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The EU project RAMONES – continuous, long-term autonomous monitoring of underwater radioactivity (2022)
Book Chapter
Nikolopoulos, K. (2022). The EU project RAMONES – continuous, long-term autonomous monitoring of underwater radioactivity. In P. Batista, D. Cabecinhas, L. Sebastião, A. Pascoal, T. Mertzimekis, K. Kebkal, …L. Maigne (Eds.), . Hydrographic Institute

While radioactivity has always existed in the marine environment due to natural phenomena, artificial sources have made their way into the oceans more recently, either through low-level liquid discharges from reprocessing plants, more threatening lar... Read More about The EU project RAMONES – continuous, long-term autonomous monitoring of underwater radioactivity.

RAMONES and Environmental Intelligence: Progress Update (2022)
Book Chapter
Mertzimekis, T., Lagaki, V., Madesis, I., Siltzovalis, G., Petra, E., Nomikou, P., …Maigne, L. (2022). RAMONES and Environmental Intelligence: Progress Update. In GoodIT '22: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (244-249). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3524458.3547255

RAMONES is an EU H2020 FET Proactive Project which aims to offer a new fleet of instruments to perform continuous and in situ measurements of natural and artificial radioactivity in the marine environment as part of its main objectives. Those instrum... Read More about RAMONES and Environmental Intelligence: Progress Update.

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.

Practical Witness-Key-Agreement for Blockchain-based Dark Pools Financial Trading (2021)
Book Chapter
Ngo, C. N., Massacci, F., Kerschbaum, F., & Williams, J. (2021). Practical Witness-Key-Agreement for Blockchain-based Dark Pools Financial Trading. In N. Borisov, & C. Diaz (Eds.), Financial Cryptography and Data Security 25th International Conference, FC 2021, Virtual Event, March 1–5, 2021, Revised Selected Papers, Part II (579-598). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-64331-0_30

We introduce a new cryptographic scheme, Witness Key Agreement (WKA), that allows a party to securely agree on a secret key with a counter party holding publicly committed information only if the counter party also owns a secret witness in a desired... Read More about Practical Witness-Key-Agreement for Blockchain-based Dark Pools Financial Trading.

The Pandemic and Food Insecurity in Small Cities of the Global South: A Case Study of Noapara in Bangladesh (2021)
Book Chapter
Rahman, M. F., & Ruszczyk, H. A. (2021). The Pandemic and Food Insecurity in Small Cities of the Global South: A Case Study of Noapara in Bangladesh. In B. Doucet, R. van Melik, & P. Filion (Eds.), Global Reflections on COVID-19 and Urban Inequalities, Volume 1: Community and Society (83-91). Policy Press

The unfolding economic and social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed fault lines in existing food systems in both developed (Lawrence, 2020) and developing countries (Rahman et al, 2020). Bangladesh, a densely populated and rapidly urb... Read More about The Pandemic and Food Insecurity in Small Cities of the Global South: A Case Study of Noapara in Bangladesh.

Risk (2021)
Book Chapter
Botha, M. (2021). Risk. In P. Waugh, & M. Botha (Eds.), Future Theory: A Handbook to Critical Concepts (411-432). Bloomsbury

The Helping Hand in Increasing Nepal’s Urban Seismic Resilience (2020)
Book Chapter
Dixit, A. M., Dhungel, R., Gouli, M. R., Guragain, R., Shrestha, S. N., Pradhan, S., …Ruszczyk, H. A. (2020). The Helping Hand in Increasing Nepal’s Urban Seismic Resilience. In M. A. Burayidi, A. Allen, J. Twigg, & C. Wamsler (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Urban Resilience. Routledge

The changing logic of urban planning in Nepal: From informal to incremental (2020)
Book Chapter
Ruszczyk, H. A. (2020). The changing logic of urban planning in Nepal: From informal to incremental. In H. A. Ruszczyk, E. Nugraha, & I. de Villers (Eds.), Overlooked Cities: Power, Politics and Knowledge Beyond the Urban South (39-54). Routledge

Often times in the global South, urban planning guidelines and land use plans exist. The difficulties lie in implementation. Specifically, who must follow the law and where in the city must urban planning be implemented is being negotiated between th... Read More about The changing logic of urban planning in Nepal: From informal to incremental.

Conclusion (2020)
Book Chapter
Nugraha, E., de Villiers, I., Ruszczyk, H. A., Costa, J. P., de Mesquita Lima, J., Filippi, M. E., …Zhao, J. (2020). Conclusion. In H. A. Ruszczyk, E. Nugraha, & I. de Villiers (Eds.), Overlooked Cities: Power, Politics and Knowledge Beyond the Urban South (158-165). Routledge

Introduction (2020)
Book Chapter
Ruszczyk, H. A., Nugraha, E., de Villiers, I., & Price, M. (2020). Introduction. In H. A. Ruszczyk, E. Nugraha, & I. de Villiers (Eds.), Overlooked Cities: Power, Politics and Knowledge Beyond the Urban South (1-18). Routledge

To overlook is not merely to ignore. It may involve a conscious choice to look elsewhere, or it may constitute an act of simultaneously knowing but not caring. The lack of attention given to smaller cities is a self-imposed limitation on our understa... Read More about Introduction.

Field monitoring of soil-moisture to understand the hydrological response of a road-cut slope (2020)
Book Chapter
Pradhan, S., Toll, D., Rosser, N., & Brain, M. (2020). Field monitoring of soil-moisture to understand the hydrological response of a road-cut slope. In R. Cardoso, C. Jommi, & E. Romero (Eds.), 4th European Conference on Unsaturated Soils (E-UNSAT 2020). EDP Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202019501029

Rainfall and slope-cutting for road construction are two key landslide causative factors in Nepal, but how they interact to cause failures is poorly understood. To improve understanding of the effects of cut slopes during rainfall, geotechnical inves... Read More about Field monitoring of soil-moisture to understand the hydrological response of a road-cut slope.

Spaces of Disaster (2020)
Book Chapter
Oven, K., Ruszczyk, H. A., & Rigg, J. (2020). Spaces of Disaster. In H. F. Wilson, & J. Darling (Eds.), Research Ethics for Human Geography (280-288). SAGE Publications

Climate Protection Agreements (2019)
Book Chapter
Minnerop, P. (2019). Climate Protection Agreements. In P. Minnerop, R. Wolfrum, & F. Lachenmann (Eds.), International Development Law: The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (205-215 (and online OPIL.ouplaw.com)). Oxford University Press