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Thinking through the relationships between legal and illegal activities and economies: Spaces, flows and pathways. (2014)
Journal Article
Hudson, R. (2014). Thinking through the relationships between legal and illegal activities and economies: Spaces, flows and pathways. Journal of Economic Geography, 14(4), 775-795. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbt017

My purpose in this article is selectively to draw upon and use the available evidence to summarise the various forms/types of illegal activities, their relationships to the formal legal economy, their various spatialities and geographies, and to iden... Read More about Thinking through the relationships between legal and illegal activities and economies: Spaces, flows and pathways..

Deglacial changes in flow and frontal structure through the Drake Passage (2014)
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Roberts, J., McCace, I., McClymont, E., Kender, S., Hillenbrand, C., Matano, R., …Peck, V. (2014). Deglacial changes in flow and frontal structure through the Drake Passage. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 474, 397-408. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.07.004

The oceanic gateways of the Drake Passage and the Agulhas Current are critical locations for the inflow of intermediate-depth water masses to the Atlantic, which contribute to the shallow return flow that balances the export of deep water from the No... Read More about Deglacial changes in flow and frontal structure through the Drake Passage.

A community-based geological reconstruction of Antarctic Ice Sheet deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum (2014)
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Bentley, M., Ó Cofaigh, C., Anderson, J., Conway, H., Davies, B., Graham, A., …Zwartz, D. (2014). A community-based geological reconstruction of Antarctic Ice Sheet deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary Science Reviews, 100, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.06.025

A robust understanding of Antarctic Ice Sheet deglacial history since the Last Glacial Maximum is important in order to constrain ice sheet and glacial-isostatic adjustment models, and to explore the forcing mechanisms responsible for ice sheet retre... Read More about A community-based geological reconstruction of Antarctic Ice Sheet deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum.

Emotions, Encounters and Expectations: The Uncertain Ethics of ‘The Field’ (2014)
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Darling, J. (2014). Emotions, Encounters and Expectations: The Uncertain Ethics of ‘The Field’. Journal of Human Rights Practice, 6(2), 201-212. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huu011

Entering ‘the field’ can be a daunting, demanding and at times bewildering experience, with researchers negotiating a myriad of assumptions, expectations and motivations. Whilst early career researchers and doctoral students may be trained in theorie... Read More about Emotions, Encounters and Expectations: The Uncertain Ethics of ‘The Field’.

Micro-hydro politics: producing and contesting community energy in the North of England (2014)
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Armstrong, A., & Bulkeley, H. (2014). Micro-hydro politics: producing and contesting community energy in the North of England. Geoforum, 56, 66-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.06.015

Analyses of the politics of energy production have traditionally focused on issues of resource extraction and large scale generation. Yet questions of politics are just as critical when it comes to considering the development of ‘small’ energy – vari... Read More about Micro-hydro politics: producing and contesting community energy in the North of England.

Incremental infrastructures: material improvisation and social collaboration across post-colonial Accra (2014)
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Silver, J. (2014). Incremental infrastructures: material improvisation and social collaboration across post-colonial Accra. Urban Geography, 35(6), 788-804. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2014.933605

Approaching the informal construction and extension of infrastructures through the terrain of what I term “the incremental” opens up new platforms of analysis for post-colonial urban systems. This refers to ad hoc actions on the part of slum dwellers... Read More about Incremental infrastructures: material improvisation and social collaboration across post-colonial Accra.

Informal Urban Sanitation: Everyday Life, Poverty and Comparison (2014)
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McFarlane, C., Desai, R., & Graham, S. (2014). Informal Urban Sanitation: Everyday Life, Poverty and Comparison. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 104(5), 989-1011. https://doi.org/10.1080/00045608.2014.923718

The global sanitation crisis is rapidly urbanizing, but how is sanitation produced and sustained in informal settlements? While there are data available on aggregate statistics, relatively little is known about how sanitation is created, maintained,... Read More about Informal Urban Sanitation: Everyday Life, Poverty and Comparison.

Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions. (2014)
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Anderson, B. (2014). Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions. Ashgate Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315579443

Since the mid-1990s, affect has become central to the social sciences and humanities. Debates abound over how to conceptualise affect, and how to understand the interrelationships between affective life and a range of contemporary political transform... Read More about Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions..

Geological respiration of a mountain belt revealed by the trace element rhenium (2014)
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Hilton, R., Gaillardet, J., Calmels, D., & Birck, J. (2014). Geological respiration of a mountain belt revealed by the trace element rhenium. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 403, 27-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2014.06.021

Oxidation of rock-derived, petrogenic, organic carbon (OCpetro) during weathering of sedimentary rocks is a major source of carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere. This geological respiration is thought to be enhanced by physical erosion, suggesting... Read More about Geological respiration of a mountain belt revealed by the trace element rhenium.

Climatic and palaeoecological changes during the mid- to Late Holocene transition in eastern China: high-resolution pollen and non-pollen palynomorph analysis at Pingwang, Yangtze coastal lowlands (2014)
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Innes, J., Zong, Y., Wang, Z., & Chen, Z. (2014). Climatic and palaeoecological changes during the mid- to Late Holocene transition in eastern China: high-resolution pollen and non-pollen palynomorph analysis at Pingwang, Yangtze coastal lowlands. Quaternary Science Reviews, 99, 164-175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.06.013

The transition to the Late Holocene/Neoglacial occurred as a worldwide process of climatic deterioration from the optimum thermal conditions of the mid-Holocene, culminating in an abrupt decline around 4200 cal yr ago, in a period of severe climatic... Read More about Climatic and palaeoecological changes during the mid- to Late Holocene transition in eastern China: high-resolution pollen and non-pollen palynomorph analysis at Pingwang, Yangtze coastal lowlands.

Should we ‘hug a hoodie’? Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions with young people not in employment, education or training (so-called NEETs) (2014)
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Oliver, E., Mawn, L., Stain, H., Bambra, C., Torgerson, C., Oliver, A., & Bridle, C. (2014). Should we ‘hug a hoodie’? Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions with young people not in employment, education or training (so-called NEETs). Systematic Reviews, 3, https://doi.org/10.1186/2046-4053-3-73

Background: Whilst the majority of young people succeed in education and make a positive transition to the world of work and adult life, recent statistics identify that youth comprise 40% of the world's unemployed, equating to nearly 75 million indiv... Read More about Should we ‘hug a hoodie’? Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions with young people not in employment, education or training (so-called NEETs).

Plant macrofossil and biomarker evidence of fen-bog transition and associated changes in vegetation (2014)
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Ronkainen, T., McClymont, E., Tuitilla, E., & Väliranta, M. (2014). Plant macrofossil and biomarker evidence of fen-bog transition and associated changes in vegetation. Holocene, 24(7), 828-841. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614530442

Past vegetation assemblages, preserved in peat layers, are one of the key proxies when reconstructing historical peatland dynamics. Northern peatlands can be divided into two main types: fens and bogs. Compared with bog peat, the fen peat is usually... Read More about Plant macrofossil and biomarker evidence of fen-bog transition and associated changes in vegetation.

Analysing the effect of land use/cover changes at sub-catchment levels on downstream flood peaks: a semi-distributed modelling approach with sparse data (2014)
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Sanyal, J., Densmore, A., & Carbonneau, P. (2014). Analysing the effect of land use/cover changes at sub-catchment levels on downstream flood peaks: a semi-distributed modelling approach with sparse data. CATENA, 118, 28-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2014.01.015

This paper aims to evaluate how varying degrees of land-use/cover (LULC) changes across sub-catchments affect a flood peak at the catchment outlet. The study site was the Konar catchment, a part of the upper Damodar Basin in eastern India. A HEC-HMS... Read More about Analysing the effect of land use/cover changes at sub-catchment levels on downstream flood peaks: a semi-distributed modelling approach with sparse data.

Deciding whose future? Challenges and opportunities of the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014 for Scotland and beyond (2014)
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Sharp, J., Cumbers, A., Painter, J., & Wood, N. (2014). Deciding whose future? Challenges and opportunities of the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014 for Scotland and beyond. Political Geography, 41, 32-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.04.002

The image of Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Alex Salmond unfurling the Scottish Saltire behind the bemused UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, moments after Andy Murray won the Wimbledon tennis tournament in July 2013, has come to epitomize the n... Read More about Deciding whose future? Challenges and opportunities of the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014 for Scotland and beyond.

Progressive shear-surface development in cohesive materials; implications for landslide behaviour (2014)
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Carey, J., & Petley, D. (2014). Progressive shear-surface development in cohesive materials; implications for landslide behaviour. Engineering Geology, 177, 54-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2014.05.009

The aim of this study was to investigate mechanisms of progressive shear surface development using a series of specialised triaxial cell tests. Intact and remoulded samples of Gault Clay from the Ventnor Undercliff on the Isle of Wight in southern En... Read More about Progressive shear-surface development in cohesive materials; implications for landslide behaviour.

Social Science and Neuroscience beyond Interdisciplinarity: Experimental Entanglements (2014)
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Fitzgerald, D., & Callard, F. (2015). Social Science and Neuroscience beyond Interdisciplinarity: Experimental Entanglements. Theory, Culture and Society, 32(1), 3-32. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276414537319

This article is an account of the dynamics of interaction across the social sciences and neurosciences. Against an arid rhetoric of ‘interdisciplinarity’, it calls for a more expansive imaginary of what experiment – as practice and ethos – might offe... Read More about Social Science and Neuroscience beyond Interdisciplinarity: Experimental Entanglements.

InSAR observations and models of crustal deformation due to a glacial surge in Iceland (2014)
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Auriac, A., Sigmundsson, F., Hooper, A., Spaans, K., Björnsson, H., Pálsson, F., …Feigl, K. (2014). InSAR observations and models of crustal deformation due to a glacial surge in Iceland. Geophysical Journal International, 198(3), 1329-1341. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggu205

Surges are common at all the major ice caps in Iceland. Ice masses of gigatons may shift from the upper part of the outlet glacier towards the terminus in a few months, advancing the glacier front by up to several kilometres. The advancing ice front... Read More about InSAR observations and models of crustal deformation due to a glacial surge in Iceland.

2D finite element inundation modelling in anabranching channels with sparse data: examination of uncertainties (2014)
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Sanyal, J., Densmore, A., & Carbonneau, P. (2014). 2D finite element inundation modelling in anabranching channels with sparse data: examination of uncertainties. Water Resources Management, 28(8), 2351-2366. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-014-0619-x

Flood inundation modelling in developing countries is severely limited by the lack of high resolution terrain data and suitable imagery to map flood extents. This study assessed the predictive uncertainty of modelled flood extents generated from TELE... Read More about 2D finite element inundation modelling in anabranching channels with sparse data: examination of uncertainties.

Estimation of leisure time physical activity and sedentary behaviour among school adolescents in Nepal (2014)
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Paudel, S., Subedi, N., Bhandari, R., Bastola, R., Niroula, R., & Poudyal, A. K. (2014). Estimation of leisure time physical activity and sedentary behaviour among school adolescents in Nepal. BMC Public Health, 14(1), Article 637. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-637

Background: Leisure-time physical activity is essential for healthy and physically active life; however, this domain of physical activity is less common in developing countries. Information on leisure time physical activity and sedentary behaviour am... Read More about Estimation of leisure time physical activity and sedentary behaviour among school adolescents in Nepal.