Outputs (118)

Physicochemical composition of wastes and co-located environmental designations at legacy mine sites in the south west of England and Wales: Implications for their resource potential (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 This work examines the potential for resource recovery and/or remediation of metalliferous mine wastes in the south west of England and Wales. It does this through an assessment of the physicochemical composition of several key metalliferous l... Read More about Physicochemical composition of wastes and co-located environmental designations at legacy mine sites in the south west of England and Wales: Implications for their resource potential.

Development of OntEIR framework to support BIM clients in construction (2016)
Journal Article

This paper discusses an ongoing research that is conducted to develop a framework that will support employers in making informed and sound decision in defining their requirements. The aim of this research is to develop an ontology-based, BIM enabled... Read More about Development of OntEIR framework to support BIM clients in construction.

Biodiverse perennial meadows have aesthetic value and increase residents’ perceptions of site quality in urban green-space (2016)
Journal Article

We used photo-elicitation studies and a controlled perennial meadow creation experiment at ten urban green-spaces in southern England (five experimental sites and five control sites) to assess green-space visitors’ responses to urban meadows. Multipl... Read More about Biodiverse perennial meadows have aesthetic value and increase residents’ perceptions of site quality in urban green-space.

Place-based leadership (2016)
Journal Article

This short article comments on the interim report of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) 'Inclusive Growth Commission'. It offers two suggestions on how to improve devolution policy in England. First, public policy makers should attempt to 'see like a... Read More about Place-based leadership.

Pulling their weight (2016)
Journal Article

This Opinion piece argues that universities can become for more active in the communities where they are located. The article welcomes the efforts of the nine English universities involved in six pilot 'Leading Places' initiatives. It notes that U... Read More about Pulling their weight.

Evidence base for health and planning – lessons from an ESRC seminar series (2016)
Journal Article

The article looks at the lessons on the health and planning evidence base, evidence-sharing and integration that have been emerging from an ESRC seminar series on reuniting health and planning bringing together academics and planning and public healt... Read More about Evidence base for health and planning – lessons from an ESRC seminar series.

Sustainable surface water management: A handbook for SuDS (2016)
Book

This book emphasises the SuDS philosophy and elaborates the sustainable surface water management agenda with a wealth of insights that are brought together through the experts who have contributed. By integrating physical and environmental sciences,... Read More about Sustainable surface water management: A handbook for SuDS.

Defining community-scale green infrastructure (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Landscape Research Group Ltd. Over the last 15 years, we have seen green infrastructure planning develop and refine its focus. The observable shift is from a focus on what, to why and more recently, how we deliver green infrastructure. In the... Read More about Defining community-scale green infrastructure.

Sheltering Humanity (2016)
Exhibition / Performance

Humanitarian corridors as rightful places. Conventionally, refugees camps are constellations of tends or temporary structures which present poor conditions, and have a strong impact on the natural environment. Additionally, they lack of social qualit... Read More about Sheltering Humanity.

Meta-parametric design (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd Parametric modelling software often maintains an explicit history of design development in the form of a graph. However, as the graph increases in complexity it quickly becomes inflexible and unsuitable for exploring a wide design... Read More about Meta-parametric design.