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Analysis of the passengers’ experience and travel time use on board urban buses. The case of Brescia (2018)
Journal Article
Bonera, M., Maternini, G., Clayton, W., Paddeu, D., & Parkhurst, G. (2018). Analysis of the passengers’ experience and travel time use on board urban buses. The case of Brescia

Providing users of the public transport with a satisfactory service is necessary to discourage the use of private transport modes. In addition to ensuring high performance in terms of accessibility, usability and availability of the service, in recen... Read More about Analysis of the passengers’ experience and travel time use on board urban buses. The case of Brescia.

Provenance of lower cretaceous quartz arenites from the northern Indian Plate: Tropical weathering or a multi-cycled sediment source? (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Beaumont, H., Burley, S., Gould, T., & Clarke, S. (2018, December). Provenance of lower cretaceous quartz arenites from the northern Indian Plate: Tropical weathering or a multi-cycled sediment source?. Poster presented at British Sedimentological Research Group, AGM, Edinburgh, Scotland

Introduction. Lower Cretaceous sediments of the northwestern Indian Plate margin were deposited in the Barmer, Cambay, Narmada, Kachchh and Jaisalmer basins (Figure 1) of the West Indian Rift System (WIRS) and the Lower and Middle Indus Basins (LMIB... Read More about Provenance of lower cretaceous quartz arenites from the northern Indian Plate: Tropical weathering or a multi-cycled sediment source?.

Joint editorial: Invigorating hydrological research through journal publications (2018)
Journal Article
Quinn, N., Blöschl, G., Bárdossy, A., Castellarin, A., Clark, M., Cudennec, C., …Zehe, E. (2018). Joint editorial: Invigorating hydrological research through journal publications. Hydrology Research, 49(6), III-IX. https://doi.org/10.2166/nh.2018.124

Editors of several journals in the field of hydrology met during the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union – EGU in Vienna in April 2017. This event was a follow-up of similar meetings held in 2013 and 2015. These meetings enable the gro... Read More about Joint editorial: Invigorating hydrological research through journal publications.

Effect of intrinsic microscopic properties and suction on swell characteristics of compacted expansive clays (2018)
Journal Article
Eyo, E. U., Ng'ambi, S., & Abbey, S. J. (2019). Effect of intrinsic microscopic properties and suction on swell characteristics of compacted expansive clays. Transportation Geotechnics, 18, 124-131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trgeo.2018.11.007

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd The complex swelling mechanism in expansive clays during moisture ingress can be succinctly explained by an examination of their core mineralogy, microfabric, grain size and suction response. This note has attempted to investigate... Read More about Effect of intrinsic microscopic properties and suction on swell characteristics of compacted expansive clays.

Air quality and Clean Air Zones (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Barnes, J. (2018, November). Air quality and Clean Air Zones. Presented at Travelwest Travel Awards 2018

The evolution of Jakarta’s flood policy over the past 400 years: The lock-in of infrastructural solutions (2018)
Journal Article
Octavianti, T., & Charles, K. (2019). The evolution of Jakarta’s flood policy over the past 400 years: The lock-in of infrastructural solutions. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 37(6), 1102-1125. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654418813578

This paper presents an analysis of the evolution of flood policy in a city in the developing world. Jakarta was selected in order to analyse the role of colonialisation on water policy. Drawing data from historical sources and interviews of key infor... Read More about The evolution of Jakarta’s flood policy over the past 400 years: The lock-in of infrastructural solutions.

Why doesn’t every family practice rainwater harvesting? Factors that affect the decision to adopt rainwater harvesting as a household water security strategy in central Uganda (2018)
Journal Article
Staddon, C., Rogers, J., Warriner, C., Ward, S., & Powell, W. (2018). Why doesn’t every family practice rainwater harvesting? Factors that affect the decision to adopt rainwater harvesting as a household water security strategy in central Uganda. Water International, 43(8), 1114-1135. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2018.1535417

© 2018, © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article investigates the reasons householders do, and don’t, adopt domestic rainwater harvesting (DRWH). Using a mixed-methods research approach,... Read More about Why doesn’t every family practice rainwater harvesting? Factors that affect the decision to adopt rainwater harvesting as a household water security strategy in central Uganda.

Water resources data, models and decisions: International expert opinion on knowledge management for an uncertain but resilient future (2018)
Journal Article
Ward, S., Borden, D. S., Kabo-Bah, A., Fatawu, A. N., & Mwinkom, X. F. (2019). Water resources data, models and decisions: International expert opinion on knowledge management for an uncertain but resilient future. Journal of Hydroinformatics, 21(1), 32-44. https://doi.org/10.2166/hydro.2018.104

© 2019 The Authors. Assessing the resilience of water resources systems requires knowledge of properties and performance, which depends on data availability and use within models and decision making. Connections between data, models and decision maki... Read More about Water resources data, models and decisions: International expert opinion on knowledge management for an uncertain but resilient future.

Enhancing the communication potential of smart metering for energy and water (2018)
Journal Article
Michalec, A., Hayes, E., Longhurst, J., & Tudgey, D. (2019). Enhancing the communication potential of smart metering for energy and water. Utilities Policy, 56, 33-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2018.11.002

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd The success of water and energy smart metering is highly contingent on a successful communication strategy. We report on the findings from a qualitative study involving discourse analysis of customer messaging and focus groups wit... Read More about Enhancing the communication potential of smart metering for energy and water.

The impact of the Marine and Coastal Access Act (2009) on Welsh inshore fisheries and marine management (2018)
Journal Article
Terry, A., Lewis, K., & Bullimore, B. (2019). The impact of the Marine and Coastal Access Act (2009) on Welsh inshore fisheries and marine management. Marine Policy, 99, 359-368. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2018.11.003

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd This paper is based on a qualitative study undertaken between April 2016 and February 2017 of key informants and secondary documents concerned with the management of the Welsh marine environment in the pre and post Marine and Coas... Read More about The impact of the Marine and Coastal Access Act (2009) on Welsh inshore fisheries and marine management.

Exploring the sources and receptors of health impacts of drought in the UK: A narrative approach (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Bryan, K., Ward, S., White, M., Taylor, T., & Roberts, L. (2018, November). Exploring the sources and receptors of health impacts of drought in the UK: A narrative approach. Paper presented at 8th International Conference on Building Resilience, Lisbon, Portugal

Drought has been found to affect human populations through reduced water quantity, water quality, food security, dust and airborne pathogens, mental health and well-being, among others. Research in this area is still in its infancy with only a handfu... Read More about Exploring the sources and receptors of health impacts of drought in the UK: A narrative approach.

Autogenous self-healing of cement with expansive minerals-II: Impact of age and the role of optimised expansive minerals in healing performance (2018)
Journal Article
Qureshi, T., Kanellopoulos, A., & Al-Tabbaa, A. (2019). Autogenous self-healing of cement with expansive minerals-II: Impact of age and the role of optimised expansive minerals in healing performance. Construction and Building Materials, 194, 266-275. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2018.11.027

This part of the study presents the optimisation of expansive minerals mix proportions and establishes a quantitative and qualitative correlation between self-healing and the cracking age of cementitious materials. The hydration degree of cementitiou... Read More about Autogenous self-healing of cement with expansive minerals-II: Impact of age and the role of optimised expansive minerals in healing performance.

Air quality and Clean Air Zones (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Barnes, J. (2018, November). Air quality and Clean Air Zones. Presented at Bristol Clean Air Zone event

Structural performance of a modified shear-head assembly for edge steel column embedded in reinforced concrete slab (2018)
Journal Article
Ngekpe, B. E., Abbey, S. J., & Olubanwo, A. O. (2019). Structural performance of a modified shear-head assembly for edge steel column embedded in reinforced concrete slab. https://doi.org/10.5267/j.esm.2018.11.001

© 2018 by the authors; licensee Growing Science, Canada. This paper presents a study on the structural performance of a modified shear-head assembly for edge steel column embedded in reinforced concrete slab. The structural performance was investigat... Read More about Structural performance of a modified shear-head assembly for edge steel column embedded in reinforced concrete slab.

Living Well and Green Economy. Which is best for jobs? (2018)
Digital Artefact
Bell, K. (2018). Living Well and Green Economy. Which is best for jobs?

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 w... Read More about Living Well and Green Economy. Which is best for jobs?.

A socio-ecological framework supporting catchment-scale water resource stewardship (2018)
Journal Article
Everard, M. (2019). A socio-ecological framework supporting catchment-scale water resource stewardship. Environmental Science and Policy, 91, 50-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2018.10.017

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd The need to adapt human resource demands to the renewable capacities of ecosystems is widely acknowledged and has been transposed into multiple international and national commitments and strategies. This need is intensified by the... Read More about A socio-ecological framework supporting catchment-scale water resource stewardship.

Implications of performance-based seismic design of nonstructural building components on life cycle cost of buildings (2018)
Book Chapter
Karaki, G. (2018). Implications of performance-based seismic design of nonstructural building components on life cycle cost of buildings. In D. Frangopol, L. Taerwe, & R. Caspeele (Eds.), Life Cycle Analysis and Assessment in Civil Engineering: Towards an Integrated Vision. Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315228914-362

Current trends in structural design emphasizes on robust, resilient and sustainable design of buildings, and this is achieved by multiple design objectives that support target performance levels for the intended design concept. Recent innovations tow... Read More about Implications of performance-based seismic design of nonstructural building components on life cycle cost of buildings.

Focus on the coast (2018)
Journal Article
Bradshaw, N. (2018). Focus on the coast. Environmental Scientist, 27(3), 32-37

This article highlights the potential of collaborative governance mechanisms and participatory approaches to involve coastal communities in decision-making and help to promote coastal and ocean stewardship.

Ramsar convention on Wetlands, resolution XIII.17: Rapidly assessing wetland ecosystem services (2018)
Other
Everard, M., & McInnes, R. J. (2018). Ramsar convention on Wetlands, resolution XIII.17: Rapidly assessing wetland ecosystem services. Gland, Switzerland

A Resolution agreed in October 20918 at CoP of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands - Resolution XIII.17: Rapidly assessing wetland ecosystem services - on a method for the rapid assessment of wetland ecosystem services

Qualitative Assessment of Link Between Exposure to Noise and Air Pollution, and Socioeconomic Status (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Barnes, J., De Vito, L., Hayes, E., Blanes Guàrdia, N., Fons Esteve, J., & Van Kamp, I. (2018, October). Qualitative Assessment of Link Between Exposure to Noise and Air Pollution, and Socioeconomic Status. Presented at IAQM Routes to Clean Air 2018, Birmingham Conference and Events Centre