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Biotic and Abiotic Changes in Ecosystem Structure over a Shrub-Encroachment Gradient in the Southwestern USA (2010)
Journal Article
Turnbull, L., Wainwright, J., Brazier, R., & Bol, R. (2010). Biotic and Abiotic Changes in Ecosystem Structure over a Shrub-Encroachment Gradient in the Southwestern USA. Ecosystems, 13(8), 1239-1255. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-010-9384-8

In this study, we investigate changes in ecosystem structure that occur over a gradient of land-degradation in the southwestern USA, where shrubs are encroaching into native grassland. We evaluate a conceptual model which posits that the development... Read More about Biotic and Abiotic Changes in Ecosystem Structure over a Shrub-Encroachment Gradient in the Southwestern USA.

Cool Intimacies of Care for Contemporary Clinical Practice (2010)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S., Macnaughton, J., Saunders, C., & Evans, M. (2010). Cool Intimacies of Care for Contemporary Clinical Practice. The Lancet, 376(9754), 1732-1733. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736%2810%2962123-x

The practices of medicine across history and culture illuminate the centrality of the physical intimacy of touch in the expression of the healer's care. Yet much of modern western medicine diminishes the value of intimacy in the expertise of the clin... Read More about Cool Intimacies of Care for Contemporary Clinical Practice.

On (not) forgetting families: family spaces and spacings in Birzeit, Palestine (2010)
Journal Article
Harker, C. (2010). On (not) forgetting families: family spaces and spacings in Birzeit, Palestine. Environment and Planning A, 42(11), 2624-2639. https://doi.org/10.1068/a4338

This paper is a response to Valentine’s (2008) recent suggestion that the family is an absent presence within Geography. Persuaded by her argument, I explore other disciplinary approaches to theorizing families, and in particular how discursive appro... Read More about On (not) forgetting families: family spaces and spacings in Birzeit, Palestine.

Following things of rubbish value: end-of-life ships, ‘chock-chocky’ furniture and the Bangladeshi middle class consumer (2010)
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Gregson, N., Crang, M., Ahamed, F., Akhtar, N., & Ferdous, R. (2010). Following things of rubbish value: end-of-life ships, ‘chock-chocky’ furniture and the Bangladeshi middle class consumer. Geoforum, 41(6), 846-854. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2010.05.007

There has been an upsurge of geographical work tracing globalised flows of commodities in the wake of Appadurai’s (1986) call to ‘follow the things’. This paper engages with calls to follow the thing but argues that work thus far has been concentrate... Read More about Following things of rubbish value: end-of-life ships, ‘chock-chocky’ furniture and the Bangladeshi middle class consumer.

The role of late Quaternary upper-crustal faults in the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake (2010)
Journal Article
Densmore, A., Li, Y., Richardson, N., Zhou, R., Ellis, M., & Zhang, Y. (2010). The role of late Quaternary upper-crustal faults in the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 100(5B), 2700-2712. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120090294

The role of upper-crustal faulting in building and maintaining the extreme relief of the Longmen Shan region at the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau has been strongly debated. The Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake of 12 May 2008 ruptured three distinct... Read More about The role of late Quaternary upper-crustal faults in the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake.