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Measuring 'subjective resilience': using peoples' perceptions to quantify household resilience (2015)
Preprint / Working Paper
Jones, L., & Tanner, T. Measuring 'subjective resilience': using peoples' perceptions to quantify household resilience. London

How should we measure a household’s resilience? As resilience gathers momentum on the international stage, interest in this question continues to grow. So far, efforts to measure resilience have largely focused on the use of ‘objective’ frameworks an... Read More about Measuring 'subjective resilience': using peoples' perceptions to quantify household resilience.

Interrogating the Rights Discourse on Girls’ Education: Neo-Liberalism, Neo-Colonialism, and the Beijing Platform for Action (2015)
Journal Article
Purewal, N. (2015). Interrogating the Rights Discourse on Girls’ Education: Neo-Liberalism, Neo-Colonialism, and the Beijing Platform for Action. IDS Bulletin, 46(4), 47-53. https://doi.org/10.1111/1759-5436.12156

This article examines how girls’ education since 1995 has emerged as a prominent symbol within the
‘rights’ discourse coming out of the Beijing Platform for Action. By highlighting the neoliberal and neocolonial
processes during this time, particul... Read More about Interrogating the Rights Discourse on Girls’ Education: Neo-Liberalism, Neo-Colonialism, and the Beijing Platform for Action.

Climate and Climate Change. (2015)
Book Chapter
Kelman, I., Colbourn, T., Costello, A., Georgeson, L., Kovats, S., Maslin, M., Newsham, A., Sammonds, P., Urban, F., Waage, J., & Wilkinson, P. (2015). Climate and Climate Change. In J. Waage, & C. Yap (Eds.), Thinking Beyond Sectors for Sustainable Development (11-17). Ubiquity Press. https://doi.org/10.5334/bao.b

Focus on environmental risks and migration: causes and consequences (2015)
Journal Article
Adger, W. N., Arnell, N. W., Black, R., Dercon, S., Geddes, A., & Thomas, D. (2015). Focus on environmental risks and migration: causes and consequences. Environmental Research Letters, 10, Article 060201. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/6/060201

Environmental change poses risks to societies, including disrupting social and economic systems such as migration. At the same time, migration is an effective adaptation to environmental and other risks. We review novel science on interactions betwee... Read More about Focus on environmental risks and migration: causes and consequences.