Outputs (52)

Building local/lay flood knowledges into community flood resilience planning after the July 2007 floods, Gloucestershire, UK (2012)
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A UK Cabinet Office review after the 2007 floods highlighted different types of knowledge needed for effective flood risk management, along with knowledge gaps. This paper explores key, emerging aspects of this expanded knowledge base, namely relatio... Read More about Building local/lay flood knowledges into community flood resilience planning after the July 2007 floods, Gloucestershire, UK.

Distribution, morphology, and natural history of the medo pit viper, Viridovipera medoensis (Viperidae, Crotalinae) in Arunachal Pradesh, Northeastern India (2012)
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Automatic delineation of functional river reach boundaries for river research and applications (2012)
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The river reach is a pervasive term within contemporary river research and applications. Yet, despite its prevalence, there is a notable lack of consistency in its definition. This paper identifies the presence of two broad types of reach definition... Read More about Automatic delineation of functional river reach boundaries for river research and applications.

Rail passengers' time use and utility assessment (2012)
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This paper uses data from Great Britain's National Passenger Survey 2010 to examine the travel time use of rail passengers and their indicative assessment of the utility of that time use. The paper explores the impacts of individuals' sociodemographi... Read More about Rail passengers' time use and utility assessment.

Facilitating implementation of landscape-scale water management: The integrated constructed wetland concept (2012)
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This research addressed measures necessary to overcome barriers to the implementation of integrated resource management solutions delivering multiple ecosystem services, using the case of the Anne Valley integrated constructed wetlands (ICWs) in Coun... Read More about Facilitating implementation of landscape-scale water management: The integrated constructed wetland concept.

Thinking like a wetland (2012)
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This article is an invitation to therapeutic deconstruction: a call to reconsider our assumptions about land, water and the relationship between the wet and the dry. It takes the form of a dialogue in which poetry (Gross) and visual art (Price) promp... Read More about Thinking like a wetland.

Evaluating the Green Revolution after a decade: A Swaziland case study (2012)
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This paper analyses the impact of the Komati Pilot Project (KPP) upon members and their neighbours. The KPP was a Government of Swaziland (GoS)-financed irrigation scheme that enabled 43 subsistence and semi-subsistence farmers to change from rain-fe... Read More about Evaluating the Green Revolution after a decade: A Swaziland case study.

Kinematic response of single piles for different boundary conditions: Analytical solutions and normalization schemes (2012)
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Kinematic pile-soil interaction is investigated analytically through a Beam-on-Dynamic-Winkler-Foundation model. A cylindrical vertical pile in a homogeneous stratum, excited by vertically-propagating harmonic shear waves, is examined in the realm of... Read More about Kinematic response of single piles for different boundary conditions: Analytical solutions and normalization schemes.

Water governance, ecosystems and sustainability: A review of progress in South Africa (2012)
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It is approaching two decades since South Africa's democratic transformation introduced a visionary approach to water resources management. The earlier challenges of water law reform have given way to the greater undertaking of implementation. This p... Read More about Water governance, ecosystems and sustainability: A review of progress in South Africa.

Territorial attractiveness in EU urban and spatial policy: A critical review and future research agenda (2012)
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The paper introduces the concept of territorial assets and discusses their role for regional development. Focusing on European societies and taking into account different strands of the literature on place and territorial capital, we argue that the e... Read More about Territorial attractiveness in EU urban and spatial policy: A critical review and future research agenda.