Outputs (203)

Initiating and continuing participation in citizen science for natural history (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Everett and Geoghegan. Background: Natural history has a long tradition in the UK, dating back to before Charles Darwin. Developing from a principally amateur pursuit, natural history continues to attract both amateur and professional involvem... Read More about Initiating and continuing participation in citizen science for natural history.

Public perceptions of sustainable drainage devices (2016)
Book Chapter

This chapter considers the centrality of human perceptions, and so behaviour, to the sustainability of SuDS. Research shows a lack of engagement with flood preparedness and flood risk mitigation (FRM) in the public as a whole, and many people are ave... Read More about Public perceptions of sustainable drainage devices.

Proving the economic value of voluntary, community and social enterprise infrastructure support organisations (2016)
Report

This report summarises the results of a two year study to assess the social and economic value of voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector infrastructure support organisations. The research, commissioned by South West Forum, was condu... Read More about Proving the economic value of voluntary, community and social enterprise infrastructure support organisations.

Quantitative conversations: the importance of developing rapport in standardised interviewing (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014, The Author(s). When developing household surveys, much emphasis is understandably placed on developing survey instruments that can elicit accurate and comparable responses. In order to ensure that carefully crafted questions are not undermine... Read More about Quantitative conversations: the importance of developing rapport in standardised interviewing.

Navigating the stigmatised identities of poverty in austere times: Resisting and responding to narratives of personal failure (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. Behavioural explanations of poverty and disadvantage have figured heavily in political rhetoric in the era of austerity, as a means to understand trajectories into poverty and subsequent relationships between benefit cla... Read More about Navigating the stigmatised identities of poverty in austere times: Resisting and responding to narratives of personal failure.

Evaluation of Easton and Lawrence Hill neighbourhood management (2016)
Report

This evaluation was commissioned by Easton and Lawrence Hill Neighbourhood Management (ELH NM) to provide an evidence base to inform their priorities and business plan for the next five years. It reports on ELH NM’s achievements since 1 April 2010;... Read More about Evaluation of Easton and Lawrence Hill neighbourhood management.

SESAME: Exploring small businesses' behaviour to enhance resilience to flooding (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2016 The Authors, published by EDP Sciences. In the United Kingdom, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) account for approximately 99.9% of businesses, 60% of the working population and 47% annual turnover. However, despite the important contr... Read More about SESAME: Exploring small businesses' behaviour to enhance resilience to flooding.

SuDS and human behaviour: Co-developing solutions to encourage sustainable behaviour (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2016 The Authors, published by EDP Sciences. Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) are today widely considered to be a more progressive and environmentally sensitive approach to Flood Risk Management (FRM). However, this paper argues that the sustain... Read More about SuDS and human behaviour: Co-developing solutions to encourage sustainable behaviour.

Exploring the co-production of digital storytelling for lay knowledge exchange within and between flood risk communities: The case of the River Severn, UK (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2016 The Authors, published by EDP Sciences. This paper evaluates the potential role of co-produced digital storytelling as a medium of linking flood memories and lay knowledge exchange around flood preparedness for resilience within flood risk com... Read More about Exploring the co-production of digital storytelling for lay knowledge exchange within and between flood risk communities: The case of the River Severn, UK.

Increasing small business resilience to flood risk: Co-production in the development of a prototype e-learning tool to promote small business adaptation to flood risk (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2016 The Authors, published by EDP Sciences. Flooding of communities is becoming a repeated, widespread issue within the UK, and elsewhere. Small businesses are a crucial part of the UK economy; the UK Summer 2007 flood resulted in flooding of 7,00... Read More about Increasing small business resilience to flood risk: Co-production in the development of a prototype e-learning tool to promote small business adaptation to flood risk.

Bread and roses: A gender perspective on environmental justice and public health (2016)
Journal Article

Gender continues to be a relatively marginal issue in environmental justice debates and yet it remains an important aspect of injustice. To help redress the balance, this article explores women’s experience of environmental justice through a review o... Read More about Bread and roses: A gender perspective on environmental justice and public health.

Supporting the uptake of low cost resilience: FD2682 rapid evidence assessment final report (2016)
Report

As part of the Defra policy objective to help individuals take more ownership for management of their flood risk a Rapid Evidence Assessment (REA) around low cost resilience approaches to preventing damage once water is allowed into properties has be... Read More about Supporting the uptake of low cost resilience: FD2682 rapid evidence assessment final report.

Supporting the uptake of low cost resilience: Summary of technical findings (FD2682) (2016)
Report

This report summarises evidence collected by the Defra research project FD2682 regarding technical aspects of low cost flood repairable approaches designed to limit damage to buildings. It is derived from a Rapid Evidence Assessment (REA) that is rep... Read More about Supporting the uptake of low cost resilience: Summary of technical findings (FD2682).

SuDS and human perceptions (2016)
Book Chapter

This chapter considers the centrality of human perceptions, and so behaviour, to the sustainability of SuDS. Research shows a lack of engagement with flood preparedness and flood risk mitigation (FRM) in the public as a whole, and many people are ave... Read More about SuDS and human perceptions.

Living well indicators (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A discussion of how to measure 'Living Well'/ 'Vivir Bien', the Latin American paradigm for transition to sustainability.

Improving the uptake of flood resilience at the individual property level (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 WIT Press. One of the drivers for improving resilience to flooding at property level (also known as adoption of a 'water entry strategy') was demonstrated by the overtopping of hard engineered flood defences across Cumbria, UK during 'Storm De... Read More about Improving the uptake of flood resilience at the individual property level.

Cities and flooding: Lessons in resilience from case studies of integrated urban flood risk management (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Flooding can cause disruption and devastation in cities, with massive damage to livelihoods, property and urban infrastructure as recently experienced in New York City, Jakarta, Bangkok, Accra, Mississippi and Queensland. For cities in developing nat... Read More about Cities and flooding: Lessons in resilience from case studies of integrated urban flood risk management.

Lesson (un)learning in spatially targeted fiscal incentive policy: Enterprise Zones (England) and Empowerment Zones (United States) (2013)
Journal Article

There is a need to learn lessons when using spatially targeted fiscal experiments if intervention is to generate wider developmental benefit. This paper focuses on the Enterprise Zone concept in the UK (1981-2007) and an exported variant to the US, t... Read More about Lesson (un)learning in spatially targeted fiscal incentive policy: Enterprise Zones (England) and Empowerment Zones (United States).

Legal challenge and its implications (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Law and science view the decision making process very differently. Scientists seek to test data to see if this leads to a trend which can inform the decision maker. Scientific certainty therefore has certain drawbacks. It is incredibly data hung... Read More about Legal challenge and its implications.

Comparing international real estate development: A methodological inquiry (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution