All Outputs (456)

Dynamic hydrological niche segregation: How plants compete for water in a semi-arid ecosystem (2024)
Journal Article

Hydrological niche segregation (HNS), specifically the variation in root water uptake depth among coexisting species, is an understudied area of research. This is especially the case in semi-arid ecosystems, such as China's Loess Plateau (CLP), where... Read More about Dynamic hydrological niche segregation: How plants compete for water in a semi-arid ecosystem.

Globalised climate precarity: Environmental degradation, disasters and the international brick trade (2024)
Journal Article

Climate-linked disasters result when natural hazards meet socioeconomic precarity. Recognizing this, scholarship in recent years has emphasized how the precarity that turns climate-linked hazards into disasters is produced within the same global poli... Read More about Globalised climate precarity: Environmental degradation, disasters and the international brick trade.

Investigation of the displacement-based seismic performance of geogrid earth-retaining walls using three-dimensional finite element modeling (2024)
Journal Article

This study evaluates the earthquake-induced movement of geogrid earth-retaining (GER) walls. A thorough investigation was conducted on a GER wall model, utilizing a comprehensive finite element (FE) analysis. This research focuses on investigating an... Read More about Investigation of the displacement-based seismic performance of geogrid earth-retaining walls using three-dimensional finite element modeling.

The nature and extent of bomb tritium remaining in deep vadose zone: A synthesis and prognosis (2024)
Journal Article

Tritium present in deep vadose zones is a useful tracer for estimating groundwater recharge, but its full utility is constrained by not knowing where and for how long the tritium tracing method remains applicable. We obtained 44 tritium profiles from... Read More about The nature and extent of bomb tritium remaining in deep vadose zone: A synthesis and prognosis.

The potential of co-designing with living organisms: Towards a new ecological paradigm in architecture (2024)
Journal Article

Living organisms have been progressively used by designers to propose alternative design outcomes aiming towards more ecological aspects. The design development and manufacturing of new materials or design components from living organisms are more ac... Read More about The potential of co-designing with living organisms: Towards a new ecological paradigm in architecture.

In/secure childhoods: Children and conflict in Kashmir (2024)
Journal Article

This paper focuses on art productions by children participating in an art-based wellbeing intervention project in Kashmir. Drawing on feminist security studies, we conducted narrative analysis to explore how children represent in/security. The locati... Read More about In/secure childhoods: Children and conflict in Kashmir.

How councils can strengthen civic engagement (2024)
Digital Artefact

Elected local authorities provide civic spaces within which public discourse can take place. Given the rise in tensions within society the role of local authorities in enabling dialogue between those holding different views has increased. Inspired... Read More about How councils can strengthen civic engagement.

Household water containers: Mitigating risks for improved Modular, Adaptive, and Decentralized (MAD) water systems (2024)
Journal Article

While the literature on the design and operation of safe water sources in low-income communities is huge, little attention has been paid to the design of systems for the safe transportation and storage of water by households between source and point... Read More about Household water containers: Mitigating risks for improved Modular, Adaptive, and Decentralized (MAD) water systems.

The sycamore gap tree — one tragedy among thousands (2024)
Journal Article

‘The scale of the challenge dwarfs the available resources’— (un)affordable housing in the South West of England (2024)
Journal Article

Investigation into the key barriers to achieving UK “Construction 2025” strategy targets (2023)
Journal Article

The “Construction 2025” is a United Kingdom (UK) Government Strategy introduced in 2013 to improve the construction industry in the United Kingdom by meeting outlined performance targets by 2025. However, with only a few years left to reach the targe... Read More about Investigation into the key barriers to achieving UK “Construction 2025” strategy targets.

Deglaciation of the highest mountains in Scandinavia at the Younger Dryas–Holocene transition: Evidence from surface exposure‐age dating of ice‐marginal moraines (2023)
Journal Article

Surface exposure–age dating was applied to rock surfaces associated with ice-marginal moraines at elevations of ~1520–1780 m a.s.l. on the slopes of Galdhøpiggen and Glittertinden, the two highest mountains in Scandinavia located in the Jotunheimen m... Read More about Deglaciation of the highest mountains in Scandinavia at the Younger Dryas–Holocene transition: Evidence from surface exposure‐age dating of ice‐marginal moraines.

Routledge Handbook of Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment (2023)
Book

This handbook explores the critically important topic of embodied carbon, providing advanced insights that focus on measuring and reducing embodied carbon from across the built environment, including buildings, urban areas and cities, and constructio... Read More about Routledge Handbook of Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment.

Minimising embodied carbon: A question of politics, not percentages (2023)
Book Chapter

Embodied carbon (EC) has long been a thorny issue, for many years excluded from policy and regulation. Definitions of ‘zero carbon’ have been framed to include only operational impacts, encouraging improvements in energy efficiency but continuing to... Read More about Minimising embodied carbon: A question of politics, not percentages.

Embodied carbon and building retrofit (2023)
Book Chapter

There is a critical need to reduce energy and associated carbon emissions from the existing built environment to help mitigate climate change. This requires significant upscaling of energy retrofitting. However, at present, retrofit assessments commo... Read More about Embodied carbon and building retrofit.

Embodied emissions - knowledge building for industry (2023)
Book Chapter

A climate emergency has been declared and government, policymakers, industries, researchers and architects have tremendous potential to shift the entire industry towards a (net) zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions-built environment. In particular, th... Read More about Embodied emissions - knowledge building for industry.

EDITORIAL: CASCADE-NET — Increasing civil society’s capacity to deal with changing extreme weather risk: Negotiating dichotomies in theory and practice (2023)
Journal Article

Local authority capacity and capability literature review (2023)
Report

A literature review of local authority (LA) capacity and capability (C&C) was conducted for the Department for Transport (DfT) by University of the West of England (UWE). The review responded to two main questions:
- What are the C&C needs of LAs an... Read More about Local authority capacity and capability literature review.

Bamboo construction inspired by vernacular techniques for reducing carbon footprint: A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) (2023)
Journal Article

Whilst upcoming innovations on digital technology and renewable energy can have a significant impact on the reduction of operational carbon emissions in the construction industry, readily available fast-growing building materials like bamboo are alre... Read More about Bamboo construction inspired by vernacular techniques for reducing carbon footprint: A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).

How sloping facades can help reduce overheating (2023)
Digital Artefact