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Managed Urban Retreat: The Trouble with Crisis Narratives (2023)
Journal Article
Rahman, M. F., Lewis, D., Kuhl, L., Baldwin, A., Ruszczyk, H., Nadiruzzaman, M., & Mahid, Y. (2023). Managed Urban Retreat: The Trouble with Crisis Narratives. Urban Geography, https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2023.2228094

In response to narratives of the mass movement of people triggered by climate change, a number of “managed retreat” models have been proposed as policy options, especially for densely populated urban areas in the Global South. Reviewing a case study... Read More about Managed Urban Retreat: The Trouble with Crisis Narratives.

A systematic comparison of deforestation drivers and policy effectiveness across the Amazon biome (2023)
Journal Article
Hänggli, A., Levy, S., Armenteras Pascual, D., Bovolo, I., Brandao, J., Rueda, X., & Garrett, R. D. (2023). A systematic comparison of deforestation drivers and policy effectiveness across the Amazon biome. Environmental Research Letters, 18(7), Article 073001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acd408

The Amazon biome, spanning nine countries, has one of the highest rates of deforestation worldwide. This deforestation contributes to biodiversity loss, climate change, the spread of infectious diseases, and damage to rural and indigenous livelihoods... Read More about A systematic comparison of deforestation drivers and policy effectiveness across the Amazon biome.

Quantifying heterogeneity in ecohydrological partitioning in urban green spaces through the integration of empirical and modelling approaches (2023)
Journal Article
Stevenson, J. L., Birkel, C., Comte, J., Tetzlaff, D., Marx, C., Neill, A., …Soulsby, C. (2023). Quantifying heterogeneity in ecohydrological partitioning in urban green spaces through the integration of empirical and modelling approaches. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 195(4), Article 468. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-023-11055-6

Liveability and vitality: an exploration of small cities in Bangladesh (2022)
Journal Article
Ruszczyk, H. A., Halligey, A., Rahman, M. F., & Ahmed, I. (2023). Liveability and vitality: an exploration of small cities in Bangladesh. Cities, 133, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.104150

This paper presents a mixed method, participatory exploration of liveability as a stocktaking assessment with projections for urban vitality in cities, particularly in LMIC, small cities. The paper takes as its case study research conducted in 2019 a... Read More about Liveability and vitality: an exploration of small cities in Bangladesh.

'It’s the right thing to do': specificities of the Polish response to the Ukrainian crisis (2022)
Journal Article
Ruszczyk, H., Kallio, K. P., & Riding, J. (2022). 'It’s the right thing to do': specificities of the Polish response to the Ukrainian crisis. Fennia, 200(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.11143/fennia.125368

Overwhelmingly, the Polish response to the 24 February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine has been based on the moral imperative of ‘It is the right thing to do’. Within three months, Poland was hosting 3.3 million Ukrainian refugees. This is equivalen... Read More about 'It’s the right thing to do': specificities of the Polish response to the Ukrainian crisis.

Overlooked cities: Shifting the gaze in research and practice in global urban studies (2022)
Journal Article
Nugraha, E., Wesely, J., Ruszczyk, H. A., de Villiers, I., & Zhao, Y. (2023). Overlooked cities: Shifting the gaze in research and practice in global urban studies. Cities, 133, Article 104044. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.104044

There is growing scholarly attention to secondary and intermediary cities as their relevance for global urban development is increasingly recognised. We call urban academics, scholars, policymakers and practitioners to situate debates on these cities... Read More about Overlooked cities: Shifting the gaze in research and practice in global urban studies.

Modelling post-earthquake cascading hazards: Changing patterns of landslide runout following the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal (2022)
Journal Article
Kincey, M., Rosser, N., Densmore, A., Robinson, T., Shrestha, R., Pujara, D., …Arrell, K. (2023). Modelling post-earthquake cascading hazards: Changing patterns of landslide runout following the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 48(3), 537-554. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5501

Coseismic landslides represent the first stage of a broader cascading sequence of geohazards associated with high-magnitude continental earthquakes, with the subsequent remobilization of coseismic landslide debris posing a long-term post-seismic lega... Read More about Modelling post-earthquake cascading hazards: Changing patterns of landslide runout following the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal.

Improving above ground biomass estimates of Southern Africa dryland forests by combining Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 multispectral imagery. (2022)
Journal Article
Ruusa, M., Rosser, N., & Donoghue, D. (2022). Improving above ground biomass estimates of Southern Africa dryland forests by combining Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 multispectral imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment, 282, Article 113232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.113232

Having the ability to make accurate assessments of above ground biomass (AGB) at high spatial resolution is invaluable for the management of dryland forest resources in areas at risk from deforestation, forest degradation pressure and climate change... Read More about Improving above ground biomass estimates of Southern Africa dryland forests by combining Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 multispectral imagery..

Identification of floodwater source areas in Nepal using SCIMAP‐Flood (2022)
Journal Article
Pearson, C., Reaney, S., Perks, M., Hortobagyi, B., Rosser, N., & Large, A. (2022). Identification of floodwater source areas in Nepal using SCIMAP‐Flood. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 15(4), Article e12840. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.12840

Practical approaches for managing flooding from fluvial sources are moving away from mitigation solely at the point of impact and towards integrated catchment management. This considers the source areas, flow pathways of floodwaters and the locations... Read More about Identification of floodwater source areas in Nepal using SCIMAP‐Flood.

Inclusive recovery planning for incremental systemic change: A methodology, early outcomes, and limitations from the Falkland Islands' Covid‐19 recovery planning experience (2022)
Journal Article
Cochrane, K., Cornish, F., Murphy, A., Denton, N., & Bracken, L. (2023). Inclusive recovery planning for incremental systemic change: A methodology, early outcomes, and limitations from the Falkland Islands' Covid‐19 recovery planning experience. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 31(2), 185-197. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5973.12428

Crises do not affect populations equally but expose and exacerbate long-standing vulnerabilities and inequalities. Recovery language such as ‘build back better’, or ‘bounce forward’ has been criticised for neglecting underlying inequalities. This pap... Read More about Inclusive recovery planning for incremental systemic change: A methodology, early outcomes, and limitations from the Falkland Islands' Covid‐19 recovery planning experience.

An investigation of the combined effect of rainfall and road cut on landsliding (2022)
Journal Article
Pradhan, S., Toll, D., Rosser, N., & Brain, M. (2022). An investigation of the combined effect of rainfall and road cut on landsliding. Engineering Geology, 307, Article 106787. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2022.106787

The reduction of soil suction and consequent loss of shear strength due to infiltration is known to trigger shallow landslides during periods of concentrated rainfall. In the mountainous terrain of Nepal, the risk of shallow rainfall-induced landslid... Read More about An investigation of the combined effect of rainfall and road cut on landsliding.

Remote sensing for monitoring tropical dryland forests: A review of current research, knowledge gaps and future directions for Southern Africa (2022)
Journal Article
David, R., Rosser, N. J., & Donoghue, D. N. (2022). Remote sensing for monitoring tropical dryland forests: A review of current research, knowledge gaps and future directions for Southern Africa. Environmental Research Communications, 4(4), https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ac5b84

Climate change, manifest via rising temperatures, extreme drought, and associated anthropogenic activities, has a negative impact on the health and development of tropical dryland forests. Southern Africa encompasses significant areas of dryland fore... Read More about Remote sensing for monitoring tropical dryland forests: A review of current research, knowledge gaps and future directions for Southern Africa.

Sustainable Catchment-Wide Flood Management: A Review of the Terminology and Application of Sustainable Catchment Flood Management Techniques in the UK (2022)
Journal Article
Lashford, C., Lavers, T., Reaney, S., Charlesworth, S., Burgess-Gamble, L., & Dale, J. (2022). Sustainable Catchment-Wide Flood Management: A Review of the Terminology and Application of Sustainable Catchment Flood Management Techniques in the UK. Water, 14(8), Article 1204. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14081204

Climate change has seen increased pressures put on the existing ageing flood mitigation infrastructure. As a result, over recent decades there has been a shift from traditional hard-engineered approaches to flooding to more sustainable methods that u... Read More about Sustainable Catchment-Wide Flood Management: A Review of the Terminology and Application of Sustainable Catchment Flood Management Techniques in the UK.

Mass Movements (2022)
Book Chapter
Brain, M., & Rosser, N. (in press). Mass Movements. In T. Burt, A. Goudie, & H. Viles (Eds.), The History of the Study of Landforms or the Development of Geomorphology. The Geological Society. https://doi.org/10.1144/m58-2021-32

In this chapter, we consider key advances in understanding of mass movements between ~1965 and ~2000. This period saw a burgeoning need for a greater level of understanding of mass movement processes in response to a series of high impact mass moveme... Read More about Mass Movements.

Urban health challenges: Lessons from COVID-19 responses (2022)
Journal Article
Ruszczyk, H. A., Castán Broto, V., & McFarlane, C. (2022). Urban health challenges: Lessons from COVID-19 responses. Geoforum, 131, 105-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.03.003

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a re-examination of our societies and in particular urban health. We argue that urban health needs to address three inter-related challenge areas – the unequal impacts of climate change, changing patterns of urbanizat... Read More about Urban health challenges: Lessons from COVID-19 responses.

Spatial targeting of nature‐based solutions for flood risk management within river catchments (2022)
Journal Article
Reaney, S. M. (2022). Spatial targeting of nature‐based solutions for flood risk management within river catchments. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 15(3), Article e12803. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.12803

A wide range of nature-based solutions for flood hazard management work by storing and slowing flow within catchments, and therefore, there is a need to identify the optimal locations for implementing these solutions. This paper presents a relative s... Read More about Spatial targeting of nature‐based solutions for flood risk management within river catchments.