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Drainage and erosion of Cambodia's Great Lake in the middle-late Holocene: the combined role of climatic drying, base-level fall and river capture (2020)
Journal Article
Darby, S. E., Langdon, P. G., Best, J. L., Leyland, J., Hackney, C., Marti, M., Morgan, P. R., Ben, S., Aalto, R., Parsons, D. R., Nicholas, A. P., & Leng, M. J. (2020). Drainage and erosion of Cambodia's Great Lake in the middle-late Holocene: the combined role of climatic drying, base-level fall and river capture. Quaternary science reviews, 236, Article 106265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106265

We provide evidence for a large-scale geomorphic event in Cambodia’s great lake, the Tonlé Sap, during the middle Holocene. The present-day hydrology of the basin is dominated by an annual flood pulse where water from the Mekong River raises the lake... Read More about Drainage and erosion of Cambodia's Great Lake in the middle-late Holocene: the combined role of climatic drying, base-level fall and river capture.

Topographic, hydraulic, and vegetative controls on bar and island development in mixed bedrock-alluvial, multi-channeled, dryland rivers (2020)
Journal Article
Milan, D. J., Tooth, S., & Heritage, G. (2020). Topographic, hydraulic, and vegetative controls on bar and island development in mixed bedrock-alluvial, multi-channeled, dryland rivers. Water Resources Research, 56(5), Article e2019WR026101. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR026101

We investigate processes of bedrock-core bar and island development in a bedrock-influenced anastomosed reach of the Sabie River, Kruger National Park (KNP), eastern South Africa. For sites subject to alluvial stripping during an extreme flood event... Read More about Topographic, hydraulic, and vegetative controls on bar and island development in mixed bedrock-alluvial, multi-channeled, dryland rivers.

Property relations and the politics of the suburban living place in the post-communist city : transition stories from Tirana, Albania (2020)
Book Chapter
Mele, M., & Jonas, A. E. (2020). Property relations and the politics of the suburban living place in the post-communist city : transition stories from Tirana, Albania. In L. B. Drummond, & D. Young (Eds.), Socialist and post-socialist urbanisms : critical reflections from a global perspective (227-245). University of Toronto Press

One well-known feature of capitalist forms of urban development in North America and Western Europe is the emergence of a politics of the suburban living place, the spatial appearance of which seems to be separate from class and political tensions ar... Read More about Property relations and the politics of the suburban living place in the post-communist city : transition stories from Tirana, Albania.

Flash Flood!: A SeriousGeoGames activity combining science festivals, video games, and virtual reality with research data for communicating flood risk and geomorphology (2020)
Journal Article
Skinner, C. (2020). Flash Flood!: A SeriousGeoGames activity combining science festivals, video games, and virtual reality with research data for communicating flood risk and geomorphology. Geoscience Communication, 3(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-3-1-2020

The risk of flooding around the world is large and increasing, yet in many areas there is still a difficulty in engaging the public with their own flood risk. Geomorphology is a science that is linked to flooding and can exacerbate risks, but awarene... Read More about Flash Flood!: A SeriousGeoGames activity combining science festivals, video games, and virtual reality with research data for communicating flood risk and geomorphology.

Rethinking sustainability: Questioning old perspectives and developing new ones (2020)
Journal Article
Ramos, T. B., Caeiro, S., Disterheft, A., Mascarenhas, A., Deutz, P., Spangenberg, J. H., Montaño, M., Olayide, O., & Sohal, A. (2020). Rethinking sustainability: Questioning old perspectives and developing new ones. Journal of cleaner production, 258, Article 120769. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120769

The concept of sustainability is still progressing, being complex and contested, and is therefore under continuous discussion and research. This special volume comprises 29 articles exploring recent developments of sustainability concepts, approaches... Read More about Rethinking sustainability: Questioning old perspectives and developing new ones.

Brands and Branding: An Analysis of the Evolutionary Development of Baijiu Industry Clusters in China (2020)
Thesis
Yang, H. (2020). Brands and Branding: An Analysis of the Evolutionary Development of Baijiu Industry Clusters in China. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4508198

Research into industry clusters and brands and branding has emerged and developed in the Western world for decades. In China, the Reform and Opening up policy adopted since the late 1970s, has resulted in impressive economic growth around economic cl... Read More about Brands and Branding: An Analysis of the Evolutionary Development of Baijiu Industry Clusters in China.

Temperature effects on the spatial structure of heavy rainfall modify catchment hydro-morphological response (2020)
Journal Article
Peleg, N., Skinner, C., Fatichi, S., & Molnar, P. (2020). Temperature effects on the spatial structure of heavy rainfall modify catchment hydro-morphological response. Earth surface dynamics European Geosciences Union, 8(1), 17-36. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-8-17-2020

Heavy rainfall is expected to intensify with increasing temperatures, which will likely affect rainfall spatial characteristics. The spatial variability of rainfall can affect streamflow and sediment transport volumes and peaks. Yet, the effect of cl... Read More about Temperature effects on the spatial structure of heavy rainfall modify catchment hydro-morphological response.

River bank instability from unsustainable sand mining in the lower Mekong River (2020)
Journal Article
Hackney, C. R., Darby, S., Parsons, D. R., Leyland, J., Best, J., Aalto, R., Nicholas, A., & Houseago, R. (2020). River bank instability from unsustainable sand mining in the lower Mekong River. Nature Sustainability, 3(3), 217-225. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0455-3

Recent growth of the construction industry has fuelled demand for sand, with considerable volumes being extracted from the world’s large rivers. Sediment transport from upstream naturally replenishes sediment stored in river beds, but the absence of... Read More about River bank instability from unsustainable sand mining in the lower Mekong River.

Relating industrial symbiosis and circular economy to the sustainable development debate (2020)
Book Chapter
Cecchin, A., Salomone, R., Deutz, P., Raggi, A., & Cutaia, L. (2020). Relating industrial symbiosis and circular economy to the sustainable development debate. In R. Salomone, A. Cecchin, P. Deutz, A. Raggi, & L. Cutaia (Eds.), Industrial Symbiosis for the Circular Economy : Operational Experiences, Best Practices and Obstacles to a Collaborative Business Approach (1-25). (1). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36660-5_1

Industrial Symbiosis (IS) is a business-focused collaborative approach oriented towards resource efficiency that has been theorised and studied mainly over the last twenty-five years. Recently, IS seems to have found a renewed impetus in the framewor... Read More about Relating industrial symbiosis and circular economy to the sustainable development debate.

The Geographies of Protest and Public Space in Mid-nineteenth-century London: The Hyde Park Railings Affair (2019)
Journal Article
Awcock, H. (2019). The Geographies of Protest and Public Space in Mid-nineteenth-century London: The Hyde Park Railings Affair. Historical geography, 47(1), 194-217. https://doi.org/10.1353/hgo.2019.0006

On 23 July 1866, a protest took place in Hyde Park, London, which provides a lens through which to analyse historical struggles over access to, and control of, public space. What began as a protest in favour of manhood suffrage became a conflict over... Read More about The Geographies of Protest and Public Space in Mid-nineteenth-century London: The Hyde Park Railings Affair.

Hydrological/Hydraulic Modeling-Based Thresholding of Multi SAR Remote Sensing Data for Flood Monitoring in Regions of the Vietnamese Lower Mekong River Basin (2019)
Journal Article
Hong Quang, N., Tuan, V. A., Thi Thu Hang, L., Manh Hung, N., Thi The, D., Thi Dieu, D., Duc Anh, N., & Hackney, C. R. (2020). Hydrological/Hydraulic Modeling-Based Thresholding of Multi SAR Remote Sensing Data for Flood Monitoring in Regions of the Vietnamese Lower Mekong River Basin. Water, 12(1), Article 71. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12010071

Sub‐arctic river bank dynamics and driving processes during the open‐channel flow period (2019)
Journal Article
Lotsari, E., Hackney, C., Salmela, J., Kasvi, E., Kemp, J., Alho, P., & Darby, S. (2020). Sub‐arctic river bank dynamics and driving processes during the open‐channel flow period. Earth surface processes and landforms : the journal of the British Geomorphological Research Group, 45(5), 1198-1216. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4796

There is growing concern that rapidly changing climate in high latitudes may generate significant geomorphological changes that could mobilise floodplain sediments and carbon; however detailed investigations into the bank erosion process regimes of h... Read More about Sub‐arctic river bank dynamics and driving processes during the open‐channel flow period.

Sustainability transitions and policy dismantling: Zero carbon housing in the UK (2019)
Journal Article
O'Neill, K., & Gibbs, D. (2020). Sustainability transitions and policy dismantling: Zero carbon housing in the UK. Geoforum, 108, 119-129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.11.011

In this paper we examine the failure of the zero carbon homes agenda in the UK and argue that it represents a case of policy dismantling, where a range of policies and programmes have been introduced, revised and then removed by government. We bring... Read More about Sustainability transitions and policy dismantling: Zero carbon housing in the UK.

Unravelling The Role Of Green Entrepreneurs In Urban Sustainability Transitions (2019)
Journal Article
Gibbs, D., & Yu, Z. (in press). Unravelling The Role Of Green Entrepreneurs In Urban Sustainability Transitions. Urban studies, https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098019888144

This paper aims to understand the role of green entrepreneurs in urban sustainability transitions. We propose an analytical framework combining transition approaches and green entrepreneurship from a relational lens. It includes four processes: emerg... Read More about Unravelling The Role Of Green Entrepreneurs In Urban Sustainability Transitions.

Circular Economy (2019)
Book Chapter
Deutz, P. (2020). Circular Economy. In A. Kobayashi (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (193-201). (2nd ed.). Amsterdam: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102295-5.10630-4

A circular economy is an economic system designed with the intention that maximum use is extracted from resources and minimum waste is generated for disposal. Although some circular economy practices are already well established in some places (chief... Read More about Circular Economy.

Locating climate adaptation in urban and regional studies (2019)
Journal Article
Kythreotis, A. P., Jonas, A. E., & Howarth, C. (2020). Locating climate adaptation in urban and regional studies. Regional studies, 54(4), 576-588. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2019.1678744

This paper adds new insights to the relationship between city-regionalism, the territorial logics of the competition state and how climate adaptation is located in state spaces. Whilst climate adaptation governance is positioned within national econo... Read More about Locating climate adaptation in urban and regional studies.

Becoming chapels and everyday congregations: How the repair and maintenance of London's wesleyan chapels illustrates their communities' everyday practices and experiences (1851-1932) (2019)
Journal Article
Slatter, R. (2020). Becoming chapels and everyday congregations: How the repair and maintenance of London's wesleyan chapels illustrates their communities' everyday practices and experiences (1851-1932). Journal of Design History, 33(1), 34-49. https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epz032

This article uses archival references to maintenance and repair to approach nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Wesleyan chapels and their material contents as ‘becoming’ things. Reflecting on the material changes that made the maintenance or rep... Read More about Becoming chapels and everyday congregations: How the repair and maintenance of London's wesleyan chapels illustrates their communities' everyday practices and experiences (1851-1932).

Resource Recovery from Wastes: Towards a Circular Economy (2019)
Book
Macaskie, L. E., Sapsford, D. J., & Mayes, W. M. (Eds.). (2020). Resource Recovery from Wastes: Towards a Circular Economy. London: Royal Society of Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1039/9781788016353

The concept of a circular economy has been gaining increasing attention in recent years. Many of the sources of chemicals we have become reliant on are dwindling and the accumulation of waste products poses a serious environmental problem. By recover... Read More about Resource Recovery from Wastes: Towards a Circular Economy.

Governing Resource Flows in a Circular Economy: Rerouting Materials in an Established Policy Landscape (2019)
Book Chapter
Deutz, P., Baxter, H., & Gibbs, D. (2019). Governing Resource Flows in a Circular Economy: Rerouting Materials in an Established Policy Landscape. In L. E. Macaskie, D. J. Sapsford, & W. M. Mayes (Eds.), Resource Recovery from Wastes: Towards a Circular Economy (375-394). Royal Society of Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1039/9781788016353-00375

The development of a Circular Economy, whereby resources are kept in circulation for the extraction of maximum value, has captured extensive policy and academic attention. The circularisation of material flows is likely to prove a task for a generati... Read More about Governing Resource Flows in a Circular Economy: Rerouting Materials in an Established Policy Landscape.