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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.