Geography
Welcome to the research outputs of the University of Exeter Department of Geography, part of the College of Life and Environmental Sciences
Recent Submissions
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Bleaching drives collapse in reef carbonate budgets and reef growth potential on southern Maldives reefs
(Nature Publishing Group, 2017-01-13)Sea-surface temperature (SST) warming events, which are projected to increase in frequency and intensity with climate change, represent major threats to coral reefs. How these events impact reef carbonate budgets, and thus ... -
The governance of industry rules and energy system innovation: The case of codes in Great Britain
(Elsevier, 2017-06-30)Highlights • Detailed energy industry rules are crucial to realising policy goals, but typically overlooked. • Governance arrangements determine ease of rule change for policy goals. • Delegation is a widespread ... -
Limited contribution of permafrost carbon to methane release from thawing peatlands
(Springer Nature, 2017-06-26)Models predict that thaw of permafrost soils at northern high latitudes will release tens of billions of tonnes of carbon (C) to the atmosphere by 2100 (refs 1,2,3). The effect on the Earth’s climate depends strongly on ... -
Nearshore turbid-zone corals exhibit high bleaching tolerance on the Great Barrier Reef following the 2016 ocean warming event
(Frontiers Media, 2017)High sea surface temperatures (SSTs) on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) during summer 2015/2016 caused extensive coral bleaching, with aerial and in-water surveys confirming high (but variable) bleaching-related coral mortality. ... -
Building Digital Identities: The Challenges, Risks and Opportunities of Collecting Behavioural Attributes for new Digital Identity Systems.
(University of Exeter and Coelition, 2017-06-09)The provision of legal identity for all is increasingly viewed as a key mechanism for driving development goals. Behavioural attributes produced through digital interactions may have significant potential for enabling ... -
Neoliberal energy transitions in the South: Kenyan experiences
(Elsevier, 2016-06-02)What is the relationship between the direction and form of an energy transition and the political economy within which it is embedded? This paper explores how the nature of (low carbon) energy transitions is strongly ... -
Pursuing Clean Energy Equitably
(UNDP Human Development Research Office, 2011-11)This paper explores the opportunities for a ‘just transition’ to low carbon and sustainable energy systems; one that addresses the current inequities in the distribution of energy benefits and their human and ecological ... -
Climate policy meets national development contexts: Insights from Kenya and Mozambique
(Elsevier, 2015-11-06)Despite the growth in work linking climate change and national level development agendas, there has been limited attention to their political economy. These processes mediate the winners, losers and potential trade-offs ... -
Just conservation? On the fairness of sharing benefits
(Taylor and Francis, 2013-07)Introduction Biodiversity conservation has become a global priority due to the unprecedented rate of species extinction, the associated threat to ecosystem services, and the potential consequences for the welfare of current ... -
Triple wins? Prospects for pro-poor, low carbon, climate resilient energy services in Kenya
(Routledge, 2017-03-21)We provide a political economy analysis of two interventions in Kenya that promise to meet climate change and development aims: (i) incentives for the private sector to produce electricity from renewable sources; (ii) a ... -
Order and the offshore: the territories of deepwater oil production
(Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017-12)Introduction How might territory in the deep oceans be practised differently from more familiar terrestrial environments? In this chapter I consider the reterritorialisation of space that enables offshore oil production ... -
Observed trends in the magnitude and persistence of monthly temperature variability
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Global climate stabilisation by chemical weathering during the Hirnantian glaciation
(European Association of Geochemistry, 2017-06-15)Chemical weathering of silicate rocks is a primary drawdown mechanism of atmospheric carbon dioxide. The processes that affect weathering are therefore central in controlling global climate. A temperature-controlled ... -
Location, location, location: Considerations when using lightweight drones in challenging environments
(Wiley Open Access, 2017)Lightweight drones have emerged recently as a remote sensing survey tool of choice for ecologists, conservation practitioners and environmental scientists. In published work, there are plentiful details on the parameters ... -
Elucidating the changing roles of civil society in urban sustainability transitions
(Elsevier, 2017-05-18)Understanding the diversifying role of civil society in Europe’s sustainability pathway is a valid proposition both scientifically and socially. Civil society organisations already play a significant role in the reality ... -
Introduction
(Routledge, 2018)Asian urbanism: three challenges In 2017, we are repeatedly reminded that we live in an urban world. Indeed, as far back as 2008, we were told that for the first time in the history, half of the world’s population lived ... -
Challenging the eco-city: residents’ perceptions of social sustainability in Tianjin Eco-City, China
(Routledge, 2018)In this chapter, we make the case for ‘humanizing’ new-build urban mega-projects such as eco-cities by focusing on urban social sustainability, and on the experiences of new residents in newly-built cities such as Tianjin ... -
Eurasian beaver activity increases water storage, attenuates flow and mitigates diffuse pollution from intensively-managed grasslands
(Elsevier, 2016-10-26)Beavers are the archetypal keystone species, which can profoundly alter ecosystem structure and function through their ecosystem engineering activity, most notably the building of dams. This can have a major impact upon ... -
Transitions in coral reef accretion rates linked to intrinsic ecological shifts on turbid-zone nearshore reefs
(Geological Society of America, 2016-10)Nearshore coral communities within turbid settings are typically perceived to have limited reef-building capacity. However, several recent studies have reported reef growth over millennial time scales within such environments ... -
An experimental study on the response of blanket bog vegetation and water tables to ditch blocking
(Springer Verlag, 2017-04-13)We studied the effect of ditch blocking on vegetation composition and water-table depths in a blanket peatland. Measurements were made for a period of four years (water tables) and five years (vegetation) in the inter-ditch ...