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Annual report on year one - Bristol Advisory Committee on Climate Change (2020)
Report
Willets, S., Bachra, S., Proctor, S., Clayton, W., Michalec, O., Rawlinson-Smith, R., …Longhurst, J. (2020). Annual report on year one - Bristol Advisory Committee on Climate Change. Bristol: Bristol One City

Exactly one year following its establishment, the Bristol Advisory Committee on Climate Change (BACCC) has published the Annual Report on Year One to review its first year of operations and key contributions to Bristol’s response to the climate emerg... Read More about Annual report on year one - Bristol Advisory Committee on Climate Change.

Mycorrhizal colonisation in roots of Holcus lanatus (Yorkshire Fog) in a permanent pasture under conditions of reduced precipitation (2020)
Journal Article
Ayling, S., George, B., & Rogers, J. (2021). Mycorrhizal colonisation in roots of Holcus lanatus (Yorkshire Fog) in a permanent pasture under conditions of reduced precipitation. Botany, 99(4), 199-208. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjb-2020-0162

The UK climate is projected to become warmer, with more frequent hotter, drier summers. Many governments and international organisations are concerned about how climate change will affect food production and security. Mycorrhizal fungi are an essenti... Read More about Mycorrhizal colonisation in roots of Holcus lanatus (Yorkshire Fog) in a permanent pasture under conditions of reduced precipitation.

The role of landscape morphology on soil moisture variability in semi-arid ecosystems (2020)
Journal Article
Srivastava, A., Saco, P. M., Rodriguez, J. F., Kumari, N., Chun, K. P., & Yetemen, O. (2020). The role of landscape morphology on soil moisture variability in semi-arid ecosystems. Hydrological Processes, 35(1), https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13990

Previous studies on semi-arid ecosystems have shown high values of soil moisture variability (SMV) primarily induced by the combined effects of non-uniform precipitation, incoming solar radiation, and soil and vegetation properties. However, the rela... Read More about The role of landscape morphology on soil moisture variability in semi-arid ecosystems.

Urban Regeneration in the UK (2020)
Book
Tallon, A. (2020). Urban Regeneration in the UK. (3rd). London: Routledge

Third edition covering the context for regeneration, national urban policy from 1945-2020, city-level responses to urban change and key contemporary issues.

Rapid ‘fingerprinting’ of potential sources of plastics in river systems: An example from the River Wye, UK (2020)
Journal Article
Ogden, W., & Everard, M. (2022). Rapid ‘fingerprinting’ of potential sources of plastics in river systems: An example from the River Wye, UK. International Journal of River Basin Management, 20(3), 349-362. https://doi.org/10.1080/15715124.2020.1830783

Literature review identified seven principal pathways of plastic debris entry into river systems: waste water treatment plants; combined sewer overflows; on-site wastewater treatment systems; road and rail transport systems; agriculture; industrial s... Read More about Rapid ‘fingerprinting’ of potential sources of plastics in river systems: An example from the River Wye, UK.

Public transport use and health status in later life: Which relationship? (2020)
Journal Article
Crotti, D., Maggi, E., Pantelaki, E., & Rossi, F. (2021). Public transport use and health status in later life: Which relationship?. Research in Transportation Business and Management, 40, 100591. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rtbm.2020.100591

In many developed countries, ageing trends have called for mobility policies oriented to active travels for older adults, preventing some diseases. As a result, in the transport and health literature, the elderly's psycho-physical health is growingly... Read More about Public transport use and health status in later life: Which relationship?.

The history of the Higher Education Research Group of the UK Royal Geographical Society: The changing status and focus of geography education in the academy (2020)
Journal Article
Healey, R. L., France, D., Hill, J., & West, H. (2022). The history of the Higher Education Research Group of the UK Royal Geographical Society: The changing status and focus of geography education in the academy. Area, 54(1), 6-14. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12685

The opening paper in our special section sets the scene for the discussions that follow by evidencing and reflecting on the history of the Higher Education Research Group. We report on the purpose of the Group when it was established in the late 1970... Read More about The history of the Higher Education Research Group of the UK Royal Geographical Society: The changing status and focus of geography education in the academy.

Reconnecting society with its ecological roots (2020)
Journal Article
Everard, M., Kass, G., Longhurst, J., zu Ermgassen, S., Girardet, H., Stewart-Evans, J., …Craig, A. (2021). Reconnecting society with its ecological roots. Environmental Science and Policy, 116, 8-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2020.11.002

Recent high-profile analyses of trajectories and prognoses of ecosystem decline around the world have called for a renewed focus on embedding the values of the natural world across all areas of public policy. This paper reports the results of a UK-b... Read More about Reconnecting society with its ecological roots.

Communicating the hidden: Toward a framework for drought risk communication in maritime climates (2020)
Journal Article
Weitkamp, E., McEwen, L., & Ramirez, P. (2020). Communicating the hidden: Toward a framework for drought risk communication in maritime climates. Climatic Change, 163, 831-850. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02906-z

This paper explores stakeholder perspectives on the drought discourse in the UK, where climate change is predicted to increase drought risk. This study took a co-productive, mixed-methods approach to investigate drought risk communication issues thro... Read More about Communicating the hidden: Toward a framework for drought risk communication in maritime climates.

Real world learning through civic engagement: Principles, pedagogies and practices (2020)
Book Chapter
Mason O'Connor, K., & McEwen, L. (2021). Real world learning through civic engagement: Principles, pedagogies and practices. In D. Morley, & M. Jamil (Eds.), Applied Pedagogies for Higher Education. Real World Learning and Innovation across the Curriculum (63-89). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46951-1_4

Civic engagement offers students transformational opportunities to experience ‘real world learning’. This chapter identifies key principles of critical community-based learning that emerge from appraisal of different histories and paradigms of learni... Read More about Real world learning through civic engagement: Principles, pedagogies and practices.

An ecological whodunit: The story of colony collapse disorder (2020)
Journal Article
Portus, R. (2023). An ecological whodunit: The story of colony collapse disorder. Society and Animals, 31, 242–260. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685306-BJA10026

As life on Earth becomes increasingly precarious, it becomes ever clearer that, while some nonhuman losses are perceived as tragic and controversial, many more are left to slip away, unnoticed and unmourned. The purpose of this study, then, is to det... Read More about An ecological whodunit: The story of colony collapse disorder.

Urban mobility, social inclusion and participation: A qualitative study in Palermo, Italy (2020)
Book Chapter
Inguglia, C., Di Marco, M., & Ricci, M. (2020). Urban mobility, social inclusion and participation: A qualitative study in Palermo, Italy. In G. Smorto, & I. Vinci (Eds.), The Role of Sharing Mobility in Contemporary Cities (51-68). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57725-4_4

The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the connection between social inclusion and urban mobility, focusing on the role of sharing mobility and to what extent it might be a favourable tool for social inclusion, particularly for disadvantaged group... Read More about Urban mobility, social inclusion and participation: A qualitative study in Palermo, Italy.

Between abundance and constraints: The natural resource equation of Asia’s diverging, higher-income city models (2020)
Journal Article
Rode, P., Gomes, A., Adeel, M., Sajjad, F., Koch, A., & Murshed, S. M. (2020). Between abundance and constraints: The natural resource equation of Asia’s diverging, higher-income city models. Land, 9(11), 426. https://doi.org/10.3390/land9110426

This paper investigates how natural resource conditions impact the physical development of cities and how, once built, the urban spatial structure leads to different patterns of resource use. The point of departure for this research is the common “re... Read More about Between abundance and constraints: The natural resource equation of Asia’s diverging, higher-income city models.

Large spatial variations in diffusive CH₄ fluxes from a subtropical coastal reservoir affected by sewage discharge in Southeast China (2020)
Journal Article
Yang, P., Yang, H., Sardans, J., Tong, C., Zhao, G., Peñuelas, J., …Lai, . D. Y. F. (2020). Large spatial variations in diffusive CH₄ fluxes from a subtropical coastal reservoir affected by sewage discharge in Southeast China. Environmental Science and Technology,

Coastal reservoirs are potentially CH4 emission hotspots owing to their biogeochemical role as the sinks of anthropogenic carbon and nutrients. Yet, the fine-scale spatial variations in CH4 concentrations and fluxes in coastal reservoirs remain poorl... Read More about Large spatial variations in diffusive CH₄ fluxes from a subtropical coastal reservoir affected by sewage discharge in Southeast China.

Evaporation loss along the Calueque-Oshakati Canal in the Cuvelai-Etosha Basin (Northern Namibia): Evidence from stable isotopes and hydrochemistry (2020)
Journal Article
Koeniger, P., Hamutoko, J., Post, V. E. A., Beyer, M., Gaj, M., Himmelsbach, T., & Wanke, H. (2021). Evaporation loss along the Calueque-Oshakati Canal in the Cuvelai-Etosha Basin (Northern Namibia): Evidence from stable isotopes and hydrochemistry. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies, 57(1), 53-66. https://doi.org/10.1080/10256016.2020.1830082

© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Since 1973, Kunene River water has been carried from the Calueque reservoir in Angola along a 160 km open concrete canal to the town of Oshakati in the centra... Read More about Evaporation loss along the Calueque-Oshakati Canal in the Cuvelai-Etosha Basin (Northern Namibia): Evidence from stable isotopes and hydrochemistry.

Engaging young people as active citizens and citizen scientists (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Fogg Rogers, L., Laggan, S., Csobod, E., Sardo, M., Szuppinger, . P., Rodrigues, . V., & Hayes, E. (2020, October). Engaging young people as active citizens and citizen scientists. Presented at EU Green Week

The climate emergency and air pollution sit alongside the biodiversity and ecological crises as the most pressing issues of this generation. Inextricably linked to these environmental problems is social justice; poorer and vulnerable people, and thos... Read More about Engaging young people as active citizens and citizen scientists.

Validation of a method to quantify microfibres present in aquatic surface microlayers (2020)
Journal Article
Birkenhead, J., Radford, F., Stead, J. L., Cundy, A. B., & Hudson, M. D. (2020). Validation of a method to quantify microfibres present in aquatic surface microlayers. Scientific Reports, 10(1), Article 17892. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-74635-3

Many of the methods for microplastics quantification in the environment are criticised creating problems with data validity. Quantification of microplastics in the surface microlayer of aquatic environments using glass plate dipping holds promise as... Read More about Validation of a method to quantify microfibres present in aquatic surface microlayers.

Visualet: Visualizing shapelets for time series classification (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Li, G., Choi, B., Bhowmick, S. S., Wong, G. L., Chun, K. P., & Li, S. (2020). Visualet: Visualizing shapelets for time series classification. In Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information \& Knowledge Management (3429-3432). https://doi.org/10.1145/3340531.3417414

Time series classification (TSC) has attracted considerable attention from both academia and industry. TSC methods that are based on shapelets (intuitively, small highly-discriminative subsequences have been found effective and are particularly known... Read More about Visualet: Visualizing shapelets for time series classification.