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Best practice guidelines for responsible images of non-human primates (2020)
Digital Artefact
Waters, S., Setchell, J. M., Maréchal, L., Oram, F., Wallis, J., & Cheyne, S. M. Best practice guidelines for responsible images of non-human primates. [Online guidelines https://human-primate-interactions.org/resources/]

Photos or videos (hereafter images) can draw the attention of millions of people to non-human primate (hereafter primate) conservation and welfare. However, if the context of the images is inappropriate, unclear, or lost, people... Read More about Best practice guidelines for responsible images of non-human primates.

Working-Class Environmentalism: An Agenda for a Just and Fair Transition to Sustainability (2020)
Book
Bell, K. (2020). Working-Class Environmentalism: An Agenda for a Just and Fair Transition to Sustainability. Palgrave MacMillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29519-6

This book is about how to develop green transitions which benefit, include and respect working class people. The book will challenge current practice, policy and thinking by highlighting how discriminatory and undermining actions and attitudes towar... Read More about Working-Class Environmentalism: An Agenda for a Just and Fair Transition to Sustainability.

Self-healing concrete and cementitious materials (2020)
Book Chapter
Qureshi, T., & Al-Tabbaa, A. (2020). Self-healing concrete and cementitious materials. In Advanced Functional Materials. IntechOpen

Concrete is one of the most used materials in the world with robust applications and increasing demand. Despite considerable advancement in concrete and cementitious materials over last centuries, infrastructure built in the present world with these... Read More about Self-healing concrete and cementitious materials.

Appropriate use of lime in the study of the physicochemical behaviour of stabilised lateritic soil under continuous water ingress (2020)
Journal Article
Okeke, C., Abbey, S., Oti, J., Eyo, E., Johnson, A., Ngambi, S., …Ujile, M. (2021). Appropriate use of lime in the study of the physicochemical behaviour of stabilised lateritic soil under continuous water ingress. Sustainability, 13(1), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13010257

Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Lime stabilisation is one of the traditional methods of improving the engineering properties of lateritic soils for use as subgrade and foundation materials for the construction of road pavements and highway embankm... Read More about Appropriate use of lime in the study of the physicochemical behaviour of stabilised lateritic soil under continuous water ingress.

Prediction of strength enhancement of subgrade soil reinforced with geotextile using artificial neural network and M5P model tree (2020)
Journal Article
Singh, T., Goyal, Y., & Kumar, S. (2020). Prediction of strength enhancement of subgrade soil reinforced with geotextile using artificial neural network and M5P model tree. European Journal of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, 7(8),

Geosynthetics layers are being implemented as reinforcement to enhance the strength of subgrade soil (which is calculated in terms of CBR). Present research work, aims at investigating the strength enhancement in terms of CBR through experimental stu... Read More about Prediction of strength enhancement of subgrade soil reinforced with geotextile using artificial neural network and M5P model tree.

Provenance and origin of Lower Cretaceous quartz arenites from the northern Indian Plate: Tropical weathering or a multi-cycled sediment source? (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Beaumont, H., Burley, S., & Gould, T. (2020, December). Provenance and origin of Lower Cretaceous quartz arenites from the northern Indian Plate: Tropical weathering or a multi-cycled sediment source?. Presented at British Sedimentological Research Group AGM, Virtual

Lower Cretaceous sediments of the north-western Indian Plate margin deposited in the Barmer, Cambay, Narmada, Kachchh and Jaisalmer basins of the West Indian Rift System (WIRS) and in the Lower and Middle Indus Basins (LMIB) are dominated by mineralo... Read More about Provenance and origin of Lower Cretaceous quartz arenites from the northern Indian Plate: Tropical weathering or a multi-cycled sediment source?.

Spatial distribution of soil salinity: A GIS-based assessment at the Hardap irrigation scheme, Namibia (2020)
Journal Article
Ambambi, H. N., Katjimune, H. V., Hipondoka, M., & Wanke, H. (2020). Spatial distribution of soil salinity: A GIS-based assessment at the Hardap irrigation scheme, Namibia. Namibian Journal for Research, Science and Technology, 2(1), 125-134

Salinization is a worldwide problem that affects the physical and chemical properties of soils. It is the most common and widely recognized form of land degradation, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions, where evaporation surpasses precipitatio... Read More about Spatial distribution of soil salinity: A GIS-based assessment at the Hardap irrigation scheme, Namibia.

Analysis of various transport modes to evaluate personal exposure to PM2.5 pollution in Delhi (2020)
Journal Article
Maji, K. J., Namdeo, A., Hoban, D., Bell, M., Goodman, P., Nagendra, S. S., …Alshetty, D. (2021). Analysis of various transport modes to evaluate personal exposure to PM2.5 pollution in Delhi. Atmospheric Pollution Research, 12(2), 417-431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apr.2020.12.003

Access to detailed comparisons of the air quality variations encountered when commuting through a city offers the urban traveller more informed choice on how to minimise personal exposure to inhalable pollutants. In this study we report on an experim... Read More about Analysis of various transport modes to evaluate personal exposure to PM2.5 pollution in Delhi.

Turning points in car ownership over the life course: Contributions from biographical interviews and panel data (2020)
Book Chapter
Chatterjee, K., & Clark, B. (2020). Turning points in car ownership over the life course: Contributions from biographical interviews and panel data. In Mobility and Travel Behaviour Across the Life Course (17-32). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789907810

There is still much to learn about why people make major changes to their personal mobility. It is challenging to identify the points in time when people make major changes in their personal mobility and the circumstances in which such changes take p... Read More about Turning points in car ownership over the life course: Contributions from biographical interviews and panel data.

The health and well-being effects of drought: Assessing multi-stakeholder perspectives through narratives from the UK (2020)
Journal Article
Bryan, K., Ward, S., Roberts, L., White, M. P., Landeg, O., Taylor, T., & McEwen, L. (2020). The health and well-being effects of drought: Assessing multi-stakeholder perspectives through narratives from the UK. Climatic Change, 163(4), 2073-2095. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02916-x

The global literature on drought and health highlights a variety of health effects for people in developing countries where certain prevailing social, economic and environmental conditions increase their vulnerability especially with climate change.... Read More about The health and well-being effects of drought: Assessing multi-stakeholder perspectives through narratives from the UK.

Using an ecosystem services lens to explore a broader funding base for laneways (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Lamond, J., Everard, M., & Everett, G. (2020). Using an ecosystem services lens to explore a broader funding base for laneways. In Urban Water Systems & Floods III (155-165). https://doi.org/10.2495/friar200141

Greening small urban street spaces such as alleys and laneways is increasingly popular with city authorities. Motivation for starting these projects varies and this may hold implications in terms of the responsible function and department overseeing... Read More about Using an ecosystem services lens to explore a broader funding base for laneways.

Assessing bird collisions in the United Kingdom: Modelling frequency of bird-strike from road and rail mortality using a Bayesian hierarchical approach (2020)
Report
Freire, S., Read, L., & Lewis, T. R. (2020). Assessing bird collisions in the United Kingdom: Modelling frequency of bird-strike from road and rail mortality using a Bayesian hierarchical approach. Kingston Maurward College

Roads are an important way to transport people and goods, but they sometimes have negative impacts on wildlife. One of the leading causes of mortality for several species is identified as road strikes, and the most significant remains bird-vehicle co... Read More about Assessing bird collisions in the United Kingdom: Modelling frequency of bird-strike from road and rail mortality using a Bayesian hierarchical approach.

How eco is eco-tourism? A systematic assessment of resorts on the Red Sea, Egypt (2020)
Journal Article
Gohar, A., & Kondolf, G. (2020). How eco is eco-tourism? A systematic assessment of resorts on the Red Sea, Egypt. Sustainability, 12(23), 20. https://doi.org/10.3390/su122310139

Eco-tourism is a growing part of the tourism industry. However, there are no agreed-upon criteria of what constitutes eco-tourism, so the industry is currently self-identified, with eco-lodges simply declaring themselves so. Here we present the first... Read More about How eco is eco-tourism? A systematic assessment of resorts on the Red Sea, Egypt.

In search of territorial cohesion: An elusive and imagined notion (2020)
Journal Article
Atkinson, R., & Pacchi, C. (2020). In search of territorial cohesion: An elusive and imagined notion. Social Inclusion, 8(4), 265-276. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v8i4.3377

Territorial cohesion has figured in the lexicon of the European Union for some years. However, there has never been a clear definition of the notion, not even after its inclusion in the Lisbon Treaty. Moreover, within the European Union Cohesion Repo... Read More about In search of territorial cohesion: An elusive and imagined notion.

Rural cohesion: Collective efficacy and leadership in the territorial governance of inclusion (2020)
Journal Article
Jørgensen, A., Fallov, M. A., Casado-Diaz, M., & Atkinson, R. (2020). Rural cohesion: Collective efficacy and leadership in the territorial governance of inclusion. Social Inclusion, 8(4), 229-241. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v8i4.3364

This article is a comparative study of the contextual conditions for collective efficacy and territorial governance of social cohesion in two different rural localities: West Dorset in England and Lemvig in Denmark. The objective is to understand the... Read More about Rural cohesion: Collective efficacy and leadership in the territorial governance of inclusion.

Modelling of quadratic-surface sludge digesters by smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) – Finite element (FE) methods (2020)
Journal Article
Tota-Maharaj, K., Nounu, G., & Ramroop, N. (2020). Modelling of quadratic-surface sludge digesters by smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) – Finite element (FE) methods. Archives of Hydro-Engineering and Environmental Mechanics, 67(1-4), 35-53. https://doi.org/10.1515/heem-2020-0003

The quadric-surfaced sludge digester (QSD), also known as the egg-shaped sludge digester, has proven its advantages over traditional cylindrical digesters recently. A reduction in operational cost is the dominant factor. Its shell can be described as... Read More about Modelling of quadratic-surface sludge digesters by smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) – Finite element (FE) methods.

The ebb and flow of adaptive co-management: A longitudinal evaluation of a conservation conflict (2020)
Journal Article
Cox, T. R., Butler, J. R., Webber, A. D., & Young, J. C. (2020). The ebb and flow of adaptive co-management: A longitudinal evaluation of a conservation conflict. Environmental Science and Policy, 114, 453-460. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2020.09.017

Adaptive co-management (ACM) is an emerging approach to the governance of social-ecological systems, but there are few long-term assessments of its efficacy. This is especially true in conservation conflicts, where ACM can mitigate disputes between p... Read More about The ebb and flow of adaptive co-management: A longitudinal evaluation of a conservation conflict.