School of Earth and Environment

Selected recent SRI publications

Abson D.J. and Termansen M. (2011) Valuing ecosystem services in terms of ecological risks and returns. Conservation Biology 25: 250-258.

Afionis S. (2011) The European Union as a negotiator in the international climate change regime. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, DOI: 10.1007/s10784-010-9135-5.

Akhtar-Schuster M., Thomas R.J., Stringer L.C., Chasek P. and Seely M.K. (2011) Improving the enabling environment to combat land degradation: institutional, financial, legal and science-policy challenges and solutions. Land Degradation and Development 22: 299-312. DOI:10.1002/ldr.1058

Bailey I., Gouldson A. and Newell P. (2010) Ecological modernisation and the governance of carbon: a critical analysis. Antipode 43: 682–703.

Barkemeyer R., Holt D., Figge F. and Napolitano G. (2010) A longitudinal and contextual analysis of media representation of business ethics. European Business Review 22: 377-396.

Challinor A.J., Simelton E.S., Fraser E.D., Hemming D. and Collins M. (2010) Increased crop failure due to climate change: assessing adaptation options using models and socio-economic data for wheat in China. Environmental Research Letters 5: 034012. DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/5/3/034012.

Chen Q., Kang C., Xia Q. and Guan D. (2011) Primary exploration on low-carbon technology roadmap of China's power sector. Energy 36: 1500-12. DOI:10.1016/j.energy.2011.01.015

Dougill A.J., Fraser E.D.G. and Reed M.S. (2010). Anticipating vulnerability to climate change in dryland pastoral systems: using dynamic systems models for the Kalahari. Ecology and Society 15 (2): 17. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss2/art17/.

Feng K., Hubacek K., Guan D., Contestabile M., Minx J. and Barrett J. (2010) Distributional effects of climate change taxation: the case of the UK. Environmental Science & Technology 44: 3670-3676. DOI: 10.1021/es902974g

Ferrer-Balas D., Lozano R, Huisingh D., Buckland H., Ysern P. and Zilahy G. (2010) Going beyond the rhetoric: system-wide changes in universities for sustainable societies. Journal of Cleaner Production 18: 607-610. DOI:10.1016/j.jclepro.2009.12.009

Fleskens L. and de Graaff J. (2010) Conserving natural resources in olive orchards on sloping land: alternative goal programming approaches towards designing effective cross-compliance and agri-environmental measures. Agricultural Systems 103: 521-534. DOI:10.1016/j.agsy.2010.05.005

Fleskens L. and Jorritsma F. (2010) A behavioral change perspective of Maroon soil fertility management in traditional shifting cultivation in Suriname. Human Ecology 38: 217-236. DOI:10.1007/s10745-010-9307-5

Foxon T.J. (2010) Stimulating investment in energy materials and technologies to combat climate change: an overview of learning curve analysis and niche market support. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 368: 3469-3483. dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2010.0106

Foxon T.J., Hammond G.P. and Pearson P.J. (2010) Developing transition pathways for a low carbon electricity system in the UK. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 77: 1203-1213. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2010.04.002

Goddard M.A., Dougill A.J. and Benton T.G. (2010) Scaling up from gardens: biodiversity conservation in urban environments. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 25: 90-98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2009.07.016

Hahn T., Figge F., Liesen A. and Barkemeyer R. (2010) Opportunity cost based analysis of corporate eco-efficiency: a methodology and its application to the CO2-efficiency of German companies. Journal of Environmental Management 91: 1997-2007. DOI:10.1016/j.jenvman.2010.05.004

Holmes G. (2010) The rich, the powerful and the endangered: conservation elites, networks and the Dominican Republic. Antipode 42: 624-646.

Holmes G. (2011) Conservation's friends in high places: neoliberalism, networks, and the transnational conservation elite. Global Environmental Politics 11(4).

Holt D. and Barkemeyer R. (2010) Media coverage of sustainable development issues – attention cycles or punctuated equilibrium? Sustainable Development online DOI: 10.1002/sd.460.

Lange, B. and Gouldson A. (2010) Trust-based environmental regulation. Science of the Total Environment 408: 5235-5243.

Lozano R. (2010) Diffusion of sustainable development in universities’ curricula: an empirical example from Cardiff University. Journal of Cleaner Production 18: 637-644. DOI:10.1016/j.jclepro.2009.07.005

McKenzie E., Irwin F., Ranganathan J., Hanson C., Kousky C., Bennett K., Ruffo S., Conte M., Salzman J., and Paavola J. 2011. Incorporating Ecosystem Services in Decisions. In P.M. Kareiva, H. Tallis, T.H. Ricketts, G.C. Daily & S. Polasky (eds). Natural Capital: Theory & Practice of Mapping Ecosystem Services. Cambridge, MA: Oxford University Press.

Middlemiss L.K. and Parrish B. (2010). Building capacity for low-carbon communities: The role of grassroots initiatives. Energy Policy 38: 7559-7566.

Middlemiss L.K. (2010) Reframing individual responsibility for sustainable consumption: lessons from environmental justice and ecological citizenship. Environmental Values 19: 147-167.

O'Neill D.W. (2010) Economic growth: enough is enough. Nature 468 (7326): 897.

O'Neill D.W., Dietz R. and Jones N., eds. (2010) Enough is enough: ideas for a sustainable economy in a world of finite resources. The Report of the Steady State Economy Conference. CASSE and Economic Justice for All, Leeds, UK. http://steadystate.org/enough-is-enough/

Paavola J. (2010) Sewage Pollution and Emerging Statutory Water Pollution Policy in the United States, 1830-1915. Ecological Economics 69: 2517–2524.

Quinn C.H., Fraser E.D.G., Reed M. and Hubacek K. (2010) Property rights in UK uplands and the implications for policy and management. Ecological Economics 69: 1355-1363.

Reed M.S. and Dougill A.J. (2010) Linking degradation assessment to sustainable land management: a decision support system for Kalahari pastoralists. Journal of Arid Environments 74: 149-155. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2009.06.016 

Reed M.S., Fazey I., Stringer L.C., Raymond C.M., Akhtar-Schuster M., Begni G., Bigas H., Brehm S., Briggs J., Bryce R., Buckmaster S., Chanda R., Davies J., Diez E., Essahli W., Evely A., Geeson N., Hartmann I., Holden J., Hubacek K., Ioris I., Kruger B., Laureano P., Phillipson J., Prell C., Quinn C.H., Reeves A.D., Seely M., Thomas R., van der Werff Ten Bosch M.J., Vergunst P. and Wagner L. (2011) Knowledge management for land degradation monitoring and assessment: an analysis of contemporary thinking. Land Degradation & Development.

Sallu S.M., Twyman C. and Stringer L.C. (2010) Resilient or vulnerable livelihoods? assessing livelihood dynamics and trajectories in rural Botswana. Ecology and Society 15(4): 3. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss4/art3/

Simelton E. (2011). Food self-sufficiency and natural hazards in China. Food Security. DOI:10.1007/s12571-011-0114-7

Steinberger J.K. and Krausmann F. (2011) Material and energy productivity. Environmental Science and Technology 45: 1169-1176. DOI:10.1021/es1028537

Steinberger J.K. and Roberts J.T. (2010) From constraint to sufficiency: the decoupling of energy and carbon from human needs, 1975-2005. Ecological Economics 70: 425-433. DOI:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.09.014

Stringer L.C., Mkwambisi D., Dougill A.J and Dyer J.C. (2010) Household and policy adaptations to climate change and desertification: perspectives from Malawi. Climate and Development 2: 145-160. DOI:10.3763/cdev.2010.0042

Stringer L.C., Thomas R.J. and Akhtar-Schuster M. (2010) Expand scientific input to address environmental effects. Nature 465:  869-869. DOI:10.1038/465869c

Van Alstine, J. (2010) Spaces of Contestation: The Governance of Industry's Environmental Performance in Durban, South Africa, In: Utting, P; Marques, JC (Ed) Corporate Social Responsibility and Regulatory Governance, International Political Economy Series, Palgrave MacMillan.

Wesselink A.J. and Hoppe R. (2011) If post-normal science is the solution, what is the problem? the politics of activist science. Science, Technology and Human Values 36(3) 389-412.

Wesselink A.J. and Warner J. (2010) Reframing floods: proposals and politics. Nature & Culture 5: 1-14.

Wiedmann T., Suh S., Feng K., Lenzen M., Acquaye A., Scott K. and Barrett J. (2011) Application of Hybrid Life Cycle Approaches to Emerging Energy Technologies - the Case of Wind Power in the UK. Environmental Science & Technology 45: 5900-5907.

Young W., Costelloe P. and Lakshmi K. (2010) Sustainable procurement: human rights and greenhouse gas emissions. International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development 9: 364-377.

Young C.W., Hwang K., McDonald S. and Oates C. (2010) Sustainable consumption: green consumer behaviour when purchasing products. Sustainable Development 18: 18-31. DOI:10.1002/sd.394