All Outputs (102)

Water governance challenges in rural South Africa: Exploring institutional coordination in drought management (2020)
Journal Article

Droughts have severe direct impacts on the livelihoods of rural populations. Thus, the management of water for communal agriculture and water supply should be well coordinated to enhance drought resilience. Notwithstanding the interrelations among wa... Read More about Water governance challenges in rural South Africa: Exploring institutional coordination in drought management.

Development of a Holocene glacier-fed composite alluvial fan based on surface exposure-age dating techniques: The Illåe fan, Jotunheimen, Norway (2020)
Journal Article

Holocene development of a composite alpine alluvial fan is reconstructed and dated based on its geomorphology and Schmidt-hammer exposure-age dating (SHD), supplemented by terrestrial cosmogenic-nuclide dating (TCND), lichenometry, radiocarbon dating... Read More about Development of a Holocene glacier-fed composite alluvial fan based on surface exposure-age dating techniques: The Illåe fan, Jotunheimen, Norway.

Reweaving urban water-community relations: Creative, participatory river “daylighting” and local hydrocitizenship (2020)
Journal Article

Framed by questions about ‘hydrocitizenship’ in the 21st century, this co-produced, interdisciplinary arts and humanities-centred research explores the (re)weaving of local knowledges, experiences, perceptions and values of water and place through th... Read More about Reweaving urban water-community relations: Creative, participatory river “daylighting” and local hydrocitizenship.

How to exchange stories of local flood resilience from flood rich areas to the flooded areas of the future (2020)
Journal Article

Flood risk communication requires strong attention to message, messenger and timing within the adaptive cycle. This paper evaluates research that used a co-production of knowledge model to create digital stories from an archive of flood memories, gar... Read More about How to exchange stories of local flood resilience from flood rich areas to the flooded areas of the future.

DRY: Diary of a Water Super Hero (2019)
Book

This is the children's book (designed for Key Stage 2) produced as part of the knowledge exchange within the NERC -funded DRY (Drought Risk and You) project. The book aims to promote awareness of drought in the UK and of positive water behaviours -... Read More about DRY: Diary of a Water Super Hero.

Resilience in a Diverse Water Sector: challenges and opportunities from the UK's multiple contexts (2019)
Book Chapter

Why it takes an ‘ontological shock’ to prompt increases in small firm resilience: Sensemaking, emotions and flood risk (2018)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2018. This article uses a sensemaking approach to understand small firms’ responses to the threat of external shocks. By analysing semi-structured interviews with owners of flooded small firms, we investigate how owners process flood... Read More about Why it takes an ‘ontological shock’ to prompt increases in small firm resilience: Sensemaking, emotions and flood risk.

Hydrological modelling as a tool for interdisciplinary workshops on future drought (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, © The Author(s) 2018. Transformative interdisciplinary methods and tools are required to address crucial water-related challenges facing societies in the current era of the Anthropocene. In a community-based study in the Limpopo basin of Sout... Read More about Hydrological modelling as a tool for interdisciplinary workshops on future drought.

Recovery and resilience of communities in flood risk zones in a small island developing state: A case study from a suburban settlement of Port Louis, Mauritius (2018)
Journal Article

Small island developing states (SIDS) are characterised by their small size, remoteness and their dispersal in vulnerable regions globally. In Mauritius, rapid economic growth and expansion of suburban and coastal settlements in flood risk zones have... Read More about Recovery and resilience of communities in flood risk zones in a small island developing state: A case study from a suburban settlement of Port Louis, Mauritius.

‘Learning for resilience’: Developing community capital through flood action groups in urban flood risk settings with lower social capital (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd The role of civil agency in preparing and adapting to changing risk is an increasingly critical element within devolved local flood risk management. However, effective civil agency for flood resilience needs to draw on, and if nec... Read More about ‘Learning for resilience’: Developing community capital through flood action groups in urban flood risk settings with lower social capital.

Snow-avalanche impact craters in southern Norway: Their morphology and dynamics compared with small terrestrial meteorite craters (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. This regional inventory and study of a globally uncommon landform type reveals similarities in form and process between craters produced by snow-avalanche and meteorite impacts. Fifty-two snow-avalanche impact craters (mean diame... Read More about Snow-avalanche impact craters in southern Norway: Their morphology and dynamics compared with small terrestrial meteorite craters.

Supporting the uptake of low cost resilience: Final report (FD2682) (2017)
Report

Executive Summary
The Defra research project FD2682 examined the technical, social and behavioural aspects of supporting low cost flood repairable measures designed to limit damage to buildings during and after flood events. Flood repairable measure... Read More about Supporting the uptake of low cost resilience: Final report (FD2682).

"Sustainable Flood Memories": Developing the concept, process and practice in flood risk management (2017)
Book Chapter

This chapter reflects on the concept of "sustainable flood memory" as concept, process and practice.

As the climate changes: Intergenerational action-based learning in relation to flood education (2016)
Journal Article

© 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. It is a concern that children represent an under-researched group in flood education and preparedness because as adults they are more likely to experience flooding as the climate changes, and because it suggests... Read More about As the climate changes: Intergenerational action-based learning in relation to flood education.

SESAME: Exploring small businesses' behaviour to enhance resilience to flooding (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2016 The Authors, published by EDP Sciences. In the United Kingdom, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) account for approximately 99.9% of businesses, 60% of the working population and 47% annual turnover. However, despite the important contr... Read More about SESAME: Exploring small businesses' behaviour to enhance resilience to flooding.

Exploring the co-production of digital storytelling for lay knowledge exchange within and between flood risk communities: The case of the River Severn, UK (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2016 The Authors, published by EDP Sciences. This paper evaluates the potential role of co-produced digital storytelling as a medium of linking flood memories and lay knowledge exchange around flood preparedness for resilience within flood risk com... Read More about Exploring the co-production of digital storytelling for lay knowledge exchange within and between flood risk communities: The case of the River Severn, UK.

Increasing small business resilience to flood risk: Co-production in the development of a prototype e-learning tool to promote small business adaptation to flood risk (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2016 The Authors, published by EDP Sciences. Flooding of communities is becoming a repeated, widespread issue within the UK, and elsewhere. Small businesses are a crucial part of the UK economy; the UK Summer 2007 flood resulted in flooding of 7,00... Read More about Increasing small business resilience to flood risk: Co-production in the development of a prototype e-learning tool to promote small business adaptation to flood risk.

Sustainable flood memory: Remembering as resilience (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. This article proposes the concept of sustainable flood memory as a critical and agentic form of social and cultural remembering of learning to live with floods. Drawing upon research findings that use the 2007 floods in... Read More about Sustainable flood memory: Remembering as resilience.

Sustainable flood memories, lay knowledges and the development of community resilience to future flood risk (2016)
Journal Article

The information, practices and views in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). © 2016 The Authors. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers publishe... Read More about Sustainable flood memories, lay knowledges and the development of community resilience to future flood risk.

Schmidt-hammer exposure-age dating (SHD) of snow-avalanche impact ramparts in southern Norway: Approaches, results and implications for landform age, dynamics and development (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Schmidt-hammer exposure-age dating (SHD) was applied to the problem of dating the diachronous surfaces of five distal river-bank boulder ramparts deposited by snow avalanches plunging into the Jostedøla and Sprongdøla... Read More about Schmidt-hammer exposure-age dating (SHD) of snow-avalanche impact ramparts in southern Norway: Approaches, results and implications for landform age, dynamics and development.