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Brexit: Modes of Uncertainty and Futures in an Impasse (2019)
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Anderson, B., Wilson, H., Foreman, P., Heslop, J., Ormerod, E., & Maestri, G. (2020). Brexit: Modes of Uncertainty and Futures in an Impasse. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 45(2), 256-269. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12348

Alongside the emergence of various populisms, Brexit and other contemporary geopolitical events have been presented as symptomatic of a generalizing and intensifying sense of uncertainty in the midst of a crisis of (neo)liberalism. In this paper we d... Read More about Brexit: Modes of Uncertainty and Futures in an Impasse.

China's Belt and Road Initiative and the emerging geographies of global urbanisation (2019)
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Williams, J., Robinson, C., & Bouzarovski, S. (2020). China's Belt and Road Initiative and the emerging geographies of global urbanisation. The Geographical Journal, 186(1), 128-140. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12332

China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is heralded as the largest investment in infrastructure in history and is expected to re‐shape the geographies of urbanization in the coming decades. In this paper we review the burgeoning, yet still embryonic l... Read More about China's Belt and Road Initiative and the emerging geographies of global urbanisation.

Catalyzing political momentum for the effective implementation of decarbonization for urban buildings (2019)
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Tozer, L., & Bulkeley, H. (2020). Catalyzing political momentum for the effective implementation of decarbonization for urban buildings. Energy Policy, 136, Article 111042. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.111042

This paper expands the toolkit available to consider the effectiveness of urban climate responses by examining political effectiveness in the implementation of urban decarbonization initiatives. By focusing on the politics of implementation, this app... Read More about Catalyzing political momentum for the effective implementation of decarbonization for urban buildings.

Glacial geomorphology of the Neutral Hills Uplands, southeast Alberta, Canada: The process-form imprints of dynamic ice streams and surging ice lobes (2019)
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Evans, D. J., Atkinson, N., & Phillips, E. (2020). Glacial geomorphology of the Neutral Hills Uplands, southeast Alberta, Canada: The process-form imprints of dynamic ice streams and surging ice lobes. Geomorphology, 350, Article 106910. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.106910

The Neutral Hills Uplands of southern Alberta, Canada is an area of complex and varied glacial landforms dominated by glacitectonic compressional structures but also containing expansive areas of hummocky terrain and kame and kettle topography. It li... Read More about Glacial geomorphology of the Neutral Hills Uplands, southeast Alberta, Canada: The process-form imprints of dynamic ice streams and surging ice lobes.

Biomediation of submarine sediment gravity flow dynamics (2019)
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Craig, M. J., Baas, J. H., Amos, K. J., Strachan, L. J., Manning, A. J., Paterson, D. M., …Baker, M. L. (2020). Biomediation of submarine sediment gravity flow dynamics. Geology, 48(1), 72-76. https://doi.org/10.1130/g46837.1

Sediment gravity flows are the primary process by which sediment and organic carbon are transported from the continental margin to the deep ocean. Up to 40% of the total marine organic carbon pool is represented by cohesive extracellular polymeric su... Read More about Biomediation of submarine sediment gravity flow dynamics.

Blockchain technologies and remittances: From financial inclusion to correspondent banking (2019)
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Rella, L. (2019). Blockchain technologies and remittances: From financial inclusion to correspondent banking. Frontiers in Block Chain, 2, Article 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbloc.2019.00014

Since their emergence, blockchain technologies have shown potential for financial inclusion and the formalization of remittances. Recently, regulators and practitioners have studied the capabilities of blockchain technologies to streamline and, poten... Read More about Blockchain technologies and remittances: From financial inclusion to correspondent banking.

Constructing Freshness: The Vitality of Wet Markets in Urban China (2019)
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Zhong, S., Crang, M., & Zeng, G. (2020). Constructing Freshness: The Vitality of Wet Markets in Urban China. Agriculture and Human Values, 37, 175-185. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-019-09987-2

Wet markets, a ‘traditional’ form of food retail, have maintained their popularity in urban China despite the rapid expansion of ‘modern’ supermarket chains. Their continued popularity rests in the freshness of their food. Chinese consumers regard fr... Read More about Constructing Freshness: The Vitality of Wet Markets in Urban China.

Equifinality and preservation potential of complex eskers (2019)
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Storrar, R. D., Ewertowski, M., Tomczyk, A. M., Barr, I. D., Livingstone, S. J., Ruffell, A., …Evans, D. J. (2020). Equifinality and preservation potential of complex eskers. Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research, 49(1), 211-231. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12414

Eskers are useful for reconstructing meltwater drainage systems of glaciers and ice sheets. However, our process understanding of eskers suffers from a disconnect between sporadic detailed morpho‐sedimentary investigations of abundant large‐scale anc... Read More about Equifinality and preservation potential of complex eskers.

Dynamic ice stream retreat in the central sector of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet (2019)
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Davies, B., Livingstone, S., Roberts, D., Evans, D., Gheorghiu, D., & Ó Cofaigh, C. (2019). Dynamic ice stream retreat in the central sector of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet. Quaternary Science Reviews, 225, Article 105989. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.105989

During the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), ice streams of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet (BIIS) controlled ice discharge from various dispersal centres. Deglaciation was characterised by shifts in ice-divide location and changes in internal ice-sheet d... Read More about Dynamic ice stream retreat in the central sector of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet.

The Falkland Islands palaeoecological response to millennial scale climate perturbations during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition: implications for future vegetation stability in Southern Ocean islands (2019)
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Scaife, R., Long, A., Monteath, A., Hughes, P., Bentley, M., & Stone, P. (2019). The Falkland Islands palaeoecological response to millennial scale climate perturbations during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition: implications for future vegetation stability in Southern Ocean islands. Journal of Quaternary Science, 34(8), 609-620. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3150

Oceanic island flora is vulnerable to future climate warming, which is likely to promote changes in vegetation composition, and invasion of non‐native species. Sub‐Antarctic islands are predicted to experience rapid warming during the next century; t... Read More about The Falkland Islands palaeoecological response to millennial scale climate perturbations during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition: implications for future vegetation stability in Southern Ocean islands.