Hive mind for Net Zero: Towards a social engagement model for collective home energy behaviour change
(2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
All Outputs (638)
A Critical Success Factor (CSF) framework for implementing net-positive housing in the Water, Energy, Food, Environment (WEFE) Nexus: Insights from Jordan and South Africa (2025)
Journal Article
Addressing the specific challenges faced by low-income communities, such as poor housing conditions, is crucial while simultaneously working toward global sustainability goals, including net-zero emissions and climate change mitigation. This study ex... Read More about A Critical Success Factor (CSF) framework for implementing net-positive housing in the Water, Energy, Food, Environment (WEFE) Nexus: Insights from Jordan and South Africa.
Transforming disaster risk reduction with AI and Big Data: Legal and interdisciplinary perspectives (2025)
Journal Article
Managing complex disaster risks requires interdisciplinary efforts. Breaking down silos between law, social sciences, and natural sciences is critical for all processes of disaster risk reduction. It is essential to explore how AI enhances understand... Read More about Transforming disaster risk reduction with AI and Big Data: Legal and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Environmental policy instruments analysis on England’s food strategies in the 21st century (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The new UK government announced their intention to create a new food policy strategy which will focus on four key areas: food security, health, environment, and economy. This would be the fourth time since the creation of the Department for Environme... Read More about Environmental policy instruments analysis on England’s food strategies in the 21st century.
Pedestrian experiences of rental e-scooter use and parking (2025)
Journal Article
The study explores pedestrian experiences of shared e-scooters in relation to safety and comfort, and issues of discrimination, considering disability as an important dimension. It differentiates between the views of those who have ridden e-scooters... Read More about Pedestrian experiences of rental e-scooter use and parking.
Physical structural assessment of a segmented concrete shell building floor prototype (2025)
Journal Article
To reduce the significant environmental impact of the construction industry, building floors designed as concrete shells that work mainly in compression and that are segmented for prefabrication and disassembly offer a promising alternative to reinfo... Read More about Physical structural assessment of a segmented concrete shell building floor prototype.
Engaging Egypt’s landscape architects to combat climate change (2025)
Digital Artefact
There are climate risks across the national, regional, and local levels. Egypt is facing a particular struggle without integrated engagement from landscape architects.
Using scenarios to address uncertainty in planning for sustainable mobility in small and medium-sized Norwegian cities (2025)
Journal Article
It seems hard now to ignore uncertainty over what the future holds. Such uncertainty poses significant challenges for assessing and appraising policy and investment decisions. Correspondingly scenario planning has become the subject of increasing int... Read More about Using scenarios to address uncertainty in planning for sustainable mobility in small and medium-sized Norwegian cities.
BIM, IoT, and GIS integration in construction resource monitoring (2025)
Journal Article
In recent years, the advancement of digital technologies such as building information modeling (BIM), internet of things (IoT), and geographic information system (GIS) has had many impacts on the construction industry. However, limited research has b... Read More about BIM, IoT, and GIS integration in construction resource monitoring.
From industry to greenery: Exploring how users experience the Regent’s Canal (2025)
Journal Article
Spending time in public places is positively associated with physical and mental health, nature connectedness and pro-environmental behavior. This is particularly important, with the ongoing climate crisis and biodiversity loss. However, many barrier... Read More about From industry to greenery: Exploring how users experience the Regent’s Canal.
Differentials in air pollutant exposure across communities and regions in the UK (2025)
Report
This report considers the differentials in air pollutant emissions, concentrations and exposure across the geographies and communities of the UK. It lays out the extent of evidence on these differentials and highlights gaps in our knowledge.
A compl... Read More about Differentials in air pollutant exposure across communities and regions in the UK.
Briefing: Lessons to learn from Welsh roads policy (2025)
Journal Article
This briefing note reviews the development of roads policy in Wales. It demonstrates that the foundations for roads policy are built on the Well-being of Future Generations Act (2015). The Act has influenced strategy in relation to net zero carbon di... Read More about Briefing: Lessons to learn from Welsh roads policy.
Evaluating qualitative behavioral assessment and ethogram techniques for captive black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) (2025)
Journal Article
Maintaining high animal welfare in zoos is a persistent concern for practitioners and regulators, yet assessing welfare remains challenging. Welfare assessment techniques should be rapid and noninvasive, as traditional methods are often invasive, tim... Read More about Evaluating qualitative behavioral assessment and ethogram techniques for captive black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis).
HomeLabs: A critical social practice perspective on household water and energy infrastructure (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Utility companies are increasingly focused on understanding the complex nature of household water and energy usage patterns. Traditional “demand management” approaches usually rely on an “information deficit” model of behaviour change, which is often... Read More about HomeLabs: A critical social practice perspective on household water and energy infrastructure.
Decarbonising last-mile deliveries: When the national strategy fails to meet local needs and expectations (2025)
Journal Article
This paper explores views and perceptions of 35 local authorities towards potential solutions to decarbonise last-mile deliveries in England and presents their perspectives towards potential challenges and drivers to their implementation. The methodo... Read More about Decarbonising last-mile deliveries: When the national strategy fails to meet local needs and expectations.
Automatic pre-screening of outdoor airborne microplastics in micrographs using deep learning (2025)
Journal Article
Airborne microplastics (AMPs) are prevalent in both indoor and outdoor environments, posing potential health risks to humans. Automating the process of spotting them in micrographs can significantly enhance research and monitoring. Although deep lear... Read More about Automatic pre-screening of outdoor airborne microplastics in micrographs using deep learning.
Buzzing about bees: Exploring action-based storytelling as a tool for children’s environmental engagement and agency (2025)
Journal Article
This article considers innovative research in neuroscience and psychology showing that we need to transform environmental storytelling, moving away from stories focused on awareness raising, to ones which develop people’s capacity for action. We inve... Read More about Buzzing about bees: Exploring action-based storytelling as a tool for children’s environmental engagement and agency.
Natural history traits influence winners and losers for herpetological communities in disturbed tropical habitats (2025)
Journal Article
Habitat alteration can lead to a few ‘winning’ species outcompeting many ‘losing’ species, an effect commonly termed as ‘Winner-Loser-Replacements’ or WLRs. This can lead to homogenisation of species assemblages at phylogenetic and functional levels.... Read More about Natural history traits influence winners and losers for herpetological communities in disturbed tropical habitats.
Biomimetic adaptive solar building envelopes: Trends, challenges, and opportunities for sustainable applications (2025)
Journal Article
As global energy demand continues to rise, the importance of effective solar management in building design becomes increasingly critical. Solar management encompasses strategies for harvesting, regulating, and utilizing solar energy, contributing sig... Read More about Biomimetic adaptive solar building envelopes: Trends, challenges, and opportunities for sustainable applications.