Outputs (45)

De-bordering solidarities: Using eco-craftivism as an eco-social pedagogy in primary education (2025)
Journal Article

Critical social pedagogy has developed in a manner that is both complex and situationally embedded, but manifesting common threads of inclusion, participation and care in pursuit of social justice and well-being. Solidarity sits at the heart of the c... Read More about De-bordering solidarities: Using eco-craftivism as an eco-social pedagogy in primary education.

Citizen scientists’ motivation to participate in environmental DNA (eDNA) surveys: A case study on monitoring mammals in the UK (2025)
Journal Article

Citizen scientists have become integral participants in biodiversity monitoring, and the demand for effective surveying efforts has sparked interest in utilizing environmental DNA (eDNA) for species monitoring, drawing volunteers into survey planning... Read More about Citizen scientists’ motivation to participate in environmental DNA (eDNA) surveys: A case study on monitoring mammals in the UK.

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.

Does nature finance pose macroeconomic risks? Analysis using a stock-flow consistent model with land (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

States, international organisations, financial institutions and businesses are increasingly seeking to mobilise large financial flows to fund ecosystem restoration. This paper asks what these new financial flows mean for the macroeconomy, and how mac... Read More about Does nature finance pose macroeconomic risks? Analysis using a stock-flow consistent model with land.

Connecting environment and community: Teaching and learning for a sustainable future (2025)
Book Chapter

Real-time assessment and measurement of soil carbon in agricultural land of Gloucestershire at a farm-scale (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Previous research promoted carbon assessment and flow of human and natural capital to remediate atmospheric carbon emissions on farms. However, differences among types of agricultural land are often not included as part of measurement methods. This s... Read More about Real-time assessment and measurement of soil carbon in agricultural land of Gloucestershire at a farm-scale.

A preliminary investigation into the reliability of soil carbon analytical techniques (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The estimation of soil carbon is essential to land management recommendations and policy realisation and climate change abatement. The measurement of soil carbon relies on new and established techniques that are of uncertain reliability but neverthel... Read More about A preliminary investigation into the reliability of soil carbon analytical techniques.

Exploring knowledge management principles for decision-making in low-energy building for sustainable construction (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Low energy building retrofit presents important opportunities for reducing of greenhouse gas emissions in the environment. It has been considered as one of the key approaches to achieving sustainable development in construction industry. Nevertheless... Read More about Exploring knowledge management principles for decision-making in low-energy building for sustainable construction.

Heritage at War (2024)
Book

The right of access to, and enjoyment of, cultural heritage is enshrined in human rights norms and the devastating effects of armed conflict on cultural heritage are well documented, with the deliberate destruction of cultural heritage having been an... Read More about Heritage at War.

Continuous monitoring of soil carbon dioxide emissions using an Arduino platform (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This study introduces an innovative approach using an Arduino microcontroller equipped with onboard programmable sensors for continuous, real-time in-field monitoring of soil carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. By minimising soil disturbance and allowing... Read More about Continuous monitoring of soil carbon dioxide emissions using an Arduino platform.

Making sense of interlinkages in EU marine environment legislation: Unearthing effectiveness (2024)
Journal Article

Crises such as water quality, pollution, climate change, overfishing, biodiversity, energy, waste, and carbon sequestration mean that legislation protecting the marine environment is under intense pressure to be effective and to demonstrate positive... Read More about Making sense of interlinkages in EU marine environment legislation: Unearthing effectiveness.

Climate change and built environment education: A pedagogical approach to foster interdisciplinary learning (2024)
Book Chapter

Higher Education Institutions have an important role to play in Climate Education. One dimension of this role is to equip future practitioners with the necessary knowledge and skills. Therefore, interdisciplinary approaches to learning and teaching.... Read More about Climate change and built environment education: A pedagogical approach to foster interdisciplinary learning.

Salt rhyne; brackish methodologies, liquid knowledge and slow seeping (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Set within an eco-feminist praxis of matter, fluidity, care and porousity, this paper considers how brackish waters, as slow sites of exchange, offer new ways of thinking about methodological ‘slow attention’ in critical photographic landscape practi... Read More about Salt rhyne; brackish methodologies, liquid knowledge and slow seeping.

Research Handbook on Flood Risk Management (2024)
Book

Pushing the boundaries of flood risk management research, this comprehensive Research Handbook presents pragmatic insights into all areas relating to flood risk. Through its use of dynamic and people-centred paradigms, it explores urban flood managem... Read More about Research Handbook on Flood Risk Management.

Rivermaids (2024)
Digital Artefact

This play - a drama piece about local water resilience and climate change, has been co-created with community members of Tewkesbury and in partnership with The Roses Theatre. It is a response to a research call encouraging new collaboration between D... Read More about Rivermaids.

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.

The taxonomic and genomic investigation of soil microorganisms associated with Acute Oak Decline (2023)
Thesis

Cases of the current episode of Acute Oak Decline (AOD) were first described in the UK in 2008 on native British oaks, but currently this disease is seen to affect most species of oak on a global scale. The disease has become a focus of forest resear... Read More about The taxonomic and genomic investigation of soil microorganisms associated with Acute Oak Decline.

Co-developing participatory dramabased methods to gather diverse community voices on water relationships in the riverside town of Tewkesbury, UK (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Flood-prone places and people often face conflicting interests that hinder their ability to cope with, and adapt to, wider water security issues. To enhance capacities of these places and people, interdisciplinary researchers (UWE, Bristol) and Acta... Read More about Co-developing participatory dramabased methods to gather diverse community voices on water relationships in the riverside town of Tewkesbury, UK.

Sustainable development and environmental peacebuilding (2023)
Book Chapter

In the face of various post-conflict challenges and conflicting priorities, it is tempting in the short term to dismiss environmental issues or setting them aside for later. However, taking this stance is short sighted as bringing in natural resource... Read More about Sustainable development and environmental peacebuilding.

Veganism’s anti-anthropocentric capacity: A critical analysis of the advocacy discourse of three prominent vegan organisations (2023)
Journal Article

Anthropocentrism has been identified as a root cause of nonhuman animal and intrahuman oppressions and the environmental crisis. Veganism has been celebrated as a philosophy and practice capable of undermining anthropocentrism, yet the anti-anthropoc... Read More about Veganism’s anti-anthropocentric capacity: A critical analysis of the advocacy discourse of three prominent vegan organisations.