Publications

Assessing the knock-on effects of flooding on road transportation

Publication ID: pub.1114526060

Publication date: 17/05/2019

Keywords: Floods; Marbella; Spain; Transportation

Flooding can affect every aspect of our lives and road transportation is not an exception. However, the interaction between floods and transportation was not investigated closely in the past. As transportation is the lifeline of any economy, it is essential to analyse potential dangers and threads that can lead to network capacity restraints. Considering the […]

Anthropogenic climate change and heat effects on health

Publication ID: pub.1113521329

Publication date: 10/05/2019

Keywords: Anthropogenic Climate Change; Attribution; Central England; Health; Heat Stress; Impacts; UK

Increasing extreme temperatures linked to human influence amplify thermal stress and can lead to decreases in work productivity and increases in heat‐related mortality. However, studies assessing in a formal statistical way the contribution of climate change to such impacts remain sparse. Two new indices are introduced here that measure the effect of anthropogenic climate change […]

Climate change effects on Black Sigatoka disease of banana.

Publication ID: pub.1113959472

Publication date: 06/05/2019

Keywords: Ascomycota; Asia; Climate Change; Models, Statistical; Musa; Plant Diseases; Temperature

Climate change has significantly altered species distributions in the wild and has the potential to affect the interactions between pests and diseases and their human, animal and plant hosts. While several studies have projected changes in disease distributions in the future, responses to historical climate change are poorly understood. Such analyses are required to dissect […]

Recommendations for Improving Integration in National End-to-End Flood Forecasting Systems: An Overview of the FFIR (Flooding From Intense Rainfall) Programme

Publication ID: pub.1113318458

Publication date: 08/04/2019

Keywords: Data Assimilation; End-to-end Forecasting; Flooding; Hydraulic Modelling; Intense Rainfall; Numerical Weather Prediction; Public Outreach; Radar; UK

Recent surface-water and flash floods have caused millions of pounds worth of damage in the UK. These events form rapidly and are difficult to predict due to their short-lived and localised nature. The interdisciplinary Flooding From Intense Rainfall (FFIR) programme investigated the feasibility of enhancing the integration of an end-to-end forecasting system for flash and […]

Policy Instrument Supply and Demand: How the Renewable Electricity Auction Took over the World

Publication ID: pub.1113055628

Publication date: 28/03/2019

Keywords: Auctions; Europe; European Instruments; Instrument Constituencies; Renewable Energy; State Aid

The selection and design of renewable electricity support instruments is an important part of European Union (EU) energy policy and central to the governance of the Energy Union. In 2014, the European Commission published updated guidelines for state aid that effectively mandate the EU-wide implementation of auctions for allocating revenue support to commercial scale renewable […]

The ethics of genome editing in non-human animals: a systematic review of reasons reported in the academic literature

Publication ID: pub.1112972090

Publication date: 25/03/2019

Keywords: Animals; CRISPR-Cas Systems; Gene Editing; Global

In recent years, new genome editing technologies have emerged that can edit the genome of non-human animals with progressively increasing efficiency. Despite ongoing academic debate about the ethical implications of these technologies, no comprehensive overview of this debate exists. To address this gap in the literature, we conducted a systematic review of the reasons reported […]