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Stable isotope analysis of prehistoric populations from the cemeteries of the Middle and Lower Dnieper Basin, Ukraine (2010)
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Lillie, M., Budd, C., & Potekhina, I. (2011). Stable isotope analysis of prehistoric populations from the cemeteries of the Middle and Lower Dnieper Basin, Ukraine. Journal of archaeological science, 38(1), 57-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.08.010

This paper presents the results of new stable isotopes (carbon and nitrogen) analysis of human, faunal and fish remains from thirteen cemeteries from the Middle and Lower Dnieper Basin, Ukraine. The results are integrated with earlier analyses, under... Read More about Stable isotope analysis of prehistoric populations from the cemeteries of the Middle and Lower Dnieper Basin, Ukraine.

Effect of vegetation data collection strategies on estimates of relevant source area of pollen (RSAP) and relative pollen productivity estimates (relative PPE) for non-arboreal taxa (2010)
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Bunting, M. J., & Hjelle, K. L. (2010). Effect of vegetation data collection strategies on estimates of relevant source area of pollen (RSAP) and relative pollen productivity estimates (relative PPE) for non-arboreal taxa. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 19(4), 365-374. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-010-0246-2

Thirteen surface moss samples were collected for pollen analysis from an area of heathland in western Norway. Vegetation composition at different distances around the sampling locations was measured using three different survey methods; rooted freque... Read More about Effect of vegetation data collection strategies on estimates of relevant source area of pollen (RSAP) and relative pollen productivity estimates (relative PPE) for non-arboreal taxa.

Evaluation of extraction methods for use with NMR-based metabolomics in the marine polychaete ragworm, Hediste diversicolor (2010)
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del Carmen Alvarez, M., Donarski, J. A., Elliott, M., & Charlton, A. J. (2010). Evaluation of extraction methods for use with NMR-based metabolomics in the marine polychaete ragworm, Hediste diversicolor. Metabolomics, 6(4), 541-549. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11306-010-0222-y

The sediment-dwelling polychaete, Hediste diversicolor, is commonly found in Northern temperate estuaries. Its limited mobility and tolerance to polluted conditions makes it a good candidate for biological monitoring. Moreover, its importance in the... Read More about Evaluation of extraction methods for use with NMR-based metabolomics in the marine polychaete ragworm, Hediste diversicolor.

Integrating sustainable waste management into product design: Sustainability as a functional requirement (2010)
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Deutz, P., Neighbour, G., & McGuire, M. (2010). Integrating sustainable waste management into product design: Sustainability as a functional requirement. Sustainable Development, 18(4), 229 - 239. https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.469

Municipal waste management is, by definition, spatially organized. In the United Kingdom the national government designates waste collection and disposal responsibilities to the various scales of local government. However, whilst the highest aim of w... Read More about Integrating sustainable waste management into product design: Sustainability as a functional requirement.

The last glacial-interglacial cycle in Lake Ohrid (Macedonia/Albania): testing diatom response to climate (2010)
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Reed, J. M., Cvetkoska, A., Levkov, Z., Vogel, H., & Wagner, B. The last glacial-interglacial cycle in Lake Ohrid (Macedonia/Albania): testing diatom response to climate. Biogeosciences Discussions, 7(10), 4689-4714. https://doi.org/10.5194/bgd-7-4689-2010

Lake Ohrid is a site of global importance for palaeoclimate research. This study presents results of diatom analysis of a ca. 136 ka sequence, Co1202, from the northeast of the lake basin. It offers the opportunity to test diatom response across two... Read More about The last glacial-interglacial cycle in Lake Ohrid (Macedonia/Albania): testing diatom response to climate.

Moving young lives: Mobility, immobility and inter-generational tensions in urban Africa (2010)
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Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Robson, E., Munthali, A., Mashiri, M., & Tanle, A. (2010). Moving young lives: Mobility, immobility and inter-generational tensions in urban Africa. Geoforum, 41(5), 796-804. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2010.05.001

This paper explores young people's experiences and perceptions of mobility and mobility constraints in poorer urban areas of Ghana, Malawi and South Africa within the specific context of inter-generational relations. Drawing principally on qualitativ... Read More about Moving young lives: Mobility, immobility and inter-generational tensions in urban Africa.

Inventory of aquatic contaminant flux arising from historical metal mining in England and Wales (2010)
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Mayes, W. M., Potter, H. A. B., & Jarvis, A. P. (2010). Inventory of aquatic contaminant flux arising from historical metal mining in England and Wales. The Science of the total environment, 408(17), 3576-3583. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.04.021

The impact of discharges from abandoned metal and ironstone mines has been a much studied form of aquatic pollution in recent decades. Few attempts however, have been made to accurately determine the overall contaminant mass flux arising from abandon... Read More about Inventory of aquatic contaminant flux arising from historical metal mining in England and Wales.

Competitive global city regions and 'sustainable development': an interpretive institutionalist account in the South East of England (2010)
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Krueger, R., & Gibbs, D. (2010). Competitive global city regions and 'sustainable development': an interpretive institutionalist account in the South East of England. Environment & planning. A, 42(4), 821-837. https://doi.org/10.1068/a42111

This paper presents an argument and empirical case study to draw out additional nuance in the social construction of institutions. Adapting the conceptual work of political scientists Mark Bevir and Roderick Rhodes to recent accounts in economic geog... Read More about Competitive global city regions and 'sustainable development': an interpretive institutionalist account in the South East of England.

Where dogs, ghosts and lions roam: Learning from mobile ethnographies on the journey from school (2010)
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Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E., Mashiri, M., & Maponya, G. (2010). Where dogs, ghosts and lions roam: Learning from mobile ethnographies on the journey from school. Children's Geographies, 8(2), 91-105. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733281003691343

This paper draws on mobility research conducted with children in three countries: Ghana, Malawi and South Africa. It has two interlinked aims: to highlight the potential that mobile interviews can offer in research with young people, especially in re... Read More about Where dogs, ghosts and lions roam: Learning from mobile ethnographies on the journey from school.

The effects of training set selection on the relationship between pollen assemblages and climate parameters: Implications for reconstructing past climate (2010)
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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.

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.

From sustainable development to carbon control: Eco-state restructuring and the politics of urban and regional development (2009)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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. The 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.

Response of the microbial community to water table variation and nutrient addition and its implications for in situ preservation of organic archaeological remains in wetland soils (2009)
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Douterelo, I., Goulder, R., & Lillie, M. (2009). Response of the microbial community to water table variation and nutrient addition and its implications for in situ preservation of organic archaeological remains in wetland soils. International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation, 63(6), 795-805. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibiod.2009.06.010

Wetland environments can preserve organic archaeological remains because of their anaerobic nature. The ongoing discovery of archaeological sites in wetlands is associated with a lack of funds for excavation and preservation. This situation has led t... Read More about Response of the microbial community to water table variation and nutrient addition and its implications for in situ preservation of organic archaeological remains in wetland soils.

Equifinality and uncertainty in the interpretation of pollen data: the Multiple Scenario Approach to reconstruction of past vegetation mosaics (2009)
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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)
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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.