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A high-precision age estimate of the Holocene Plinian eruption of Mount Mazama, Oregon, USA (2015)
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Egan, J., Staff, R., & Blackford, J. (2015). A high-precision age estimate of the Holocene Plinian eruption of Mount Mazama, Oregon, USA. Holocene, 25(7), 1054-1067. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615576230

© The Author(s) 2015 The climactic eruption of Mount Mazama in Oregon, North America, resulted in the deposition of the most widespread Holocene tephra deposit in the conterminous United States and south-western Canada. The tephra forms an isochronou... Read More about A high-precision age estimate of the Holocene Plinian eruption of Mount Mazama, Oregon, USA.

Leaching of copper and nickel in soil-water systems contaminated by bauxite residue (red mud) from Ajka, Hungary: the importance of soil organic matter (2015)
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Lockwood, C. L., Stewart, D. I., Mortimer, R. J. G., Mayes, W., Jarvis, A. P., Gruiz, K., & Burke, I. T. (2015). Leaching of copper and nickel in soil-water systems contaminated by bauxite residue (red mud) from Ajka, Hungary: the importance of soil organic matter. Environmental science and pollution research, 22(14), 10800-10810. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-015-4282-4

Red mud is a highly alkaline (pH >12) waste product from bauxite ore processing. The red mud spill at Ajka, Hungary, in 2010 released 1 million m3 of caustic red mud into the surrounding area with devastating results. Aerobic and anaerobic batch expe... Read More about Leaching of copper and nickel in soil-water systems contaminated by bauxite residue (red mud) from Ajka, Hungary: the importance of soil organic matter.

Zinc Uptake from Circumneutral Mine Drainage in Freshwater Biofilms: New Insights from In Vitro Experiments (2015)
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Jones, A., Rogerson, M., Greenway, G., & Mayes, W. M. (2015). Zinc Uptake from Circumneutral Mine Drainage in Freshwater Biofilms: New Insights from In Vitro Experiments. Mine Water and the Environment, 34(3), 295-307. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10230-015-0325-9

© 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. We present results from in vitro flask and flume experiments using freshwater biofilms sourced and cultivated from a mine-impacted stream in North Yorkshire, UK. Flask experiments showed rapid uptake of Zn f... Read More about Zinc Uptake from Circumneutral Mine Drainage in Freshwater Biofilms: New Insights from In Vitro Experiments.

Grünes Wachstum und alternative Wirtschaftsformen (2015)
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Schulz, C., & Affolderbach, J. (2015). Grünes Wachstum und alternative Wirtschaftsformen. Geographische Rundschau, 67(5), 4-9

Green New Deal, Green Economy, Nachhaltiges Wachstum - sind einige der zentralem Schlagworte, die derzeit Hochkonjunktur in politischen Programmen und medialen Debatten haben, und immer häufiger auch zum Forschungsgegenstand der Geographie werden. Di... Read More about Grünes Wachstum und alternative Wirtschaftsformen.

From theory to practice: Enhancing the potential policy impact of industrial ecology (2015)
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Deutz, P., & Ioppolo, G. (2015). From theory to practice: Enhancing the potential policy impact of industrial ecology. Sustainability, 7(2), 2259-2273. https://doi.org/10.3390/su7022259

Industrial ecology introduced a new paradigm of principles and tools useful to academic analysis and decision support activities for industry and policymakers. This paper presents a view of the state of the art of industrial ecology, encompassing the... Read More about From theory to practice: Enhancing the potential policy impact of industrial ecology.

Application of palaeoecology for peatland conservation at Mossdale Moor, UK (2015)
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McCarroll, J., Chambers, F., Webb, J., & Thom, T. (2017). Application of palaeoecology for peatland conservation at Mossdale Moor, UK. Quaternary International, 432, 39-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2014.12.068

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA In a recent discussion of research priorities for palaeoecology, it was suggested that palaeoecological data can be applied and used to inform nature conservation practice. The present study exemplifies this approach and... Read More about Application of palaeoecology for peatland conservation at Mossdale Moor, UK.

The design of Nineteenth-Century Wesleyan space: Re-reading F.J. Jobson's Chapel and School Architecture (2015)
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Mason, R. (2015). The design of Nineteenth-Century Wesleyan space: Re-reading F.J. Jobson's Chapel and School Architecture. Wesley and Methodist Studies, 7(1), 78-99. https://doi.org/10.5325/weslmethstud.7.1.0078

F. J. Jobson's Chapel and School Architecture as Appropriate to the Buildings of Nonconformists (1850) has conventionally been used to demonstrate the architectural patterns of nineteenth-century Wesleyan chapels. However, this emphasis has overlooke... Read More about The design of Nineteenth-Century Wesleyan space: Re-reading F.J. Jobson's Chapel and School Architecture.

Building a green economy? Sustainability transitions in the UK building sector (2015)
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Gibbs, D., & O'Neill, K. (2015). Building a green economy? Sustainability transitions in the UK building sector. Geoforum, 59(February), 133-141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.12.004

This paper explores the interest by policy makers to encourage and develop a green economy, with a particular focus on UK government attempts to engender a shift in the mainstream building and construction sector towards adopting green building metho... Read More about Building a green economy? Sustainability transitions in the UK building sector.

AMS radiocarbon dating from the Neolithic of eastern Ukraine casts doubts on existing chronologies (2015)
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Lillie, M., Motuzaite-Matuzeviciute, G., & Telizhenko, S. (2015). AMS radiocarbon dating from the Neolithic of eastern Ukraine casts doubts on existing chronologies. Radiocarbon, 57(4), 657-664. https://doi.org/10.2458/azu_rc.57.18438

The Seversky Donets River (Northern Donets) basin in eastern Ukraine and the Lower Don River valley in Russia were inhabited by populations that have been considered to be one of the earliest pottery-using cultures in Europe. The early pottery sites... Read More about AMS radiocarbon dating from the Neolithic of eastern Ukraine casts doubts on existing chronologies.

Hydrological modelling using ensemble satellite rainfall estimates in a sparsely gauged river basin: The need for whole-ensemble calibration (2014)
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Skinner, C. J., Bellerby, T. J., Greatrex, H., & Grimes, D. I. (2015). Hydrological modelling using ensemble satellite rainfall estimates in a sparsely gauged river basin: The need for whole-ensemble calibration. Journal of hydrology, 522(March), 110-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.12.052

The potential for satellite rainfall estimates to drive hydrological models has been long understood, but at the high spatial and temporal resolutions often required by these models the uncertainties in satellite rainfall inputs are both significant... Read More about Hydrological modelling using ensemble satellite rainfall estimates in a sparsely gauged river basin: The need for whole-ensemble calibration.

Continuing social presence of the dead: Exploring suicide bereavement through online memorialisation (2014)
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Bailey, L., Bell, J., & Kennedy, D. (2015). Continuing social presence of the dead: Exploring suicide bereavement through online memorialisation. The new review of hypermedia and multimedia, 21(1-2), 72-86. https://doi.org/10.1080/13614568.2014.983554

© 2014 The Author(s). The last 10 years have seen a rise in Internet sites commemorating those lost to suicide. These sites describe the life of the deceased and the afterlife of relatives, parents, friends or siblings who have been termed the "forgo... Read More about Continuing social presence of the dead: Exploring suicide bereavement through online memorialisation.

Quaternary climate change and Heinrich events in the southern Balkans: Lake Prespa diatom palaeolimnology from the last interglacial to present (2014)
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Cvetkoska, A., Levkov, Z., Reed, J. M., Wagner, B., Panagiotopoulos, K., Leng, M. J., & Lacey, J. H. (2015). Quaternary climate change and Heinrich events in the southern Balkans: Lake Prespa diatom palaeolimnology from the last interglacial to present. Journal of paleolimnology, 53(2), 215-231. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-014-9821-3

Lake Prespa, in the Balkans, contains an important palaeo-archive in a key location for understanding Quaternary climate variability in the transition between Mediterranean and central European climate zones. Previous palaeoenvironmental research on... Read More about Quaternary climate change and Heinrich events in the southern Balkans: Lake Prespa diatom palaeolimnology from the last interglacial to present.

Source of nitrogen associated with recovery of relative growth rate in Arabidopsis thaliana acclimated to sustained cold treatment (2014)
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Atkinson, L. J., Sherlock, D. J., & Atkin, O. K. (2015). Source of nitrogen associated with recovery of relative growth rate in Arabidopsis thaliana acclimated to sustained cold treatment. Plant, Cell and Environment, 38(6), 1023-1034. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.12460

To determine (1) whether acclimation of carbon metabolism to low temperatures results in recovery of the relative growth rate (RGR) of plants in the cold and (2) the source of N underpinning cold-acclimation in Arabidopsis thaliana, we supplied plant... Read More about Source of nitrogen associated with recovery of relative growth rate in Arabidopsis thaliana acclimated to sustained cold treatment.

Lateglacial and Holocene climate and environmental change in the northeastern Mediterranean region: Diatom evidence from Lake Dojran (Republic of Macedonia/Greece) (2014)
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Zhang, X., Reed, J., Wagner, B., Francke, A., & Levkov, Z. (2014). Lateglacial and Holocene climate and environmental change in the northeastern Mediterranean region: Diatom evidence from Lake Dojran (Republic of Macedonia/Greece). Quaternary science reviews, 103(1), 51-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.09.004

The juncture between the west-east and north-south contrasting Holocene climatic domains across the Mediterranean is complex and poorly understood. Diatom analysis of Lake Dojran (Republic of Macedonia/Greece) provides a new insight into lake levels... Read More about Lateglacial and Holocene climate and environmental change in the northeastern Mediterranean region: Diatom evidence from Lake Dojran (Republic of Macedonia/Greece).

Tracking the hydro-climatic signal from lake to sediment: a field study from central Turkey (2014)
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Dean, J. R., Eastwood, W. J., Roberts, N., Jones, M. D., Yiğitbaşıoğlu, H., Allcock, S. L., Woodbridge, J., Metcalfe, S. E., & Leng, M. J. (2015). Tracking the hydro-climatic signal from lake to sediment: a field study from central Turkey. Journal of hydrology, 529(Part 2), 608-621. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.11.004

Palaeo-hydrological interpretations of lake sediment proxies can benefit from a robust understanding of the modern lake environment. In this study, we use Nar Gölü, a non-outlet, monomictic maar lake in central Turkey, as a field site for a natural e... Read More about Tracking the hydro-climatic signal from lake to sediment: a field study from central Turkey.

Mobilisation of arsenic from bauxite residue (red mud) affected soils : effect of pH and redox conditions (2014)
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Lockwood, C. L., Mortimer, R. J., Stewart, D. I., Mayes, W. M., Peacock, C. L., Polya, D. A., Lythgoe, P. R., Lehoux, A. P., Gruiz, K., & Burke, I. T. (2014). Mobilisation of arsenic from bauxite residue (red mud) affected soils : effect of pH and redox conditions. Applied geochemistry : journal of the International Association of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, 51(December), 268-277. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2014.10.009

The tailings dam breach at the Ajka alumina plant, western Hungary in 2010 introduced ∼1 million m³ of red mud suspension into the surrounding area. Red mud (fine fraction bauxite residue) has a characteristically alkaline pH and contains several pot... Read More about Mobilisation of arsenic from bauxite residue (red mud) affected soils : effect of pH and redox conditions.

WRF model sensitivity to choice of parameterization: a study of the 'York Flood 1999' (2014)
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Remesan, R., Bellerby, T., Holman, I., & Frostick, L. (2015). WRF model sensitivity to choice of parameterization: a study of the 'York Flood 1999'. Theoretical and applied climatology, 122(1-2), 229-247. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-014-1282-0

© 2014, Springer-Verlag Wien. Numerical weather modelling has gained considerable attention in the field of hydrology especially in un-gauged catchments and in conjunction with distributed models. As a consequence, the accuracy with which these model... Read More about WRF model sensitivity to choice of parameterization: a study of the 'York Flood 1999'.

Geochemical recovery of the Torna-Marcal river system after the Ajka red mud spill, Hungary (2014)
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Anton, Á. D., Klebercz, O., Magyar, Á., Burke, I. T., Jarvis, A. P., Gruiz, K., & Mayes, W. M. (2014). Geochemical recovery of the Torna-Marcal river system after the Ajka red mud spill, Hungary. Environmental science--processes & impacts, 16(12), 2677-2685. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4em00452c

The failure of the Ajka red mud depository in October 2010 led to the largest single release of red mud into the surface water environment. This study provides a comparative assessment of stream sediment quality in the Torna–Marcal–Rába catchment bet... Read More about Geochemical recovery of the Torna-Marcal river system after the Ajka red mud spill, Hungary.

The green economy, sustainability transitions and transition regions : a case study of Boston (2014)
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Gibbs, D., & O'Neill, K. (2014). The green economy, sustainability transitions and transition regions : a case study of Boston. Geografiska annaler. Series B, Human geography, 96(3), 201-216. https://doi.org/10.1111/geob.12046

This paper is focused upon exploring the development of the green economy in particular locations, with the aim of identifying why some cities and regions have been successful in engendering green growth. To date we have little idea where the green e... Read More about The green economy, sustainability transitions and transition regions : a case study of Boston.

The potential use of exhausted open pit mine voids as sinks for atmospheric CO2: Insights from natural reedbeds and mine water treatment wetlands (2014)
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Younger, P. L., & Mayes, W. M. (2015). The potential use of exhausted open pit mine voids as sinks for atmospheric CO2: Insights from natural reedbeds and mine water treatment wetlands. Mine Water and the Environment, 34(1), 112-120. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10230-014-0293-5

Abandoned surface mine voids are often left to flood, forming pit lakes. Drawing simple but important lessons from experiences with compost-based passive remediation systems for acidic mine waters, an alternative end-use for open pit mine voids is pr... Read More about The potential use of exhausted open pit mine voids as sinks for atmospheric CO2: Insights from natural reedbeds and mine water treatment wetlands.