotrophy-heterotrophy balance in Arctic lakes. Limnology and Oceanography Letters, https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10086

“Arctic greening” will alter vegetation quantity and quality in northern watersheds, with possible consequences for lake metabolic balance. We used paleolimnology from six Arctic lakes in Greenland, Norway, and Alaska to develop a conceptual model de... Read More about Vegetation transitions drive the autotrophy-heterotrophy balance in Arctic lakes.

Direct and indirect effects of Holocene climate variations on catchment and lake processes of a treeline lake, SW China (2018)
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Chen, X., McGowan, S., Xiao, X., Stevenson, M. A., Yang, X., Li, Y., & Zhang, E. (2018). Direct and indirect effects of Holocene climate variations on catchment and lake processes of a treeline lake, SW China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 502, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.04.027

Sedimentary records of inorganic elements and pigments over the last 12,000 years are used to assess major changes in limnological conditions of Tiancai Lake (a small treeline lake, SW China), in response to Holocene climate variations. Algal communi... Read More about Direct and indirect effects of Holocene climate variations on catchment and lake processes of a treeline lake, SW China.

A systems framework for national assessment of climate risks to infrastructure (2018)
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Thompson, D., Johnson, D., Wood, R., Darch, G., Chapman, L., Hughes, P., …Hall, J. (2018). A systems framework for national assessment of climate risks to infrastructure. Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 376(2121), https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2017.0298

Extreme weather causes substantial adverse socio-economic impacts by damaging and disrupting the infrastructure services that underpin modern society. Globally, $2.5tn a year is spent on infrastructure which is typically designed to last decades, ove... Read More about A systems framework for national assessment of climate risks to infrastructure.

Lake Baikal isotope records of Holocene Central Asian precipitation (2018)
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Swann, G. E., Mackay, A. W., Vologina, E., Jones, M. D., Panizzo, V., Leng, M. J., …Sturm, M. (2018). Lake Baikal isotope records of Holocene Central Asian precipitation. Quaternary Science Reviews, 189, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.04.013

Climate models currently provide conflicting predictions of future climate change across Central Asia. With concern over the potential for a change in water availability to impact communities and ecosystems across the region, an understanding of hist... Read More about Lake Baikal isotope records of Holocene Central Asian precipitation.