Outputs (207)

Inter-organisational resilience for flood focussed emergency planning: Examining multi-agency connectedness through Twitter (2018)
Journal Article
Bunney, S., Ward, S., & Butler, D. (2018). Inter-organisational resilience for flood focussed emergency planning: Examining multi-agency connectedness through Twitter. Water Practice and Technology, 13(2), 321-327. https://doi.org/10.2166/wpt.2018.043

© IWA Publishing 2018. The use of Twitter as a platform to share and exchange information between emergency responders, water service providers and the public during an emergency situation is becoming more evident. The sharing of real-time informatio... Read More about Inter-organisational resilience for flood focussed emergency planning: Examining multi-agency connectedness through Twitter.

Strength and Hydraulic Conductivity of Cement and By -Product Cementitious Materials Improved Soil (2018)
Journal Article
Abbey, S. J., Ngambi, S., Olubanwo, A. O., & Tetteh, F. K. (2018). Strength and Hydraulic Conductivity of Cement and By -Product Cementitious Materials Improved Soil. International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, 13(10), 8684-8694

This paper presents an experimental investigation on strength and hydraulic conductivity of a fine grained soil mixed with cement, Pulverised Fly Ash and Ground Granulated Blast Slag. Strength and permeability are important properties that defines th... Read More about Strength and Hydraulic Conductivity of Cement and By -Product Cementitious Materials Improved Soil.

Social equality and sustainable society (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Bell, K. (2018, May). Social equality and sustainable society. Paper presented at 12th Workshop on Environment and Society, Institute of Philosophy, Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, Havana, Cuba

This paper discusses how to simulateously create a sustainable, fair and more equal society.

The characteristics, representativeness, function and conservation importance of Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest (TDEF) on India’s Coromandel Coast (2018)
Journal Article
Everard, M. (2018). The characteristics, representativeness, function and conservation importance of Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest (TDEF) on India’s Coromandel Coast. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 10(6), 11760-11769. https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.2807.10.6.11760-11769

The central area of the Coromandel Coast, southeastern India, has been subject to a very long history of human habitation and land use change, substantially reducing the coverage of native forest. There are polarised views about definitive characteri... Read More about The characteristics, representativeness, function and conservation importance of Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest (TDEF) on India’s Coromandel Coast.

Resilience learning for water sector culture change (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Baker, K., Tang, S., Sweetapple, C., Ward, S., Staddon, C., Bishop, T., …Butler, D. (2018, May). Resilience learning for water sector culture change. Presented at 6th Joint EWA/JSWA/WEF Conference: Resilience of the Water Sector, Munich, Germany

This paper investigates barriers to creating a resilient water sector, focussing on the workforce. Firstly, it explores the definition of resilience and whether the workforce and customers are ready for a culture shift to create a more resilient sect... Read More about Resilience learning for water sector culture change.

Effectiveness of log-logistic distribution to model water-consumption data (2018)
Journal Article
Surendran, S., & Tota-Maharaj, K. (2018). Effectiveness of log-logistic distribution to model water-consumption data. Aqua, 67(4), 375-383. https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2018.175

© IWA Publishing 2018. Water consumption varies with time of use, season and socio-economic status of consumers, and is defined as a continuous random variable. Incorporating probabilistic nature in water-consumption modelling will lead to more reali... Read More about Effectiveness of log-logistic distribution to model water-consumption data.

‘They have different ways of doing things’: Cemeteries, diversity and local place attachment (2018)
Journal Article
McClymont, K. (2018). ‘They have different ways of doing things’: Cemeteries, diversity and local place attachment. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 39(3), 267-285. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2018.1459519

This paper explores how local place attachment and group identity are conceived by those who manage civic cemeteries, and those who, by their memorial practices, co-create them. Engaging with debates about (post)colonialism and belonging, the paper p... Read More about ‘They have different ways of doing things’: Cemeteries, diversity and local place attachment.

Harnessing energy: An alternative way to view the management of highway assets (2018)
Journal Article
Williams, D. (2018). Harnessing energy: An alternative way to view the management of highway assets. Infrastructure Asset Management, 5(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1680/jinam.18.00006

Highway networks form the arteries of a country allowing goods and people to flow thereby creating the heartbeat of the economy. In the United Kingdom the level of funding available to continue to maintain this network to a high standard is set to re... Read More about Harnessing energy: An alternative way to view the management of highway assets.

Why it takes an ‘ontological shock’ to prompt increases in small firm resilience: Sensemaking, emotions and flood risk (2018)
Journal Article
Harries, T., McEwen, L., & Wragg, A. (2018). Why it takes an ‘ontological shock’ to prompt increases in small firm resilience: Sensemaking, emotions and flood risk. International Small Business Journal, 36(6), 712-733. https://doi.org/10.1177/0266242618765231

© The Author(s) 2018. This article uses a sensemaking approach to understand small firms’ responses to the threat of external shocks. By analysing semi-structured interviews with owners of flooded small firms, we investigate how owners process flood... Read More about Why it takes an ‘ontological shock’ to prompt increases in small firm resilience: Sensemaking, emotions and flood risk.

Articulating virtue: Planning ethics within and beyond post politics (2018)
Journal Article
McClymont, K. (2019). Articulating virtue: Planning ethics within and beyond post politics. Planning Theory, 18(3), 282-299. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473095218773119

© The Author(s) 2018. Post-foundationalist political theories have provided some of the most radical tools of critique in recent years. As well as challenging the dominant orthodoxy of achieving consensus in decision-making, they give voice to claims... Read More about Articulating virtue: Planning ethics within and beyond post politics.