All Outputs (106)

Business and Management Practices in Greece: A Comparative Context (2011)
Book

A comprehensive picture of the Greek business system and management practices placed in a comparative context. The editors bring together knowledge from contemporary research in a comprehensive, analytical and comparative way that enables readers to... Read More about Business and Management Practices in Greece: A Comparative Context.

Climate justice in Latin America (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presenting global climate injustices and impacts on Latin America.

A troublesome transport challenge? Working round the school run (2011)
Journal Article

Transport policy and practice could be challenged by the future of women's mobility if it means an increasing reliance on the car. The paper examines the contextual relationship between the journey to school/childcare and the journey to work undertak... Read More about A troublesome transport challenge? Working round the school run.

Shear-derived mixing in dense granular flows (2011)
Journal Article

In flume experiments, granular avalanches run onto loose substrates develop 3-D architectures that record shear-derived mixing between the flow and the substrate. Spherical silica beads 0.250 mm diameter are run onto stratified substrates of various... Read More about Shear-derived mixing in dense granular flows.

The role of ICTs in everyday mobile lives (2011)
Journal Article

Information and communications technologies (ICTs) are permeating modern lifestyles, shaping and colouring the undertaking of activities and travel. This article reports on a qualitative diary and interview study that explored the ways in which ICTs... Read More about The role of ICTs in everyday mobile lives.

Negotiating Climate Change Politics in Parliament (2011)
Journal Article

he All Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group (APPCCG) is a coalition of 150 MPs from all parties, as well as almost 200 representatives of a variety of businesses, NGOs, academic institutions, and embassies. Its registered aim is ‘To raise aware... Read More about Negotiating Climate Change Politics in Parliament.

Constructing sustainable regional advantage: Low Carbon innovation and the built environment in Wales (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The aim of this paper is twofold: i) to advance the theoretical understanding of processes of systems innovation and transition in a regional context; and, ii) to provide readers with practical examples of attempts to constructing sustainable competi... Read More about Constructing sustainable regional advantage: Low Carbon innovation and the built environment in Wales.

Public perceptions and acceptance of hydrogen energy (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Assessing the potential for local action to achieve EU limit values (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presentation

Neighbourhood planning and development management: Evolutionary localism (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Neighbourhood planning and Development Management: Evolutionary Localism The spatial planning approach has become accepted as the progressive theoretical and professional currency in England following the 2004 Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act.... Read More about Neighbourhood planning and development management: Evolutionary localism.

Delivering homes and infrastructure through incentivisation: The role of the growth points agenda and the New Homes Bonus (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Delivering homes and infrastructure through incentivisation: the role of the growth points agenda and the New Homes Bonus The formation of the Coalition Government has led to a dramatic change in the operation and promotion of governance, the mana... Read More about Delivering homes and infrastructure through incentivisation: The role of the growth points agenda and the New Homes Bonus.

Creating built environments that promote walking and health: Assessing the current state of knowledge (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The principle that the built environment should be supportive of walking is generally accepted and a wide range of interventions have been carried out in recent years with the aim of increasing walking. This paper presents the findings from a study c... Read More about Creating built environments that promote walking and health: Assessing the current state of knowledge.

At the brink: The transition of rainwater harvesting systems in the UK (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Recent policy changes in the UK promote the use of alternative water sources, such as rainwater harvesting (RWH). However, barriers to implementation still exist, such as unfamiliarity with unconventional systems, the capital and maintenance outlay r... Read More about At the brink: The transition of rainwater harvesting systems in the UK.

Empirical performance assessment of a large building rainwater harvesting system in the UK (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Despite a plethora of studies modelling the feasibility of the utilisation of rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems in particular contexts, there remains a significant gap in knowledge in relation to detailed empirical assessments of performance. Domest... Read More about Empirical performance assessment of a large building rainwater harvesting system in the UK.

How to increase working-class representation (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

How to overcome the barriers to working-class representation in the Green Party

How to implement innovation policies through projects successfully (2011)
Journal Article

This paper investigates the types of policy instruments responsible for the success of policy implementation through projects. Based on evidence from 12 comparative multiple case-studies, the paper provides an analytical insight from real practice on... Read More about How to implement innovation policies through projects successfully.

The classy coach commute (2011)
Journal Article

This paper considers a corporate vision for a coach service between Oxford and London in relation to the experiences and observations made by the author through a series of journeys on the same service. The journey is presented as a whole narrative t... Read More about The classy coach commute.

Understanding sustainability policy: Governance, knowledge and the search for integration (2011)
Journal Article

The EU, through the Cardiff and the Gothenburg strategies, sought to counter what was seen as fragmented and uncoordinated environmental policy development by promoting a broad and integrated approach to sustainability. This article seeks to assess t... Read More about Understanding sustainability policy: Governance, knowledge and the search for integration.

Sandstone weathering, electrical resistivity tomography, and the deterioration of San rock art in the Golden Gate Highlands National Park, South Africa (2011)
Thesis

Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) is a novel technique which can be used to build up a 2D pseudo-section of resistivity distribution of a porous material. Here, it is used to visualise internal moisture regimes by measuring the resistivity dist... Read More about Sandstone weathering, electrical resistivity tomography, and the deterioration of San rock art in the Golden Gate Highlands National Park, South Africa.

Conceptualizing age-friendly communities (2011)
Journal Article

On the political and policy front, interest has increased in making communities more "age-friendly", an ongoing trend since the World Health Organization launched its global Age-Friendly Cities project. We conceptualize age-friendly communities by bu... Read More about Conceptualizing age-friendly communities.