All Outputs (105)

Spatial-temporal super-resolution land cover mapping with a local spatial-temporal dependence model (2019)
Journal Article
Li, X., Ling, F., Foody, G. M., Ge, Y., Zhang, Y., Wang, L., …Du, Y. (2019). Spatial-temporal super-resolution land cover mapping with a local spatial-temporal dependence model. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 57(7), 4951-4966. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2019.2894773

The mixed pixel problem is common in remote sensing. A soft classification can generate land cover class fraction images that illustrate the areal proportions of the various land cover classes within pixels. The spatial distribution of land cover cla... Read More about Spatial-temporal super-resolution land cover mapping with a local spatial-temporal dependence model.

Climate change reduces resilience to fire in subalpine rainforests (2019)
Journal Article
Mariani, M., Fletcher, M., Haberle, S., Chin, H., Zawadzki, A., & Jacobsen, G. (2019). Climate change reduces resilience to fire in subalpine rainforests. Global Change Biology, 25(6), 2030-2042. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14609

Climate change is affecting the distribution of species and the functioning of ecosystems. For species that are slow growing and poorly dispersed, climate change can force a lag between the distributions of species and the geographic distributions of... Read More about Climate change reduces resilience to fire in subalpine rainforests.

Progress, challenges and opportunities for Red Listing (2019)
Journal Article
Bachman, S. P., Field, R., Reader, T., Raimondo, D., Donaldson, J., Schatz, G. E., & Lughadha, E. N. (2019). Progress, challenges and opportunities for Red Listing. Biological Conservation, 234, 45-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.03.002

Despite its recognition as an important global resource for conservation, the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species only provides assessments of extinction risk for a small and biased subset of known b... Read More about Progress, challenges and opportunities for Red Listing.

Complex linkages between forced labor slavery and environmental decline in marine fisheries (2019)
Journal Article
Decker Sparks, J. L., & Hasche, L. K. (2019). Complex linkages between forced labor slavery and environmental decline in marine fisheries. Journal of Human Rights, 18(2), 230-245. https://doi.org/10.1080/14754835.2019.1602824

Recent media attention on human rights abuses in the fishing sector, precipitated by undercover investigations from nongovernmental organizations and investigative journalists (e.g., Environmental Justice Foundation [EJF] 2014, 2015a, 2015b; Mendoza,... Read More about Complex linkages between forced labor slavery and environmental decline in marine fisheries.

Assets and Poverty Dynamics: The Methodological Challenges of Constructing Longitudinal Surveys in Tanzania (2019)
Book Chapter
Brockington, D., Howland, O., Loiske, V., Mnzava, M., & Noe, C. (2019). Assets and Poverty Dynamics: The Methodological Challenges of Constructing Longitudinal Surveys in Tanzania. In D. Potts (Ed.), Tanzanian Development: A Comparative Perspective. Cambridge University Press

Super-resolution land cover mapping by deep learning (2019)
Journal Article
Ling, F., & Foody, G. M. (2019). Super-resolution land cover mapping by deep learning. Remote Sensing Letters, 10(6), 598-606. https://doi.org/10.1080/2150704x.2019.1587196

Super-resolution mapping (SRM) is a technique to estimate a fine spatial resolution land cover map from coarse spatial resolution fractional proportion images. SRM is often based explicitly on the use of a spatial pattern model that represents the la... Read More about Super-resolution land cover mapping by deep learning.

State-of-the-art global models underestimate impacts from climate extremes (2019)
Journal Article
Schewe, J., Gosling, S. N., Reyer, C., Zhao, F., Ciais, P., Elliott, J., …Warszawski, L. (2019). State-of-the-art global models underestimate impacts from climate extremes. Nature Communications, 10, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08745-6

Global impact models represent process-level understanding of how natural and human systems may be affected by climate change. Their projections are used in integrated assessments of climate change. Here we test, for the first time, systematically ac... Read More about State-of-the-art global models underestimate impacts from climate extremes.

Interventions on children’s and adolescents’ physical activity and sedentary behaviour: protocol for a systematic review from a sex/gender perspective (2019)
Journal Article
Demetriou, Y., Vondung, C., Bucksch, J., Schlund, A., Schulze, C., Knapp, G., …Reimers, A. K. (2019). Interventions on children’s and adolescents’ physical activity and sedentary behaviour: protocol for a systematic review from a sex/gender perspective. Systematic Reviews, 8(1), Article 65. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-019-0963-2

Background Low levels of physical activity (PA) and high levels of sedentary behaviour (SB) have been observed in young people. Both behaviours are detrimental for health with patterns tending to continue into adulthood. There is sustained value i... Read More about Interventions on children’s and adolescents’ physical activity and sedentary behaviour: protocol for a systematic review from a sex/gender perspective.

Optimal endmember-based super-resolution land cover mapping (2019)
Journal Article
Li, X., Li, X., Foody, G., Yang, X., Zhang, Y., Du, Y., & Ling, F. (2019). Optimal endmember-based super-resolution land cover mapping. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 16(8), 1279-1283. https://doi.org/10.1109/lgrs.2019.2894805

Super-resolution mapping (SRM) aims to determine the spatial distribution of the land cover classes contained in the area represented by mixed pixels to obtain a more appropriate and accurate map at a finer spatial resolution than the input remotely... Read More about Optimal endmember-based super-resolution land cover mapping.

A genealogy of military geographies: Complicities, entanglements, and legacies (2019)
Journal Article
Forsyth, I. (2019). A genealogy of military geographies: Complicities, entanglements, and legacies. Geography Compass, 13(3), Article e12422. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12422

This paper argues that historical geography is particularly well positioned to make insightful contributions to military geographies and critical military studies more broadly because of its commitment to critically exploring the genealogies and cons... Read More about A genealogy of military geographies: Complicities, entanglements, and legacies.

A genealogy of military geographies: complicities, entanglements and legacies (2019)
Journal Article
Forsyth, I. (2019). A genealogy of military geographies: complicities, entanglements and legacies. Geography Compass, 13(3), Article e12422. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12422

This paper argues that historical geography is particularly well positioned to make insightful contributions to military geographies and critical military studies more broadly because of its commitment to critically exploring the genealogies and cons... Read More about A genealogy of military geographies: complicities, entanglements and legacies.

Religion and social values for sustainability (2019)
Journal Article
Ives, C. D., & Kidwell, J. (2019). Religion and social values for sustainability. Sustainability Science, 14(5), 1355-1362. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-019-00657-0

Discourse on social values as they relate to environmental and sustainability issues has almost exclusively been conducted in a secular intellectual context. However, with a renewed emphasis on culture as defining and shaping links between people and... Read More about Religion and social values for sustainability.

Freshwater and airborne textile fibre populations are dominated by ‘natural’, not microplastic, fibres (2019)
Journal Article
Stanton, T., Johnson, M., Nathanail, P., MacNaughtan, W., & Gomes, R. L. (2019). Freshwater and airborne textile fibre populations are dominated by ‘natural’, not microplastic, fibres. Science of the Total Environment, 666, 377-389. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.02.278

The potential role of natural textile fibres as environmental pollutants has been speculated upon by some environmental scientists, however, there is a general consensus that their biodegradability reduces their environmental threat. Whilst the risks... Read More about Freshwater and airborne textile fibre populations are dominated by ‘natural’, not microplastic, fibres.

20,000 years of societal vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in southwest Asia (2019)
Journal Article
Jones, M., Abu-Jaber, N., AlShdaifat, A., Baird, D., Cook, B. I., Cuthbert, M. O., …Weeks, L. (2019). 20,000 years of societal vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in southwest Asia. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 6(2), https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1330

The Fertile Crescent, its hilly flanks and surrounding drylands has been a critical region for studying how climate has influenced societal change, and this review focuses on the region over the last 20,000 years. The complex social, economic and env... Read More about 20,000 years of societal vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in southwest Asia.

Effect of lianas on forest-level tree carbon accumulation does not differ between seasons: Results from a liana removal experiment in Panama (2019)
Journal Article
van der Heijden, G. M., Powers, J. S., & Schnitzer, S. A. (2019). Effect of lianas on forest-level tree carbon accumulation does not differ between seasons: Results from a liana removal experiment in Panama. Journal of Ecology, 107(4), 1890-1900. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13155

1. Lianas are prevalent in Neotropical forests, where liana-tree competition can be intense, resulting in reduced tree growth and survival. The ability of lianas to grow relative to trees during the dry season suggests that liana-tree competition is... Read More about Effect of lianas on forest-level tree carbon accumulation does not differ between seasons: Results from a liana removal experiment in Panama.

A pre-partitioned city? Anti-colonial and communal mohallas in interwar Delhi (2019)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2019). A pre-partitioned city? Anti-colonial and communal mohallas in interwar Delhi. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 42(1), 170-187. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2019.1554472

This paper explores the mohallas of Delhi, sub-communities within the city, and asks whether Delhi was pre-partitioning before August 1947. It suggests that the mohalla was a site of political mobilisation that was systematically used by Congress fro... Read More about A pre-partitioned city? Anti-colonial and communal mohallas in interwar Delhi.

Can resistant infections be perceptible in UK dairy farming? (2019)
Journal Article
Morris, C., Helliwell, R., & Raman, S. (2019). Can resistant infections be perceptible in UK dairy farming?. Palgrave Communications, 5, Article 12. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-019-0220-2

This paper interrogates the claim that antimicrobial resistant infections are rarely encountered in animal agriculture. This has been widely reiterated by a range of academic, policy and industry stakeholders in the UK. Further support comes from the... Read More about Can resistant infections be perceptible in UK dairy farming?.

Spaces before partition: an Introduction (2019)
Journal Article
Legg, S., & Gould, W. (2019). Spaces before partition: an Introduction. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 42(1), 69-79. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2019.1554489

This introduction frames a selection of papers that encourage a richer spatial understanding of the years before the partition of India. The papers respond to two types of question. One type is spatial (at what scale to do we approach partition? Thro... Read More about Spaces before partition: an Introduction.

Global governance and place making: India, internationalism and empire in 1930s London (2019)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2019). Global governance and place making: India, internationalism and empire in 1930s London. Geography, 104(1), 4-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/00167487.2019.12094056

In this paper I argue that two core components of contemporary British human geography curricula (global governance and place making) can and should be taught together. I also argue that materials from the past provide valuable teaching tools in the... Read More about Global governance and place making: India, internationalism and empire in 1930s London.

Taming disruption?: pervasive data analytics, uncertainty and policy intervention in disruptive technology and its geographic spread (2019)
Journal Article
Brackin, R., Jackson, M. J., Leyshon, A., & Morley, J. G. (2019). Taming disruption?: pervasive data analytics, uncertainty and policy intervention in disruptive technology and its geographic spread. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 8(1), Article 34. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi8010034

The topic of technology development and its disruptive effects has been the subject of much debate over the last 20 years with numerous theories at both macro and micro scales offering potential models of technology progression and disruption. This p... Read More about Taming disruption?: pervasive data analytics, uncertainty and policy intervention in disruptive technology and its geographic spread.