All Outputs (188)

Involving working-class people in the transition to sustainability (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presentation at Geographical Society Annual Conference: Geographies of Trouble/Geographies of Hope, RGS, London

Avitourism opportunities as a contribution to conservation and rural livelihoods in the Hindu Kush Himalaya - a field perspective (2019)
Journal Article

The Hindu Kush Himalaya is a biodiversity hotspot subject to multiple anthropogenic stressors, including hydropower plants, pollution, deforestation and wildlife poaching, in addition to changing climate. Bird photography tourism, as a locally impor... Read More about Avitourism opportunities as a contribution to conservation and rural livelihoods in the Hindu Kush Himalaya - a field perspective.

Degree outcomes and national calibration: Debating academic standards in UK Geography (2019)
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). © 2019 Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). In... Read More about Degree outcomes and national calibration: Debating academic standards in UK Geography.

Additive sustainability footprint: Rationale and pilot evaluation of a tool for assessing the sustainable use of PVC additives (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 The Authors. Journal of Vinyl and Additive Technology published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society of Plastics Engineers. PVC compounds contain additives necessary for processing and stability, and to modify the plastic's properti... Read More about Additive sustainability footprint: Rationale and pilot evaluation of a tool for assessing the sustainable use of PVC additives.

Writing a successful essay (2019)
Journal Article

Essay writing is a fundamental skill for many students, in geography as well as other disciplines. Being able to write a successful essay is important academically, but the transferable skills and attributes you develop are equally as important for p... Read More about Writing a successful essay.

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

Resilient Water Services and Systems (2019)
Book

Provides an over-arching framework for water and sanitation services and how they are coping with resilience, aging infrastructure and climate change

Tucson, Arizona: a story of 'water resilience' through diversifying water sources, demand management and ecosystem restoration (2019)
Book Chapter

The effects of environmental conditions on the strength of double lap joints (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Observed controls on resilience of groundwater to climate variability in sub-Saharan Africa (2019)
Journal Article

Groundwater in sub-Saharan Africa supports livelihoods and poverty alleviation maintains vital ecosystems, and strongly influences terrestrial water and energy budgets. Yet the hydrological processes that govern groundwater recharge and sustainabilit... Read More about Observed controls on resilience of groundwater to climate variability in sub-Saharan Africa.

3D modelling of the impacts of in-stream horizontal-axis Tidal Energy Converters (TECs) on offshore sandbank dynamics (2019)
Journal Article

The tidal energy sector is a growing industry in the UK and beyond. Energy developers’ interests are progressing towards the deployment of large arrays of tidal energy converters (TECs). Numerous factors will affect decision making related to arrays... Read More about 3D modelling of the impacts of in-stream horizontal-axis Tidal Energy Converters (TECs) on offshore sandbank dynamics.

Urban water management challenges and achievements in Windhoek, Namibia (2019)
Journal Article

This paper gives an overview of the main challenges and achievements faced by Windhoek’s water management sector. The paper highlights pertinent issues arising from increased water demand, and also explores current and future water supply augmentatio... Read More about Urban water management challenges and achievements in Windhoek, Namibia.

Commuting and wellbeing: A critical overview of the literature with implications for policy and future research (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019, © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This review provides a critical overview of what has been learnt about commuting’s impact on subjective wellbeing (SWB). It is structured around a con... Read More about Commuting and wellbeing: A critical overview of the literature with implications for policy and future research.

Who is Flying Less for Environmental Reasons (2019)
Journal Article

Many previous studies have shown how people with pro-environmental attitudes tend to fly more than the general population. This study examines the minority who have reduced their flying for environmental reasons. It used an online questionnaire dis... Read More about Who is Flying Less for Environmental Reasons.

Interspecies Urban Planning, Reimaging City Infrastructures with Slime Mould (2019)
Book Chapter

The slime mould Physarum polycephalum optimises its shape in a geometrically constrained space. We explore this property in order to reconsider how we could develop more inclusive, interspecies approaches to urban planning and infrastructure. Working... Read More about Interspecies Urban Planning, Reimaging City Infrastructures with Slime Mould.

Why did UK governments cut road building in the 1990s and expand it after 2010? (2019)
Journal Article

Why did a Conservative UK government decide to cut back road building during a time of austerity in the 1990s, whereas a Conservative-led Coalition government decided to substantially increase road building during a time of austerity after 2010? This... Read More about Why did UK governments cut road building in the 1990s and expand it after 2010?.

The role of local perched aquifers in regional groundwater recharge in semi-arid environments: Evidence from the Cuvelai-Etosha Basin, Namibia (2019)
Journal Article

The influence of local perched aquifers on groundwater recharge in semi-arid areas at a regional scale remains inadequately studied, especially in southern Africa where data scarcity limits the understanding of recharge and groundwater flow processes... Read More about The role of local perched aquifers in regional groundwater recharge in semi-arid environments: Evidence from the Cuvelai-Etosha Basin, Namibia.

Effect of organic matter on swell and undrained shear strength of treated soils (2019)
Journal Article

This paper presents a laboratory and statistical study on swell and undrained shear strength of cemented organic clays blended with eco-friendly (by-product) cementitious materials such as ground granulated blast slag (GGBS) and cement kiln dust (CKD... Read More about Effect of organic matter on swell and undrained shear strength of treated soils.

New opportunities for on-demand shared-ride services to deliver modal shift and inclusive travel (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

On-demand shared-ride services promise new opportunities for modal shift and inclusive travel. This paper draws on evidence from the industrial-collaborative project ‘Mobility on Demand Laboratory Environment’ (MODLE) which has piloted a range of suc... Read More about New opportunities for on-demand shared-ride services to deliver modal shift and inclusive travel.

Inferring pyroclastic density current flow conditions using syn-depositional sedimentary structures (2019)
Journal Article

The processes occurring in the basal region of concentrated pyroclastic density currents (PDCs) influence the mobility, runout distance, and damage potential of a current, but directly observing these processes is extremely difficult. Instead, we mus... Read More about Inferring pyroclastic density current flow conditions using syn-depositional sedimentary structures.