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The needs, challenges, and priorities for advancing global flood research (2025)
Journal Article

In recent years, numerous flood events have caused loss of life, widespread disruption, and damage across the globe. These devastating impacts highlight the importance of a better understanding of flood generating processes, their impacts, and their... Read More about The needs, challenges, and priorities for advancing global flood research.

Food security and circular cities: Paradigmatic shifts, geographical and temporal scales, and participatory governance support to facilitate transitions towards ‘urban sustainability' (2025)
Journal Article

This article explores how the principles of circularity, applied to urban food systems, could contribute to catalysing a transition towards more sustainable cities, working on the premise that food security is a key pillar of urban resilience. In ord... Read More about Food security and circular cities: Paradigmatic shifts, geographical and temporal scales, and participatory governance support to facilitate transitions towards ‘urban sustainability'.

Local policies and interventions to reduce a city’s carbon footprint using plant-based diets: Bristol as a case study (2025)
Journal Article

Net zero strategies are needed to mitigate the effects of the climate emergency. Food systems are responsible for one third of global GhG emissions. This study explores policies and interventions that can be applied at a local level to decarbonise th... Read More about Local policies and interventions to reduce a city’s carbon footprint using plant-based diets: Bristol as a case study.

Retail company voluntary arrangements: A dubious remedy? (2024)
Journal Article

Despite much debate on Company Voluntary Arrangements (CVA) among UK retailers, understanding of retail CVAs remains limited. There is continuing uncertainty about the uptake of CVAs, what aspects lead to successful outcomes and whether CVAs can be v... Read More about Retail company voluntary arrangements: A dubious remedy?.

Flood susceptibility assessment for improving the resilience capacity of railway infrastructure networks (2024)
Journal Article

Floods often cause significant damage to transportation infrastructure such as roads, railways, and bridges. This study identifies several topographic, environmental, and hydrological factors (slope, elevation, rainfall, land use and cover, distance... Read More about Flood susceptibility assessment for improving the resilience capacity of railway infrastructure networks.

A participatory urban governance framework for transitioning cities towards sustainability: linking the protection of urban ecosystems’ functions and circularity principles (2024)
Journal Article

The purpose of this research is to provide an urban governance framework that can aid decision-makers to transition cities towards more sustainability and resilience. Our premise is that such transition will take time, iterations and adaptations and... Read More about A participatory urban governance framework for transitioning cities towards sustainability: linking the protection of urban ecosystems’ functions and circularity principles.

Amphibious architecture: A biomimetic design approach to flood resilience (2024)
Journal Article

Amphibious buildings use the buoyancy principle in the design of their foundation systems to mitigate flood impact. In some cases, amphibious buildings are fitted with mechanical systems that further aid the buoyancy element to temporarily raise the... Read More about Amphibious architecture: A biomimetic design approach to flood resilience.

Foresight through developing shared mental models: The case of Triple Access Planning (2023)
Journal Article

Planning for the future involves making sense of the present and examining possible changes in key factors that can influence the future. Actors rely upon mental models of the system that planning addresses: their simplified interpretations of the ma... Read More about Foresight through developing shared mental models: The case of Triple Access Planning.

Public perceptions of rainwater harvesting (RWH): Comparing users and non-users of RWH systems (2023)
Journal Article

The UK’s abundant municipal water supply has resulted in slow progress with the uptake of rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems within the home. Research has indicated that exploring public preferences for domestic RWH are necessary for increasing deman... Read More about Public perceptions of rainwater harvesting (RWH): Comparing users and non-users of RWH systems.

I’m 95.4% confident you’ll like this (2023)
Journal Article

This short viewpoint article draws attention to, and expresses frustration over, the phenomenon of false precision. False precision abounds within (and beyond) the transport sector. It seems many find it irresistable to present numbers with far more... Read More about I’m 95.4% confident you’ll like this.

Future of mobility (2023)
Journal Article

This article offers a personal perspective on the future of mobility, drawing upon the author's 30-year career in the transport sector.

Public preference of flood-resilient housing technologies in Nigeria: A case study of Kogi State (2023)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore flood-prone area residents' preferences of flood-resilient housing technologies (HTs), to understand the factors influencing their choices. Flood-resilient HTs can reduce damage and disruption at a hou... Read More about Public preference of flood-resilient housing technologies in Nigeria: A case study of Kogi State.

Economics, urban planning, and food systems: From “chrematistike” to “oikonomia” toward sustainable cities (2023)
Journal Article

The history of cities and of urbanism has closely followed economic changes—so much so that cities have been described as microcosms of our economic systems. As heavy contributors to climate change, pollution and the generation of waste, cities have... Read More about Economics, urban planning, and food systems: From “chrematistike” to “oikonomia” toward sustainable cities.

The role of design thinking to promote a sustainability transition within participatory urban governance: Insights from urban agriculture initiatives in Lisbon (2023)
Journal Article

This article contributes to research into new forms of participatory urban governance aimed at creating more sustainable cities. Focused on food security, which has, like ‘sustainability’, economic, ecological and socio-political dimensions, our rese... Read More about The role of design thinking to promote a sustainability transition within participatory urban governance: Insights from urban agriculture initiatives in Lisbon.

Multi-level education for sustainability through global citizenship, territorial education and art forms (2023)
Journal Article

This article is aimed at addressing concepts, approaches and challenges that are both very characteristic of the era we are living in and that would also greatly benefit from being more and better integrated into our learning systems (both in the for... Read More about Multi-level education for sustainability through global citizenship, territorial education and art forms.

Prioritising critical attributes for the management of materials procurement and construction waste (2023)
Journal Article

Construction and demolition waste constitutes the largest municipal solid waste (MSW) globally with environmental concerns. However, waste management is not considered a priority objective in construction compared to time and cost. Therefore, constru... Read More about Prioritising critical attributes for the management of materials procurement and construction waste.

Seeing the road ahead (2023)
Journal Article

This article considers the changing place of roads in supporting society and the future prospects for roadspace in the context of rethinking connectivity and accessibility in society. It stems from the author's role as a member of the Wales Roads Rev... Read More about Seeing the road ahead.

Museu de Lisboa (org.) – Hortas de Lisboa: Da Idade Média ao Século XXI = Lisbon Vegetable Gardens: From Middle Ages to the 21st Century [exposição e catálogo] (2022)
Journal Article

This short article is a presentation and analysis of the exhibition

Freight: The final frontier (2022)
Journal Article

On 14 July 2022 the 13th event in the PTRC Fireside Chat Series took place. With a panel of experts, this addressed the future of freight. This short article is the author's abridged writeup of that event.

Personal proximity, disruptive dissent, and participatory urban governance as forms of climate change activism through urban agriculture (2022)
Journal Article

The fight against climate change is a long battle that is far from won. Negotiations and formal agreements on climate change have been conducted for decades and targets have been set to impose reductions in greenhouse gas emissions on governments and... Read More about Personal proximity, disruptive dissent, and participatory urban governance as forms of climate change activism through urban agriculture.