Outputs (319)

Why it takes an ‘ontological shock’ to prompt increases in small firm resilience: Sensemaking, emotions and flood risk (2018)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2018. This article uses a sensemaking approach to understand small firms’ responses to the threat of external shocks. By analysing semi-structured interviews with owners of flooded small firms, we investigate how owners process flood... Read More about Why it takes an ‘ontological shock’ to prompt increases in small firm resilience: Sensemaking, emotions and flood risk.

The spatial signature of the North Atlantic Oscillation in monthly rainfall patterns in Great Britain (1899/1900-2014/2015) (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Although some studies have shown the influence of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) on rainfall in Great Britain, these have focussed on wet extremes rather than the full wet-dry continuum. They have also been based on either analysis of a limited... Read More about The spatial signature of the North Atlantic Oscillation in monthly rainfall patterns in Great Britain (1899/1900-2014/2015).

Comparison of Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 in assessing vegetation response to soil moisture variation in droughty environments (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The aim of this study was to determine the extent to which Sentinel-2 Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) reflects soil moisture conditions, and whether this product offers an improvement over Landsat-8. Based on drought exposure, cloud-fre... Read More about Comparison of Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 in assessing vegetation response to soil moisture variation in droughty environments.

Green economy and living well: Which best delivers just transition and green jobs? (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presentation regarding the most impactful path to a just transition.

Modelling of an expandable, reconfigurable, renewable DC microgrid for off-grid communities (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd This paper proposes a DC microgrid system, comprising multiple locally available renewable energy sources in an off-grid rural community, based on a commissioned field study carried out in a rural, off-grid village in Nepal, which... Read More about Modelling of an expandable, reconfigurable, renewable DC microgrid for off-grid communities.

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.

Bullet impacts and built heritage damage 1640–1939 (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, The Author(s). Conflict damage to heritage has been thrust into the global spotlight during recent conflict in the Middle East. While the use of social media has heightened and enhanced public awareness of this ‘cultural terrorism’, the occur... Read More about Bullet impacts and built heritage damage 1640–1939.

Evidence review for property flood resilience phase 2 report (2018)
Report

Flood Re was established to promote the availability and affordability of flood insurance whilst supporting the transition to risk-based and affordable flood insurance for UK households at high risk of flooding. In order for the goal of affordability... Read More about Evidence review for property flood resilience phase 2 report.

Solidarity for environmental justice: ALBA’s contribution in Latin America and the Caribbean (2017)
Book Chapter

Environmental justice embraces the concept and movement for a healthy and safe environment; equal access to environmental resources alongside avoidance of environmental harms; and meaningful participation in environmental decision-making. Central and... Read More about Solidarity for environmental justice: ALBA’s contribution in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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.

Reintroduced large wood modifies fine sediment transport and storage in a lowland river channel (2017)
Journal Article

Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This paper explores changes in suspended sediment transport and fine sediment storage at the reach and patch scale associated with the reintroduction of partial large wood (LW) jams in an artificially over-w... Read More about Reintroduced large wood modifies fine sediment transport and storage in a lowland river channel.

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

Presentation of the achievements and pitfalls of these policy paradigms.

Sustainable flood memory: Remembering as resilience (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. This article proposes the concept of sustainable flood memory as a critical and agentic form of social and cultural remembering of learning to live with floods. Drawing upon research findings that use the 2007 floods in... Read More about Sustainable flood memory: Remembering as resilience.

An adaptive legal framework for water security concerns in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (2022)
Book Chapter

For mitigating hydrological hazards, legal frameworks provide enforcement mechanisms to guide water governance which can increase the adaptability and resilience of water resources systems. In Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), water securit... Read More about An adaptive legal framework for water security concerns in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

‘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.

‘Living well’ as a path to social, ecological and economic sustainability (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 by the author. While there is wide agreement on the need to move towards fairer and more sustainable societies, how to best achieve this is still the source of some debate. In particular, there are tensions between more market-based/technologi... Read More about ‘Living well’ as a path to social, ecological and economic sustainability.

Extreme multi-basin flooding linked with extra-tropical cyclones (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd. Fluvial floods are typically investigated as 'events' at the single basin-scale, hence flood management authorities may underestimate the threat of flooding across multiple basins driven by large... Read More about Extreme multi-basin flooding linked with extra-tropical cyclones.

Measuring flood resilience: a fuzzy logic approach (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, © Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: Flood resilience is emerging as a major component of an integrated strategic approach to flood risk management. This approach recognizes that some flooding is inevitable and aligns with the concept of “l... Read More about Measuring flood resilience: a fuzzy logic approach.

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.

How paradata can illuminate technical, social and professional role changes between the Poverty in the UK (1967/1968) and Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK (2012) surveys (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, The Author(s). This article brings together analyses of the micro paradata ‘by-products’ from the 1967/1968 Poverty in the United Kingdom (PinUK) and 2012 Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK (PSE) surveys to explore changes in the conditio... Read More about How paradata can illuminate technical, social and professional role changes between the Poverty in the UK (1967/1968) and Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK (2012) surveys.