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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.

Spinsters with land in early modern England: inheritance, possession and use (2019)
Book Chapter
Spicksley, J. (2019). Spinsters with land in early modern England: inheritance, possession and use. In A. L. Capern, B. McDonagh, & J. Aston (Eds.), Women and the Land 1500-1900 (51-76). Boydell & Brewer. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781787445208.003

This chapter offers an analysis of the land that was held by spinsters in England from the mid-sixteenth to the end of the seventeenth century. Although our knowledge of landholding by women is increasing, there is little published work on the amount... Read More about Spinsters with land in early modern England: inheritance, possession and use.

Taking Current Climate Change Research to the Classroom—The “Will Hermit Crabs Go Hungry in Future Oceans?” Project (2019)
Book Chapter
Roggatz, C. C., Kenningham, N., & Bartels-Hardege, H. D. (2019). Taking Current Climate Change Research to the Classroom—The “Will Hermit Crabs Go Hungry in Future Oceans?” Project. In W. L. Filho, & S. L. Hemstock (Eds.), Climate Change and the Role of Education (255-277). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32898-6_15

© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Climate change and its consequences at environmental, social and economic level will affect all of us, in particular the children of today who are the world’s citizens of tomorrow. However, the causes, conseque... Read More about Taking Current Climate Change Research to the Classroom—The “Will Hermit Crabs Go Hungry in Future Oceans?” Project.

Recent research on the Arras Culture in its landscape setting (2019)
Book Chapter
Halkon, P. (2019). Recent research on the Arras Culture in its landscape setting. In D. C. Cowley, M. Fernández-Götz, T. Romankiewicz, & H. Wendling (Eds.), Rural Settlement : relating buildings, landscape, and people in the European Iron Age (57-68). Sidestone Press

Between 1815 and 1817 the Reverend William Stillingfleet, Barnard Clarkson and Dr Thomas Hull, with the aid of an unspecified number of workmen, undertook the excavation of a series of burial mounds at Arras Farm, near the East Yorkshire town of Mark... Read More about Recent research on the Arras Culture in its landscape setting.

Introduction (2019)
Book Chapter
Drábek, P., & Katritzky, M. A. (2019). Introduction. In Transnational Connections in Early Modern Theatre (1-19). Manchester University Press

This introduction outlines the methodological, theoretical and interdisciplinary novelties of the volume, reflecting on the historiographical specifics and methods applied in the volume, in its organization, in its treatment of historic documents and... Read More about Introduction.

'Why, sir, are there other heauens in other countries?': The English Comedy as a transnational style (2019)
Book Chapter
Drábek, P. (2019). 'Why, sir, are there other heauens in other countries?': The English Comedy as a transnational style. In M. A. Katritzky, & P. Drabek (Eds.), Transnational Connections in Early Modern Theatre (139-161). Manchester University Press

This essay analyzes the specifics of the English Comedy (Englische Comedie) as a genre practised by the popular travelling English troupes and their inheritors, during the century between the 1580s and 1680s. Most scholarship has assumed that English... Read More about 'Why, sir, are there other heauens in other countries?': The English Comedy as a transnational style.

"If love was a crime, we would be criminals": the Eurovision Song Contest and the queer international politics of flags (2019)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2019). "If love was a crime, we would be criminals": the Eurovision Song Contest and the queer international politics of flags. In J. Kalman, B. Wellings, & K. Jacotine (Eds.), Eurovisions: Identity and the international politics of the Eurovision Song Contest since 1956 (175-200). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9427-0_9

Baker uses contestations over flags at the Eurovision Song Contest to illustrate the paradox that, while Eurovision is ostensibly ‘non-political’ and prohibits ‘political’ messages and symbols, organisers, hosts, broadcasters, contestants and fans ha... Read More about "If love was a crime, we would be criminals": the Eurovision Song Contest and the queer international politics of flags.

Foreword to Coventry (2019)
Book Chapter
Metcalf, J. (2019). Foreword to Coventry. . Livingston Press

A foreword to the 2019 re-released novel Coventry by Joseph Bathanti which won the Novello Literary Award in 2006.

Historical evolution of the international legal responses to the trafficking of children: A critique (2019)
Book Chapter
Faulkner, E. A. (2019). Historical evolution of the international legal responses to the trafficking of children: A critique. In J. Winterdyk, & J. Jones (Eds.), The Palgrave International Handbook of Human Trafficking (79-95). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63058-8_113

© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer International Publishing AG 2020. All rights reserved. The trafficking of children has received extensive attention from both academic and political arenas in recent years, yet this growing phenome... Read More about Historical evolution of the international legal responses to the trafficking of children: A critique.

A New Perspective on a Global Circular Economy (2019)
Book Chapter
Velenturf, A. P. M., Purnell, P., Macaskie, L. E., Mayes, W. M., & Sapsford, D. J. (2020). A New Perspective on a Global Circular Economy. In Resource recovery from wastes : towards a circular economy (3-22). Royal Society of Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1039/9781788016353-00001

© The Royal Society of Chemistry 2020. Natural resource exploitation is accelerating in the face of resource decline, while at the same time people are generating ever growing quantities of wastes. Population and income growth drive up the demand for... Read More about A New Perspective on a Global Circular Economy.

‘Work in countryside, cities and towns’ (2019)
Book Chapter
Spicksley, J. (2019). ‘Work in countryside, cities and towns’. In A. L. Capern (Ed.), The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe (135-180). Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429355783

This chapter focuses on Western Europe, which, as an area, probably had the greatest number of commonalities throughout the period under review. Perhaps as significantly for women, early-modern Europe witnessed a huge expansion in provision for, and... Read More about ‘Work in countryside, cities and towns’.

Integrating Remediation and Resource Recovery of Industrial Alkaline Wastes: Case Studies of Steel and Alumina Industry Residues (2019)
Book Chapter
Gomes, H. I., Rogerson, M., Courtney, R., & Mayes, W. M. (2020). Integrating Remediation and Resource Recovery of Industrial Alkaline Wastes: Case Studies of Steel and Alumina Industry Residues. In Resource recovery from wastes: towards a circular economy (168-191). Royal Society of Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1039/9781788016353-00168

With an estimated annual production of two billion tonnes globally, alkaline industrial wastes can be considered both major global waste streams, and materials that offer significant options for potential resource recovery. Alkaline wastes are usuall... Read More about Integrating Remediation and Resource Recovery of Industrial Alkaline Wastes: Case Studies of Steel and Alumina Industry Residues.

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.

Uneasy bedfellows: Fisheries and the search for space for marine conservation zones in english waters (2019)
Book Chapter
Rodmell, D., Caveen, A., & Johnson, M. L. (2020). Uneasy bedfellows: Fisheries and the search for space for marine conservation zones in english waters. In J. Humphreys, & R. W. Clark (Eds.), Marine Protected Areas: Science Policy and Management (99-112). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102698-4.00005-8

In contrast to the exclusion of human use considerations in MPA designation processes under the European nature directives, the distinct UK legal framework for Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs) permits social and economic factors in site selection dec... Read More about Uneasy bedfellows: Fisheries and the search for space for marine conservation zones in english waters.

Techno-economic assessment and life cycle assessment for CO<sub>2</sub> utilisation (2019)
Book Chapter
Armstrong, K., Zimmermann, A., Müller, L., Wunderlich, J., Buchner, G., Marxen, A., …Schomäcker, R. (2019). Techno-economic assessment and life cycle assessment for CO2 utilisation. In M. North, & P. Styring (Eds.), Carbon Dioxide Utilisation, Volume 1 : Fundamentals (63-78). Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110563191-005

This chapter is mainly based on the Techno-Economic Assessment and Life Cycle Assessment Guidelines for CO2Utilisation[1] written by the authors. This chapter provides a brief introduction to techno-economic assessment (TEA) and life cycle assessment... Read More about Techno-economic assessment and life cycle assessment for CO<sub>2</sub> utilisation.

Towards sustainable methanol from industrial CO2 sources (2019)
Book Chapter
Douven, S., Benkoussas, H., Font-Palma, C., & Léonard, G. (2019). Towards sustainable methanol from industrial CO2 sources. In M. North, & P. Styring (Eds.), Carbon Dioxide Utilization : Volume 2 : Transformations (361-384). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110665147-019

This chapter discusses the opportunity of using CO2 from industrial sources to produce sustainable methanol. Some important industrial sectors that could be seen as potential sources of CO2 are reviewed: ammonia, steel, ethanol, ethylene, natural gas... Read More about Towards sustainable methanol from industrial CO2 sources.

Oxytocin/vasopressin-like neuropeptide signaling in insects (2019)
Book Chapter
Muratspahić, E., Monjon, E., Duerrauer, L., Rogers, S. M., Cullen, D. A., Vanden Broeck, J., & Gruber, C. W. (2020). Oxytocin/vasopressin-like neuropeptide signaling in insects. In G. Litwack (Ed.), Vasopressin (29-53). Cambridge, Mass.: Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.vh.2019.08.011

The origin of the oxytocin (OT)/vasopressin (VP) signaling system is thought to date back more than 600 million years. OT/VP-like peptides have been identified in numerous invertebrate phyla including molluscs, annelids, nematodes and insects. Howeve... Read More about Oxytocin/vasopressin-like neuropeptide signaling in insects.

A conceptual framework to incorporate complex basic events in HiP-HOPS (2019)
Book Chapter
Kabir, S., Aslansefat, K., Sorokos, I., Papadopoulos, Y., & Gheraibia, Y. (2019). A conceptual framework to incorporate complex basic events in HiP-HOPS. In Y. Papadopoulos, K. Aslansefat, P. Katsaros, & M. Bozzano (Eds.), Model-Based Safety and Assessment. IMBSA 2019 (109-124). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32872-6_8

Reliability evaluation for ensuring the uninterrupted system operation is an integral part of dependable system development. Model-based safety analysis (MBSA) techniques such as Hierarchically Performed Hazard Origin and Propagation Studies (HiP-HOP... Read More about A conceptual framework to incorporate complex basic events in HiP-HOPS.

“Why the sea is salty”: Folktales as sources of grassroots economics (2019)
Book Chapter
Sotiropoulou, I. (2019). “Why the sea is salty”: Folktales as sources of grassroots economics. In W. G. Mullins, & P. Batra-Wells (Eds.), The Folklorist in the Marketplace: The Economics of Folklore and the Folklore of Economics (214-233). University Press of Colorado