All Outputs (212)

Introduction to air quality issues (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Credibility in the absence of legitimacy (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation considers the motivations for those who chose to live beyond
‘the system’; outside of mainstream regulated society and, particularly, formal town and country
planning frameworks. The paper presents research which compares the moti... Read More about Credibility in the absence of legitimacy.

Governance and territory: Comparative responses to growth in Cambridge and Oxford (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Conference paper on divergent policy styles and the management of major economic and housing growth in both Cambridge and Oxford sub-regions.

Technological Review of Permeable Pavement Systems for Applications in Small Island Developing States (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim This paper presents a technological review of permeable pavement systems (PPS) for applications in urban areas of small island developing states (SIDS). This review includes a literature survey of P... Read More about Technological Review of Permeable Pavement Systems for Applications in Small Island Developing States.

Developing an undergraduate GIS curriculum for the 21st century (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The greatest challenge in teaching a technology related subject, is the rate at which technology changes and progresses. Designing curricula in such contexts, requires a shift out of a ‘training’ mind set, to be both anticipatory and market responsiv... Read More about Developing an undergraduate GIS curriculum for the 21st century.

Ready & able graduates: GIS as a tool for dispositional development (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As university tutors in an age of easy access to information and instruction, our role shifts from information transmitter to something altogether more challenging. Fee paying students with high expectations demand more than knowledge and technical c... Read More about Ready & able graduates: GIS as a tool for dispositional development.

Story mapping & ArcGIS online: Building bridges between students & researchers (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Researchers at UWE Bristol (UK) needed ways of communicating drought and were struggling to find an in-road as drought seems ‘low risk’ in the UK. Using Story Maps to develop conversation pieces was recognised as way forward. Students were given the... Read More about Story mapping & ArcGIS online: Building bridges between students & researchers.

Precipitation Origins and Key Drivers of Precipitation Isotope (18O, 2H, and 17O) Compositions Over Windhoek (2018)
Journal Article

©2018. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. Southern African climate is characterized by large precipitation variability, and model precipitation estimates can vary by 70% during summer. This may be partly attributed to underestimation an... Read More about Precipitation Origins and Key Drivers of Precipitation Isotope (18O, 2H, and 17O) Compositions Over Windhoek.

New technologies and automation for last mile deliveries: Advantages, disadvantages and policy implications (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Urban freight transport is crucial to ensuring the economic vitality of a city. However, significant negative externalities arise from freight flows in an urban area (e.g. polluting emissions, contribution to congestion, noise, etc.). Alternatives to... Read More about New technologies and automation for last mile deliveries: Advantages, disadvantages and policy implications.

The potential for personalised public transport solutions to enhance job seekers' access to employment sites. (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper examines the importance of the accessibility of employment locations to job-seekers’ perceived work options. It investigates the potential of an employment site-oriented Personalised Collective Transport Service (PCTS) to help solve the li... Read More about The potential for personalised public transport solutions to enhance job seekers' access to employment sites..

Designing for Cycle Traffic (2018)
Book

Governing Future Emergencies: Lived Relations to Risk in the UK Fire and Rescue Service (2018)
Book

The 21st century has born witness to myriad changes in the way the world is secured from the many emergencies that continually threaten to disrupt it. This book concentrates on two such changes. First, it takes stock of the ever-increasing developmen... Read More about Governing Future Emergencies: Lived Relations to Risk in the UK Fire and Rescue Service.

Gender equality and Tourism: Beyond Empowerment (2018)
Book

Drawing on the theme of gender equality in tourism, the book aims to identify the main obstacles to women’s advancement in the tourism industry, and to discover and share successful strategies to overcome them, drawing on case studies from all over t... Read More about Gender equality and Tourism: Beyond Empowerment.

Interdisciplinary enquiry into learning and teaching: lessons from geography (2018)
Book Chapter

What is green economy? (2018)
Digital Artefact

We have, perhaps, 12 years to restore planetary balance if we are to avert irreversible and abrupt environmental change with deleterious, or even disastrous,consequences for humans. In recent years, several paradigms have emerged which may offer a wa... Read More about What is green economy?.

Modelling of an expandable, reconfigurable, renewable DC microgrid for off-grid communities (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd This paper proposes a DC microgrid system, comprising multiple locally available renewable energy sources in an off-grid rural community, based on a commissioned field study carried out in a rural, off-grid village in Nepal, which... Read More about Modelling of an expandable, reconfigurable, renewable DC microgrid for off-grid communities.

Assessing vegetation response to soil moisture fluctuation under extreme drought using sentinel-2 (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 by the authors. The aim of this study was to determine the extent to which Sentinel-2 Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) reflects soil moisture conditions, and whether this product offers an improvement over Landsat-8. Based on drou... Read More about Assessing vegetation response to soil moisture fluctuation under extreme drought using sentinel-2.

Gendered immobility: Influence of social roles and local context on mobility decisions in Pakistan (2018)
Journal Article

This paper examines the instances of one-day immobility in Pakistan and reports its socio-demographic determinants using the nationally representative dataset of the 2007 Pakistan Time Use Survey. Of 37,830 time diary respondents, nearly 30% did not... Read More about Gendered immobility: Influence of social roles and local context on mobility decisions in Pakistan.

Ultrasonic-assisted synthesis of graphene oxide – fungal hyphae: An efficient and reclaimable adsorbent for chromium(VI) removal from aqueous solution (2018)
Journal Article

In this study, a hybrid film bio-nanocomposite material was developed based on the graphene oxide/fungal hyphae (GO-FH) interaction. The developed GO-FH bio-nanocomposite material was used for the removal of hexavalent chromium from aqueous solution.... Read More about Ultrasonic-assisted synthesis of graphene oxide – fungal hyphae: An efficient and reclaimable adsorbent for chromium(VI) removal from aqueous solution.

Towards improved bioaerosol model validation and verification (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Bioaerosols, comprised of bacteria, fungi and viruses are ubiquitous in ambient air. Known to adversely affect human health, the impact of bioaerosols on a population often manifests as outbreaks of illnesses such as Legionnaires Disease and Q fever,... Read More about Towards improved bioaerosol model validation and verification.