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Key publications
Abernethy, KE. Trebilcock, P. Kebede, B. Allison, EH. Dulvy, NK. 2010. Fuelling the decline in UK fishing communities? ICES Journal of Marine Science, 67, 1076-1086.
Adger, W.N., Barnett, J., Brown, K., Marshall, N. and O’Brien, K. (2012) Cultural dimensions of climate change impacts and adaptation. Nature Climate Change 10.1038/nclimate1666
Adger, WN. 2010. Climate change, human well-being and insecurity. New Political Economy, 15(2), 275-292.
Adger, WN. Lorenzoni, I. O'Brien, KL. 2009. Adapting to Climate Change: Thresholds, Values, Governance, Cambridge University Press.
Adger, WN. Jordan, A. 2009. Governing Sustainability, Cambridge University Press.
Barr, SW. Gilg, AW. Shaw, G. 2011. Citizens, Consumers and Sustainability: (Re)Framing Environmental Practice in an Age of Climate Change. Global Environmental Change, 21, 1224-1233.
Barr, SW. Shaw, G, Coles, TE. 2011. Sustainable Lifestyles: sites, practices and policy. Environment and Planning A, 43, 3011-3029.
Bickerstaff, K. Lorenzoni, I. Jones, M. Pidgeon, N. 2010. Locating scientific citizenship: the institutional contexts and cultures of public engagement. Science Technology and Human Values, 35(4), 474-500.
Bickerstaff, K. Simmons, P. 2009. Absencing/presencing risk: Rethinking proximity and the experience of living with major technological hazards. Geoforum, 40(5), 864-872.
Brown, K. Westaway, E. 2011. Agency, Capacity and Resilience to Environmental Change: Lessons from Human Development, Well-Being and Disasters. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 36: 321-342.
Buizer, M. Kurz, T. Ruthrof, K. 2012. Understanding restoration volunteering in a context of environmental change: in pursuit of novel ecosystems or historical analogues? Human Ecology, 40(1), 153-160.
Daw, T. Brown, K. Rosendo, S. Pomeroy, R. 2011. Applying the ecosystem services concept to poverty alleviation: The need to disaggregate human wellbeing. Environmental Conservation 38.4: 370–379.
Devine-Wright, H. Devine-Wright, P. 2009. Social representations of electricity network technologies: Exploring processes of anchoring and objectification through the use of visual research methods. British Journal of Social Psychology 48, 357–373.
Devine-Wright, P. Howes, Y. 2010. Disruption to place attachment and the protection of restorative environments: a wind energy case study. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 30, 271-280.
Fisher, J. 2012. No pay, no care? A Ugandan case study exploring motivations for participation in Payments for Ecosystem Services. Oryx 46 45-54.
Fisher, J. Brown, K. 2009. Wind energy on the Isle of Lewis: implications for deliberative planning. Environment and Planning A 41 2516-2536.
Fudge S. Peters M. Mulugetta Y. Jackson T. 2011. Paradigms, policy and governance: the politics of energy regulation in the UK post-2000. Environmental Policy and Governance 21 (4) pp 391-302
Kurz, T. Baudains, C. 2012. Biodiversity in the front yard: an investigation of landscape preference in a domestic urban context. Environment and Behavior, 44(2), 166-196.
Marshall, NA. Park, SE. Adger, WN. Brown, K. Howden, SM. 2012. Transformational capacity and the influence of place and identity. Environmental Research Letters 7 (3): 034022
Mitchell, C. 2010. The Political Economy of Sustainable Energy, Palgrave: London.
Mitchell, C.H.C. (ed) 2013. Energy Security in a Multipolar World, UK, Palgrave: London.
Morton, T.A. Rabinovich, A., Marshall, D., Bretschneider, P. 2011. The future that may (or may not) come: How framing changes responses to uncertainty in climate change communications. Global Environmental Change, 21(1), 103-109.
O’Neill, S. Handmer, J. 2012. Responding to bushfire risk: the need for transformative adaptation. Environmental Research Letters 7, 014018.
O’Neill, S. Hulme, M. 2009. An iconic approach for representing climate change. Global Environmental Change 19, 402-410.
Rabinovich, A. Morton, T.A. Birney, M.E. 2012. Communicating climate science: the role of perceived communicator's motives. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 32, 11-18.
Sabel, CE. Boyle, P. Raab, G. Löytönen, M. Maasilta, P. 2009. Modelling individual space-time exposure opportunities: A novel approach to unravelling the genetic or environment disease causation debate. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology 1: 85-94.
Southward, EF. Page, AS. Wheeler, BW. Cooper, AR. 2012. Contribution of the School Journey to Daily Physical Activity in Children Aged 11–12 Years. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 43 (2) 201-204.
Wheeler, BW. White, M. Stahl-Timmins, W. Depledge, MH. 2012. Does living by the coast improve health and wellbeing? Health and Place.
