All Outputs (107)

Amphibian ecology and conservation: A handbook of techniques (2011)
Journal Article

When it comes to rare and endangered animals, there is usually a good selection of literature available. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the Chinese Alligator. Its scarcity in the wild and the fact that its home range is well within the co... Read More about Amphibian ecology and conservation: A handbook of techniques.

High speed boat traffic: A risk to crocodilian populations (2011)
Journal Article

Injuries related to boat traffic have been documented as a major source of human-related injuries and deaths in many aquatic species but have not been documented in crocodilians. We examined the proportion of boat-related injuries in Spectacled Caima... Read More about High speed boat traffic: A risk to crocodilian populations.

Suggestion for further research on the business system and practices in Greece (2011)
Book Chapter

As most research focuses on developed ‘core’ economies, such as the USA, the UK and Germany, research in peripheral and semi-peripheral ones is usually neglected and the smaller the country, the fewer the sources of information. This book has bridged... Read More about Suggestion for further research on the business system and practices in Greece.

Politics: Political and economic developments through a historical perspective (2011)
Book Chapter

This chapter describes the political history of the Modern Greek state since its re-establishment in the nineteenth century and the impact it has had on the economy and the business system. It should be emphasized that this is an outline, highlightin... Read More about Politics: Political and economic developments through a historical perspective.

Innovation: The national innovation system (2011)
Book Chapter

Innovation was initially considered by traditional economic models as an exclusively internal organizational activity, where actors were coming together to fix prices, pool finance and set up their marketing strategies. However, recent research revea... Read More about Innovation: The national innovation system.

Systems and practices: Peripheral countries compared with the UK (2011)
Book Chapter

This chapter aims to aid understanding of the data presented in this book by presenting key themes in a comparative perspective. A selection of countries has been made: Portugal, Italy, Ireland and Spain are all considered comparable (especially in t... Read More about Systems and practices: Peripheral countries compared with the UK.

The business system and management practices in Greece (2011)
Book Chapter

We started this book with the intention of providing an outline, a succinct story describing the business system and management practices in Greece. It began as a simple categorization of contextual factors and managerial activities and ended in a ri... Read More about The business system and management practices in Greece.

Herpetofauna found at Caño Palma Biological Station, Cerro Mountain and Tortuguero area (2011)
Report

The dynamics of regime change: Challenges to the dominance of the private car in the UK (2011)
Book Chapter

Geographies of gentrification and tourism (2011)
Book Chapter

The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Geographies (2011)
Book

Multiple models to inform climate change policy: A pragmatic response to the 'beyond the ABC' debate (2011)
Journal Article

We have followed with interest the debate in this journal between Shove (2010; 2011) and Whitmarsh & colleagues (2011) on contrasting theoretical approaches and representations of pro-environmental behaviour and social change, and of the potential, r... Read More about Multiple models to inform climate change policy: A pragmatic response to the 'beyond the ABC' debate.

Climate justice (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A discussion of climate justice in Latin America, focussing on Bolivia, Cuba and Venezuela.

An extreme comparison of two downscaling approaches using Bayes factors (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Extreme rainfall events are the long-standing hydrological interest of flood defence and water resources management. Although traditional extreme value theory allows stationary extreme assessment, recent development of rainfall downscaling approaches... Read More about An extreme comparison of two downscaling approaches using Bayes factors.

An introduction to thinking about 'energy behaviour': A multi-model approach (2011)
Other

Human beings are not simple to understand. Even if they were, most of us now live in a complex world that has allowed us to become detached from the natural patterns and drivers that have shaped humans and human consciousness over millennia of evolu... Read More about An introduction to thinking about 'energy behaviour': A multi-model approach.

Engineers and planners: Sustainable water management alliances (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In the future, increasing pressure will inevitably be placed on the spatial planning system to improve its consideration of water management issues. Emerging challenges include designing for climatic extremes, reducing flood risk, managing increasing... Read More about Engineers and planners: Sustainable water management alliances.

Ecological notes on the Annulated Treeboa (Corallus annulatus) from a Costa Rican lowland tropical wet forest (2011)
Journal Article

The Annulated Treeboa (Corallus annulatus) is one of nine currently recognized species in the boid genus Corallus. Its disjunct range extends from eastern Guatemala into northern Honduras, southeastern Nicaragua, northeastern Costa Rica, and southwes... Read More about Ecological notes on the Annulated Treeboa (Corallus annulatus) from a Costa Rican lowland tropical wet forest.

Characterisation and sediment-source linkages of intertidal sediment of the UK's north Sefton Coast using magnetic and textural properties: Findings and limitations (2011)
Journal Article

Sediment pathways and links to offshore processes are considered in the textural and magnetic characteristics of sediments of the intertidal flats and salt marshes of the north Sefton Coast, UK. In addition, sediment from a range of intertidal, marin... Read More about Characterisation and sediment-source linkages of intertidal sediment of the UK's north Sefton Coast using magnetic and textural properties: Findings and limitations.

The role of rock surface hardness and internal moisture in tafoni development in sandstone (2011)
Journal Article

The development of cavernous weathering features such as tafoni remains poorly understood. In particular, the roles played by internal moisture and case hardening remain unclear. In this study, Electric Resistivity Tomography (ERT) has been used to m... Read More about The role of rock surface hardness and internal moisture in tafoni development in sandstone.

Report on data analysis and GHG emissions estimates related to travel choice (EU FP7 CATCH Project Deliverable 3.2) (2011)
Report

This report describes the objectives and activities defined and carried out by task 3.2 “Data Collection/Collation/Specification” within Work Package 3 in CATCH.

The Carbon Aware Travel Choice (CATCH) project was developed in response to the FP7 c... Read More about Report on data analysis and GHG emissions estimates related to travel choice (EU FP7 CATCH Project Deliverable 3.2).