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The hydraulic description of vegetated river channels: the weaknesses of existing formulations and emerging alternatives (2014)
Journal Article
Marjoribanks, T., Hardy, R., & Lane, S. (2014). The hydraulic description of vegetated river channels: the weaknesses of existing formulations and emerging alternatives. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 1(6), 549-560. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1044

Currently, many of the methods used to predict the effect of vegetation on river flow suffer from one or both of the following problems: (1) a strong dependence on parameters that have a poor physical basis and which are only readily determined using... Read More about The hydraulic description of vegetated river channels: the weaknesses of existing formulations and emerging alternatives.

Basal conditions of two Transantarctic Mountain outlet glaciers from observation-constrained diagnostic modelling (2014)
Journal Article
Golledge, N., Marsh, O., Rack, W., Braaten, D., & Jones, R. (2014). Basal conditions of two Transantarctic Mountain outlet glaciers from observation-constrained diagnostic modelling. Journal of Glaciology, 60(223), 855-866. https://doi.org/10.3189/2014jog13j131

We present a diagnostic glacier flowline model parameterized and constrained by new velocity data from ice-surface GPS installations and speckle tracking of TerraSAR-X satellite images, newly acquired airborne-radar data, and continental gridded data... Read More about Basal conditions of two Transantarctic Mountain outlet glaciers from observation-constrained diagnostic modelling.

Doing the ‘Dirty Work’ of the Green Economy: resource recovery and migrant labour in the EU (2014)
Journal Article
Gregson, N., Crang, M., Botticello, J., Calestani, M., & Krzywoszynska, A. (2016). Doing the ‘Dirty Work’ of the Green Economy: resource recovery and migrant labour in the EU. European Urban and Regional Studies, 24(3), 541-555. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776414554489

Europe has set out its plans to foster a ‘green economy’, focused around recycling, by 2020. This pan-European recycling economy, it is argued, will have the triple virtues of: first, stopping wastes being ‘dumped’ on poor countries; second, reusing... Read More about Doing the ‘Dirty Work’ of the Green Economy: resource recovery and migrant labour in the EU.

An analysis of rainfall across the British Isles in the 1870s (2014)
Journal Article
Burt, T., Jones, P., & Howden, N. (2015). An analysis of rainfall across the British Isles in the 1870s. International Journal of Climatology, 35(10), 2934-2947. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.4184

Monthly records for the period 1871–1970 from 91 stations across the British Isles are used to place very high rainfall totals during the 1870s, 1872 and 1876–1877 in particular, in context. Comparisons are drawn with 2012 and the winter of 2013–2014... Read More about An analysis of rainfall across the British Isles in the 1870s.

Reconstructing paleoseismic deformation, 2: 1000 years of great earthquakes at Chucalén, south central Chile (2014)
Journal Article
Garrett, E., Shennan, I., Woodroffe, S., Cisternas, M., Hocking, E., & Gulliver, P. (2015). Reconstructing paleoseismic deformation, 2: 1000 years of great earthquakes at Chucalén, south central Chile. Quaternary Science Reviews, 113, 112-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.10.010

In this paper we adopt a quantitative biostratigraphic approach to establish a 1000-year-long coastal record of megathrust earthquake and tsunami occurrence in south central Chile. Our investigations focus on a site in the centre of the rupture segme... Read More about Reconstructing paleoseismic deformation, 2: 1000 years of great earthquakes at Chucalén, south central Chile.

Low-cost inundation modelling at the reach scale with sparse data in the Lower Damodar River basin, India (2014)
Journal Article
Sanyal, J., Carbonneau, P., & Densmore, A. (2014). Low-cost inundation modelling at the reach scale with sparse data in the Lower Damodar River basin, India. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 59(12), 2086-2102. https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2014.884718

Data unavailability is the main reason for limited applications of hydrodynamic models for predicting inundation in the developing world. This paper aims to generate moderately high-resolution hybrid terrain data by merging height information from lo... Read More about Low-cost inundation modelling at the reach scale with sparse data in the Lower Damodar River basin, India.

An urban politics of climate change: experimentation and the governing of socio-technical transitions (2014)
Book
Bulkeley, H., Castan Broto, V., & Edwards, G. (2014). An urban politics of climate change: experimentation and the governing of socio-technical transitions. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315763040

The confluence of global climate change, growing levels of energy consumption and rapid urbanization has led the international policy community to regard urban responses to climate change as ‘an urgent agenda’ (World Bank 2010). The contribution of c... Read More about An urban politics of climate change: experimentation and the governing of socio-technical transitions.

High-resolution numerical modelling of flow-vegetation interactions (2014)
Journal Article
Marjoribanks, T., Hardy, R., Lane, S., & Parsons, R. (2014). High-resolution numerical modelling of flow-vegetation interactions. Journal of Hydraulic Research, 52(6), 775-793. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221686.2014.948502

In this paper, we present and apply a new three-dimensional model for the prediction of canopy-flow and turbulence dynamics in open-channel flow. The approach uses a dynamic immersed boundary technique that is coupled in a sequentially staggered mann... Read More about High-resolution numerical modelling of flow-vegetation interactions.

Intimate war (2014)
Journal Article
Pain, R. (2015). Intimate war. Political Geography, 44, 64-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.09.011

Contending that domestic violence and modern international warfare are part of a single complex of violence, this paper identifies their shared intimate dynamics. Both violences operate through emotional and psychological registers that are as centra... Read More about Intimate war.

Stormwater Infrastructure Controls Runoff and Dissolved Material Export from Arid Urban Watersheds (2014)
Journal Article
Hale, R., Turnbull, L., Earl, S., Childers, D., & Grimm, N. (2015). Stormwater Infrastructure Controls Runoff and Dissolved Material Export from Arid Urban Watersheds. Ecosystems, 18(1), 62-75. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-014-9812-2

Urbanization alters watershed ecosystem functioning, including nutrient budgets and processes of nutrient retention. It is unknown, however, how variation in stormwater infrastructure design affects the delivery of water and materials from urban wate... Read More about Stormwater Infrastructure Controls Runoff and Dissolved Material Export from Arid Urban Watersheds.

Morphometry and pattern of a large sample (>20,000) of Canadian eskers and implications for subglacial drainage beneath ice sheets (2014)
Journal Article
Storrar, R., Stokes, C., & Evans, D. (2014). Morphometry and pattern of a large sample (>20,000) of Canadian eskers and implications for subglacial drainage beneath ice sheets. Quaternary Science Reviews, 105(1), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.09.013

Ice sheet flow is strongly influenced by the nature and quantity of meltwater entering the subglacial system. Accessing and monitoring contemporary drainage systems beneath ice sheets is notoriously difficult, but it is possible to utilise the expose... Read More about Morphometry and pattern of a large sample (>20,000) of Canadian eskers and implications for subglacial drainage beneath ice sheets.

Repositioning urban governments? Energy efficiency and Australia’s changing climate and energy governance regimes (2014)
Journal Article
McGuirk, P., Dowling, R., & Bulkeley, H. (2014). Repositioning urban governments? Energy efficiency and Australia’s changing climate and energy governance regimes. Urban Studies, 51(13), 2717-2734. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098014533732

Urban local governments are important players in climate governance, and their roles are evolving. This review traces the changing nexus of Australia’s climate policy, energy policy and energy efficiency imperatives and its repositioning of urban loc... Read More about Repositioning urban governments? Energy efficiency and Australia’s changing climate and energy governance regimes.

Cleaning Up the Streets: Newcastle-upon-Tyne’s Night-Time Neighbourhood Services Team (2014)
Book Chapter
Shaw, R. (2014). Cleaning Up the Streets: Newcastle-upon-Tyne’s Night-Time Neighbourhood Services Team. In S. Graham, & C. McFarlane (Eds.), Infrastructural lives : urban infrastructure in context (174-196). Routledge

The streets of Britain’s city centres are busy at night: taxi drivers, ‘revellers’, fast food sellers, bouncers, policemen, street pastors, leafleteers and more take to the streets to promote, produce or consume the night-time economy. ‘Night-time ec... Read More about Cleaning Up the Streets: Newcastle-upon-Tyne’s Night-Time Neighbourhood Services Team.

Rainfall distributions in Sri Lanka in time and space: an analysis based on daily rainfall data (2014)
Journal Article
Burt, T., & Weerasinghe, K. (2014). Rainfall distributions in Sri Lanka in time and space: an analysis based on daily rainfall data. Climate, 2(4), 242-263. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli2040242

Daily rainfall totals are analyzed for the main agro-climatic zones of Sri Lanka for the period 1976–2006. The emphasis is on daily rainfall rather than on longer-period totals, in particular the number of daily falls exceeding given threshold totals... Read More about Rainfall distributions in Sri Lanka in time and space: an analysis based on daily rainfall data.

Effect of bed permeability and hyporheic flow on turbulent flow over bed forms (2014)
Journal Article
Blois, G., Best, J., Sambrook Smith, G., & Hardy, R. (2014). Effect of bed permeability and hyporheic flow on turbulent flow over bed forms. Geophysical Research Letters, 41(18), 6435-6442. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014gl060906

This paper uses particle imaging velocimetry to provide the first measurements detailing the flow field over a porous bed in the presence of bed forms. The results demonstrate that flow downstream of coarse-grained bed forms on permeable beds is fund... Read More about Effect of bed permeability and hyporheic flow on turbulent flow over bed forms.

Values and Vulnerabilities: The Ethics of Research with Refugees and Asylum Seekers. By Karen Block, Elisha Riggs, and Nick Haslam (eds). Toowong, Australia: Australian Academic Press, 2013. CCXXII, 222 pages. $37.95 (2014)
Journal Article
Coddington, K. (2014). Values and Vulnerabilities: The Ethics of Research with Refugees and Asylum Seekers. By Karen Block, Elisha Riggs, and Nick Haslam (eds). Toowong, Australia: Australian Academic Press, 2013. CCXXII, 222 pages. $37.95. International Migration Review, 48(3), 916-917. https://doi.org/10.1111/imre.12126

Sediment connectivity: a framework for understanding sediment transfer at multiple scales (2014)
Journal Article
Bracken, L., Turnbull, L., Wainwright, J., & Bogaart, P. (2015). Sediment connectivity: a framework for understanding sediment transfer at multiple scales. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 40(2), 177-188. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.3635

A major challenge for geomorphologists is to scale up small-magnitude processes to produce landscape form, yet existing approaches have been found to be severely limited. New ways to scale erosion and transfer of sediment are thus needed. This paper... Read More about Sediment connectivity: a framework for understanding sediment transfer at multiple scales.

Stable and destabilised states of subjective wellbeing: dance and movement as catalysts of transition (2014)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S., & Scott, K. (2015). Stable and destabilised states of subjective wellbeing: dance and movement as catalysts of transition. Social and Cultural Geography, 16(1), 75-94. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2014.950689

The pursuit of subjective well-being has become an important object of policy and personal action, which within geography has been engaged largely by those with an interest in health. But to date, geography has given little attention to the ways in w... Read More about Stable and destabilised states of subjective wellbeing: dance and movement as catalysts of transition.