All Outputs (172)

My Food Community: Summary evaluation findings from the first delivery of the programme in 2021–22 (2022)
Report

The Soil Association’s My Food Community is a community leadership programme intended to create ‘a network for good food champions to learn, connect and take action’. My Food Community forms part of Food for Life Get Togethers, a UK-wide National Lot... Read More about My Food Community: Summary evaluation findings from the first delivery of the programme in 2021–22.

Wildlife reports: Freshwater fishes (2022)
Journal Article

A review of conservation-relevant issues around British Freshwater fishes in 2022

My Food community: Full evaluation report on the first delivery of a community food leadership programme (2022)
Report

In the context of the current cost of living crisis, many activists are working within their communities to promote access to affordable, healthy, and sustainable food. Yet there are very few opportunities share experiences, ideas and resources betw... Read More about My Food community: Full evaluation report on the first delivery of a community food leadership programme.

Assessment of the sustainable use of chemicals on a level playing field (2022)
Journal Article

Misleading conclusions can result from applying tools beyond the purposes for which they were designed. A range of chemical assessment systems was compared against a set of principles germane to the sustainable use of chemicals relevant to the whole... Read More about Assessment of the sustainable use of chemicals on a level playing field.

Evaluation of the structural performance of low carbon concrete (2022)
Journal Article

Evaluation of the effect of embodied carbon reduction using an optimized design section for a ground beam, use of supplementary cementitious materials, and replacement of normal aggregate with light weight aggregate on the mechanical properties of lo... Read More about Evaluation of the structural performance of low carbon concrete.

Cycling infrastructure: Planning cycle networks (2022)
Book Chapter

Significant developments in cycle infrastructure practice and guidance have taken place since the turn of the millennium.this chapter discusses infrastructure in the following order. First the basis for planning cycle networks is discussed. This is f... Read More about Cycling infrastructure: Planning cycle networks.

Development of adjustable fluid damper device for the bridges subjected to traffic loads (2022)
Journal Article

In this research, an Adjustable Bypass Fluid Damper (ABFD) is developed by utilizing a pair of external fluid flow pipes and flow control valves. The flow control valves control the flow pressure of the fluid passing through bypass pipes and adjusted... Read More about Development of adjustable fluid damper device for the bridges subjected to traffic loads.

Voices in a Pandemic (VIP-CLEAR): Using deep mapping to explore children’s changing perceptions and experiences during COVID-19 ‘recovery’ (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Children are unheard voices within the COVID-19 pandemic. We are unaware how intersections of complex factors in specific social settings have impacted their perceptions and are determining what ‘recovery’ means. ‘Voices in a Pandemic: Children’s Loc... Read More about Voices in a Pandemic (VIP-CLEAR): Using deep mapping to explore children’s changing perceptions and experiences during COVID-19 ‘recovery’.

Acceptance should not be assumed. How the dynamics of social acceptance changes over time, impacting onshore wind repowering (2022)
Journal Article

Local community acceptance is a key influence on wind farm siting decisions. However, there is a temporal limitation to much social acceptance literature in that it does not consider how perceptions of the local community may change over the operatio... Read More about Acceptance should not be assumed. How the dynamics of social acceptance changes over time, impacting onshore wind repowering.

Optimisation of embodied carbon and compressive strength in low carbon concrete (2022)
Journal Article

To improve the prediction of compressive strength and embodied carbon of low carbon concrete using a program algorithm developed in MATLAB, 84 datasets of concrete mix raw materials were used. The influence of water, silica fume and ground granular b... Read More about Optimisation of embodied carbon and compressive strength in low carbon concrete.

Hybrid rubber-concrete isolation slab system with various shape factors for structures subjected to horizontal and vertical vibrations (2022)
Journal Article

The present framework proposed the development of a Hybrid Rubber-Concrete Isolation Slab System (HRCISS) to support building structures subjected to horizontal and vertical vibration due to ground motion and machine or equipment operation in the str... Read More about Hybrid rubber-concrete isolation slab system with various shape factors for structures subjected to horizontal and vertical vibrations.

Guide to running a youth climate cafe (2022)
Digital Artefact

In 2022 researchers Sara-Jayne Williams and Rosamund Portus from the University of the West of England Bristol (UWE Bristol) collaborated with student interns Sadie Barnes and Mariana Fidalgo, as well as Youth Action Partner members, to develop a gui... Read More about Guide to running a youth climate cafe.

Art Maps and Cities: Contemporary Artists Explore Urban Spaces (2022)
Book

This book presents an original study on how contemporary artists are exploring urban spaces through mapping. Despite a long history of representations of cities in maps, and the relationships that can be envisaged between art maps and cities in the c... Read More about Art Maps and Cities: Contemporary Artists Explore Urban Spaces.

Reinforced concrete beams externally strengthened by CFRP rods with steel plate, anchorage bolts, and concrete jacketing (2022)
Journal Article

This study proposed a new scheme for the retrofitting of Reinforced Concrete (RC) beams using Carbon Fiber Reinforced (CFRP) rods restrained using steel plates and anchorage bolts called the mechanical anchorage system (MAS). This system also employe... Read More about Reinforced concrete beams externally strengthened by CFRP rods with steel plate, anchorage bolts, and concrete jacketing.

Chronic crisis: 30 years on from the Dublin Principles and still no market to value water (2022)
Journal Article

Solving the global water crisis requires water to be economically mobile. Well-regulated water markets that can allocate scarce water resources to their best economic, social and environmental uses will require rigorous water accounting; access to th... Read More about Chronic crisis: 30 years on from the Dublin Principles and still no market to value water.

Open access and the evolving academic publishing landscape of the water sector (2022)
Journal Article

The launch of many new water journals in recent years is a testament to the growth and importance of water research as a problematique, that is, as both a problem in and of itself and as an important correlate of other global challenges. As entire re... Read More about Open access and the evolving academic publishing landscape of the water sector.

Connecting environment and community: Building students’ capacities as future environmental professionals (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As we find ourselves in a period of environmental emergency, it has become clear that we need to transform environmental management teaching. Critically, we need to prepare students to become professionals who respond to environmental challenges as i... Read More about Connecting environment and community: Building students’ capacities as future environmental professionals.

An approach for developing probabilistic models for temperature-dependent properties of construction materials from fire tests and small data (2022)
Journal Article

Probabilistic approaches provide a more realistic look into assessing structures under fire conditions and overcome some limitations observed in the more traditional (deterministic) approaches. These approaches have also been introduced to the fire e... Read More about An approach for developing probabilistic models for temperature-dependent properties of construction materials from fire tests and small data.

Housing and the politics of Nationally Strategic Infrastructure Planning in England (2022)
Journal Article

The 2008 Planning Act introduced a new approach for determining large (‘nationally significant’) infrastructure projects in a new national process that would unify consent regimes and speed up decisions within fixed timescales outside of local planni... Read More about Housing and the politics of Nationally Strategic Infrastructure Planning in England.

The Stories We Tell: Exploring the Folklore of Bees in an Age of Extinction (2022)
Digital Artefact

Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022, a curious news story was circulated. This story reported that, following the Queen’s death, the royal beekeeper had paid an official visit to the hives at Buckingham Palace to inform the ho... Read More about The Stories We Tell: Exploring the Folklore of Bees in an Age of Extinction.