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Geographical Imaginations and spaces of political engagement: Examples from the Indian Alliance (2004)
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McFarlane, C. (2004). Geographical Imaginations and spaces of political engagement: Examples from the Indian Alliance. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 36(5), 890-916. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2004.00460.x

This paper is concerned with the various ways in which geographical imaginations are inflected in politics. It draws on examples from a threeway partnership of civil society organisations based in Mumbai, India. This movement seeks to reconfigure the... Read More about Geographical Imaginations and spaces of political engagement: Examples from the Indian Alliance.

Time-stilled space-slowed: how boredom matters (2004)
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Anderson, B. (2004). Time-stilled space-slowed: how boredom matters. Geoforum, 35(6), 739-754. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2004.02.005

This paper aims to fold the increased attention to issues of materiality in social and cultural geography into the more recent attunement to questions of affect. The vehicle for this aim is a discussion of the complex ways in which boredom, and bodie... Read More about Time-stilled space-slowed: how boredom matters.

Testing the integrity of fine spatial resolution palaeoecological records: microcharcoal data from near-duplicate peat profiles from the North York Moors, UK (2004)
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Innes, J., Blackford, J., & Simmons, I. (2004). Testing the integrity of fine spatial resolution palaeoecological records: microcharcoal data from near-duplicate peat profiles from the North York Moors, UK. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 214(4), 295-307. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2004.04.004

Microcharcoal data which cover the millennium preceding the Ulmus Decline from near-replicate peat profiles 30 cm apart are presented from North Gill, an intensively studied upland spring-head site in north-east England with an established detailed p... Read More about Testing the integrity of fine spatial resolution palaeoecological records: microcharcoal data from near-duplicate peat profiles from the North York Moors, UK.

Back to basics: does decentralization improve health system performance? Evidence from Ceará in north-east Brazil (2004)
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Atkinson, S., & Haran, D. (2004). Back to basics: does decentralization improve health system performance? Evidence from Ceará in north-east Brazil. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 81(11), 822-827

Objective: To examine whether decentralization has improved health system performance in the State of Ceará, north-east Brazil. Methods: Ceará is strongly committed to decentralization. A survey across 45 local (município) health systems collected da... Read More about Back to basics: does decentralization improve health system performance? Evidence from Ceará in north-east Brazil.

Coastal Inundation due to Sea Level Rise in the Pearl River Delta, China (2004)
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Huang, Z., Zong, Y., & Zhang, W. (2004). Coastal Inundation due to Sea Level Rise in the Pearl River Delta, China. Natural Hazards, 33(2), 247-264. https://doi.org/10.1023/b%3Anhaz.0000037038.18814.b0

This paper examines the increased potential risk of tidal inundations in the Pearl River delta, China, due to future rises in sea level. The research is based on tidal records of 54 tide gauges distributed across the delta plain, and employs mathemat... Read More about Coastal Inundation due to Sea Level Rise in the Pearl River Delta, China.

Evidence for public health policy on inequalities II: Assembling the evidence jigsaw (2004)
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Whitehead, M., Petticrew, M., Graham, H., Macintyre, S., Bambra, C., & Egan, M. (2004). Evidence for public health policy on inequalities II: Assembling the evidence jigsaw. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 58(10), 817-821. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.2003.015297

Study objective: To garner research leaders’ perceptions and experiences of the types of evidence that influence policy on health inequalities, and their reflections on how the flow of such research evidence could be increased. Design, setting, and p... Read More about Evidence for public health policy on inequalities II: Assembling the evidence jigsaw.

Locating processes of identification: studying the precipitates of re-memory through artefacts in the British Asian home (2004)
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Tolia-Kelly, D. (2004). Locating processes of identification: studying the precipitates of re-memory through artefacts in the British Asian home. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 29(3), 314-329. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0020-2754.2004.00303.x

Memory has been figured as an important process of placing and locating people and communities, both geographically and socially. Memory has also been significant in research on people who are not part of a formal record of history. This memory work... Read More about Locating processes of identification: studying the precipitates of re-memory through artefacts in the British Asian home.

The degeneration of tropical geography' (2004)
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Power, M., & Sidaway, J. (2004). The degeneration of tropical geography'. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 94(3), 585-601. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8306.2004.00415.x

How did colonial and tropical geography as practiced in the aftermath of World War II become development geography by the 1970s? We excavate the genealogy of development geography, relating it to geopolitical, economic, and social traumas of decoloni... Read More about The degeneration of tropical geography'.

Trends in dissolved organic carbon in UK rivers and lakes (2004)
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Worrall, F., Harriman, R., Evans, C., Watts, C., Adamson, J., Neal, C., …Stevens, P. (2004). Trends in dissolved organic carbon in UK rivers and lakes. Biogeochemistry, 70(3), 369-402. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-004-8131-7

Several studies have highlighted an increase in DOC concentration in streams and lakes of UK upland catchments though the causal mechanisms controlling the increase have yet to be fully explained. This study, compiles a comprehensive data set of DOC... Read More about Trends in dissolved organic carbon in UK rivers and lakes.

Hydrological controls of surficial mass movements in peat (2004)
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Warburton, J., Holden, J., & Mills, A. (2004). Hydrological controls of surficial mass movements in peat. Earth-Science Reviews, 67(1-2), 139-156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2004.03.003

Peat deposits occur in areas where water logging is common. Large areas of blanket mire occur throughout the temperate and cold regions of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres and are particularly extensive in the UK Uplands. Mass movements of peat,... Read More about Hydrological controls of surficial mass movements in peat.

Conceptualizing economies and their geographies: spaces, flows and circuits (2004)
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Hudson, R. (2004). Conceptualizing economies and their geographies: spaces, flows and circuits. Progress in Human Geography, 28(4), 447-471. https://doi.org/10.1191/0309132504ph497oa

The last decade or so has been one of ongoing, at times heated, debate in economic geography as to how best to conceptualize and theorize economies and their geographies. Reflecting on these debates, I identify six axioms that are central to conceptu... Read More about Conceptualizing economies and their geographies: spaces, flows and circuits.

Tails of natural hazards (2004)
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Malamud, B. (2004). Tails of natural hazards. Physics world, 17(8), 31-35

Landscape, Race and Memory: Biographical Mapping of the Routes of British Asian Landscape Values (2004)
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Tolia-Kelly, D. (2004). Landscape, Race and Memory: Biographical Mapping of the Routes of British Asian Landscape Values. Landscape Research, 29(3), 277-292. https://doi.org/10.1080/0142639042000248924

In this paper the migration routes of British Asian women living in London are examined. It is shown that British Asians connect with a myriad of landscapes abroad, including East Africa, India and Pakistan. These connections to past landscapes are m... Read More about Landscape, Race and Memory: Biographical Mapping of the Routes of British Asian Landscape Values.

Footwall topographic development during continental extension (2004)
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Densmore, A., Dawers, N., Gupta, S., Guidon, R., & Goldin, T. (2004). Footwall topographic development during continental extension. Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, https://doi.org/10.1029/2003jf000115

We examine the progressive development of footwall topography associated with a set of active normal faults in the northeastern Basin and Range Province of the western United States. Fault length and displacement increase monotonically from northeast... Read More about Footwall topographic development during continental extension.

Catchment-scale mapping of surface grain size in gravel bed rivers using airborne digital imagery (2004)
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Carbonneau, P., Lane, S., & Bergeron, N. (2004). Catchment-scale mapping of surface grain size in gravel bed rivers using airborne digital imagery. Water Resources Research, 40(7), Article W07202. https://doi.org/10.1029/2003wr002759

This study develops and assesses two methods for estimating median surface grain sizes using digital image processing from centimeter-resolution airborne imagery. Digital images with ground resolutions of 3 cm and 10 cm were combined with field calib... Read More about Catchment-scale mapping of surface grain size in gravel bed rivers using airborne digital imagery.

Animals in their nature: A case study on public attitudes to animals, genetic modification and 'nature' (2004)
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Macnaghten, P. (2004). Animals in their nature: A case study on public attitudes to animals, genetic modification and 'nature'. Sociology, 38(3), 533-551. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038504043217

This article seeks to engage with contemporary debates on the social and ethical dimensions of genetically modified (GM) animals. Dominant policy ethical approaches and frameworks are criticized for failing radically to accommodate some of the most i... Read More about Animals in their nature: A case study on public attitudes to animals, genetic modification and 'nature'.

The worlds of welfare: Illusory and gender-blind? (2004)
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Bambra, C. (2004). The worlds of welfare: Illusory and gender-blind?. Social Policy and Society, 3(3), 201-212. https://doi.org/10.1017/s147474640400171x

The nature of welfare state regimes has been an ongoing debate within the comparative social policy literature since the publication of Esping-Andersen's The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (1990). This paper engages with two aspects of this debat... Read More about The worlds of welfare: Illusory and gender-blind?.

Die Veränderung der urbanen Territorialität infolge der Videoüberwachung des öffentlichen Raumes : ein Vergleich unterschiedlicher räumlicher Funktionsweisen der Videoüberwachung (2004)
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Klauser, F. (2004). Die Veränderung der urbanen Territorialität infolge der Videoüberwachung des öffentlichen Raumes : ein Vergleich unterschiedlicher räumlicher Funktionsweisen der Videoüberwachung. Geographica Helvetica, 59(2), 106-118. https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-59-106-2004

As a result of the anonymisation of parts of public space and increasing individualisation of social relations and forms of life, mechanisms of social regulation are changing within public space. Increases of private and public video surveillance wer... Read More about Die Veränderung der urbanen Territorialität infolge der Videoüberwachung des öffentlichen Raumes : ein Vergleich unterschiedlicher räumlicher Funktionsweisen der Videoüberwachung.