Impact Initiative: Recent submissions
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Code/Space
(Elsevier Ltd, 2020)Code has become ubiquitous, from shopping transactions to travel, and the spaces it creates. When Kitchin and Dodge were first formalizing their thoughts on code space and its associated concepts, the hype of “big data” ... -
Assessing the Impacts of Various Street-level Characteristics on the Burden of Urban Burglary in Kaduna, Nigeria
(Elsevier Ltd, 2020)Evidence suggests that crimes committed in urban environments are geographically concentrated across a range of scales, and that the variation in rates of crime within an urban space is significantly dependent on the ... -
Insights into the Importance of Ecosystem Services to Human Well-being in Reservoir Landscapes
(Elsevier B.V., 2019)Smallholder famers in West Africa use multiple ecosystem services (ES) in their day-to-day lives. The contribution that these services make to human well-being (HWB), and therefore to development outcomes, is not well ... -
Becoming an island: Making connections and places through waste mobilities
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2020)Islands, long portrayed in the Western imaginary as remote, static, and bounded entities, have increasingly come to be viewed as places constantly in the making: as connected sites formed by complex and shifting relations ... -
Shifting Sands: The Rhythms and Temporalities of Island Sandscapes
(Elsevier Ltd, 2020)This article explores the different timescales and temporalities of the movement of sand. In recent years, growing scholarly attention has focused on the qualities of sand and the increasing demands for its use worldwide. ... -
Everyday Life and Environmental Change
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2019)This paper explores how daily changes in the physical environment intersect and connect with people's everyday lives, routines and practices in the Maldives. Day‐to‐day life is often regarded as mundane and ordinary, and ... -
Security on the Move - Research Brief No.2. Creating Satellite Towns: Displacement and Resettlement in Bosaaso
(Security on the Move, 2019)This research brief summarises key findings from the 2017-2019 Security on the Move research project. Funded by DFID and ESRC, Security on the Move focused on the perspectives and experiences of displaced people who have ... -
War and City-making in Somalia: Property, Power and Disposable Lives
(Elsevier Ltd, 2019)Rapid urbanisation in Somalia, as in many other war-torn countries, is driven by in-migration of displaced people who are often amassed in camps. Although such camps become institutionalised sites of exclusion where ‘bare ... -
Security on the Move - Research Brief 3. Displacement and Camp Urbanisation in Mogadishu
(Security on the Move, 2019)This research brief summarises key findings from the 2017-2019 Security on the Move research project. Funded by DFID and ESRC, Security on the Move focused on the perspectives and experiences of displaced people who settled ... -
Security on the Move - Research Brief No.4. Long-term Legacies of Displacement and Urban Growth in Hargeisa
(Security on the Move, 2019)This research brief summarises key findings from the 2017-2019 Security on the Move research project. Funded by DFID and ESRC, Security on the Move focused on the perspectives and experiences of displaced people who have ... -
Security on the Move - Research Brief No.1. Displacement, Insecurity and Camp Management in Baidoa
(Security on the Move, 2019)This research brief summarises key findings from the 2017-2019 Security on the Move research project. Funded by DFID and ESRC, Security on the Move focused on the perspectives and experiences of displaced people who settled ... -
Safe and Sustainable Cities: Migration, Security and Wellbeing
(Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU), 2019)By 2050 more people of Bangladesh will be living in urban areas than rural areas. Therefore, instead of viewing migrants as source of urban problems, long term planning is required to create sustainable cities for all. ... -
The Need for Bottom-up Assessments of Climate Risks and Adaptation in Climate-sensitive Regions
(Springer Nature Limited, 2019)Studies of climate change at specific intervals of future warming have primarily been addressed through top-down approaches using climate projections and modelled impacts. In contrast, bottom-up approaches focus on the ... -
Mobile Worlds: Choice at the Intersection of Demographic and Environmental Change
(Annual Reviews, 2018)Research on environmental change has often focused on changes in population as a significant driver of unsustainability and environmental degradation. Demographic pessimism and limited engagement with demographic realities ... -
Modern Slavery, Environmental Degradation and Climate Change: Fisheries, Field, Forests and Factories
(SAGE, 2019)In this commentary paper, the current state of research on the tightly connected and bi-directional relationships among modern slavery, environmental degradation and climate change is critically assessed and reviewed. An ... -
Climate Change Adaptation and Precarity Across the Rural-urban Divide in Cambodia: Towards a 'Climate Precarity' Approach
(SAGE, 2019)An emerging body of work has critiqued the concept of climate adaptation, highlighting the structural constraints impeding marginalised communities across the Global South from being able to adapt. This article builds on ... -
Mobilising Hydrosocial Power: Climate Perception, Migration and the Small Scale Geography of Water in Cambodia
(Elsevier Ltd, 2019)As successive reports have predicted tens or even hundreds of millions of people displaced by climate change in the coming decades, the politics of climate migration has moved to the forefront of contemporary public ... -
Debt-bonded Brick Kiln Workers and Their Intent to Return: Towards a Labour Geography of Smallholder Farming Persistence in Cambodia
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2019)Despite the increasing preponderance of non‐farm work in Cambodia, labour migrants across a range of working conditions remain linked to their rural homesteads through durable financial and social arrangements. This article ... -
Blood Bricks: Untold Stories of Modern Slavery and Climate Change from Cambodia
(Royal Holloway, University of London, 2018)Blood bricks embody the converging traumas of modern slavery and climate change in our urban age. Cambodia is in the midst of a construction boom. The building of office blocks, factories, condominiums, housing estates, ... -
Sugar Industry in the Lower Omo: Exploring Different Scenarios of Privatization
(OTuRN, 2019)The Ethiopian governmenthas pursued over the past decade a strategy of expanding sugar production to meet local demand and to generate foreign revenue. To date this has been mostly state-led, ...