All Outputs (652)

Robotics and autonomous systems for environmental sustainability: Monitoring terrestrial biodiversity (2023)
Report

It is critical to protect Earth’s biodiversity, not just for its own intrinsic value, but also for the ecosystem services it underpins. Yet biodiversity is in crisis, with up to 1 million animal and plant species at risk of extinction, many within de... Read More about Robotics and autonomous systems for environmental sustainability: Monitoring terrestrial biodiversity.

Digital commons and architecture's self-image (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The research frames an emerging visual culture of display and observation that relies on the staging of architecture and the city not ‘as’ but ‘for’ the image. This does not concern strictly the building as visual object (Jencks 2006; Brigden 2019),... Read More about Digital commons and architecture's self-image.

From ecological idealism to ecological relativism (…or ecological ethics): A comparative tale on William Lever’s Port Sunlight (1888) and Enrico Loccioni’s Leaf Community (2007). (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A characteristic of the 21st century for urban and architectural knowledge is dealing with contemporary challenges such as a failure of traditional economic models, a technological turn, a human displacement across territories, and a shift in environ... Read More about From ecological idealism to ecological relativism (…or ecological ethics): A comparative tale on William Lever’s Port Sunlight (1888) and Enrico Loccioni’s Leaf Community (2007)..

Courageous and compassionate teaching: International reflections on our responses to teaching geography during the pandemic (2023)
Journal Article

This paper reflects on what we learnt about teaching geography during the COVID-19 pandemic. We interrogate how we, as geography educators working in different contexts, navigated the novel teaching spaces created during the pandemic using two key re... Read More about Courageous and compassionate teaching: International reflections on our responses to teaching geography during the pandemic.

Air quality and inequalities in the UK: What do we know? What do we need to know? Distributive, procedural and policy justices (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Economic vulnerabilities and pandemic mobilities: Mobility of low-income populations in İstanbul during the Covid-19 pandemic (2023)
Journal Article

This paper explores the everyday mobilities of low-income populations during the Covid-19 pandemic through a mixed-methods study in İstanbul. It shows how additional economic burdens brought by the Covid-19 pandemic interplay with low-income resident... Read More about Economic vulnerabilities and pandemic mobilities: Mobility of low-income populations in İstanbul during the Covid-19 pandemic.

An automated machine learning approach for classifying infrastructure cost data (2023)
Journal Article

Data on infrastructure project costs are often unstructured and lack consistency. To enable costs to be compared within and between organizations, large amounts of data must be classified to a common standard, typically a manual process. This is time... Read More about An automated machine learning approach for classifying infrastructure cost data.

Air quality and inequalities in the UK: What do we know? What do we need to know? Distributive, procedural and policy justices (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Smart materials for biomimetic building envelopes: Current trends and potential applications (2023)
Journal Article

To reduce the energy consumption of buildings and limit their impact on the environment, greater attention has been paid, in recent years, to adaptive building envelopes technologies. Combining the dual function of sensors and actuators, smart materi... Read More about Smart materials for biomimetic building envelopes: Current trends and potential applications.

Art and ecology: Encountering bee decline through creativity (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As concern for bees’ survival becomes an increased focus of environmental conversations, projects that engage with bee decline have emerged as a visible fixture of the creative landscape. This invites the question of what role creative practitioners... Read More about Art and ecology: Encountering bee decline through creativity.

ARC0010 Written evidence submitted to The UK and the Arctic Environment Inquiry (2023)
Report

An investigation into grazing impacts by New Forest herbivores on inclosure and open woodland patch areas (2023)
Report

Several studies have researched the effects that ungulates can have on woodland ecosystems, however, limited applied research has been undertaken on the unique nature of the New Forest National Park. This research compares two small woodland parcels... Read More about An investigation into grazing impacts by New Forest herbivores on inclosure and open woodland patch areas.

Why is Keir Starmer ignoring the concrete and steel elephant in the room? (2023)
Newspaper / Magazine

Keir Starmer has just announced that if Labour wins the election, they will build 1.5m homes in England, and that they will be prepared to ‘bulldoze’ any local opposition. These are persuasive numbers and statements – but who is he trying to impress?... Read More about Why is Keir Starmer ignoring the concrete and steel elephant in the room?.

Advancing South American water and climate science through multi-decadal convection-permitting modeling (2023)
Journal Article

The South America Affinity Group (SAAG) was established in early 2019 by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Water Systems Program as a community effort focused on improving hydroclimate science over South America. SAAG supports large... Read More about Advancing South American water and climate science through multi-decadal convection-permitting modeling.

Potential applications of photovoltaic technologies for biomimetic adaptive solar building envelopes (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Building envelope as an interface between the outside and inside of the building serves more than its loadbearing function and has a pivotal role in regulating and saving energy. This role necessitates the adaptability of the building envelope to the... Read More about Potential applications of photovoltaic technologies for biomimetic adaptive solar building envelopes.

A green and pleasant land: Nature and cycling in the English Westcountry (2023)
Journal Article

Everyone’s cycling story is different. This essay tells one such story, starting with rural rides to school, continuing with the bike central to urban mobility and countryside escapes and finishing with research findings about cycling and nature in B... Read More about A green and pleasant land: Nature and cycling in the English Westcountry.

The opacity of the allotment gardens market in Warsaw, Poland (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Allotment gardens are a well-established phenomenon in Central and Eastern Europe. Their users, predominantly in towns, through the cultivation of land and care for the green space, create green oases in now busy urban areas. As such these locations... Read More about The opacity of the allotment gardens market in Warsaw, Poland.

Regulation and accreditation of surveying professions – USA and UK - challenges going forward (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Surveying professions play an important role in ensuring the preservation and protection of land and property rights.
Governments across the world are changing their approaches to protect the public. Some keep leaning toward market deregulation wit... Read More about Regulation and accreditation of surveying professions – USA and UK - challenges going forward.

Improving women's accessibility to public transport through participatory street experiments: The case of Maltepe, Istanbul (2023)
Journal Article

Building on the literature concerning gender-responsive mobility, this paper aims to explore how street experiments can be used to promote gendered mobilities and create streetscapes in order to prioritise the needs of women in the improvement of acc... Read More about Improving women's accessibility to public transport through participatory street experiments: The case of Maltepe, Istanbul.

Towards social understanding of energy storage systems - A perspective (2023)
Journal Article

Renewable, decentralised, and citizen-centred energy paradigms have emerged as feasible and reliable alternatives to the traditional centralised fossil-based infrastructure. In this scenario, energy storage systems (ESSs) are enabling technologies to... Read More about Towards social understanding of energy storage systems - A perspective.