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Global assessment of agricultural system redesign for sustainable intensification (2018)
Journal Article
Pretty, J., Benton, T. G., Bharucha, Z. P., Dicks, L. V., Flora, C. B., Godfray, H. C. J., …Wratten, S. (2018). Global assessment of agricultural system redesign for sustainable intensification. Nature Sustainability, 1(8), 441-446. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-018-0114-0

© 2018, The Author(s). The sustainable intensification of agricultural systems offers synergistic opportunities for the co-production of agricultural and natural capital outcomes. Efficiency and substitution are steps towards sustainable intensificat... Read More about Global assessment of agricultural system redesign for sustainable intensification.

Trails and technology: social and cultural geographies of abortion access (2018)
Journal Article
Calkin, S., & Freeman, C. (2018). Trails and technology: social and cultural geographies of abortion access. Social and Cultural Geography, 20(9), 1325-1332. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2018.1509114

Abortion is at once a routine medical procedure and the subject of intense controversy and unique criminal regulation. This provocation offers an account of the spatiality of abortion access and makes the argument that abortion implicates a range of... Read More about Trails and technology: social and cultural geographies of abortion access.

'My wood isn’t one of those dark and scary ones': children’s experience and knowledge of woodland in the English rural landscape (2018)
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Lisewski-Hobson, V., & Watkins, C. (2019). 'My wood isn’t one of those dark and scary ones': children’s experience and knowledge of woodland in the English rural landscape. Landscape Research, 44(5), 507-525. https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2018.1493444

Recent studies of children have argued that children are suffering from a deficiency in nature experience. Some argue that a lack of experience leads to poor affective relations which for wooded environments may be manifested as fear. This study inve... Read More about 'My wood isn’t one of those dark and scary ones': children’s experience and knowledge of woodland in the English rural landscape.

Measuring beta-diversity by remote sensing: a challenge for biodiversity monitoring (2018)
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Rocchini, D., Luque, S., Pettorelli, N., Bastin, L., Doktor, D., Faedi, N., …Nagendra, H. (2018). Measuring beta-diversity by remote sensing: a challenge for biodiversity monitoring. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 9(8), 1787-1798. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12941

Biodiversity includes multiscalar and multitemporal structures and processes, with different levels of functional organization, from genetic to ecosystemic levels. One of the mostly used methods to infer biodiversity is based on taxonomic approaches... Read More about Measuring beta-diversity by remote sensing: a challenge for biodiversity monitoring.

Toilet training: what can the cookstove sector learn from improved sanitation promotion? (2018)
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Sesan, T., Jewitt, S., Clifford, M., & Ray, C. (2018). Toilet training: what can the cookstove sector learn from improved sanitation promotion?. International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 28(6), 667-682. https://doi.org/10.1080/09603123.2018.1503235

Within the domain of public health, commonalities exist between the sanitation and cookstove sectors. Despite these commonalities and the grounds established for cross-learning between both sectors, however, there has not been much evidence of knowle... Read More about Toilet training: what can the cookstove sector learn from improved sanitation promotion?.

Impact of future climate change on water temperature and thermal habitat for keystone fishes in the Lower Saint John River, Canada (2018)
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Dugdale, S. J., Curry, R. A., St-Hilaire, A., & Andrews, S. N. (2018). Impact of future climate change on water temperature and thermal habitat for keystone fishes in the Lower Saint John River, Canada. Water Resources Management, 32(15), 4853-4878. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-018-2057-7

Water temperature is a key determinant of biological processes in rivers. Temperature in northern latitude rivers is expected to increase under climate change, with potentially adverse consequences for cold water-adapted species. In Canada, little is... Read More about Impact of future climate change on water temperature and thermal habitat for keystone fishes in the Lower Saint John River, Canada.

Regional variability in the atmospheric nitrogen deposition signal and its transfer to the sediment record in Greenland lakes (2018)
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Anderson, N., Curtis, C., Whiteford, E., Jones, V., McGowan, S., Simpson, G., & Kaiser, J. (2018). Regional variability in the atmospheric nitrogen deposition signal and its transfer to the sediment record in Greenland lakes. Limnology and Oceanography, 63(5), 2250-2265. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.10936

Disruption of the nitrogen cycle is a major component of global environmental change. d15N in lake sediments is increasingly used as a measure of reactive nitrogen input but problematically, the characteristic depleted d15N signal is not recorded at... Read More about Regional variability in the atmospheric nitrogen deposition signal and its transfer to the sediment record in Greenland lakes.

Recent ecological change in ancient lakes (2018)
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Hampton, S. E., McGowan, S., Ozersky, T., Virdis, S. G. P., Vu, T. T., Spanbauer, T. L., …Fritz, S. C. (2018). Recent ecological change in ancient lakes. Limnology and Oceanography, 63(5), 2277-2304. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.10938

Ancient lakes are among the best archivists of past environmental change, having experienced more than one full glacial cycle, a wide range of climatic conditions, tectonic events, and long association with human settlements. These lakes not only rec... Read More about Recent ecological change in ancient lakes.

Openness to social science knowledges? The politics of disciplinary collaboration within the field of UK food security research (2018)
Journal Article
Morris, C., Raman, S., & Seymour, S. (2019). Openness to social science knowledges? The politics of disciplinary collaboration within the field of UK food security research. Sociologia Ruralis, 59(1), 23-43. https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12221

This paper explores a form of knowledge politics played out within and between universities and research institutes as sites of certified disciplinary expertise in the agro-food domain. It investigates the ‘openness’ of this domain to the expertise o... Read More about Openness to social science knowledges? The politics of disciplinary collaboration within the field of UK food security research.

Trees in art (2018)
Book
Watkins, C. (2018). Trees in art. London: Reaktion Books

Long-term peatland condition assessment via surface motion monitoring using the ISBAS DInSAR technique over the Flow Country, Scotland (2018)
Journal Article
Alshammari, L., Large, D. J., Boyd, D. S., Sowter, A., Anderson, R., Andersen, R., & Marsh, S. (2018). Long-term peatland condition assessment via surface motion monitoring using the ISBAS DInSAR technique over the Flow Country, Scotland. Remote Sensing, 10(7), Article 1103. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10071103

Satellite Earth Observation (EO) is often used as a cost-effective method to report on the condition of remote and inaccessible peatland areas. Current EO techniques are primarily limited to reporting on the vegetation classes and properties of the i... Read More about Long-term peatland condition assessment via surface motion monitoring using the ISBAS DInSAR technique over the Flow Country, Scotland.

Playing with Poetry: Poetic Representation of Research in Children’s Geographies of Nature and Adventurous Play (2018)
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Coen, S. E., Tillmann, S., Ergler, C. R., McGuire, C., & Gilliland, J. A. (2018). Playing with Poetry: Poetic Representation of Research in Children’s Geographies of Nature and Adventurous Play. Geohumanities, 4(2), 557-575. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566x.2018.1516956

In this article, we undertake a methodological and creative exploration of poetic representation in children’s geographies. Drawing on qualitative approaches to poetry as a method, we consider how poetic techniques have the potential to bring us into... Read More about Playing with Poetry: Poetic Representation of Research in Children’s Geographies of Nature and Adventurous Play.

Unfinished business (2018)
Journal Article
Leyshon, A. (2018). Unfinished business. Environment and Planning A, doi:10.1177/0308518x18784599. ISSN 0308-518X

This short commentary responds to James et al.’s report on the employment of economic geographers within in departments of business and management in UK universities. An initial ambivalence about the numbers of economic geographers working outside th... Read More about Unfinished business.

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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.