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Learning from arts and humanities approaches for building climate resilience in the UK (2023)
Book Chapter
Brookes, E., McDonagh, B., Wagner, C., Ashton, J., Harvey-Fishenden, A., Kennedy-Asser, A., …Smith, K. (2023). Learning from arts and humanities approaches for building climate resilience in the UK. In S. Dessai, K. Lonsdale, J. Lowe, & R. Harcourt (Eds.), Quantifying Climate Risk and Building Resilience in the UK (75-89). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39729-5_6

Summary: • This chapter shares insights from five arts and humanities-led UK Climate Resilience Programme projects, presenting key learnings and pathways for future research and policy interventions. • We highlight the significant potential of pla... Read More about Learning from arts and humanities approaches for building climate resilience in the UK.

Scapa 100: The Marine Life Legacy (2021)
Book Chapter
Porter, J., & Want, A. (2021). Scapa 100: The Marine Life Legacy. In M. Edmonds, & J. Park (Eds.), Scapa Flow Legacy : Orkney and the German High Seas Fleet (171--183). Kirkwall: The Orcadian (Kirkwall Press)

Blood, Blots and Belonging: English Heathens and their (ab)uses of folklore (2021)
Book Chapter
Smith, K. (2021). Blood, Blots and Belonging: English Heathens and their (ab)uses of folklore. In M. Cheeseman, & C. Hart (Eds.), Folklore and the Nation (262-278). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003007531

The rise of exclusionary, populist ideologies in the post-industrial Global North is a well-documented phenomenon: posing moral and physical challenges to civil society, manifestations of these ideologies occur in a diverse range of European localiti... Read More about Blood, Blots and Belonging: English Heathens and their (ab)uses of folklore.

Diatom Biofilms: Ecosystem Engineering and Niche Construction (2021)
Book Chapter
Paterson, D. M. .., & Hope, J. A. (2021). Diatom Biofilms: Ecosystem Engineering and Niche Construction. In R. Gordon, S. A. Cohn, & K. M. Manoylov (Eds.), Diatom Gliding Motility: Biology and Applications (135-158). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119526483.ch6

Ecology is complex and while there is a modern drive towards a holistic or “ecosystem approach” for managing marine systems, we are still a long way from fully understanding the interactions between the various components of different ecosystems and... Read More about Diatom Biofilms: Ecosystem Engineering and Niche Construction.

“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). Louisville, CO: University Press of Colorado

Solar Thermoelectric Technologies for Power Generation (2019)
Book Chapter
Li, G., Ma, X., Shittu, S., & Zhao, X. (2019). Solar Thermoelectric Technologies for Power Generation. In X. Zhao, & X. Ma (Eds.), Advanced Energy Efficiency Technologies for Solar Heating, Cooling and Power Generation. Green Energy and Technology (341-371). Springer (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17283-1_10

© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Thermoelectric power generation (TEG) is the most effective process that can create electrical current from a thermal gradient directly, based on the Seebeck effect. Solar energy as renewable energy can provide... Read More about Solar Thermoelectric Technologies for Power Generation.

Modular Solar System for Building Integration (2019)
Book Chapter
Ren, G., Zhu, Z., Sun, Y., & Zhao, X. (2019). Modular Solar System for Building Integration. In X. Zhao, & X. Ma (Eds.), Advanced Energy Efficiency Technologies for Solar Heating, Cooling and Power Generation (143-163). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17283-1_5

© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Building integrated solar systems, which means components of solar thermal collectors and/or solar photovoltaics (PV) are completely integrated with building envelopes, can potentially provide additional functi... Read More about Modular Solar System for Building Integration.

Wind–Wave Loading and Response of OWT Monopiles in Rough Seas (2019)
Book Chapter
Mockute, A., Borri, C., Marino, E., & Lugni, C. (2019). Wind–Wave Loading and Response of OWT Monopiles in Rough Seas. In F. Ricciardelli, & A. M. Avossa (Eds.), Proceedings of the XV Conference of the Italian Association for Wind Engineering. IN VENTO 2018 (507-518). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12815-9_39

© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Monopile-supported OWTs are prone to ringing – a dangerous nonlinear resonant phenomenon which is still not fully understood. Both wind and waves have a major influence on it, wind with its aerodynamic damping... Read More about Wind–Wave Loading and Response of OWT Monopiles in Rough Seas.

Wave loads on monopile-supported offshore wind turbines: Current methods and future challenges (2018)
Book Chapter
Marino, E., Mockute, A., Borri, C., & Lugni, C. (2018). Wave loads on monopile-supported offshore wind turbines: Current methods and future challenges. In H. R. Reza Karimi (Ed.), Structural Control and Fault Detection of Wind Turbine Systems (9-44). London: Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). https://doi.org/10.1049/PBPO117E_ch2

This chapter provides an overview of the methods recently proposed for the prediction of the wave loads on fixed-bottom wind turbines, with particular emphasis on the role of nonlinear wave contributions in the assessment of the dynamic response of t... Read More about Wave loads on monopile-supported offshore wind turbines: Current methods and future challenges.

Black money, white money and the circulation of parallel currencies in Venetian Crete (2018)
Book Chapter
Sotiropoulou, I. (2018). Black money, white money and the circulation of parallel currencies in Venetian Crete. In Proceedings of the 12th International Congress of Cretan Studies, vol. B (Middle Ages). Herakleion, Greece: Society of Cretan Historical Studies

The paper is based in preliminary research concerning the monetary policies adopted by the Venetian rulers of Crete in the Middle Ages and the implications of the system of black and white money that they used. By the terms "black money" and "whit... Read More about Black money, white money and the circulation of parallel currencies in Venetian Crete.

Flood Groups in England: Governance arrangements and contribution to flood resilience (2017)
Book Chapter
Forrest, S., Trell, E., & Woltjer, J. (2017). Flood Groups in England: Governance arrangements and contribution to flood resilience. In E. Trell, B. Restemeyer, M. M. Bakema, & B. van Hoven (Eds.), Governing for Resilience in Vulnerable Places (92-115). Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315103761

By focusing on developing a working definition of flood groups in England, and by analysing their governance arrangements, this chapter aims to shed light on their potential influence on community resilience to flooding. It discusses resilience in re... Read More about Flood Groups in England: Governance arrangements and contribution to flood resilience.

Everyday practices in Greece in the shadow of property: Urban domination subverted (?) (2015)
Book Chapter
Sotiropoulou, I. (2015). Everyday practices in Greece in the shadow of property: Urban domination subverted (?). In A. Allen, A. Lampis, & M. Swilling (Eds.), Untamed Urbanisms (270-283). London & New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315746692

Introduction This chapter is a first attempt to explore the stance towards property in urban space adopted by grassroots everyday practices in Greek urban centres. The schemes do not use official currency, and neither do they follow the rule of oblig... Read More about Everyday practices in Greece in the shadow of property: Urban domination subverted (?).

Methane Dynamics in Peat: Importance of Shallow Peats and a Novel Reduced-Complexity Approach for Modeling Ebullition (2013)
Book Chapter
Ramirez, J., Coulthard, T. J., Baird, A. J., & Waddington, J. M. (2013). Methane Dynamics in Peat: Importance of Shallow Peats and a Novel Reduced-Complexity Approach for Modeling Ebullition. In Carbon Cycling in Northern Peatlands; Geophysical Monograph Series (173-185). American Geophysical Union. https://doi.org/10.1029/2008gm000811

Northern peatlands are one of the largest natural sources of atmospheric methane (CH4), and it is important to understand the mechanisms of CH4 loss from these peatlands so that future rates of CH4 emission can be predicted. CH4 is lost to the atmosp... Read More about Methane Dynamics in Peat: Importance of Shallow Peats and a Novel Reduced-Complexity Approach for Modeling Ebullition.