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Performance of Sentinel-2 NDVI for assessing the relationship between vegetation and soil moisture under extreme drought conditions (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Initial indications are that the enhanced spatial and spectral resolution of Sentinel-2 would allow for better assess- ment of vegetation condition, and consequently improved application in conditions of moisture deficit/drought. Although NDVI and ot... Read More about Performance of Sentinel-2 NDVI for assessing the relationship between vegetation and soil moisture under extreme drought conditions.

Re-introduction of structurally complex wood jams promotes channel and habitat recovery from overwidening: Implications for river conservation (2018)
Journal Article

Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Large wood is a powerful geomorphic agent in rivers, providing important habitat functions for a range of aquatic organisms, but has been subject to a long history of removal. Internationally, approaches to... Read More about Re-introduction of structurally complex wood jams promotes channel and habitat recovery from overwidening: Implications for river conservation.

Recovery and resilience of communities in flood risk zones in a small island developing state: A case study from a suburban settlement of Port Louis, Mauritius (2018)
Journal Article

Small island developing states (SIDS) are characterised by their small size, remoteness and their dispersal in vulnerable regions globally. In Mauritius, rapid economic growth and expansion of suburban and coastal settlements in flood risk zones have... Read More about Recovery and resilience of communities in flood risk zones in a small island developing state: A case study from a suburban settlement of Port Louis, Mauritius.

A systems approach to risk and resilience analysis in the woody-biomass sector: A case study of the failure of the South African wood pellet industry (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Currently more than 600 million of the 800 million people in SSA are without electricity, and it is estimated that an additional 2500 GW of power is required by 2030. Although the woody-biomass market in the developed world is rel... Read More about A systems approach to risk and resilience analysis in the woody-biomass sector: A case study of the failure of the South African wood pellet industry.

Learning and Action Alliance framework to facilitate stakeholder collaboration and social learning in urban flood risk management (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 The Authors Flood and water management governance may be enhanced through partnership working, intra- and cross-organisational collaborations, and wide stakeholder participation. Nonetheless, barriers associated with ineffective communication,... Read More about Learning and Action Alliance framework to facilitate stakeholder collaboration and social learning in urban flood risk management.

‘Learning for resilience’: Developing community capital through flood action groups in urban flood risk settings with lower social capital (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd The role of civil agency in preparing and adapting to changing risk is an increasingly critical element within devolved local flood risk management. However, effective civil agency for flood resilience needs to draw on, and if nec... Read More about ‘Learning for resilience’: Developing community capital through flood action groups in urban flood risk settings with lower social capital.

Green economy and living well (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presentation of the achievements and pitfalls of these policy paradigms.

Narratives as a mode of research evaluation in citizen science: Understanding broader science communication impacts (2017)
Journal Article

Science communicators develop qualitative and quantitative tools to evaluate the ‘impact’ of their work however narrative is rarely adopted as a form of evaluation. We posit narrative as an evaluative approach for research projects with a core scienc... Read More about Narratives as a mode of research evaluation in citizen science: Understanding broader science communication impacts.

Bottom‐up approaches to resilient water futures: A comparative analysis of household intentions to implement drought and flood coping responses (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This study aims to undertake a comparative analysis of the factors that influence households’ coping intentions. A questionnaire survey appraises perceptions of flood and drought risk, efficacy of coping measures, self-efficacy and costs. Response ef... Read More about Bottom‐up approaches to resilient water futures: A comparative analysis of household intentions to implement drought and flood coping responses.

Water worries: An intersectional feminist political ecology of tourism and water in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Framed in feminist political ecology, this paper presents an intersectional analysis of the gender-water-tourism nexus. Based in an emergent tourism destination, Labuan Bajo, Indonesia, it goes beyond an analysis of how women bear the brunt of... Read More about Water worries: An intersectional feminist political ecology of tourism and water in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia.

A photovoltaic panel modelling method for flexible implementation in Matlab/Simulink using datasheet quantities (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2017 IEEE. This paper presents a detailed method for creating an embedded Matlab model in Simulink for any solar photovoltaic panel starting with its datasheet values. It links extrinsic functions to the Simulink embedded model to provide fast and... Read More about A photovoltaic panel modelling method for flexible implementation in Matlab/Simulink using datasheet quantities.

Data collection for a better understanding of what causes flood damage – Experiences with telephone surveys (2017)
Book Chapter

Starting after the severe flood event of August 2002, computer‐aided telephone interviews (CATI) have repeatedly been used in Germany to remotely collect large standardized data sets on flood losses and possible influencing factors by questioning aff... Read More about Data collection for a better understanding of what causes flood damage – Experiences with telephone surveys.

Modelling of an expandable, reconfigurable, renewable DC microgrid for off-grid communities (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper proposes a DC microgrid system based on multiple locally available renewable energy sources in an off-grid rural community, based on a field study carried out in a rural, off-grid village in Nepal. The site has been assessed as suitable fo... Read More about Modelling of an expandable, reconfigurable, renewable DC microgrid for off-grid communities.