All Outputs (42)

Pulling together or pulling apart? Understanding the heterogenous collective action frames of local climate activists through a Q methodology study (2024)
Journal Article

The potential for green community groups to respond effectively to climate change depends on the heterogeneity of preferences of individual member activists. Using a Q-methodology study of two groups in England, we propose an original typology of col... Read More about Pulling together or pulling apart? Understanding the heterogenous collective action frames of local climate activists through a Q methodology study.

Chinese interprovincial income disparity via regional mobility dynamics (2023)
Journal Article

The growth paths in China diverge widely between the rich coastal and poor inland provinces. As a result, the impact of institutional effects on reducing provincial disparity in terms of the “Go West” policies implemented in the early-2000s appears t... Read More about Chinese interprovincial income disparity via regional mobility dynamics.

Do international tourist arrivals change residents’ attitudes towards immigration? A longitudinal study of 28 European countries (2022)
Journal Article

Can international tourist arrivals change residents’ attitudes towards immigrants and immigration? We discuss possible underlying mechanisms and provide the first evidence on this question using data from the European Social Survey (2002–2019; n=333,... Read More about Do international tourist arrivals change residents’ attitudes towards immigration? A longitudinal study of 28 European countries.

Re-thinking the indices of multiple deprivation (for England): A review and exploration of alternative/complementary area-based indicator systems (2018)
Report

Power to Change was established by the Big Lottery as an organisation whose mission is to fund community businesses and through such investment make an impact on the most disadvantaged places in England. Through setting its mission to target the most... Read More about Re-thinking the indices of multiple deprivation (for England): A review and exploration of alternative/complementary area-based indicator systems.

Making the case for self-organisation: Understanding how communities make sense of sustainability and climate change through collective action (2017)
Journal Article

Copyright © 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Understanding how community groups take on the challenge of climate change is key to understanding the capacity of society as a whole to adapt in the face of climate change in ways that acknowledge a bro... Read More about Making the case for self-organisation: Understanding how communities make sense of sustainability and climate change through collective action.

The climate change challenge and the urban environment: Collective action issues in the suburbs (2017)
Book Chapter

Given the scale of the climate change challenge, there is a multiplicity of perspectives on the question of why some suburban neighbourhoods embrace the need to adapt to climate change and why some neighbourhoods do not. The chapter compares and con... Read More about The climate change challenge and the urban environment: Collective action issues in the suburbs.

Demographic Change in European Towns 2001–11: A Cross-National Multi-Level Analysis (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG The unique contribution of this paper is to empirically compare and contrast demographic change in settlements with a population between 5,000 and under 50,000 (defined as towns) across different national... Read More about Demographic Change in European Towns 2001–11: A Cross-National Multi-Level Analysis.

Population mobility: Moving away from a ‘sedentarist’ epistemology (2013)
Journal Article

Learning to build sustainable communities: An interdependency network perspective (2013)
Journal Article

This paper explores the production of sustainable communities from an interdependency network perspective (Newton, 2001). Drawing on fieldwork that
examined how planners worked collaboratively with other professionals to address the challenges of de... Read More about Learning to build sustainable communities: An interdependency network perspective.

Retrofitting England's suburbs to adapt to climate change (2013)
Journal Article

The majority of the English population lives in suburbs and this is where the impacts of climate change will significantly affect people's domestic lives: heat stress, respiratory problems, flooding, drought, deterioration of green spaces and damage... Read More about Retrofitting England's suburbs to adapt to climate change.

Integrated suburban neighbourhood adaptation due to climate change: Local stakeholders' views on potential pathways for change (2013)
Journal Article

Purpose: This paper presents new research on the potential pathways for integrated adaptation that could make England's suburbs more resilient to future climate conditions. It focuses on the role of central government, local agencies and householders... Read More about Integrated suburban neighbourhood adaptation due to climate change: Local stakeholders' views on potential pathways for change.

Suburban Neighbourhood Adaptation for a Changing Climate (SNACC) final report (2012)
Report

The report presents findings from the Suburban Neighbourhood Adaptation to a Changing Climate (SNACC) project. The project tested the effectiveness, feasibility and acceptability of a range of adaptations to the physical environment (i.e. to homes, g... Read More about Suburban Neighbourhood Adaptation for a Changing Climate (SNACC) final report.

The conditions for, and challenges of, adapting England's suburbs for climate change (2012)
Journal Article

This paper outlines the conditions for, and challenges of, adapting suburbs in England for climate change. The paper introduces the 'suburb' as a spatial setting vulnerable to climate change related threats that have been largely absent from previous... Read More about The conditions for, and challenges of, adapting England's suburbs for climate change.

ATTREG: The attractiveness of European regions and cities for residents and visitors (2012)
Report

Mobility and the smart, green and inclusive Europe (2011)
Journal Article

The article sets out a two-dimensional regional typology combining measures of migration and visiting rates. It argues that forms of mobility are interrelated but that the relationship varies by broad type of region and it argues for a place-based ap... Read More about Mobility and the smart, green and inclusive Europe.

Situated learning and the delivery of built environments for sustainable communities (2011)
Book Chapter

Adapting the English suburbs for climate change: A conceptual model of local adaptive capacity (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Recent climate change modelling suggests that we will all experience changing climatic conditions such as higher temperatures, altered patterns of rainfall and increasingly frequent extreme weather events regardless of the extent of mitigation effort... Read More about Adapting the English suburbs for climate change: A conceptual model of local adaptive capacity.

Preparatory study for a seminar on rural-urban linkages fostering social cohesion (2009)
Preprint / Working Paper

Paper discusses the ways in which urban-rural linkages can be conceptualised, can be supported through public policy and can support the policy outcome of both social and territorial cohesion.

Evaluation, knowledge and learning in neighbourhood governance: The case of the New Deal for Communities (2007)
Book Chapter

The future of neighbourhood in urban policy (2007)
Book Chapter