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The Triple Dividend of Resilience—A New Narrative for Disaster Risk Management and Development (2016)
Book Chapter
Tanner, T., Surminski, S., Wilkinson, E., Reid, R., Rentschler, J., Rajput, S., & Lovell, E. The Triple Dividend of Resilience—A New Narrative for Disaster Risk Management and Development. In S. Surminski, & T. Tanner (Eds.), Realising the 'Triple Dividend of Resilience': A New Business Case for Disaster Risk Management (1-29). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40694-7_1

To secure development gains and help eradicate poverty in the long run, it is critical to strengthen ex-ante disaster risk management (DRM) measures that build resilience at the household, firm and macro level. Decision-makers however often view DRM... Read More about The Triple Dividend of Resilience—A New Narrative for Disaster Risk Management and Development.

Realising the 'Triple Dividend of Resilience': A New Business Case for Disaster Risk Management (2016)
Book
Surminski, S., & Tanner, T. (Eds.). (2016). Realising the 'Triple Dividend of Resilience': A New Business Case for Disaster Risk Management. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40694-7

Why aren’t we investing more in disaster resilience, despite the rising costs of disaster events? This book argues that decision-makers in governments, businesses, households, and development agencies tend to focus on avoiding losses from disasters,... Read More about Realising the 'Triple Dividend of Resilience': A New Business Case for Disaster Risk Management.

Financial Crises and Economic Resilience: Lessons for Disaster Risk Management and Resilience Dividends (2016)
Book Chapter
Griffith-Jones, S., & Tanner, T. Financial Crises and Economic Resilience: Lessons for Disaster Risk Management and Resilience Dividends. In S. Surminski, & T. Tanner (Eds.), Realising the 'Triple Dividend of Resilience': A New Business Case for Disaster Risk Management (151-172). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40694-7_7

The development progress achieved by many countries, and particularly by low-income countries, is at risk of being undermined or even wiped out by the range of shocks and resulting crises they face. Since the turn of the millennium, there has been gr... Read More about Financial Crises and Economic Resilience: Lessons for Disaster Risk Management and Resilience Dividends.

Mitigation of diffuse water pollution from agriculture in England and China, and the scope for policy transfer (2016)
Journal Article
Smith, L., Inman, A., Xin, L., Haifang, Z., Meng, F., Zhou, J., Burke, S., Rahn, C., Siciliano, G., Haygarth, P., Bellarby, J., & Surridge, B. (2016). Mitigation of diffuse water pollution from agriculture in England and China, and the scope for policy transfer. Land Use Policy, 61, 208-219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.09.028

This paper evaluates the existing policy frameworks for mitigation of diffuse water pollution from agriculture (DWPA) in England and China. With reference to a conceptual model of the process of policy transfer or international lesson drawing, and po... Read More about Mitigation of diffuse water pollution from agriculture in England and China, and the scope for policy transfer.

Strategies for sustainable nutrient management: Insights from a mixed natural and social science analysis of Chinese crop production systems (2016)
Journal Article
Bellarby, J., Siciliano, G., Smith, L., Xin, L., Zhou, J., Liu, K., Jie, L., Meng, F., Inman, A., Rahn, C., Surridge, B., & Haygarth, P. (2017). Strategies for sustainable nutrient management: Insights from a mixed natural and social science analysis of Chinese crop production systems. Environmental Development, 21, 52-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envdev.2016.10.008

In China intensification of agriculture has been achieved at a cost to the environment. The extension service is the leading public resource to address this but remains focused by a historic national ethos for food security, production and economic g... Read More about Strategies for sustainable nutrient management: Insights from a mixed natural and social science analysis of Chinese crop production systems.

Integrated mixed methods policy analysis for sustainable food systems: trends, challenges and future research (2016)
Journal Article
Cuevas, S. (2016). Integrated mixed methods policy analysis for sustainable food systems: trends, challenges and future research. Public Health Reviews, 37(24), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40985-016-0040-5

Agriculture is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, an important part of which is associated to deforestation and indirect land use change. Appropriate and coherent food policies can play an important role in aligning health, economic and... Read More about Integrated mixed methods policy analysis for sustainable food systems: trends, challenges and future research.

Parametricism vs Materialism : Evolution of digital technologies for development (2016)
Book
Al-Attili, A., Karandinou, A., Daley, B., Abdelsabour, I., Farouk, H., Ahmed, M. H., Ahmed, Z. Y., Salet, T. A., Wolfs, R. J., Bos, F. P., Al Shiekh, B., Al-Badry, S., Cheng, C., Lundberg, S., Berdos, G., Al-Jokhadar, A., Jabi, W., Al-Matarneh, R., Fethi, I., Alacam, S., …Gerber, D. J. (2016). A. Al-Attili, A. Karandinou, & B. Daley (Eds.). Parametricism vs Materialism : Evolution of digital technologies for development. Imperial House Publishers

We build on previous technological developments in CAAD by looking into parametric design exploration and the development of the concept of parametricism. We use the phenomenological backdrop to account for our physical experiences and encounters as... Read More about Parametricism vs Materialism : Evolution of digital technologies for development.

Structures and Subjectives (2016)
Book Chapter
Sinha, S. (2016). Structures and Subjectives. In U. Chandra, & D. Taghioff (Eds.), Staking Claims: The Politics of Social Movements in Contemporary Rural India (225-234). Oxford University Press

Beyond sites and methods: The field, history and global capitalism (2016)
Book Chapter
Neveling, P. (2016). Beyond sites and methods: The field, history and global capitalism. In S. Hyatt, A. Kingsolver, & S. Coleman (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Contemporary Anthropology (72-91). Routledge

Introduction For a largely research-driven science such as anthropology the object(s) of investigation are crucial choices. The “field” is what most anthropologists may identify as just such an object, be this the entire world or a rural, suburban, o... Read More about Beyond sites and methods: The field, history and global capitalism.