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Low-angle dunes in the Changjiang (Yangtze) Estuary: Flow and sediment dynamics under tidal influence (2018)
Journal Article
Hackney, C. R., Hu, H., Wei, T., Yang, Z., Hackney, C., & Parsons, D. R. (2018). Low-angle dunes in the Changjiang (Yangtze) Estuary: Flow and sediment dynamics under tidal influence. Estuarine, coastal and shelf science, 205, 110-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2018.03.009

It has long been highlighted that important feedbacks exist between river bed morphology, sediment transport and the turbulent flow field and that these feedbacks change in response to forcing mechanisms. However, our current understanding of bedform... Read More about Low-angle dunes in the Changjiang (Yangtze) Estuary: Flow and sediment dynamics under tidal influence.

Improving estuary models by reducing uncertainties associated with river flows (2018)
Journal Article
Robins, P. E., Lewis, M. J., Freer, J., Cooper, D. M., Skinner, C. J., & Coulthard, T. J. (2018). Improving estuary models by reducing uncertainties associated with river flows. Estuarine, coastal and shelf science, 207, 63-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2018.02.015

© 2018 The Authors To mitigate against future changes to estuaries such as water quality, catchment and estuary models can be coupled to simulate the transport of harmful pathogenic viruses, pollutants and nutrients from their terrestrial sources, th... Read More about Improving estuary models by reducing uncertainties associated with river flows.

The genomic history of southeastern Europe (2018)
Journal Article
Elenski, N., Francken, M., Galabova, B., Ganetsovski, G., Gély, B., Hajdu, T., Handzhyiska, V., Harvati, K., Higham, T., Iliev, S., Janković, I., Karavanić, I., Kennett, D. J., Komšo, D., Kozak, A., Labuda, D., Lari, M., Lazar, C., Leppek, M., Leshtakov, K., …Lillie, M. (2018). The genomic history of southeastern Europe. Nature, 555(7695), 197-203. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature25778

© 2018 Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature. All rights reserved. Farming was first introduced to Europe in the mid-seventh millennium bc, and was associated with migrants from Anatolia who settled in the southeast before spreading t... Read More about The genomic history of southeastern Europe.

A review of the stable isotope bio-geochemistry of the global silicon cycle and its associated trace elements (2018)
Journal Article
De Souza, G. F., Swann, G. E., Sutton, J. N., André, L., Cardinal, D., Conley, D. J., de Souza, G. F., Dean, J., Dodd, J., Ehlert, C., Ellwood, M. J., Frings, P. J., Grasse, P., Hendry, K., Leng, M. J., Michalopoulos, P., & Panizzo, V. N. (2018). A review of the stable isotope bio-geochemistry of the global silicon cycle and its associated trace elements. Frontiers in Earth Science, 5, Article 112. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2017.00112

© 2018 Sutton, André, Cardinal, Conley, de Souza, Dean, Dodd, Ehlert, Ellwood, Frings, Grasse, Hendry, Leng, Michalopoulos, Panizzo and Swann. Silicon (Si) is the second most abundant element in the Earth’s crust and is an important nutrient in the o... Read More about A review of the stable isotope bio-geochemistry of the global silicon cycle and its associated trace elements.

Encircling cities from rural areas? Barriers to the diffusion of solar water heaters in China's urban market (2018)
Journal Article
Yu, Z., & Gibbs, D. (2018). Encircling cities from rural areas? Barriers to the diffusion of solar water heaters in China's urban market. Energy policy, 115, 366-373. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.01.041

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Researchers have contributed a fruitful understanding of the facilitating factors for solar water heaters (SWH) diffusion in China at different governance levels. However, the barriers to its further diffusion in the urban environ... Read More about Encircling cities from rural areas? Barriers to the diffusion of solar water heaters in China's urban market.

Hydration of dicalcium silicate and diffusion through neo-formed calcium-silicate-hydrates at weathered surfaces control the long-term leaching behaviour of basic oxygen furnace (BOF) steelmaking slag (2018)
Journal Article
Stewart, D. I., Bray, A. W., Udoma, G., Hobson, A. J., Mayes, W. M., Rogerson, M., & Burke, I. T. (2018). Hydration of dicalcium silicate and diffusion through neo-formed calcium-silicate-hydrates at weathered surfaces control the long-term leaching behaviour of basic oxygen furnace (BOF) steelmaking slag. Environmental science and pollution research, 25(10), 9861-9872. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-018-1260-7

© 2018 The Author(s) Alkalinity generation and toxic trace metal (such as vanadium) leaching from basic oxygen furnace (BOF) steel slag particles must be properly understood and managed by pre-conditioning if beneficial reuse of slag is to be maximis... Read More about Hydration of dicalcium silicate and diffusion through neo-formed calcium-silicate-hydrates at weathered surfaces control the long-term leaching behaviour of basic oxygen furnace (BOF) steelmaking slag.

The global infrastructure public-private partnership and the extra-territorial politics of collective provision: The case of regional rail transit in Denver, USA (2018)
Journal Article
Jonas, A. E., Goetz, A. R., & Brady, S. (2019). The global infrastructure public-private partnership and the extra-territorial politics of collective provision: The case of regional rail transit in Denver, USA. Urban studies, 56(7), 1426-1447. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098018811506

Drawing upon a case study of regional transit in Denver, Colorado, this article describes and accounts for the emergence of the global infrastructure public-private partnership (GIP3) as a novel extra-territorial mechanism for financing and deliverin... Read More about The global infrastructure public-private partnership and the extra-territorial politics of collective provision: The case of regional rail transit in Denver, USA.

Evidence for the Little Ice Age in upland northwestern Europe: multiproxy climate data from three blanket mires in northern England (2018)
Journal Article
Chambers, F. M., Webb, J. C., & Thom, T. (in press). Evidence for the Little Ice Age in upland northwestern Europe: multiproxy climate data from three blanket mires in northern England. Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology,

The Little Ice Age (LIA) is a well-recognised palaeoclimatic phenomenon, although its causes, duration and severity have been matters of debate and dispute. Data from a wide range of archives have been used to infer climate variability before, during... Read More about Evidence for the Little Ice Age in upland northwestern Europe: multiproxy climate data from three blanket mires in northern England.

Youth livelihoods in the cellphone era: Perspectives from urban Africa (2018)
Journal Article
Porter, G., Hampshire, K., de Lannoy, A., Bango, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E., Tanle, A., Abane, A., & Owusu, S. (2018). Youth livelihoods in the cellphone era: Perspectives from urban Africa. Journal of international development, 30(4), 539-558. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3340

Issues surrounding youth employment and unemployment are central to the next development decade. Understanding how youth use mobile phones as a means of communicating and exchanging information about employment and livelihoods is particularly import... Read More about Youth livelihoods in the cellphone era: Perspectives from urban Africa.

Shoots and leaves : exploring the impacts of civil society sustainable place-making projects working in deprived urban areas in the UK (2018)
Thesis
Ramsden, S. (2018). Shoots and leaves : exploring the impacts of civil society sustainable place-making projects working in deprived urban areas in the UK. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4354073

Sustainable place-making is a concept combining ‘place-making’ and ‘sustainable development’ to describe community-focused activities working towards environmental, social and economic aims (Franklin and Marsden 2015). This research critically analys... Read More about Shoots and leaves : exploring the impacts of civil society sustainable place-making projects working in deprived urban areas in the UK.

Fucino palaeo-lake: Towards the Palaeoenvironmental history of the last 430 Ka (2018)
Journal Article
Mannella, G., Giaccio, B., Zanchetta, G., Regattieri, E., Leicher, N., Scheidt, S., Grelle, T., Lehne, C., Rolf, C., Wonik, T., Nomade, S., Pereira, A., Niespolo, E., Renne, P., Leng, M., Dean, J., Thomas, C., Ariztegui, D., Gaeta, M., Florindo, F., …Wagner, B. (2018). Fucino palaeo-lake: Towards the Palaeoenvironmental history of the last 430 Ka. AMQ. Alpine and mediterranean quaternary / AIQUA Associazione italiana per lo studio del Quaternario, 31(1), 141-145

© 2010 AIQUA - Associazione Italiana per lo Studio del Quaternario e EMMEVI - Servizio Congressi SPA. The sedimentary succession deposited in Fucino palaeo-lake potentially records the environmental history of the Central Mediterranean Region continu... Read More about Fucino palaeo-lake: Towards the Palaeoenvironmental history of the last 430 Ka.

Young people's daily mobilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Moving young lives (2017)
Book
Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E., & Mashiri, M. (2017). Young people's daily mobilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Moving young lives. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45431-7

This book explores the daily mobilities and immobilities of children and young people in sub-Saharan Africa. The authors draw on findings from rural and urban field research extending over many years, culminating in a 24-site study across three Afric... Read More about Young people's daily mobilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Moving young lives.

Climate change, the green economy and reimagining the city: the case of structurally disadvantaged European maritime port cities (2017)
Journal Article
Jonas, A. E. G., Wurzel, R. K., Monaghan, E., & Osthorst, W. (2017). Climate change, the green economy and reimagining the city: the case of structurally disadvantaged European maritime port cities. Die Erde : Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin, 148(4), 197-211. https://doi.org/10.12854/erde-148-49

The concept of the New Environmental Politics of Urban Development (NEPUD) examines the impact of international and national environmental regulation on the politics of urban development. The NEPUD concept emerged from case studies of environmental g... Read More about Climate change, the green economy and reimagining the city: the case of structurally disadvantaged European maritime port cities.

Hydraulic and biotic impacts on neutralisation of high-pH waters (2017)
Journal Article
Gomes, H. I., Mayes, W. M., Rogerson, M., Burke, I. T., & Stewart, D. I. (2017). Hydraulic and biotic impacts on neutralisation of high-pH waters. The Science of the total environment, 601-602, 1271-1279. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.05.248

The management of alkaline (pH 11–12.5) leachate is an important issue associated with the conditioning, afteruse or disposal of steel slags. Passive in-gassing of atmospheric CO2 is a low cost option for reducing Ca(OH)2 alkalinity, as Ca(OH)2 is ne... Read More about Hydraulic and biotic impacts on neutralisation of high-pH waters.

Isotopic signatures (2017)
Book Chapter
Dean, J. R., Leng, M. J., & Mackay, A. W. (2018). Isotopic signatures. In Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene, v.1 (197-203). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809665-9.10023-0

© 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Isotopes record human influence on the Earth System, providing evidence for the Anthropocene. Lead and sulfur isotopes detail pollution histories going back millennia. Carbon and nitrogen isotopes show substa... Read More about Isotopic signatures.

Sustained bauxite residue rehabilitation with gypsum and organic matter 16 years after initial treatment (2017)
Journal Article
Bray, A. W., Stewart, D. I., Courtney, R., Rout, S. P., Humphreys, P. N., Mayes, W. M., & Burke, I. T. (2018). Sustained bauxite residue rehabilitation with gypsum and organic matter 16 years after initial treatment. Environmental Science and Technology, 52(1), 152-161. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.7b03568

Bauxite residue is a high volume by-product of alumina manufacture which is commonly disposed of in purpose-built bauxite residue disposal areas (BRDAs). Natural waters interacting with bauxite residue are characteristically highly alkaline, and have... Read More about Sustained bauxite residue rehabilitation with gypsum and organic matter 16 years after initial treatment.

Urban energy transitions through innovations in green building (2017)
Book Chapter
Preller, B., Schulz, C., & Affolderbach, J. (2017). Urban energy transitions through innovations in green building. In A. König, & J. Ravetz (Eds.), Sustainability Science (218-233). Routledge

Recent debates on climate change have increasingly focused on cities as a strategic spatial scale to implementss climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies. Within this context, green building and the way the built environment interfaces wit... Read More about Urban energy transitions through innovations in green building.

Oil palm cultivation as a development vehicle: Exploring the trade-offs for smallholders in East Malaysia (2017)
Book Chapter
Majid Cooke, F., Hezri, A. A., Azmi, R., Morent Mukit, R., Jensen, P. D., & Deutz, P. (2017). Oil palm cultivation as a development vehicle: Exploring the trade-offs for smallholders in East Malaysia. In A. McGregor, L. Law, & F. Miller (Eds.), Routledge handbook of Southeast Asian development (330-341). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315726106-29

This chapter examines the decision to cultivate oil palm under the different conditions that independent smallholders experience in the East Malaysian oil palm frontier. It provides a different context in which oil palm is produced, a setting grappli... Read More about Oil palm cultivation as a development vehicle: Exploring the trade-offs for smallholders in East Malaysia.