Publications

JULES-crop: a parametrisation of crops in the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator

Publication ID: pub.1049438534

Publication date: 22/04/2015

Keywords: Biosphere; Canopy Height; Climate Change; Crops; Global; Gross Primary Productivity; Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES); JULES-crop; Leaf Area Index; Maize; Model; Parametrisation; Rice; Soybean; Wheat; Yield

Abstract. Studies of climate change impacts on the terrestrial biosphere have been completed without recognition of the integrated nature of the biosphere. Improved assessment of the impacts of climate change on food and water security requires the development and use of models not only representing each component but also their interactions. To meet this requirement […]

Colombian forensic genetics as a form of public science: The role of race, nation and common sense in the stabilization of DNA populations

Publication ID: pub.1044198138

Publication date: 30/03/2015

Keywords: Bogotá; Colombia; Continental Population Groups; DNA; Forensic Genetics; Genetic Research; History, 20th Century; History, 21st Century; Humans

Abstract This article examines the role that vernacular notions of racialized-regional difference play in the constitution and stabilization of DNA populations in Colombian forensic science, in what we frame as a process of public science. In public science, the imaginations of the scientific world and common-sense public knowledge are integral to the production and circulation […]

Dominant frames in legacy and social media coverage of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report

Publication ID: pub.1005885816

Publication date: 25/03/2015

Keywords: Broadcast and Print Coverage; Communication Lessons; Contested; Fifth Assessment Report (AR5); Framing/Frames; IPCC; Media; Media Coverage; Narratives and Visuals; Politicized; Science-policy Interface; UK; US; Working Group

The media are powerful agents that translate information across the science–policy interface, framing it for audiences. Yet frames are never neutral: they define an issue, identify causes, make moral judgements and shape proposed solutions. Here, we show how the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) was framed in UK and US broadcast and print coverage, and […]

Climate justice in a carbon budget

Publication ID: pub.1034020822

Publication date: 20/03/2015

Keywords: Carbon Budget; Climate Ethicist; Criminal Justice; Distributive Justice; Emission Reduction; Global

The fact of a carbon budget given commitment to limiting global-mean temperature increase to below 2 °C warming relative to pre-industrial levels makes CO2 emissions a scarce resource. This fact has significant consequences for the ethics of climate change. The paper highlights some of these consequences with respect to (a) applying principles of distributive justice to […]

Estimating volcanic deformation source parameters with a finite element inversion: The 2001–2002 unrest at Cotopaxi volcano, Ecuador

Publication ID: pub.1020655712

Publication date: 12/03/2015

Keywords: Cotopaxi Volcano; Ecuador; Finite Element Analysis; Magma Reservoir; Numerical Inversion; Unrest; Volcano Deformation

Deformation at Cotopaxi was observed between 2001 and 2002 along with recorded seismicity beneath the northeast (NE) flank, despite the fact that the last eruption occurred in 1942. We use electronic distance meter deformation data along with the patterns of recorded seismicity to constrain the cause of this unrest episode. To solve for the optimum […]

Social and ecological drivers of success in agri‐environment schemes: the roles of farmers and environmental context

Publication ID: pub.1030666951

Publication date: 11/03/2015

Keywords: Birds; Bumblebees; Butterflies; Cambridgeshire; Dorset; Devon & Somerset; East England; Experiential Learning; Farmer; Farmland; Habitat Quality; Interdisciplinary; Landscape; Lincolnshire; Multimodel Inference; West England; Wiltshire

Agri-environment schemes remain a controversial approach to reversing biodiversity losses, partly because the drivers of variation in outcomes are poorly understood. In particular, there is a lack of studies that consider both social and ecological factors.We analysed variation across 48 farms in the quality and biodiversity outcomes of agri-environmental habitats designed to provide pollen and […]