Outputs (359)

Motivations for energy efficiency refurbishment in owner-occupied housing (2013)
Journal Article

Purpose: The existing housing stock needs substantial adaptation to meet national and international carbon reduction targets. The largest proportion of housing is owner-occupied, and will require improvement works which go beyond those measures provi... Read More about Motivations for energy efficiency refurbishment in owner-occupied housing.

A pluralistic conceptual model for affordable housing in Lagos, Nigeria
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A pluralistic conceptual model for affordable housing in Lagos, Nigeria (2013)
Journal Article

Housing is one of the challenges caused by urbanisation in Nigeria. Since independence, it has always been on the agenda of past governments to reduce the housing shortage and improve the quality of housing. In 1991, Nigeria made the paradigm shift f... Read More about A pluralistic conceptual model for affordable housing in Lagos, Nigeria.

Archiving memories of changing flood risk: Interdisciplinary explorations around knowledge for resilience
Journal Article

The paper explores the changing nature of the flood archive drawing on different disciplinary perspectives, approaches and attitudes. It uses a braiding metaphor to map a journey around shifting islands that contain different primary research on floo... Read More about Archiving memories of changing flood risk: Interdisciplinary explorations around knowledge for resilience.

Discussion: The adverse health and safety influence of subcontracting (2013)
Journal Article

Mitigating the health and safety influence of subcontracting in construction: The approach of main contractors (2013)
Journal Article

Subcontracting is noted for its adverse health and safety (H&S) influence in construction. Using interviews with five of the top 20 UK contractors and one medium-sized contractor, this study explored how main contractors manage the H&S influence of s... Read More about Mitigating the health and safety influence of subcontracting in construction: The approach of main contractors.

A causal model of the influence of pre-construction decision-making on accident causation. (2013)
Book Chapter

Towards improved guidelines for drying flood-damaged buildings (2014)
Journal Article

In the aftermath of flood events in the UK, the insurance and the drying and repair industry are frequently criticised for the speed with which households are able to return to their homes. Delays in restoration have been attributed to lack of guidan... Read More about Towards improved guidelines for drying flood-damaged buildings.

Adaptation of the built environment towards achieving improved resilience to climate change (2013)
Journal Article

Sandy: Come and gone. Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront: A review (2013)
Journal Article

Household behaviour in installing property-level flood adaptations: A literature review (2013)
Book Chapter

The research presents a brief overview of the published literature concerning household behaviour with regard to installing flood protection measures in the UK; people’s desire and their ability to act are considered, before looking at the literature... Read More about Household behaviour in installing property-level flood adaptations: A literature review.

Air as a common good (2013)
Journal Article

Ecosystem services provide a framework for integrated assessment of the societal benefits provided by air, the largest ecosystem on the planet, which has been substantially overlooked in former management frameworks. Many attributes of air are 'commo... Read More about Air as a common good.

Urban waste collection – An environmental justice issue? (2013)
Book Chapter

Despite recent attempts to improve urban waste management through increased recycling, insufficient attention has been paid to the social and distributional impacts of waste policy. This omission means that such changes appear to have reinforced envi... Read More about Urban waste collection – An environmental justice issue?.

Doing qualitative fieldwork in Cuba: Social research in politically sensitive locations (2012)
Journal Article

Cuba, a country that is often portrayed as an isolated, secretive and bureaucratic dictatorship, would appear to present many challenges for a social researcher intent on eliciting the genuine opinions of the native population. However, in December 2... Read More about Doing qualitative fieldwork in Cuba: Social research in politically sensitive locations.

Privatising fishing rights: The way to a fisheries wonderland? (2013)
Journal Article

There has been a great deal of recent research proposing that that privatisation of sovereign fishing rights is a solution to overfishing. This paper examines the claims made by Costello et al. in the context of the UK fisheries and discovers a numb... Read More about Privatising fishing rights: The way to a fisheries wonderland?.

An analysis of government intervention in traditional land markets in Ghana
Journal Article

Small businesses and flood impacts: The case of the 2009 flood event in Cockermouth (2014)
Journal Article

Flooding can have a devastating impact on businesses, especially on small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) who may be unprepared and vulnerable to the range of both direct and indirect impacts. SMEs may tend to focus on the direct tangible impact... Read More about Small businesses and flood impacts: The case of the 2009 flood event in Cockermouth.

Sensitivity, persistence and resolution of the geomorphological record of valley-floor floods in an alpine glacier-fed catchment, Leirdalen, Jotunheimen, southern Norway (2013)
Journal Article

Coarse-grained flood deposits, including 52 discrete berms, bars, terraces, splays and sheets, were investigated along a 6.6 km stretch of the Leira river, in a catchment containing several alpine glaciers. These landforms were mapped, characterized... Read More about Sensitivity, persistence and resolution of the geomorphological record of valley-floor floods in an alpine glacier-fed catchment, Leirdalen, Jotunheimen, southern Norway.

Exposing drying patterns: Using electrical resistivity tomography to monitor capillary rise in sandstone under varying drying conditions (2013)
Journal Article

Rising damp and other moisture movements through porous stone and rock are known to cause weathering and deterioration, as noted in a range of recent field and laboratory studies. However, relatively little is known about the behaviour of moisture wi... Read More about Exposing drying patterns: Using electrical resistivity tomography to monitor capillary rise in sandstone under varying drying conditions.

Tourism and water: from stakeholders to rights holders, and what tourism businesses need to do (2014)
Journal Article

Water is a human right and it is essential to sustain life and livelihoods, as well as the health and happiness of tourists. This paper examines a destination with ample rain, but rapid and unchecked tourism development: Bali, Indonesia. The mismanag... Read More about Tourism and water: from stakeholders to rights holders, and what tourism businesses need to do.