Outputs (694)

Protocol and the post-human performativity of security techniques (2015)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2015. This article explores the deployment of exercises by the United Kingdom Fire and Rescue Service. Exercises stage, simulate and act out potential future emergencies and in so doing help the Fire and Rescue Service prepare for fut... Read More about Protocol and the post-human performativity of security techniques.

Schmidt-hammer exposure-age dating (SHD) of snow-avalanche impact ramparts in southern Norway: Approaches, results and implications for landform age, dynamics and development (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Schmidt-hammer exposure-age dating (SHD) was applied to the problem of dating the diachronous surfaces of five distal river-bank boulder ramparts deposited by snow avalanches plunging into the Jostedøla and Sprongdøla... Read More about Schmidt-hammer exposure-age dating (SHD) of snow-avalanche impact ramparts in southern Norway: Approaches, results and implications for landform age, dynamics and development.

Navigating the stigmatised identities of poverty in austere times: Resisting and responding to narratives of personal failure (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. Behavioural explanations of poverty and disadvantage have figured heavily in political rhetoric in the era of austerity, as a means to understand trajectories into poverty and subsequent relationships between benefit cla... Read More about Navigating the stigmatised identities of poverty in austere times: Resisting and responding to narratives of personal failure.

Retrofitting rainwater harvesting to maximise SuDS benefit: A catchment scale assessment of a novel RWH configuration (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Paper presented at SUDSnet International Conference

Environmental justice: Inspiration from Latin America (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Karen Bell is a Bristol-based environmental justice academic, author and activist. She will discuss how the Latin American left is leading the way globally in achieving environmental justice – and what we can learn from them. Environmental justice as... Read More about Environmental justice: Inspiration from Latin America.

A laboratory study into a novel, retrofittable rainwater harvesting system (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

To establish the system characteristics of a novel rainwater harvesting system. A laboratory test rig was used to assess the selected technology.Previous research has identified that systems should have: 1) reduced capital
costs, 2) reduced operatio... Read More about A laboratory study into a novel, retrofittable rainwater harvesting system.

An investigation of flood memory, insurance and property value: The UK regime (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Availability of insurance cover is considered to be a key issue in saleability and reinstatement of property. With increasing flood risk properties are likely to find it harder to access easy and cheap insurance. Premium levels will increase if there... Read More about An investigation of flood memory, insurance and property value: The UK regime.

An exploration of factors affecting the long term psychological impact and deterioration of mental health in flooded households (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 The Authors. The long term psychological effect of the distress and trauma caused by the memory of damage and losses associated with flooding of communities remains an under researched impact of flooding. This is particularly important for com... Read More about An exploration of factors affecting the long term psychological impact and deterioration of mental health in flooded households.

The educational progress of looked after children in England. Technical report 3: Perspectives of young people, social workers, carers and teachers (2015)
Report

This is the technical report giving the perspectives of young people, social workers, carers and teachers on the attainment of looked after children in England.

Flood risk vs property value: A sector specific market perception study of commercial properties (2015)
Book Chapter

This study examines the perception of commercial property occupiers in the context of flood risk and property value. Relevant literature was reviewed to understand the factors affecting perception of commercial property occupiers. Questionnaire surve... Read More about Flood risk vs property value: A sector specific market perception study of commercial properties.

Tourism and Water Inequity in Bali: A Social-Ecological Systems Analysis (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Springer Science+Business Media New York. This paper is a social-ecological systems (SES) analysis of tourism and water inequity in Bali. It uses Elinor Ostrom's SES model to look at the particular niche of Bali's tourism and water nexus. Re-a... Read More about Tourism and Water Inequity in Bali: A Social-Ecological Systems Analysis.

Shot to pieces and shocked to the core (2015)
Journal Article

Bullet impacts are an often overlooked mechanism of stone decay. High speed impacts cause fracture networks that alter the stone matrix. Here we report on initial findings of a microscopical investigation into fracture networks and their responses to... Read More about Shot to pieces and shocked to the core.

Generating solidarity around human rights, equality and social justice (2015)
Book Chapter

Although human rights, equality and social justice are closely aligned, the relationship between them is rarely analysed or articulated. This paper considers this relationship and argues that strengthening their connections and generating solidarity... Read More about Generating solidarity around human rights, equality and social justice.

Deciphering tectonic controls on fluvial sedimentation within the Barmer Basin, India: The lower cretaceous Ghaggar-Hakra formation (2015)
Journal Article

The Cretaceous of NW India is poorly known from sparse outcrops in Rajasthan and Gujarat. Here, we describe the stratigraphy and sedimentology of outcrops of the Ghaggar-Hakra Formation of probable Lower Cretaceous age from the Sarnoo Hills, eastern... Read More about Deciphering tectonic controls on fluvial sedimentation within the Barmer Basin, India: The lower cretaceous Ghaggar-Hakra formation.

Development of ST: REAM: A reach-based stream power balance approach for predicting alluvial river channel adjustment (2015)
Journal Article

© 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.. River channel sediment dynamics are important in integrated catchment management because changes in channel morphology resulting from sediment transfer have important implications for many river functions. However, a... Read More about Development of ST: REAM: A reach-based stream power balance approach for predicting alluvial river channel adjustment.

Toward an analytical framework for understanding complex socialecological systems when conducting environmental impact assessments in South Africa (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 by the author(s). Consideration of biophysical impacts has historically dominated environmental impact assessment (EIA) practice. Despite the emergence of social impact assessment, the consideration of socioeconomic impacts in EIA is variable,... Read More about Toward an analytical framework for understanding complex socialecological systems when conducting environmental impact assessments in South Africa.

The Contribution of the Creative Economy to the Resilience of Rural Communities: Exploring Cultural and Digital Capital (2015)
Journal Article

© 2016 European Society for Rural Sociology. This article develops understanding of cultural and digital capital in order to evaluate the contribution of creative practitioners to rural community resilience. Online practices today impact on creative... Read More about The Contribution of the Creative Economy to the Resilience of Rural Communities: Exploring Cultural and Digital Capital.

Evaluating New Digital Technologies Through a Framework of Resilience (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. This paper explores how an evaluative framework of resilience might be utilised to assess the impact of new digital technologies. This paper outlines key themes and indicators from recent literat... Read More about Evaluating New Digital Technologies Through a Framework of Resilience.

The problematic differentiation between property bonds and leases in healthcare provision: A Southern Cross case study (2015)
Journal Article

© Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – There are some 487,000 places in long-stay residential care and nursing homes in the UK representing an industry worth some £15.2 billion per annum. Creating leases with guaranteed rental uplifts, a prope... Read More about The problematic differentiation between property bonds and leases in healthcare provision: A Southern Cross case study.

Evidence for improved urban flood resilience by sustainable drainage retrofit (2015)
Journal Article

© ICE Publishing: All rights reserved. The rapid growth of cities under modern development pressure has resulted in surface water flooding becoming an increasing hazard and future climate change uncertainties may exacerbate this threat still further:... Read More about Evidence for improved urban flood resilience by sustainable drainage retrofit.