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Planning and health: Defining the limitations of regulation and the discretionary context at the micro/site scale (2021)
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Sheppard, A., & McClymont, K. (2021). Planning and health: Defining the limitations of regulation and the discretionary context at the micro/site scale. Town Planning Review, 92(5), 561–586. https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2021.18

Planning, at its most basic, is about making better places. In recent years, there has been a positive renewed focus on strengthening the links between planning and the promotion of well-being and good health outcomes. This is a welcome emphasis with... Read More about Planning and health: Defining the limitations of regulation and the discretionary context at the micro/site scale.

Assessment of heavy metals pollution in soft sediment of the Severn Estuary and inner Bristol Channel system (2021)
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Udoekpo, S. N., & Everard, M. (2021). Assessment of heavy metals pollution in soft sediment of the Severn Estuary and inner Bristol Channel system. British Journal of Environmental Sciences, 9(2), 1-30

For several decades, the Severn Estuary and Bristol Channel have been contaminated by heavy metals despite the many ecosystem services it provides. Therefore, this paper is devoted to the systematic assessment of heavy metals (Cd, Cr, Ni, Zn and Pb)... Read More about Assessment of heavy metals pollution in soft sediment of the Severn Estuary and inner Bristol Channel system.

Fungal electronics (2021)
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Adamatzky, A., Ayres, P., Beasley, A. E., Chiolerio, A., Dehshibi, M. M., Gandia, A., …Wösten, H. A. (2022). Fungal electronics. BioSystems, 212, Article 104588. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2021.104588

Fungal electronics is a family of living electronic devices made of mycelium bound composites or pure mycelium. Fungal electronic devices are capable of changing their impedance and generating spikes of electrical potential in response to external co... Read More about Fungal electronics.

How street quality influences the walking experience: An inquiry into the perceptions of adults with diverse ages and disabilities (2021)
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Bozovic, T., Hinckson, E., Stewart, T., & Smith, M. (2024). How street quality influences the walking experience: An inquiry into the perceptions of adults with diverse ages and disabilities. Journal of Urbanism, 17(1), 111-136. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549175.2021.2005121

The benefits of walking are now well understood. However, there is still no consensus on what causes people to forego short walking trips. This study examined users’ perceptions on trips usually walked, as well as perceptions of desirable trips withi... Read More about How street quality influences the walking experience: An inquiry into the perceptions of adults with diverse ages and disabilities.

Planning cemeteries: Their potential contribution to green infrastructure and ecosystem services (2021)
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McClymont, K., & Sinnett, D. (2021). Planning cemeteries: Their potential contribution to green infrastructure and ecosystem services. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 3, Article 789925. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2021.789925

Cemeteries are often included in typologies of green infrastructure features, but there has been little exploration of their role within a multifunctional network of green infrastructure. This paper uses national greenspace data to map the contributi... Read More about Planning cemeteries: Their potential contribution to green infrastructure and ecosystem services.

Review of Healey, Matthews and Cook-Sather (2020) 'Writing About Learning & Teaching in Higher Education, Creating and Contributing to Scholarly Conversations across a Range of Genres' (2021)
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West, H. (2021). Review of Healey, Matthews and Cook-Sather (2020) 'Writing About Learning & Teaching in Higher Education, Creating and Contributing to Scholarly Conversations across a Range of Genres'. Student Engagement in Higher Education Journal, 4(1), 3-5

This article offers a short review of Healey, Matthews and Cook-Sather (2020) ‘Writing About Learning & Teaching in Higher Education, Creating and Contributing to Scholarly Conversations across a Range of Genres’ published open-access by the Center f... Read More about Review of Healey, Matthews and Cook-Sather (2020) 'Writing About Learning & Teaching in Higher Education, Creating and Contributing to Scholarly Conversations across a Range of Genres'.

Weather, climate and perceptions of risk (2021)
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Everard, M. (2021). Weather, climate and perceptions of risk. Environmental Scientist, 30(4), 43-49

Mark Everard points out that a crisp and simple distinction between weather and climate may be more elusive than we have assumed.

The efficiency of elemental geochemistry and weathering indices as tracers in aeolian sediment provenance fingerprinting (2021)
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Nosrati, K., Moradian, H., Dolatkordestani, M., Mol, L., & Collins, A. L. (2022). The efficiency of elemental geochemistry and weathering indices as tracers in aeolian sediment provenance fingerprinting. CATENA, 210, Article 105932. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2021.105932

Confirmation of cost-effective and reliable tracers for aeolian sediment (sand dune) source fingerprinting warrants further research. Accordingly, the main objective of the work reported in this paper was to investigate the efficiency of weathering i... Read More about The efficiency of elemental geochemistry and weathering indices as tracers in aeolian sediment provenance fingerprinting.

Transforming tradition: how the iconic Christmas Lectures series is perceived by its audiences (2021)
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Sardo, A. M., Little, H., & Fogg-Rogers, L. (2021). Transforming tradition: how the iconic Christmas Lectures series is perceived by its audiences. International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 11(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/21548455.2021.2012298

The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are a landmark in the history of science communication. With today’s changing media landscape, it is important to know who is currently watching, how they are watching, and how they are perceiving the content.... Read More about Transforming tradition: how the iconic Christmas Lectures series is perceived by its audiences.

Does traffic really disappear when roads are closed? (2021)
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Melia, S., & Calvert, T. (2023). Does traffic really disappear when roads are closed?. Proceedings of the ICE - Municipal Engineer, 176(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1680/jmuen.21.00014

This article describes two studies which aimed to explore the impacts of pedestrianisation or road closures on traffic displacement, travel behaviour and the phenomenon of 'disappearing traffic'. The first study surveyed residents whose travel routes... Read More about Does traffic really disappear when roads are closed?.

Reconfiguring energy flows: Energy grid-lock and the role of regions in shaping electricity infrastructure networks (2021)
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De Laurentis, C., & Cowell, R. (2022). Reconfiguring energy flows: Energy grid-lock and the role of regions in shaping electricity infrastructure networks. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 24(4), 433-44. https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2021.2008235

This paper investigates how a regional perspective can offer an insightful frame to examine the distribution of agency in energy transitions, with particular reference to the widespread problem of restructuring electricity grid networks to accommodat... Read More about Reconfiguring energy flows: Energy grid-lock and the role of regions in shaping electricity infrastructure networks.

Spatially-heterogeneous impacts of surface characteristics on urban thermal environment, a case of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (2021)
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Fan, P. Y., Chun, K. P., Mijic, A., Mah, D. N., He, Q., Choi, B., …Yetemen, O. (2022). Spatially-heterogeneous impacts of surface characteristics on urban thermal environment, a case of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area. Urban Climate, 41, Article 101034. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2021.101034

One-size-fits-all approach is common in climate-sensitive urban design due to neglecting spatial heterogeneities in urban form and urban climate. This study explores a spatially-varied climate-sensitive urban design based on the Guangdong-Hong Kong-M... Read More about Spatially-heterogeneous impacts of surface characteristics on urban thermal environment, a case of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area.

Geopolymers as alternative sustainable binders for stabilisation of clays - A Review (2021)
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Jeremiah, J. J., Abbey, S. J., Booth, C. A., & Kashyap, A. (2021). Geopolymers as alternative sustainable binders for stabilisation of clays - A Review. Geotechnics, 1(2), 439-459. https://doi.org/10.3390/geotechnics1020021

The need to transit to greener options in soil stabilisation has revamped research on the use of industrial and agricultural by-products in order to cut down on the current carbon footprint from the use of ordinary Portland cement (OPC) and lime rela... Read More about Geopolymers as alternative sustainable binders for stabilisation of clays - A Review.

Development of a volumetric compression restrainer for structures subjected to vibration (2021)
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Hejazi, F., Farahpour, H., Ayyash, N., & Chong, T. (2022). Development of a volumetric compression restrainer for structures subjected to vibration. Journal of Building Engineering, 46, 103735. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2021.103735

In the last 2 decades, application of viscous dampers as restrainer device (lock-up) in buildings and bridges to diminish harmful effect of vibrations. However, leakage issue in the viscous luck-up devices requires regular expensive maintenance proce... Read More about Development of a volumetric compression restrainer for structures subjected to vibration.

Evaluation of water‐energy‐food (WEF) nexus research: Perspectives, challenges, and directions for future research (2021)
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Sušnik, J., & Staddon, C. (in press). Evaluation of water‐energy‐food (WEF) nexus research: Perspectives, challenges, and directions for future research. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12977

In 2018, Albrecht et al., published a comprehensive review of water-energy-food nexus literature, coming to five main criticisms in nexus research based on their perception of the state-of-the-art. The five central conclusions of that review together... Read More about Evaluation of water‐energy‐food (WEF) nexus research: Perspectives, challenges, and directions for future research.

Data on one-dimensional vertical free swelling potential of soils and related soil properties (2021)
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U, E. E., & Onyekpe, U. (2021). Data on one-dimensional vertical free swelling potential of soils and related soil properties. Data in Brief, 39, Article 107608. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2021.107608

Most of the damaging geo-hazards recorded in modern history are caused by soil swelling or expansion. Therefore, proper evaluation of a soil's capacity to swell is very crucial for the achievement of a secure and safe ground for civil infrastructures... Read More about Data on one-dimensional vertical free swelling potential of soils and related soil properties.

Monthly rainfall signatures of the North Atlantic oscillation and East Atlantic pattern in Great Britain (2021)
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West, H., Quinn, N., & Horswell, M. (2021). Monthly rainfall signatures of the North Atlantic oscillation and East Atlantic pattern in Great Britain. Atmosphere, 12(11), Article 1533. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12111533

Atmospheric-oceanic circulations (teleconnections) have an important influence on regional climate. In Great Britain, the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) has long been understood as the leading mode of climate variability, and its phase and magnitud... Read More about Monthly rainfall signatures of the North Atlantic oscillation and East Atlantic pattern in Great Britain.

Code, culture and concrete: Self-driving vehicles and the rules of the road (2021)
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Tennant, C., Neels, C., Parkhurst, G., Jones, P., Mirza, S., & Stilgoe, J. (2021). Code, culture and concrete: Self-driving vehicles and the rules of the road. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 3, Article 710478. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2021.710478

Behaviour on the road is ordered by a range of norms, rules, laws, and infrastructures. The introduction of self-driving vehicles onto the road opens a debate about the rules that should govern their actions and how these should be integrated with, o... Read More about Code, culture and concrete: Self-driving vehicles and the rules of the road.

Multiclass stand-alone and ensemble machine learning algorithms utilised to classify soils based on their physico-chemical characteristics (2021)
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Abbey, S., & Eyo, E. (2022). Multiclass stand-alone and ensemble machine learning algorithms utilised to classify soils based on their physico-chemical characteristics. Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 14(2), 603-615. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrmge.2021.08.011

This study has provided an approach to classify soil using machine learning. Multiclass elements of stand-alone machine learning algorithms (i.e. logistic regression (LR) and artificial neural network (ANN)), decision tree ensembles (i.e. decision fo... Read More about Multiclass stand-alone and ensemble machine learning algorithms utilised to classify soils based on their physico-chemical characteristics.

Combining structural and non-structural risk-reduction measures to improve evacuation safety in historical built environments (2021)
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Bernardini, G., & Ferreira, T. M. (2022). Combining structural and non-structural risk-reduction measures to improve evacuation safety in historical built environments. International Journal of Architectural Heritage, 16(6: Sustainability, Risks and Resilience of Vernacular Heritage), 820-838. https://doi.org/10.1080/15583058.2021.2001117

Historical city centres are critical-built environments prone to earthquake risk because of the features of the complex network of Architectural Heritage, facing Open Spaces (OSs) and the users hosted by them. Structural measures, such as building re... Read More about Combining structural and non-structural risk-reduction measures to improve evacuation safety in historical built environments.