Publications

Quantifying landscape‐level methane fluxes in subarctic Finland using a multiscale approach

Publication ID: pub.1005619558

Publication date: 27/06/2015

Keywords: Arctic Regions; Climate Change; Finland; Forests; Methane; Wetlands

Quantifying landscape-scale methane (CH4 ) fluxes from boreal and arctic regions, and determining how they are controlled, is critical for predicting the magnitude of any CH4 emission feedback to climate change. Furthermore, there remains uncertainty regarding the relative importance of small areas of strong methanogenic activity, vs. larger areas with net CH4 uptake, in controlling […]

An Integrated Environmental Assessment of Green and Gray Infrastructure Strategies for Robust Decision Making.

Publication ID: pub.1006960487

Publication date: 26/06/2015

Keywords: Cities; Decision Making; Drainage, Sanitary; Environment; Waste Water

The robustness of a range of watershed-scale “green” and “gray” drainage strategies in the future is explored through comprehensive modeling of a fully integrated urban wastewater system case. Four socio-economic future scenarios, defined by parameters affecting the environmental performance of the system, are proposed to account for the uncertain variability of conditions in the year […]

Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health

Publication ID: pub.1053249825

Publication date: 25/06/2015

Keywords: Climate Change; Environmental Policy; Global; Global Health; Health; Health Policy; Humans; International Cooperation; Public Health

Conserving tropical biodiversity via market forces and spatial targeting

Publication ID: pub.1042671726

Publication date: 16/06/2015

Keywords: Agriculture; Animals; Biodiversity; Sumatra; Conservation of Natural Resources; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Indonesia; Mammals; Palm Oil; Plant Oils; Private Sector; Southeast Asia; Tropical Climate

The recent report from the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity [(2010) Global Biodiversity Outlook 3] acknowledges that ongoing biodiversity loss necessitates swift, radical action. Protecting undisturbed lands, although vital, is clearly insufficient, and the key role of unprotected, private land owned is being increasingly recognized. Seeking to avoid common assumptions of a social […]

Natural capital and ecosystem services informing decisions: From promise to practice

Publication ID: pub.1020668880

Publication date: 16/06/2015

Keywords: Animals; Conservation of Natural Resources; Decision Making; Ecology; Ecosystem; Humans; Public Policy

The central challenge of the 21st century is to develop economic, social, and governance systems capable of ending poverty and achieving sustainable levels of population and consumption while securing the life-support systems underpinning current and future human well-being. Essential to meeting this challenge is the incorporation of natural capital and the ecosystem services it provides […]

Remediation of a historically Pb contaminated soil using a model natural Mn oxide waste

Publication ID: pub.1005360383

Publication date: 11/06/2015

Keywords: Adsorption; Durham; Environmental Restoration and Remediation; Industrial Waste; Lead; Manganese Compounds; Mosswood WTW; Oxides; Photoelectron Spectroscopy; Soil; Soil Pollutants; UK

A natural Mn oxide (NMO) waste was assessed as an in situ remediation amendment for Pb contaminated sites. The viability of this was investigated using a 10 month lysimeter trial, wherein a historically Pb contaminated soil was amended with a 10% by weight model NMO. The model NMO was found to have a large Pb […]