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Recent Publications
Publications from all members of the School of Geography and the Environment (including our research centres - the Environmental Change Institute and Transport Studies Unit) are provided below. Publications and research output are also provided on staff webpages and by research cluster.
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New Publications (2012)
- Arizzi, A., Viles, H. and Cultrone, G. (2012) Experimental testing of the durability of lime-based mortars used for rendering historic buildings. Construction and Building Materials, 28(1): 807-818.
- Barua, M., Gurdak, D.J., Ahmed, R.A. and Tamuly, J. (2012) Selecting flagships for invertebrate conservation. Biodiversity and Conservation.
- Clark, G.L. (2012) From corporatism to public utilities: workplace pensions in the 21st Century. Geographical Research, 50(1): 31-46.
- Clark, G.L. and Monk, A.H.B. (2012) Sovereign Wealth Funds: Form and functions in the 21st Century. CAPCO Journal, 33: 17-27.
Clark, G.L., Strauss, K. and Knox-Hayes, J. (2012) Saving for Retirement. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 224 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-960085-4.- Davenport, D. (2012) BRICS in the global climate regime: rapidly industrializing countries and international climate negotiations. Chapter 3 in, Bailey, I. and H. Compston (eds.) Feeling the Heat: The politics of climate policy in rapidly industrializing countries. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 38-56. ISBN: 9780230280403.
- Givoni, M. and Banister, D. (2012) Reinventing the wheel: planning the rail network to meet the mobility needs of the 21st century. In, Frenkel, A., Nijkamp, P. and McCann, P. (eds.) Societies in Motion: Innovation, migration and regional transformation. Edward Elgar, pp. 320-342. ISBN: 978-0-85793-993-7.
- Hale, J.D., Fairbrass, A.J., Matthews, T.J. and Sadler, J.P. (2012) Habitat composition and connectivity predicts bat presence and activity at foraging sites in a large UK conurbation. PloS ONE, 7: e33300.
- Hickman, R., Banister, D. and Ashiru, O. (2012) Modelling the potential transport CO2 mitigation impacts of available policy interventions. Chapter 10 in, Geerlings, H., Shiftan, Y. and D. Stead (eds.) Transition Towards Sustainable Mobility: The role of instruments, individuals and institutions. Ashgate. pp. 187-214. ISBN: 9781409424697.
- Hickman, R., Saxena, S., Banister, D. and Ashiru, O. (2012) Examining transport futures with scenario analysis and MCA. Transportation Research A, 46(3): 560-575.
- Hope, R.A., Foster, T., Money, A. and Rouse, M. (2012) Harnessing mobile communications innovations for water security. Global Policy.
- Howarth, N. and Foxall, A. (2012) More than hot air: the economics and politics of climate change in Russia. Chapter 8 in, Bailey, I. and H. Compston (eds.) Feeling the Heat: The politics of climate policy in rapidly industrializing countries. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 149-174. ISBN: 9780230280403.
- Kajenthira, A., Holmes, J. and McDonnell, R. (2012) The role of qualitative risk assessment in environmental management: a Kazakhstani case study. Science of The Total Environment, 420: 24-32.
- Lopez, A. (2012) Regional implications. Chapter 3 in, Booth, C.A., Hammond, F.N., Lamond, J.E., and D.G. Proverbs (eds.) Solutions to Climate Change Challenges in the Built Environment. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 23-32. ISBN: 9781405195072.
- Lucas, K. (2012) Transport and social exclusion: where are we now? Transport Policy, 20: 105-113.
- Lucas, K. (2012) Transport and social exclusion: where are we now? Chapter 10 in, Grieco, M. and J. Urry (eds.) Mobilities: new perspectives on transport and society. Ashgate. pp. 207-222. ISBN: 9781409411505.
- Malhi, Y. (2012) The productivity, metabolism and carbon cycle of tropical forest vegetation. Journal of Ecology, 100(1): 65-75.
- Marthews, T.R., Malhi, Y. and Iwata, H. (2012) Calculating downward longwave radiation under clear and cloudy conditions over a tropical lowland forest site: an evaluation of model schemes for hourly data. Theoretical and Applied Meteorology, 107(3-4): 461-477.
Middleton, N. (2012) Rivers: A very short introduction. Oxford University Press. 152 pp. ISBN: 978-0-19-958867-1.
Mol, L. and Sternberg, T. (2012) Changing Deserts: Integrating people and their environment. The White Horse Press. 346pp. ISBN 978-1-874267-69-0.- Moran, D., Piacentini, L. and Pallot, J. (2012) Disciplined mobility and carceral geography: prisoner transport in Russia. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.
- Morel, A.C., Fisher, J.B. and Malhi, Y. (2012) Evaluating the potential to monitor aboveground biomass in forest and oil palm in Sabah, Malaysia, for 2000-2008 with Landsat ETM+ and ALOS-PALSAR. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 33(11): 3614-3639.
- Riutta, T., Slade, E.M., Bebber, D.P., Taylor, M.E., Malhi, Y., Riordan, P., Macdonald, D.W. and Morecroft, M.D. (2012) Experimental evidence for the interacting effects of forest edge, moisture and soil macrofauna on leaf litter decomposition. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 49: 124-131.
- Stone, A.E.C. and Thomas, D.S.G. (2012) Casting new light on late Quaternary environmental and palaeohydrological change in the Namib Desert: a review of the application of optically stimulated luminescence in the region. Journal of Arid Environments.
- Thomas, D.S.G. and Burrough, S. (2012) Interpreting geoproxies of late Quaternary climate change in African drylands: implications for understanding environmental change and early human behaviour. Quaternary International, 253: 5-17.
- Thomas, D.S.G., Burrough, S. and Parker, A.G. (2012) Extreme events as drivers of early human behaviour in Africa? The case for variability, not catastrophic drought. Journal of Quaternary Science, 27(1): 7-12.
- Tran, M. (2012) Agent-behaviour and network influence on energy innovation diffusion. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 17(2): 3682-2695.
- Tran, M. (2012) Technology-behavioural modelling of energy innovation diffusion in the UK. Applied Energy, 96: 1-11.
- Tran, M., Banister, D., Bishop, J.D.K. and McCulloch, M.D. (2012) Realizing the electric-vehicle revolution. Nature Climate Change, 2: 328-333.
- Viles, H.A. and Goudie, A.S. (2012) Weathering in the central Namib Desert, Namibia: controls, processes and implications. Journal of Arid Environments.
- Vira, B., Adams, W., Agarwal, C., Badiger, S., Hope, R.A., Krishnaswamy, J. and Kumar, C. (2012) Negotiating trade-offs: making informed choices for ecosystem services. Economic and Political Weekly, XLVII(9): 67-75.