Outputs (693)

Living well within planetary limits (2017)
Book Chapter

This chapter explores the Bolivian approach to sustainability and wellbeing - the concept of 'Vivir Bien'. It describes the importance of redistribution of wealth for achieving sustainability and living within the limits of the one planet that we hav... Read More about Living well within planetary limits.

Tourism and islandscapes: Cultural realignment, social-ecological resilience and change (2017)
Journal Article

If, as according to Robin (2015: online), "islands are idealised ecological worlds, the Edens of a fallen planet'", the rationale underpinning tourism expansion should acknowledge MacLeod's (2013) notion of "cultural realignment" that calls for optim... Read More about Tourism and islandscapes: Cultural realignment, social-ecological resilience and change.

Flood resilient construction and adaptation of buildings (2017)
Book Chapter

Flood resilient construction has become an essential component of the integrated approach to flood risk management, now widely accepted through the concepts of making space for water and living with floods. Resilient construction has been in place fo... Read More about Flood resilient construction and adaptation of buildings.

"Sustainable Flood Memories": Developing the concept, process and practice in flood risk management (2017)
Book Chapter

This chapter reflects on the concept of "sustainable flood memory" as concept, process and practice.

‘Living well’ as a path to social, ecological and economic sustainability (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 by the author. While there is wide agreement on the need to move towards fairer and more sustainable societies, how to best achieve this is still the source of some debate. In particular, there are tensions between more market-based/technologi... Read More about ‘Living well’ as a path to social, ecological and economic sustainability.

Supporting the uptake of low cost resilience: Final report (FD2682) (2017)
Report

Executive Summary
The Defra research project FD2682 examined the technical, social and behavioural aspects of supporting low cost flood repairable measures designed to limit damage to buildings during and after flood events. Flood repairable measure... Read More about Supporting the uptake of low cost resilience: Final report (FD2682).

As the climate changes: Intergenerational action-based learning in relation to flood education (2016)
Journal Article

© 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. It is a concern that children represent an under-researched group in flood education and preparedness because as adults they are more likely to experience flooding as the climate changes, and because it suggests... Read More about As the climate changes: Intergenerational action-based learning in relation to flood education.

Whole life costing and multiple benefits of sustainable drainage (2016)
Book Chapter

This chapter explored relevant literature and touched on a variety of tools that can contribute to the estimation of the costs of implementing and maintaining SuDS, and the evaluation of flood damage reduction, stormwater management and other benefit... Read More about Whole life costing and multiple benefits of sustainable drainage.

Green economy or living well? Assessing divergent paradigms for equitable eco-social transition in South Korea and Bolivia (2016)
Journal Article

'Green Economy' and 'Living Well ('Vivir Bien)' have emerged as contending macro-policies in the search for a future direction that meets human needs whilst respecting environmental limits. There are a number of different interpretations of each conc... Read More about Green economy or living well? Assessing divergent paradigms for equitable eco-social transition in South Korea and Bolivia.

SESAME: Exploring small businesses' behaviour to enhance resilience to flooding (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2016 The Authors, published by EDP Sciences. In the United Kingdom, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) account for approximately 99.9% of businesses, 60% of the working population and 47% annual turnover. However, despite the important contr... Read More about SESAME: Exploring small businesses' behaviour to enhance resilience to flooding.

Exploring the co-production of digital storytelling for lay knowledge exchange within and between flood risk communities: The case of the River Severn, UK (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2016 The Authors, published by EDP Sciences. This paper evaluates the potential role of co-produced digital storytelling as a medium of linking flood memories and lay knowledge exchange around flood preparedness for resilience within flood risk com... Read More about Exploring the co-production of digital storytelling for lay knowledge exchange within and between flood risk communities: The case of the River Severn, UK.

Increasing small business resilience to flood risk: Co-production in the development of a prototype e-learning tool to promote small business adaptation to flood risk (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2016 The Authors, published by EDP Sciences. Flooding of communities is becoming a repeated, widespread issue within the UK, and elsewhere. Small businesses are a crucial part of the UK economy; the UK Summer 2007 flood resulted in flooding of 7,00... Read More about Increasing small business resilience to flood risk: Co-production in the development of a prototype e-learning tool to promote small business adaptation to flood risk.

SuDS and human behaviour: Co-developing solutions to encourage sustainable behaviour (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2016 The Authors, published by EDP Sciences. Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) are today widely considered to be a more progressive and environmentally sensitive approach to Flood Risk Management (FRM). However, this paper argues that the sustain... Read More about SuDS and human behaviour: Co-developing solutions to encourage sustainable behaviour.

Bread and roses: A gender perspective on environmental justice and public health (2016)
Journal Article

Gender continues to be a relatively marginal issue in environmental justice debates and yet it remains an important aspect of injustice. To help redress the balance, this article explores women’s experience of environmental justice through a review o... Read More about Bread and roses: A gender perspective on environmental justice and public health.

Sustainable flood memory: Remembering as resilience (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. This article proposes the concept of sustainable flood memory as a critical and agentic form of social and cultural remembering of learning to live with floods. Drawing upon research findings that use the 2007 floods in... Read More about Sustainable flood memory: Remembering as resilience.

Sustainable flood memories, lay knowledges and the development of community resilience to future flood risk (2016)
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). © 2016 The Authors. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers publishe... Read More about Sustainable flood memories, lay knowledges and the development of community resilience to future flood risk.

Assessing the significance of the economic impact of Marine Conservation Zones in the Irish Sea upon the fisheries sector and regional economy in Northern Ireland (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd This paper highlights the tension between advocacy for ‘Blue growth’ in maritime policy and efforts to safeguard future economic growth via the Marine Strategy Framework Directive. In 2015, policy-makers withdrew three of four pro... Read More about Assessing the significance of the economic impact of Marine Conservation Zones in the Irish Sea upon the fisheries sector and regional economy in Northern Ireland.

How paradata can illuminate technical, social and professional role changes between the Poverty in the UK (1967/1968) and Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK (2012) surveys (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, The Author(s). This article brings together analyses of the micro paradata ‘by-products’ from the 1967/1968 Poverty in the United Kingdom (PinUK) and 2012 Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK (PSE) surveys to explore changes in the conditio... Read More about How paradata can illuminate technical, social and professional role changes between the Poverty in the UK (1967/1968) and Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK (2012) surveys.

Can UK water service providers manage risk and resilience as part of a multi-agency approach? (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2016 CURRAN-CONFERENCE. All rights reserved. The flooding of Mythe water treatment works during the severe floods of 2007 in the UK, demonstrated weaknesses in the multi-agency approach to the assessment of risk. Water Service Providers (WSPs) were... Read More about Can UK water service providers manage risk and resilience as part of a multi-agency approach?.

Initiating and continuing participation in citizen science for natural history (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Everett and Geoghegan. Background: Natural history has a long tradition in the UK, dating back to before Charles Darwin. Developing from a principally amateur pursuit, natural history continues to attract both amateur and professional involvem... Read More about Initiating and continuing participation in citizen science for natural history.