Encountering bare life in Italian Libya and colonial amnesia in Agamben
(2012)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, D. (2012). Encountering bare life in Italian Libya and colonial amnesia in Agamben. In Agamben and Colonialism (155-177). Edinburgh University Press
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Framing GM crops as a food security solution (2011)
Journal Article
Dibden, J., Gibbs, D., & Cocklin, C. (2013). Framing GM crops as a food security solution. Journal of rural studies, 29, 59-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2011.11.001The spectre of a food security crisis has raised important questions about future directions for agriculture and given fresh impetus to a long-standing debate about the potential contribution of agricultural biotechnology to food security. This paper... Read More about Framing GM crops as a food security solution.
Impact of Oil Shale Mining on Flow Regimes in Northeast Estonia (2011)
Journal Article
Vaht, R., Mayes, W., & Luud, A. (2011). Impact of Oil Shale Mining on Flow Regimes in Northeast Estonia. Mine Water and the Environment, 30(4), 284-295. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10230-011-0162-4
The new urban politics as a politics of carbon control (2011)
Journal Article
Jonas, A. E., Gibbs, D., & While, A. (2011). The new urban politics as a politics of carbon control. Urban studies, 48(12), 2537-2554. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098011411951The new urban politics (NUP) literature has helped to draw attention to a new generation of entrepreneurial urban regimes involved in the competition to attract investment to cities. Interurban competition often had negative environmental consequence... Read More about The new urban politics as a politics of carbon control.
Treatment of zinc-rich acid mine water in low residence time bioreactors incorporating waste shells and methanol dosing. (2011)
Journal Article
Mayes, W., Davis, J., Silva, V., & Jarvis, A. P. (2011). Treatment of zinc-rich acid mine water in low residence time bioreactors incorporating waste shells and methanol dosing. Journal of hazardous materials, 193, 279-287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2011.07.073Bioreactors utilising bacterially mediated sulphate reduction (BSR) have been widely tested for treating metal-rich waters, but sustained treatment of mobile metals (e.g. Zn) can be difficult to achieve in short residence time systems. Data are prese... Read More about Treatment of zinc-rich acid mine water in low residence time bioreactors incorporating waste shells and methanol dosing..
DNA typing and super dairies: changing practices and remaking cows reenacting dairy cows (2011)
Journal Article
Holloway, L., & Bear, C. (2011). DNA typing and super dairies: changing practices and remaking cows reenacting dairy cows. Environment & planning. A, 43(7), 1487 - 1491. https://doi.org/10.1068/a4425
Political ecology and habitat conservation for endangered species planning in Southern California: region, places, and ecological governance (2011)
Journal Article
Pincetl, S., Jonas, A., & Sullivan, J. (2011). Political ecology and habitat conservation for endangered species planning in Southern California: region, places, and ecological governance. Geoforum, 42(4), 427-438. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.03.001The county of Riverside California has a long history of land conservation. In this comparative case study between Western Riverside County and the Coachella Valley area in the county we show how governance institutions that encompass regions that ha... Read More about Political ecology and habitat conservation for endangered species planning in Southern California: region, places, and ecological governance.
Preliminary study of hazardous materials management: An optimization model in the context of green supply chain management (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhao, R., Neighbour, G., & Deutz, P. (2011, May). Preliminary study of hazardous materials management: An optimization model in the context of green supply chain management. Presented at 5th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, iCBBE 2011, Wuhan, ChinaAlthough the general framework of supply chain management usually focuses on the production process, as well as the delivery of the product to the market and the consumers, the treatment and disposal of waste materials is usually given little deliber... Read More about Preliminary study of hazardous materials management: An optimization model in the context of green supply chain management.
Analysis of long term hydrological records to assess the changing regime and pathways in oil shale mining districts of North East Estonia (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vaht, R., Mayes, W. M., Sepp, M., Järvet, A., & Mander, Ü. Analysis of long term hydrological records to assess the changing regime and pathways in oil shale mining districts of North East Estonia. Presented at River Basin Management VIThis paper documents long term (1923-2005) changes in surface drainage areas and run-off characteristics in two small to medium (100-1000 km2) rivers draining part of the Ordovician oil shale field of north east Estonia. The changing regime in the he... Read More about Analysis of long term hydrological records to assess the changing regime and pathways in oil shale mining districts of North East Estonia.
Fractures in meta-narratives of development: an interpretive institutionalist account of land use development in the Boston city-region (2011)
Journal Article
Gibbs, D., & Krueger, R. (2012). Fractures in meta-narratives of development: an interpretive institutionalist account of land use development in the Boston city-region. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 36(2), 363-380. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2011.01061.xThis article explores economy-environment relations in urban areas through a focus upon the reorientation of development in the Boston city-region in Massachusetts around a vision of smart growth. The article draws upon the evolving tradition of crit... Read More about Fractures in meta-narratives of development: an interpretive institutionalist account of land use development in the Boston city-region.
Dispersal and attenuation of trace contaminants downstream of the Ajka bauxite residue (red mud) depository failure, Hungary (2011)
Journal Article
Mayes, W. M., Jarvis, A. P., Burke, I. T., Walton, M., Feigl, V., Klebercz, O., & Gruiz, K. (2011). Dispersal and attenuation of trace contaminants downstream of the Ajka bauxite residue (red mud) depository failure, Hungary. Environmental Science and Technology, 45(12), 5147-5155. https://doi.org/10.1021/es200850yThis paper identifies the spatial extent of bauxite processing residue (red mud)-derived contaminants and modes of transport within the Marcal and Raba river systems after the dike failure at Ajka, western Hungary. The geochemical signature of the re... Read More about Dispersal and attenuation of trace contaminants downstream of the Ajka bauxite residue (red mud) depository failure, Hungary.
Seasonal and spatial variation of diffuse (non-point) source zinc pollution in a historically metal mined river catchment, UK (2011)
Journal Article
Gozzard, E., Mayes, W., Potter, H., & Jarvis, A. (2011). Seasonal and spatial variation of diffuse (non-point) source zinc pollution in a historically metal mined river catchment, UK. Environmental pollution, 159(10), 3113-3122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2011.02.010Quantifying diffuse sources of pollution is becoming increasingly important when characterising river catchments in entirety e a prerequisite for environmental management. This study examines both low and high flow events, as well as spatial variabil... Read More about Seasonal and spatial variation of diffuse (non-point) source zinc pollution in a historically metal mined river catchment, UK.
Spaces, times, and critical moments: a relational time-space analysis of the impacts of AIDS on rural youth in Malawi and Lesotho (2011)
Journal Article
Ansell, N., van Blerk, L., Hajdu, F., & Robson, E. (2011). Spaces, times, and critical moments: a relational time-space analysis of the impacts of AIDS on rural youth in Malawi and Lesotho. Environment & planning. A, 43(3), 525-544. https://doi.org/10.1068/a4363Southern Africa's AIDS epidemic is profoundly spatially and temporally structured; so too are the lives of the young people whose families it blights. In this paper we draw on qualitative research with AIDS-affected young people in Malawi and Lesotho... Read More about Spaces, times, and critical moments: a relational time-space analysis of the impacts of AIDS on rural youth in Malawi and Lesotho.
Environmental Bargains: Power Struggles and Decision Making over British Columbia's and Tasmania's Old-Growth Forests (2011)
Journal Article
Affolderbach, J. (2011). Environmental Bargains: Power Struggles and Decision Making over British Columbia's and Tasmania's Old-Growth Forests. Economic geography, 87(2), 181-206. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1944-8287.2011.01107.xOver the past few decades, conflicts over resources have increased in scale and intensity. They are frequently dominated by environmental nongovernmental organizations (ENGOs) that fight, boycott, lobby, and negotiate with other interest groups to pr... Read More about Environmental Bargains: Power Struggles and Decision Making over British Columbia's and Tasmania's Old-Growth Forests.
Remediation of Aquatic Post-Industrial Inorganic Pollutants (2011)
Book Chapter
Mayes, W. M., & Jarvis, A. P. (2011). Remediation of Aquatic Post-Industrial Inorganic Pollutants. In J. Nriagu (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Environmental Health (789-800). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-52272-6.00047-7Pollution from abandoned mines can be a major and persistent source of degradation to the health of the water environment. This article reviews the nature of these impacts. The most important of these are usually the chemical changes that occur with... Read More about Remediation of Aquatic Post-Industrial Inorganic Pollutants.
Speciation of contaminant metals in red mud from Ajka, Hungary (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Burke, I. T., Mayes, W. M., Peacock, C. L., Brown, A. P., Jarvis, A. P., & Gruiz, K. Speciation of contaminant metals in red mud from Ajka, Hungary. Presented at Goldschmidt 2011 ConferenceThe catastrophic failure of the sludge dam at the Ajkai Timfoldgyar Zrt alumina plant in Hungary on the 4th October 2010 resulted in the release of 700000 m 3 of caustic metalliferous red mud. Red mud leachate is hyperalkaline (pH 13) has elevated c... Read More about Speciation of contaminant metals in red mud from Ajka, Hungary.
Classical traditions and cultural geographies (2011)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, D. (2011). Classical traditions and cultural geographies. In Visual and historical geography: essays in honour of Denis E. Cosgrove (44075). Historical Geography Research Series, Royal Geographical Society - Institute of British Geographers
Mobility, surveillance and control of children and young people in the everyday: Perspectives from sub-Saharan Africa (2011)
Journal Article
Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Munthali, A., & Robson, E. (2011). Mobility, surveillance and control of children and young people in the everyday: Perspectives from sub-Saharan Africa. Surveillance and Society, 9(1-2), 114-131. https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v9i1/2.4110© The authors, 2011. Surveillance of children and young people in non–Western contexts has received little attention in the literature. In this paper we draw principally on our research in one African country, Malawi, to examine the ways in which the... Read More about Mobility, surveillance and control of children and young people in the everyday: Perspectives from sub-Saharan Africa.
REFAME: rain estimation using forward-adjusted advection of microwave estimates (2010)
Journal Article
Behrangi, A., Imam, B., Hsu, K., Sorooshian, S., Bellerby, T. J., & Huffman, G. J. (2010). REFAME: rain estimation using forward-adjusted advection of microwave estimates. Journal of hydrometeorology, 11(6), 1305-1321. https://doi.org/10.1175/2010JHM1248.1A new multiplatform multisensor satellite rainfall estimation technique is proposed in which sequences of Geostationary Earth Orbit infrared (GEO-IR) images are used to advect microwave (MW)-derived precipitation estimates along cloud motion streamli... Read More about REFAME: rain estimation using forward-adjusted advection of microwave estimates.
Blue Nile runoff sensitivity to climate change (2010)
Journal Article
Nawaz, R., Bellerby, T., Sayed, M., & Elshamy, M. (2010). Blue Nile runoff sensitivity to climate change. The open hydrology journal, 4(Special issue), 137 - 151. https://doi.org/10.2174/1874378101004010137This study describes implementation of hydrological climate change impact assessment tool utilising a combination of statistical spatiotemporal downscaling and an operational hydrological model known as the Nile Forecasting System. A spatial rainfall... Read More about Blue Nile runoff sensitivity to climate change.