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The effects of training set selection on the relationship between pollen assemblages and climate parameters: Implications for reconstructing past climate (2010)
Journal Article
Bunting, M. J., Li, Y., Liu, J., Tian, F., & Xu, Q. (2010). The effects of training set selection on the relationship between pollen assemblages and climate parameters: Implications for reconstructing past climate. Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 289(1-4), 123-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.02.024

494 surface soil pollen samples were collected from forests, steppes, deserts, shrubs and meadows in the northern China, and compared with modern climate data. Two approaches for estimating climate parameters from pollen data were tested independentl... Read More about The effects of training set selection on the relationship between pollen assemblages and climate parameters: Implications for reconstructing past climate.

Sedimentation of bidisperse suspensions (2010)
Journal Article
Dorrell, R., & Hogg, A. J. (2010). Sedimentation of bidisperse suspensions. International journal of multiphase flow, 36(6), 481-490. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2010.02.001

The average settling velocity of a suspension of identical particles through otherwise quiescent fluid is smaller than the settling velocity of a single particle in an unbounded fluid. When a suspension settles out to form a deposit, this hindered se... Read More about Sedimentation of bidisperse suspensions.

Mapping hydraulic biotopes using terrestrial laser scan data of water surface properties (2010)
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Milan, D., Heritage, G., Large, A., & Entwistle, N. (2010). Mapping hydraulic biotopes using terrestrial laser scan data of water surface properties. Earth surface processes and landforms : the journal of the British Geomorphological Research Group, 35(8), 918-931. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.1948

For more than a decade, habitat mapping using biotopes (in-channel hydraulically-defined habitats) has underpinned aquatic conservation in the UK through (a) providing baseline information on system complexity and (b) allowing environmental and ecolo... Read More about Mapping hydraulic biotopes using terrestrial laser scan data of water surface properties.

Property matters: agricultural restructuring and changing landlord-tenant relationships in England (2009)
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Maye, D., Ilbery, B., Watts, D., & Holloway, L. (2010). Property matters: agricultural restructuring and changing landlord-tenant relationships in England. Geoforum, 41(3), 423-434. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2009.11.009

Little research has been conducted on the restructuring activities of tenant farmers in response to changing tenancy legislation and recent CAP reforms. This paper examines the geography of farm tenancy agreements in England since 1995 and presents s... Read More about Property matters: agricultural restructuring and changing landlord-tenant relationships in England.

From sustainable development to carbon control: Eco-state restructuring and the politics of urban and regional development (2009)
Journal Article
While, A., Jonas, A. E. G., & Gibbs, D. (2010). From sustainable development to carbon control: Eco-state restructuring and the politics of urban and regional development. Transactions - Institute of British Geographers, 35(1), 76-93. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00362.x

The management of carbon emissions holds some prospect for challenging sustainable development as the organising principle of socio-environmental regulation. This paper explores the rise of a distinctive low-carbon polity as an ideological state proj... Read More about From sustainable development to carbon control: Eco-state restructuring and the politics of urban and regional development.

LMODEL: A satellite precipitation methodology using cloud development modeling. Part II: Validation (2009)
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Hsu, K.-L., Bellerby, T., & Sorooshian, S. (2009). LMODEL: A satellite precipitation methodology using cloud development modeling. Part II: Validation. Journal of hydrometeorology, 10(5), 1096-1108. https://doi.org/10.1175/2009JHM1092.1

Anew satellite-based rainfall monitoring algorithm that integrates the strengths of both low Earth-orbiting (LEO) and geostationary Earth-orbiting (GEO) satellite information has been developed. The Lagrangian Model (LMODEL) algorithm combines a 2D c... Read More about LMODEL: A satellite precipitation methodology using cloud development modeling. Part II: Validation.

LMODEL: A satellite precipitation methodology using cloud development modeling. Part I: Algorithm construction and calibration (2009)
Journal Article
Bellerby, T., Hsu, K. L., & Sorooshian, S. (2009). LMODEL: A satellite precipitation methodology using cloud development modeling. Part I: Algorithm construction and calibration. Journal of hydrometeorology, 10(5), 1081-1095. https://doi.org/10.1175/2009jhm1091.1

The Lagrangian Model (LMODEL) is a new multisensor satellite rainfall monitoring methodology based on the use of a conceptual cloud-development model that is driven by geostationary satellite imagery and is locally updated using microwave-based rainf... Read More about LMODEL: A satellite precipitation methodology using cloud development modeling. Part I: Algorithm construction and calibration.

Application of geophysical monitoring techniques as aids to probabilistic risk-based management of landfill sites (2009)
Journal Article
Ferrier, G., Frostick, L. E., & Splajt, T. (2009). Application of geophysical monitoring techniques as aids to probabilistic risk-based management of landfill sites. The Geographical journal, 175(4), 304-314. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4959.2009.00340.x

Increasingly stringent regulatory regimes, in conjunction with landfill development in environmentally sensitive locations and the large number of abandoned landfill sites, are significantly increasing the responsibilities of local authorities and en... Read More about Application of geophysical monitoring techniques as aids to probabilistic risk-based management of landfill sites.

A national strategy for identification, prioritisation and management of pollution from abandoned non-coal mine sites in England and Wales. I.: methodology development and initial results (2009)
Journal Article
Mayes, W., Johnston, D., Potter, H., & Jarvis, A. (2009). A national strategy for identification, prioritisation and management of pollution from abandoned non-coal mine sites in England and Wales. I.: methodology development and initial results. Science of the Total Environment, 407(21), 5435-5447. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.06.019

In regions affected by historic non-coal (principally metal) mining activity, government agencies are often faced with the challenge of deploying limited remedial resources at abandoned mine sites to achieve maximum improvements in the chemical and e... Read More about A national strategy for identification, prioritisation and management of pollution from abandoned non-coal mine sites in England and Wales. I.: methodology development and initial results.

Equifinality and uncertainty in the interpretation of pollen data: the Multiple Scenario Approach to reconstruction of past vegetation mosaics (2009)
Journal Article
Bunting, M. J., & Middleton, R. (2009). Equifinality and uncertainty in the interpretation of pollen data: the Multiple Scenario Approach to reconstruction of past vegetation mosaics. Holocene, 19(5), 799-803. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683609105304

The long-term goal of pollen analysis has always been the reconstruction of past vegetation mosaics. However, the pollen signal is spatially integrated, and ecologically distinct vegetation structures can produce identical pollen signals. This paper... Read More about Equifinality and uncertainty in the interpretation of pollen data: the Multiple Scenario Approach to reconstruction of past vegetation mosaics.

Influence of survey strategy and interpolation model on DEM quality (2009)
Journal Article
Heritage, G. L., Milan, D. J., Large, A. R., & Fuller, I. C. (2009). Influence of survey strategy and interpolation model on DEM quality. Geomorphology, 112(3-4), 334-344. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.06.024

Accurate characterisation of morphology is critical to many studies in the field of geomorphology, particularly those dealing with changes over time. Digital elevation models (DEMs) are commonly used to represent morphology in three dimensions. The q... Read More about Influence of survey strategy and interpolation model on DEM quality.

Preliminary evaluation of a constructed wetland for treating extremely alkaline (pH 12) steel slag drainage (2009)
Journal Article
Mayes, W. M., Aumônier, J., & Jarvis, A. P. (2009). Preliminary evaluation of a constructed wetland for treating extremely alkaline (pH 12) steel slag drainage. Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research, 59(11), 2253-2263. https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2009.261

High pH (> 12) leachates are an environmental problem associated with drainage from lime (CaO)rich industrial residues such as steel slags, lime spoil and coal combustion residues. Recent research has highlighted the potential for natural ('volunteer... Read More about Preliminary evaluation of a constructed wetland for treating extremely alkaline (pH 12) steel slag drainage.

Producer responsibility in a sustainable development context: ecological modernisation or industrial ecology? (2009)
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Deutz, P. (2009). Producer responsibility in a sustainable development context: ecological modernisation or industrial ecology?. The Geographical journal, 175(4), 274-285. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4959.2009.00330.x

The concept of producer responsibility has become a major tenet of EU waste management policy. It forms part of an effort to set a regulatory context for firms supportive of sustainable development. Two contrasting notions of the theory and implement... Read More about Producer responsibility in a sustainable development context: ecological modernisation or industrial ecology?.

Managing infrastructural and service demands in new economic spaces: The new territorial politics of collective provision (2009)
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Gibbs, D. C., Jonas, A. E. G., & While, A. H. (2010). Managing infrastructural and service demands in new economic spaces: The new territorial politics of collective provision. Regional studies, 44(2), 183-200. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343400802662666

JONAS A. E. G., WHILE A. H. and GIBBS D. C. Managing infrastructural and service demands in new economic spaces: the new territorial politics of collective provision, Regional Studies. Research on the geography of urban and regional economic developm... Read More about Managing infrastructural and service demands in new economic spaces: The new territorial politics of collective provision.

Biopower, genetics and livestock breeding: (re)constituting animal populations and heterogeneous biosocial collectivities (2009)
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Holloway, L., Morris, C., Gilna, B., & Gibbs, D. (2009). Biopower, genetics and livestock breeding: (re)constituting animal populations and heterogeneous biosocial collectivities. Transactions - Institute of British Geographers, 34(3), 394-407. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00347.x

Genetic techniques have become increasingly prevalent in livestock breeding, associated with new types of knowledge-practice and changes in the institutional and geographical relationships related to animal husbandry. This paper examines the value of... Read More about Biopower, genetics and livestock breeding: (re)constituting animal populations and heterogeneous biosocial collectivities.

Terrestrial Laser Scanning of grain roughness in a gravel-bed river (2009)
Journal Article
Heritage, G. L., & Milan, D. J. (2009). Terrestrial Laser Scanning of grain roughness in a gravel-bed river. Geomorphology, 113(1-2), 4-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.03.021

This paper demonstrates the application of Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) to determine the full population of grain roughness in gravel-bed rivers. The technique has the potential to completely replace the need for complex, time-consuming manual sa... Read More about Terrestrial Laser Scanning of grain roughness in a gravel-bed river.

Performing wartime memories: ceremony as contest at the Risiera di San Sabba Death Camp, Trieste (2009)
Journal Article
Purvis, M., & Atkinson, D. (2009). Performing wartime memories: ceremony as contest at the Risiera di San Sabba Death Camp, Trieste. Social & cultural geography, 10(3), 337-356. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649360902756648

The paper examines contest over one of Trieste's most emotive sites of memory, the former Nazi death camp at the Risiera di San Sabba. Attention is paid to the Risiera as a site for ceremonial recollection of World War Two, and to the enmeshing of th... Read More about Performing wartime memories: ceremony as contest at the Risiera di San Sabba Death Camp, Trieste.

Basin scale fluxes of metals from historically mined orefields in the UK. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mayes, W. M., Rolls, T., Potter, H. A., & Jarvis, A. P. (2009, June). Basin scale fluxes of metals from historically mined orefields in the UK. Presented at 8th International Conference on Acid Rock Drainage

The flux of metals at the tidal limits of major rivers are an important metric of freshwater contaminant transfer to marine habitats, reported in North-East Atlantic bordering countries under the 1992 OSPAR Convention. This paper critically assesses... Read More about Basin scale fluxes of metals from historically mined orefields in the UK..