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European Consensus as Integrative Doctrine of Treaty Interpretation: Joining Climate Science and International Law under the European Convention on Human Rights (2022)
Journal Article
Minnerop, P. (2023). European Consensus as Integrative Doctrine of Treaty Interpretation: Joining Climate Science and International Law under the European Convention on Human Rights. Berkeley journal of international law, 40(2), 207-262

The “European Consensus” is a key doctrine in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights. It assists the Court in establishing an international human rights standards vis-à-vis a national margin of appreciation. This article argues that... Read More about European Consensus as Integrative Doctrine of Treaty Interpretation: Joining Climate Science and International Law under the European Convention on Human Rights.

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.

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.

The Participation Dilemma: A Survey of the Empirical Literature on International Environmental Agreement Ratification (2022)
Journal Article
Bellelli, F. S., Aftab, A., & Scarpa, R. (2023). The Participation Dilemma: A Survey of the Empirical Literature on International Environmental Agreement Ratification. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 17(1), 3-21. https://doi.org/10.1086/722906

Several of the most pressing environmental problems involve transboundary issues and can be solved only through international cooperation. Hence, a successful policy response requires a good understanding of international environmental agreements—the... Read More about The Participation Dilemma: A Survey of the Empirical Literature on International Environmental Agreement Ratification.

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.

The bounding effect of the water retention curve on the cyclic response of an unsaturated soil (2022)
Journal Article
Azizi, A., Kumar, A., & Toll, D. G. (2023). The bounding effect of the water retention curve on the cyclic response of an unsaturated soil. Acta Geotechnica, 18(4), 1901-1917. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11440-022-01724-0

The water retention properties of soils present in formation layers of roads and railways continuously vary due to repeated traffic loads and periodic rainfall events. This is important because the accumulated deformation and resilient modulus of suc... Read More about The bounding effect of the water retention curve on the cyclic response of an unsaturated soil.

Fathoming empirical forecasting competitions’ winners (2022)
Journal Article
Alroomi, A., Karamatzanis, G., Nikolopoulos, K., Tilba, A., & Xiao, S. (2022). Fathoming empirical forecasting competitions’ winners. International Journal of Forecasting, 38(4), 1519-1525. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2022.03.010

The M5 forecasting competition has provided strong empirical evidence that machine learning methods can outperform statistical methods: in essence, complex methods can be more accurate than simple ones. This result, be as it may, challenges the flags... Read More about Fathoming empirical forecasting competitions’ winners.

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..

Is there a cyber security dilemma? (2022)
Journal Article
Beckerman, C. E. (2022). Is there a cyber security dilemma?. Journal of Cybersecurity, 8(1), Article tyac012. https://doi.org/10.1093/cybsec/tyac012

In recent years, scholars, commentators and politicians have discussed the prospect of a ‘cyber security dilemma’. If states race to develop superior cyberattacks, how far might this escalate? Are state-led cyberattacks likely to provoke a full war?... Read More about Is there a cyber security dilemma?.

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.

Statistical, Machine Learning and Deep Learning forecasting methods: Comparisons and ways forward (2022)
Journal Article
Makridakis, S., Spiliotis, E., Assimakopoulos, V., Semenoglou, A., Mulder, G., & Nikolopoulos, K. (2023). Statistical, Machine Learning and Deep Learning forecasting methods: Comparisons and ways forward. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 74(3), 840-859. https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2022.2118629

The purpose of this paper is to test empirically the value currently added by Deep Learning (DL) approaches in time series forecasting by comparing the accuracy of some state-of-the- art DL methods with that of popular Machine Learning (ML) and stati... Read More about Statistical, Machine Learning and Deep Learning forecasting methods: Comparisons and ways forward.

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.

A methodology for road cutting design guidelines based on field observations (2022)
Journal Article
Robson, E., Agosti, A., Utili, S., & Milledge, D. (2022). A methodology for road cutting design guidelines based on field observations. Engineering Geology, 307, Article 106771. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2022.106771

Road networks in low and lower-middle income countries (LIC/LMICs) are rapidly expanding to enhance social and economic growth. The construction of a new road often requires cuttings to be made, especially in hilly topography. In LIC/LMICs, many prac... Read More about A methodology for road cutting design guidelines based on field observations.