Integrating the ‘duty of care’ under the European Convention on Human Rights and the science and law of climate change: the decision of the Hague Court of Appeal in the Urgenda case
(2019)
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Minnerop, P. (2019). Integrating the ‘duty of care’ under the European Convention on Human Rights and the science and law of climate change: the decision of the Hague Court of Appeal in the Urgenda case
Assessment of leachable elements in volcanic ashfall: A review and evaluation of a standardized protocol for ash hazard characterization (2019)
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Stewart, C., Damby, D., Tomašek, I., Horwell, C., Plumlee, G., Armienta, M., …Morman, S. (2020). Assessment of leachable elements in volcanic ashfall: A review and evaluation of a standardized protocol for ash hazard characterization. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 392, Article 106756. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2019.106756Volcanic ash presents a widespread and common hazard during and after eruptions. Complex interactions between solid ash surfaces and volcanic gases lead to the formation of soluble salts that may be mobilized in aqueous environments. A variety of sta... Read More about Assessment of leachable elements in volcanic ashfall: A review and evaluation of a standardized protocol for ash hazard characterization.
The Importance of Monitoring Interval for Rockfall Magnitude-Frequency Estimation (2019)
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Williams, J., Rosser, N., Hardy, R., & Brain, M. (2020). The Importance of Monitoring Interval for Rockfall Magnitude-Frequency Estimation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 124(12), 2841-2853. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019jf005225The frequency distribution of rockfall sizes ('magnitude-frequency') is important for erosion and hazard modeling. This typically follows a power law, with few larger rockfalls compared to more numerous small events. Advances in LiDAR hardware and al... Read More about The Importance of Monitoring Interval for Rockfall Magnitude-Frequency Estimation.
Identifying archaeological evidence of past earthquakes in a contemporary disaster scenario: Case-studies of damage, resilience and risk reduction from the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake and past seismic events within the Kathmandu Valley UNESCO World Heritage Property (Nepal) (2019)
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Davis, C., Coningham, R., Acharya, K., Kunwar, R., Forlin, P., Weise, K., …Schmidt, A. (2020). Identifying archaeological evidence of past earthquakes in a contemporary disaster scenario: Case-studies of damage, resilience and risk reduction from the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake and past seismic events within the Kathmandu Valley UNESCO World Heritage Property (Nepal). Journal of Seismology, 24(4), 729-751. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10950-019-09890-7The 2015 Gorkha Earthquake was a humanitarian disaster but also a cultural catastrophe that damaged and destroyed historic monuments across Nepal, including those within the Kathmandu Valley UNESCO World Heritage Property. In the rush to rebuild, tra... Read More about Identifying archaeological evidence of past earthquakes in a contemporary disaster scenario: Case-studies of damage, resilience and risk reduction from the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake and past seismic events within the Kathmandu Valley UNESCO World Heritage Property (Nepal).
Handling resolvable uncertainty from incomplete scenarios in future doctors' job choice – probabilities vs discrete choices (2019)
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Pedersen, L., Mørkbak, M., & Scarpa, R. (2020). Handling resolvable uncertainty from incomplete scenarios in future doctors' job choice – probabilities vs discrete choices. Journal of Choice Modelling, 34, Article 100199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocm.2019.100199Health economists often use discrete choice experiments (DCEs) to predict behavior, as actual market data is often unavailable. Manski (1990) argues that due to the incompleteness of the hypothetical scenarios used in DCEs, substantial uncertainty su... Read More about Handling resolvable uncertainty from incomplete scenarios in future doctors' job choice – probabilities vs discrete choices.
Facemask use for community protection from air pollution disasters: An ethical overview and framework to guide agency decision making (2019)
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McDonald, F., Horwell, C., Wecker, R., Dominelli, L., Loh, M., Kamanyire, R., & Ugarte, C. (2020). Facemask use for community protection from air pollution disasters: An ethical overview and framework to guide agency decision making. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 43, Article 101376. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101376Disasters involving severe air pollution episodes create a pressing public health issue. During such emergencies, there may be pressure on agencies to provide solutions to protect affected communities. One possible intervention to reduce exposure dur... Read More about Facemask use for community protection from air pollution disasters: An ethical overview and framework to guide agency decision making.
The search for common intention: the status of an executed, express declaration of trust post-Stack and Jones (2019)
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Bevan, C. (2019). The search for common intention: the status of an executed, express declaration of trust post-Stack and Jones. Law Quarterly Review, 135, 660-681Abstract: Reviews the debate over the extent to which courts may override the parties' intentions in an express declaration of trust and create a revised bargain concerning the parties' beneficial interests, using a discretionary approach to common i... Read More about The search for common intention: the status of an executed, express declaration of trust post-Stack and Jones.
Public Resource Allocation, Strategic Behavior, and Status Quo Bias in Choice Experiments (2019)
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Silz-Carson, K., Chilton, S., Hutchinson, W., & Scarpa, R. (2020). Public Resource Allocation, Strategic Behavior, and Status Quo Bias in Choice Experiments. Public Choice, 185(1-2), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-019-00735-yChoice experiments, a survey methodology in which consumers face a series of choice tasks requiring them to indicate their most preferred option from a choice set containing two or more options, are used to generate estimates of consumer preferences... Read More about Public Resource Allocation, Strategic Behavior, and Status Quo Bias in Choice Experiments.
Assessment of the potential for in-plume sulphur dioxide gas-ash interactions to influence the respiratory toxicity of volcanic ash (2019)
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Tomašek, I., Damby, D., Horwell, C., Ayris, P., Delmelle, P., Ottley, C., …Rothen-Rutishauser, B. (2019). Assessment of the potential for in-plume sulphur dioxide gas-ash interactions to influence the respiratory toxicity of volcanic ash. Environmental Research, 179(Part A), Article 108798. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2019.108798Background: Volcanic plumes are complex environments composed of gases and ash particles, where chemical and physical processes occur at different temperature and compositional regimes. Commonly, soluble sulphate- and chloride-bearing salts are forme... Read More about Assessment of the potential for in-plume sulphur dioxide gas-ash interactions to influence the respiratory toxicity of volcanic ash.
Benchmarking the predictive capability of hydrological models for river flow and flood peak predictions across over 1000 catchments in Great Britain (2019)
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Lane, R. A., Coxon, G., Freer, J. E., Wagener, T., Johnes, P. J., Bloomfield, J. P., …Reaney, S. M. (2019). Benchmarking the predictive capability of hydrological models for river flow and flood peak predictions across over 1000 catchments in Great Britain. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 23(10), 4011-4032. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-4011-2019Benchmarking model performance across large samples of catchments is useful to guide model selection and future model development. Given uncertainties in the observational data we use to drive and evaluate hydrological models, and uncertainties in th... Read More about Benchmarking the predictive capability of hydrological models for river flow and flood peak predictions across over 1000 catchments in Great Britain.
A review of quantification methodologies for multi-hazard interrelationships (2019)
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Tilloy, A., Malamud, B. D., Winter, H., & Joly-Laugel, A. (2019). A review of quantification methodologies for multi-hazard interrelationships. Earth-Science Reviews, 196, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102881
Reply to “Comment on ‘Understanding the γ -ray emission from the globular cluster 47 Tuc: Evidence for dark matter?”’ (2019)
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Brown, A. M., Lacroix, T., Lloyd, S., Bœhm, C., & Chadwick, P. (2019). Reply to “Comment on ‘Understanding the γ -ray emission from the globular cluster 47 Tuc: Evidence for dark matter?”’. Physical Review D, 100(6), Article 068302. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.100.068302Analyzing nine years of Fermi-LAT observations, we recently studied the spectral properties of the prominent globular cluster [Phys. Rev. 98, 041301 (2018)]. In particular, we investigated several models to explain the observed gamma-ray emission, ra... Read More about Reply to “Comment on ‘Understanding the γ -ray emission from the globular cluster 47 Tuc: Evidence for dark matter?”’.
The puzzling issue of silica toxicity: are silanols bridging the gaps between surface states and pathogenicity? (2019)
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Pavan, C., Delle Piane, M., Gullo, M., Filippi, F., Fubini, B., Hoet, P., …Turci, F. (2019). The puzzling issue of silica toxicity: are silanols bridging the gaps between surface states and pathogenicity?. Particle and Fibre Toxicology, 16(1), Article 32. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12989-019-0315-3Background: Silica continues to represent an intriguing topic of fundamental and applied research across various scientific fields, from geology to physics, chemistry, cell biology, and particle toxicology. The pathogenic activity of silica is variab... Read More about The puzzling issue of silica toxicity: are silanols bridging the gaps between surface states and pathogenicity?.
Identifying critical source areas using multiple methods for effective diffuse pollution mitigation (2019)
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Reaney, S., Mackay, E., Haygarth, P., Fisher, M., Molineux, A., Potts, M., & Benskin, C. M. (2019). Identifying critical source areas using multiple methods for effective diffuse pollution mitigation. Journal of Environmental Management, 250, Article 109366. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109366Diffuse pollution from agriculture constitutes a key pressure on the water quality of freshwaters and is frequently the cause of ecological degradation. The problem of diffuse pollution can be conceptualised with a source-mobilisation-pathway (or del... Read More about Identifying critical source areas using multiple methods for effective diffuse pollution mitigation.
The spatial and temporal influence of cloud cover on satellite-based emergency mapping of earthquake disasters (2019)
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Robinson, T., Rosser, N., & Walters, R. (2019). The spatial and temporal influence of cloud cover on satellite-based emergency mapping of earthquake disasters. Scientific Reports, 9, Article 12455. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-49008-0The ability to rapidly access optical satellite imagery is now an intrinsic component of managing the disaster response that follows a major earthquake. These images provide synoptic data on the impacts, extent, and intensity of damage, which is esse... Read More about The spatial and temporal influence of cloud cover on satellite-based emergency mapping of earthquake disasters.
Reducing Disaster Risk to Life and Livelihoods by Evaluating the Seismic Safety of Kathmandu’s Historic Urban Infrastructure: enabling an interdisciplinary pilot (2019)
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Coningham, R., Acharya, K., Barclay, C., Barclay, R., Davis, C., Graham, C., …Wilson, A. (2019). Reducing Disaster Risk to Life and Livelihoods by Evaluating the Seismic Safety of Kathmandu’s Historic Urban Infrastructure: enabling an interdisciplinary pilot. Journal of the British Academy, 7(S2), 45-82. https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/007s2.045Kathmandu’s cities are exceptional architectural and artistic achievements, underpinned by centuries of seismic adaptation. They represent portals where heavens touch the earth and individuals commune with guiding deities; their tangible and intangib... Read More about Reducing Disaster Risk to Life and Livelihoods by Evaluating the Seismic Safety of Kathmandu’s Historic Urban Infrastructure: enabling an interdisciplinary pilot.
Natural hazards, disaster management and simulation: a bibliometric analysis of keyword searches (2019)
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Barnes, B., Dunn, S., & Wilkinson, S. (2019). Natural hazards, disaster management and simulation: a bibliometric analysis of keyword searches. Natural Hazards, 97(2), 813-840. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-019-03677-2Disasters affect millions of people annually, causing large numbers of fatalities, detrimental economic impact and the displacement of communities. Policy-makers, researchers and industry professionals are regularly faced with these consequences and... Read More about Natural hazards, disaster management and simulation: a bibliometric analysis of keyword searches.
Ambivalence towards discourse of disaster resilience (2019)
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Ruszczyk, H. (2019). Ambivalence towards discourse of disaster resilience. Disasters, 43(4), 818-839. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12385This paper investigates empirically how the international aid community (IAC)—donors and practitioners—considers and implements disaster resilience in a specific country setting, Nepal, and throughout the rest of the world. A key finding is that ther... Read More about Ambivalence towards discourse of disaster resilience.
Aspirations in grey space: Neighbourhood governance in Nepal and Jordan (2019)
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Ruszczyk, H. A., & Price, M. (2020). Aspirations in grey space: Neighbourhood governance in Nepal and Jordan. Area, 52(1), 156-163. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12562The discipline of geography struggles to engage with urban futures on terms that are meaningful to the world's urban majority. This paper reflects the need to open up empirically grounded dialogue on aspirations and their complex connections to perce... Read More about Aspirations in grey space: Neighbourhood governance in Nepal and Jordan.
Consumer switching in retail electricity markets: Is price all that matters? (2019)
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Ndebele, T., Marsh, D., & Scarpa, R. (2019). Consumer switching in retail electricity markets: Is price all that matters?. Energy Economics, 83, 88-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2019.06.012We model consumer switching in retail electricity markets in New Zealand to identify important determinants of switching and estimate willingness to pay (WTP) for six non-price attributes of electricity services, namely, call waiting time, length of... Read More about Consumer switching in retail electricity markets: Is price all that matters?.