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Theorising from the Overlooked City: Generating a research agenda / network on small / secondary cities (2021)
Digital Artefact
Ruszczyk, H. (2021). Theorising from the Overlooked City: Generating a research agenda / network on small / secondary cities. [Digital Magazine]

Covering a wide range of empirical cases, methodologies and approaches, and brining together scholars from different intellectual traditions, this collection offers insight into a variety of themes. Overall, we hope readers will be inspired to inter... Read More about Theorising from the Overlooked City: Generating a research agenda / network on small / secondary cities.

In Search of a Fair Share: Article 112 Norwegian Constitution, International Law and an Emerging Inter-Jurisdictional Discourse in Climate Litigation (2021)
Journal Article
Minnerop, P., & Rostgaard, I. (2021). In Search of a Fair Share: Article 112 Norwegian Constitution, International Law and an Emerging Inter-Jurisdictional Discourse in Climate Litigation. Fordham international law journal, 44(4), 847-922

Climate change is a common sphere where an inter-jurisdictional judicial discourse gradually evolves. Engaging with the reasoning of other courts strengthens controversial judicial pronouncements in a complex area of law and it reduces the risk of be... Read More about In Search of a Fair Share: Article 112 Norwegian Constitution, International Law and an Emerging Inter-Jurisdictional Discourse in Climate Litigation.

Trinity: An Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope to Search for Ultra-High-Energy Neutrinos (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Brown, A. M., Bagheri, M., Doro, M., Gazda, E., Kieda, D., Lin, C., …Wang, A. (2021). Trinity: An Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope to Search for Ultra-High-Energy Neutrinos. In A. Kappes, & B. Keilhauer (Eds.), Proceedings of Science: ICRC 2021

Earth-skimming neutrinos are those which travel through the Earth’s crust at a shallow angle. For Ultra-High-Energy (E휈 > 1 PeV; UHE) earth-skimming tau neutrinos, there is a high-probability that the tau lepton created by a neutrino-Earth interacti... Read More about Trinity: An Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope to Search for Ultra-High-Energy Neutrinos.

The Advance Interference-Like Effect of Climate Targets: Fundamental Rights, Intergenerational Equity and the German Federal Constitutional Court (2021)
Journal Article
Minnerop, P. (2022). The Advance Interference-Like Effect of Climate Targets: Fundamental Rights, Intergenerational Equity and the German Federal Constitutional Court. Journal of Environmental Law, 34(1), 135-162. https://doi.org/10.1093/jel/eqab041

Some climate lawsuits qualify as landmark cases, because they either mark an unexpected turning point in environmental jurisprudence, or they introduce a new conceptual analysis of the law vis-à-vis the global challenge of climate change. The decisio... Read More about The Advance Interference-Like Effect of Climate Targets: Fundamental Rights, Intergenerational Equity and the German Federal Constitutional Court.

Volcanic air pollution and human health: recent advances and future directions (2021)
Journal Article
Stewart, C., Damby, D., Horwell, C., Elias, T., Ilyinskaya, E., Tomašek, I., …Witham, C. (2022). Volcanic air pollution and human health: recent advances and future directions. Bulletin of Volcanology, 84(1), Article 11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-021-01513-9

Volcanic air pollution from both explosive and effusive activity can affect large populations as far as thousands of kilometers away from the source, for days to decades or even centuries. Here, we summarize key advances and prospects in the assessme... Read More about Volcanic air pollution and human health: recent advances and future directions.

Coupling cyclic and water retention response of a clayey sand subjected to traffic and environmental cycles (2021)
Journal Article
Azizi, A., Kumar, A., & Toll, D. G. (2023). Coupling cyclic and water retention response of a clayey sand subjected to traffic and environmental cycles. Géotechnique, 73(5), 401-417. https://doi.org/10.1680/jgeot.21.00063

Compacted soils used as formation layers of railways and roads continuously undergo water content and suction changes due to seasonal variations. Such variations, together with the impact of cyclic traffic-induced loads, can alter the hydro-mechanica... Read More about Coupling cyclic and water retention response of a clayey sand subjected to traffic and environmental cycles.

Epistemological Freedom: Activating co-learning and co-production to decolonise knowledge production (2021)
Journal Article
Khan, M., Ruszczyk, H., Rahman, F., & Huq, S. (2022). Epistemological Freedom: Activating co-learning and co-production to decolonise knowledge production. Disaster Prevention and Management, 31(3), 182-192. https://doi.org/10.1108/dpm-03-2021-0070

This viewpoint challenges the limitations of traditional systems of knowledge production that are embedded in disaster research and climate change research studies. We argue that knowledge production in research processes conforms to colonialist thin... Read More about Epistemological Freedom: Activating co-learning and co-production to decolonise knowledge production.

The law of fixtures and chattels: recalibration, rationalisation and reform (2021)
Journal Article
Bevan, C. (2022). The law of fixtures and chattels: recalibration, rationalisation and reform. Legal Studies, 42(2), 358-375. https://doi.org/10.1017/lst.2021.56

This article examines the law of fixtures and chattels which governs the circumstances in which items of personal property that are attached to land become part of that land. Whether a chattel has become a fixture is crucial in a range of contexts in... Read More about The law of fixtures and chattels: recalibration, rationalisation and reform.

Climate change risks to transport infrastructure (2021)
Report
Robson, E. (2021). Climate change risks to transport infrastructure. [Research paper for Northern Ireland Assembly, NIAR 227-2021]

This paper discusses climate risks to transport infrastructure in Northern Ireland and how they will change with a changing climate. Adaption measures to improve the resilience of transport infrastructure to these climate risks are also discussed.

Liberating Minerva’s Owl: The (ir)relevance of s2 LP(MP)A 1989 to Estoppel Claims (2021)
Journal Article
Bevan, C. (2021). Liberating Minerva’s Owl: The (ir)relevance of s2 LP(MP)A 1989 to Estoppel Claims. Conveyancer and Property Lawyer, 85(4), 381-400

The relationship between s2 of the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989 (LP(MP)A 1989) and the doctrine of estoppel has long been a thorny issue; a lingering canker that has bedevilled an otherwise flexible, popular and productive equi... Read More about Liberating Minerva’s Owl: The (ir)relevance of s2 LP(MP)A 1989 to Estoppel Claims.

Assessing the accuracy and efficiency of different order implicit and explicit integration schemes (2021)
Journal Article
Lloret-Cabot, M., & Sheng, D. (2022). Assessing the accuracy and efficiency of different order implicit and explicit integration schemes. Computers and Geotechnics, 141, Article 104531. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compgeo.2021.104531

A first order accurate fully implicit integration scheme and four different order explicit substepping integration schemes with automatic error control are used in this paper to integrate the constitutive relations of a critical state model for satur... Read More about Assessing the accuracy and efficiency of different order implicit and explicit integration schemes.

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.

Radioactivity Monitoring in Ocean Ecosystems (RAMONES). (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Mertzimekis, T., Nomikou, P., Petra, E., Batista, P., Cabesinhas, D., Pascoal, A., …Maigne., L. (2021). Radioactivity Monitoring in Ocean Ecosystems (RAMONES). In GoodIT '21: Proceedings of the Conference on Information Technology for Social Good. https://doi.org/10.1145/3462203.3475906

Natural radioactivity in the marine environment has been present since the Earth's formation, while artificial radionuclides were introduced into the oceans in 1944. More recent direct sources exist that feed the oceans, such as low-level liquid disc... Read More about Radioactivity Monitoring in Ocean Ecosystems (RAMONES)..

Structural changes to forests during regeneration affect water flux partitioning, water ages and hydrological connectivity: Insights from tracer-aided ecohydrological modelling (2021)
Journal Article
Neill, A. J., Birkel, C., Maneta, M. P., Tetzlaff, D., & Soulsby, C. (2021). Structural changes to forests during regeneration affect water flux partitioning, water ages and hydrological connectivity: Insights from tracer-aided ecohydrological modelling. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 25(9), 4861-4886. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-4861-2021

The Routledge Handbook of Global Perspectives on Homelessness, Law & Policy (2024) (2021)
Book
Bevan, C. (in press). The Routledge Handbook of Global Perspectives on Homelessness, Law & Policy (2024). Routledge

This handbook provides a comprehensive global survey and assessment of the law and policy relating to homelessness prevention. Homelessness is regarded internationally as one of the most pressing issues facing humanity and one of the greatest social... Read More about The Routledge Handbook of Global Perspectives on Homelessness, Law & Policy (2024).