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Reading the inventory: household goods, domestic cultures and difference in England and Wales, 1841–81
(2011)
This thesis employs almost five hundred household inventories relating to properties in England and Wales between 1841 and 1881; they provide the first large-scale evidence for what people’s houses during this period ...
Modelling peatlands as a complex adaptive systems
(2010)
A new conceptual approach to modelling peatlands, DigiBog, involves a Complex Adaptive Systems consideration of raised bogs. A new computer hydrological model is presented, tested, and its capabilities in simulating ...
The socioeconomic and community influences on ‘potentially avoidable’ emergency admissions to hospital for the older people of London
(2011)
This PhD thesis explores the relationship between „potentially avoidable‟ emergency admissions to hospital and socio-economic and community care influences for the older population of London.
The thesis first explores how ...
Physical ecosystem engineering by emergent aquatic vegetation: the importance of biomechanical traits
(2011)
This thesis explores the potential of the emergent macrophyte Sparganium erectum to
act as a physical ecosystem engineer and delivers an understanding of the vegetative
processes that enable it to function in such a ...
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Assessing, Planning and Managing Urban Rivers in the context of Greater London
(2012)
Urban rivers present complex management challenges due to the combined natural and
anthropocentric factors affecting developed catchments. Planning urban river
rehabilitation strategies and measures in parallel with green ...
Peatlands, volcanoes and climate: Ecological and palaeoecological studies in Alaska and Scotland
(2005)
This thesis investigates direct and indirect volcanic impacts on peatlands using
palaeoecological and ecological techniques. The primary approach used is
palaeoecological studies across tephra layers. A multi-proxy ...
Cinematic visions of Los Angeles: representations of identity and mobility in the cinematic city
(2006)
Accounts of 'filmic' Los Angeles are often pessimistic, focusing upon the
geographies of segregation and exclusion evident in both the 'material' and
'cinematic' Los Angeles. In contrast to these more familiar readings, ...
The gilt on the golden city? Transnational professionals and the production of exclusionary spaces in post-socialist Prague
(2009)
Over the last twenty years or so there has been a significant amount of research conducted within human geography relating to world cities, transnational elites and post-socialist transformation. The bulk of the research ...
Organising anarchy spatial strategy prefiguration and the politics of everyday life
(2010)
This research is an analysis of efforts to develop a politics of everyday life
through embedding anarchist and left-libertarian ideas and practices into
community and workplace organisation. It investigates everyday life ...
Political transnationalism, gender and peace buliding among Colombian migrants in the UK and Spain.
(2008)
The international migration of Colombians has received little attention, either at academic or
policy levels. This research explores Colombian migration to Spain and the UK. Its main aim
is to study the transnational ...
