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Developed-developing world partnerships for sustainable development (1): An ecosystem services perspective (2017)
Journal Article
Everard, M., Longhurst, J., Pontin, J., Stephenson, W., & Brooks, J. (2017). Developed-developing world partnerships for sustainable development (1): An ecosystem services perspective. Ecosystem Services, 24, 241-252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2016.09.020

Developing-developed world partnerships potentially present win-win opportunities for addressing climate-active gas emissions at lower cost whilst propelling developing nations on a lower-carbon trajectory, as carbon emissions, capture and storage ar... Read More about Developed-developing world partnerships for sustainable development (1): An ecosystem services perspective.

Photoacclimation by arctic cryoconite phototrophs (2017)
Journal Article
Yallop, M. L., Williamson, C. J., Perkins, R. G., Bagshaw, E., Mol, L., Fagan, D., & Gamble, M. (2017). Photoacclimation by arctic cryoconite phototrophs. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 93(5), https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fix018

© FEMS 2017. All rights reserved. Cryoconite is a matrix of sediment, biogenic polymer and a microbial community that resides on glacier surfaces. The phototrophic component of this community is well adapted to this extreme environment, including hig... Read More about Photoacclimation by arctic cryoconite phototrophs.

Long-term studies of land degradation in the Sneeuberg uplands, eastern Karoo, South Africa: A synthesis (2017)
Journal Article
Boardman, J., Foster, I., Rowntree, K., Favis-Mortlock, D., Mol, L., Suich, H., & Gaynor, D. (2017). Long-term studies of land degradation in the Sneeuberg uplands, eastern Karoo, South Africa: A synthesis. Geomorphology, 285, 106-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.01.024

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. For the past 15yr, the Sneeuberg uplands in the eastern Karoo, South Africa, have been a focus for research on land degradation by the above authors and other colleagues. Earlier work in the Karoo emphasised vegetation change whe... Read More about Long-term studies of land degradation in the Sneeuberg uplands, eastern Karoo, South Africa: A synthesis.

The Essential Guide to Planning Law: Decision-Making and Practice in the UK also viewed (2017)
Book
Sheppard, A., Peel, D., Ritchie, H., & Berry, S. (2017). The Essential Guide to Planning Law: Decision-Making and Practice in the UK also viewed. Bristol: Policy Press

This comprehensive yet concise textbook provides a focused, subject specific guide to planning practice and law. Giving students essential background and contextual information to planning's statutory basis, the information is supported by practical... Read More about The Essential Guide to Planning Law: Decision-Making and Practice in the UK also viewed.

Legal standing for the coast (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Bradshaw, N. (2017, February). Legal standing for the coast

This research was part of a PhD supervised by Dr Thomas Appleby and Dr Enda Hayes at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, UK, members of the International Water Security Network: www.watersecuritynetwork.org/uk-coastal-governance/... Read More about Legal standing for the coast.

Cycling and disability: A call for further research (2017)
Journal Article
Clayton, W., Parkin, J., & Billington, C. (2017). Cycling and disability: A call for further research. Journal of Transport and Health, 6, 452-462. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2017.01.013

© 2017 Cycling can offer health benefits, and these benefits are relevant for disabled people. Few disabled people cycle, and disability is under-researched in cycling studies. This paper (i) reviews current research into disabled cycling, and provid... Read More about Cycling and disability: A call for further research.

Research, industry & the academy: Forging links & professionalizing graduates through conference assessment events (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Horswell, M., & West, H. (2017, February). Research, industry & the academy: Forging links & professionalizing graduates through conference assessment events. Paper presented at National Student Satisfaction (NSS) Survey: Best Practice Conference, University of the West of England, Bristol

Ready and able graduates are much more than subject knowledgeable, or equipped with transferable skills. Conference assessment events, using live briefs from researchers and external stakeholders, and that include industry representatives and academi... Read More about Research, industry & the academy: Forging links & professionalizing graduates through conference assessment events.

The future is already here; it’s just not very evenly distributed (2017)
Journal Article
Chatterton, T., & Newmarch, G. (2017). The future is already here; it’s just not very evenly distributed. InterActions, 24(2), 42-45

The future is always created on an uneven foundation. In order to understand how we can create futures that do not exclude, isolate or exploit we have to understand how the future is ‘written’ in the present. So, whilst there is some interest in lo... Read More about The future is already here; it’s just not very evenly distributed.

Engaging students in the city: Inter-institutional approaches to skills and engaged learning (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Willmore, C., & Clayton, W. (2017, February). Engaging students in the city: Inter-institutional approaches to skills and engaged learning. Paper presented at HEA STEM Conference 2017, Manchester, UK

Engaging Students in the City: inter-institutional approaches to skills and engaged learning

Reintroduced large wood modifies fine sediment transport and storage in a lowland river channel (2017)
Journal Article
Sayer, C. D., Harvey, G. L., Henshaw, A. J., & Parker, C. (2017). Reintroduced large wood modifies fine sediment transport and storage in a lowland river channel. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 42(11), 1693-1703. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4123

Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This paper explores changes in suspended sediment transport and fine sediment storage at the reach and patch scale associated with the reintroduction of partial large wood (LW) jams in an artificially over-w... Read More about Reintroduced large wood modifies fine sediment transport and storage in a lowland river channel.

Financial implications of car ownership and use: A distributional analysis based on observed spatial variance considering income and domestic energy costs (2017)
Journal Article
Chatterton, T., Anable, J., Cairns, S., & Wilson, R. E. (2018). Financial implications of car ownership and use: A distributional analysis based on observed spatial variance considering income and domestic energy costs. Transport Policy, 65, 30-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2016.12.007

This paper presents a new perspective on assessing the financial impacts of private car usage in England and Wales using novel datasets to explore implications of motoring costs (principally Vehicle Excise Duty and road fuel costs) for households as... Read More about Financial implications of car ownership and use: A distributional analysis based on observed spatial variance considering income and domestic energy costs.

Working with paradata, marginalia and fieldnotes: The centrality of by-products of social research (2017)
Book
Edwards, R., Phoenix, A., O'Connor, H., Goodwin, J., Fahmy, E., & Bell, K. (2017). A. Phoenix, H. O'Connor, J. Goodwin, & R. Edwards (Eds.), Working with paradata, marginalia and fieldnotes: The centrality of by-products of social research. Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784715250

© Rosalind Edwards, John Goodwin, Henrietta O'Connor and Ann Phoenix 2017. All rights reserved. This book asks the important question; Can the by-products of research activity be treated as data and of research interest in themselves? This groundbrea... Read More about Working with paradata, marginalia and fieldnotes: The centrality of by-products of social research.

Air Quality (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Barnes, J. (2017, January). Air Quality. Presented at BRE Healthy Cities Index Expert Workshop

A novel stochastic method for reconstructing daily precipitation times-series using tree-ring data from the western Canadian Boreal Forest (2017)
Journal Article
Chun, K. P., Mamet, S. D., Metsaranta, J., Barr, A., Johnstone, J., & Wheater, H. (2017). A novel stochastic method for reconstructing daily precipitation times-series using tree-ring data from the western Canadian Boreal Forest. Dendrochronologia, 44, 9-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2017.01.003

Tree ring data provide proxy records of historical hydroclimatic conditions that are widely used for reconstructing precipitation time series. Most previous applications are limited to annual time scales, though information about daily precipitation... Read More about A novel stochastic method for reconstructing daily precipitation times-series using tree-ring data from the western Canadian Boreal Forest.

Challenges and opportunities in the design and construction of a GIS-based emission inventory infrastructure for the Niger Delta region of Nigeria (2017)
Journal Article
Fagbeja, M. A., Hill, J., Chatterton, T., Longhurst, J., Akpokodje, J. E., Agbaje, G. I., & Halilu, S. A. (2017). Challenges and opportunities in the design and construction of a GIS-based emission inventory infrastructure for the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 24(8), 7788-7808. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-017-8481-z

© 2017, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Environmental monitoring in middle- and low-income countries is hampered by many factors which include enactment and enforcement of legislations; deficiencies in environmental data reporting and documentatio... Read More about Challenges and opportunities in the design and construction of a GIS-based emission inventory infrastructure for the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.

Tomorrow will be too late: Fidel Castro's environmental legacy (2017)
Journal Article
Bell, K. (2017). Tomorrow will be too late: Fidel Castro's environmental legacy

A discussion of the work of Fidel Castro in relation to sustainability in Cuba. When Fidel Castro became President of Cuba in 1959, the country's environment was in ruins as a result of hundreds of years of US and Spanish colonial exploitation of nat... Read More about Tomorrow will be too late: Fidel Castro's environmental legacy.

Present whilst absent: Home and the business tourist gaze (2017)
Journal Article
Willis, C., Ladkin, A., Jain, J., & Clayton, W. (2017). Present whilst absent: Home and the business tourist gaze. Annals of Tourism Research, 63, 48-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2016.10.008

© 2016 This paper reflects on business travel as a contemporary form of mobility and how it relates to family life. Through qualitative research with business travellers, insights are gained into the role digital technology plays in enabling connecti... Read More about Present whilst absent: Home and the business tourist gaze.

An analytical model to predict soil reaction induced by harmonically loaded piles (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Anoyatis, G., Mylonakis, G., & Lemnitzer, A. (2017, January). An analytical model to predict soil reaction induced by harmonically loaded piles. Paper presented at 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 16WCEE 2017, Santiago, Chile

The theoretical representation of the dynamic horizontal soil reaction to a laterally oscillating pile using an approximate 3D continuum modelling is investigated. The governing elastodynamic equations are reduced by setting the vertical normal stres... Read More about An analytical model to predict soil reaction induced by harmonically loaded piles.

Morphological and Mechanical Biomimetic Bone Structures (2017)
Journal Article
Parwani, R., Curto, M., Kao, A. P., Rowley, P. J., Pani, M., Tozzi, G., & Barber, A. H. (2017). Morphological and Mechanical Biomimetic Bone Structures. ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering, 3(11), 2761-2767. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsbiomaterials.6b00652

© 2016 American Chemical Society. Cortical bone is an example of a mineralized tissue containing a compositional distribution of hard and soft phases in 3-dimensional space for mechanical function. X-ray computed tomography (XCT) is able to describe... Read More about Morphological and Mechanical Biomimetic Bone Structures.

Who is responsible for incorporating the notion of 'public interest' into sustainable urban developments? A case study of three sites in the south-west of England (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Williams, D., Atkinson, R., & Tallon, A. (2017, January). Who is responsible for incorporating the notion of 'public interest' into sustainable urban developments? A case study of three sites in the south-west of England. Paper presented at 49th Annual UTSG Conference, Dublin, Eire

Public-private partnership agreements between local authorities and government agencies and developers have become the modus operandi in the UK since the 1990s for the regeneration of brownfield sites in UK towns and cities. This paper explores these... Read More about Who is responsible for incorporating the notion of 'public interest' into sustainable urban developments? A case study of three sites in the south-west of England.