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Modeling the timing of user responses to a new urban public transport service: Application of duration modeling (2007)
Journal Article

When a new service is introduced into the transport market (or an existing service is modified), the timing and nature of the responses of individuals can be expected to vary considerably. The aggregated responses of individuals will determine overal... Read More about Modeling the timing of user responses to a new urban public transport service: Application of duration modeling.

Improving food security in Swaziland: The transition from subsistence to communally managed cash cropping (2007)
Journal Article

The Komati Downstream Development Project (KDDP), based upon the Maguga Dam has enabled 6,000 hectares of semi-arid lowveld, in a region with low and highly variable rainfall to be converted from subsistence to irrigated commercial farming, mainly of... Read More about Improving food security in Swaziland: The transition from subsistence to communally managed cash cropping.

Assessing the impact of proposals for tall buildings on the built heritage: England's regional cities in the 21st century (2007)
Journal Article

In recent years increasing numbers of new tall buildings have been proposed across the world leading to growing concern amongst heritage bodies about their potential impact on the fabric of cities generally and upon the built heritage in particular.... Read More about Assessing the impact of proposals for tall buildings on the built heritage: England's regional cities in the 21st century.

Assessing the failure of a community-based human-wildlife conflict mitigation project in Budongo Forest Reserve, Uganda (2007)
Journal Article

Primate crop raiding is a major cause of human-wildlife conflict around the forests of western Uganda. In an attempt to ameliorate the situation a conflict mitigation strategy was established in villages around the Budongo Forest Reserve in 2001. Liv... Read More about Assessing the failure of a community-based human-wildlife conflict mitigation project in Budongo Forest Reserve, Uganda.

New populations in the British city centre: Evidence of social change from the census and household surveys (2007)
Journal Article

Encouraged by government policies to promote city centre living and to increase residential land use on brownfield sites, there has been considerable repopulation of the city centre. Through detailed small-area census analysis of Birmingham, Bristol,... Read More about New populations in the British city centre: Evidence of social change from the census and household surveys.

'The Muckle Spate of 1829': The physical and societal impact of a catastrophic flood on the River Findhorn, Scottish Highlands (2007)
Journal Article

On 3 August 1829, north-east Scotland recorded one of the most severe catastrophic floods in modern UK history. Sir Thomas Dick Lauder's An account of the great floods of August 1829 in the province of Moray and adjoining districts (1830) provides a... Read More about 'The Muckle Spate of 1829': The physical and societal impact of a catastrophic flood on the River Findhorn, Scottish Highlands.

Bristol (2007)
Journal Article

Bristol is the sixth largest city in England and is one of eight 'core' cities. Bristol provides a particularly interesting example of a city which is currently relatively economically successful in the British context. However, there are pressures o... Read More about Bristol.