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ECI Publications 2009

  1. Liana Anderson et al, Influence of landscape heterogeneity on spatial patterns of wood productivity, wood specific density and above ground biomass in Amazonia, Biogeosciences Discussions. (18th February)
  2. Phillips, O.L., Aragao, L.E.O.C., Lewis, S.L., Fisher, J.B., Lloyd, J., Lopez-Gonzalez, G, Malhi, Y., (Morel, A., Zelazowski, P.) et al, Drought sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest. Science, 323, 1344 (2009); DOI: 10.1126/science.1164033
  3. Luiz Aragao et al, Above and below ground net primary productivity across ten Amazonian forests on contrasting soils. Biogeosciences Discussions. (25th February)
  4. Bergman, N. and Jardine, C. (2009) Power from the People: Domestic Microgeneration and the Low Carbon Buildings Programme. ECI Research Report No 34.
  5. Bergman, N., Hawkes, Brett, Baker, Barton, Blanchard, Brandon, Infield, Jardine, C., Kelly, Leach, Matian, Peacock, Staffell, Sudtharalingam, Woodman (2009) UK microgeneration. Part I: policy and behavioural aspects. Energy 162(1), 22-36
  6. Billet, S. (2009) "Dividing Climate Change: Global Warming in the Indian Mass Media". Climatic Change, DOI 10.1007/s10584-009-9605-3
  7. Boardman, J., Shepheard, M., Walker, E. and Foster I.D.L (2009) Soil erosion and risk assessment for on- and off-farm impacts: a test case in the Midhurst area, West Sussex, UK. Journal of Environmental Management
  8. Boyd, E., Hultman, N., Roberts, J.T., Corbera, E., Cole, J., Bozmoski, A., Ebeling, J., Tippman, R., Mann, P., Brown, K., Liverman, D.M., Reforming the CDM for sustainable development: lessons learned and policy futures. Environmental Science and Policy. Available online 6 October 2009
  9. Hultman, N., Boyd, E. Roberts J.T., Cole, J., Corbrera E., Ebeling, E., Brown K., and Liverman. D.M. 2009. How Can the Clean Development Mechanism Better Contribute to Sustainable Development. Ambio, 38(2): 120-122.
  10. Keay-Bright, J. and Boardman, J. (2009) Evidence from field based studies of rates of erosion on degraded land in the central Karoo, South Africa. Geomorphology 103, 455-465
  11. Boykoff, M. (ed.) (2009) ‘The Politics of Climate Change’, Routledge. ISBN: 978-1-85743-496-5
  12. Boykoff, M. (2008) "The cultural politics of climate change discourse in UK tabloids", Political Geography, 27(5), 549-569.
  13. Boykoff, M. and Goodman, M. (2008) "Conspicuous Redemption: Promises and Perils of Celebrity Involvement in Climate Change" Geoforum 40 (2009) 395–406
  14. Boykoff, M. (2009) The Case of Climate Change: Media and Science Communication (In Spanish). Infoamerica, Iberoamerican Communication Review 2009(1) 117-127.
  15. Bozmoski, A. and Billett, S. (2009) Calibrating the CDM for Development. Trading Carbon Magazine, June issue.
  16. Butt, N, Campbell, G., Malhi, Y., Morecroft, M., Fenn, K. and Thomas, M. (2009)Initial Results from Establishment of a Long-term Broadleaf Monitoring Plot at Wytham Woods, Oxford, UK. University of Oxford Report.
  17. Butt, N., M. New, G. Lizcano, and Y. Malhi (2009) Spatial patterns and trends in cloud fraction and cloud-related diffuse radiation in Amazonia. J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2009JD012217, in press.
  18. Brohe, A., Eyre, N. and Howarth, N. (2009) Carbon Markets: An International Business Guide. Earthscan, pp340
  19. Capstick, S. & Lewis, A. (2009) Personal Carbon Allowances: A Pilot Simulation and Questionnaire. UKERC Research Report - Demand Reduction Theme. Environmental Change Institute.
  20. Schmitt, C., Burgess, N., Coad, L. et al. (2009) Global analysis of the protection status of the world’s forests. Biological Conservation. In press
  21. Paul Anderson, Gaynor Backhouse, Daniel Curtis, Simon Redding, David Wallom (2009) Low carbon computing: a view to 2050 and beyond. JISC report.
  22. Curtis, D and Jardine, C.N. (2009) Electrifying Clinics in Rural Ghana", Final report by the Environmental Change Institute
  23. Darby S (2009) Implementing Article 13 of the Energy Services Directive and defining the purpose of new metering infrastructures. Proceedings, European Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy summer study, paper 2262
  24. Pyrko J and Darby S (2009) Conditions of behavioural changes towards efficient energy use - a comparative study between Sweden and the United Kingdom. Proceedings, European Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy summer study, paper 8200
  25. Ericksen, P.J., J.S.I.Ingram, D. Liverman (eds) 2009. Special issue of Environmental Science and Policy on "Food Security and Environmental Change" 12(4).
  26. Eyre, N., Pavan, M., and Bodineau, L. (2009) “Energy Company Obligations to Save Energy in Italy, the UK and France: What have we learnt?” European Council for an Energy Efficiency Economy Summer Study, 1 - 6 June 2009, La Colle sur Loup, France
  27. Fawcett, T. and Boardman, B. (2009) Housing market transformation. European Council for an Energy Efficiency Economy Summer Study, 1 - 6 June 2009, La Colle sur Loup, France
  28. Fawcett T., Hvelplund, F., Meyer, N.I. 2010 Making it personal: per capita carbon allowances, in Sioshansi, F. (Ed) Generating electricity in a carbon-constrained world. Elsevier pp87-107
  29. Fisher, J. B., Malhi, Y. et al. (2009) The land–atmosphere water flux in the tropics. Global Change Biology, 15: 2694–2714, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01813.x
  30. Ostle, N. J., Smith, P., Fisher, R., Woodward, F. I., Fisher, J. B., Smith, J. U., Galbraith, D., Levy, P., Meir, P., McNamara, N. P. and Bardgett, R. D. (2009) Integrating plant–soil interactions into global carbon cycle models. Journal of Ecology, 97: 851–863, doi: 10.1111/j.13652745.2009.01547.x
  31. Hamilton, J. & Killip, G. (2009) 'Demonstration, inspiration … replication? Assessing the impact and limits of social learning from Eco-homes Open Days in the UK.' European Council for an Energy Efficiency Economy Summer Study, 1 - 6 June 2009, La Colle sur Loup, France
  32. Gary W. Luck, Richard Harrington, Paula A. Harrison, Claire Kremen, Pam M. Berry, et al. Quantifying the Contribution of Organisms to the Provision of Ecosystem Services 2009 Bioscience 59, 223–235
  33. Höppner, C (2009) Trust—A monolithic panacea in land use planning? Land Use Policy. doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2008.12.007.
  34. Howell, R. (2009) The Experience of Carbon Rationing Action Groups: Implications for a Personal Carbon Allowances Policy. Final report for UKERC Demand Reduction Theme
  35. Jardine, C.N. (2009) Calculating The Carbon Dioxide Emissions of Flights. Final report by the Environmental Change Institute
  36. Jardine, C.N., and Bergman, N. (2009) The status of the UK Domestic PV Market – A review of the impact of the Low Carbon Buildings Programme, Photovoltaic Science, Applications and Technology, Wrexham, 2009
  37. King, L., Lawrence, A., Hamilton, I.D., & Vollrath, F. (2009) Beehive fence deters crop-raiding elephants. African Journal of Ecology (47) 131-137
  38. Layberry, R. (2009) Improvements to the Meteorological Office equations in the computation of degree days. Building Services Engineering Research and Technology Vol. 30, No. 4, 357-362 DOI: 10.1177/0143624409343017.
  39. Layberry, R. (2009) Analysis of errors in degree days for building energy analysis using Meteorological Office weather station data. Building Services Engineering Research and Technology 2009 30: 79-86.
  40. Kniveton, DR; Layberry, R; Williams, CJR, et al. (2009) Trends in the start of the wet season over Africa. International Journal of Climatology. Vol 29 (9) 1216-1225.
  41. Williams, C. J. R., Kniveton, D. R.and Layberry, R. (2010) Assessment of a climate model to reproduce rainfall variability and extremes over Southern Africa. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 99(1-2) doi. 10.1007/s00704-009-0124-y.
  42. Castree, N., Demeritt, D., Liverman, D. & Rhoads, B., editors. (2009) A Companion to Environmental Geography Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell
  43. Harrington, J., Yarnal, B., Liverman D. and Turner BL II. 2009. Comparative assessment of human-environment landscape change. Chapter 6 pp 107-136 in B. Yarnal, C. Polsky, and J. O’Brien. Eds. Sustainable Communities on a Sustainable Planet: The Human-environment Regional Observatory Project. Cambridge University Press.
  44. Liverman D.M. 2009. Conventions of Climate Change: Constructions of Danger and the Dispossession of the Atmosphere. Journal of Historical Geography. 2009. Conventions of Climate Change: Constructions of Danger and the Dispossession of the Atmosphere. Journal of Historical Geography. 35(2): 279-296 Doi: 10.1016/j.jhg.2008.08.008
  45. Liverman D. 2009. Institutions for Collaborative Environmental Research in the Americas: A Case Study of the Inter American Institute for Global Change (IAI). Chapter 17 pp 352-366 in Knight C.G. and Jager J. Eds. Integrated Regional Assessment of Global Climate Change. Cambridge University Press.
  46. Liverman D. 2009. The geopolitics of climate change: avoiding determinism, fostering sustainable development. Climatic Change. 96(1-2): 7-11.
  47. Lovell H., Bulkeley H. and Liverman D. M. 2009. Carbon offsetting: Sustaining Consumption. Environment and Planning A 41(10): 2357-2379
  48. Johan Rockström, Will Steffen, Kevin Noone, Åsa Persson, F. Stuart Chapin, Eric F. Lambin, Timothy M. Lenton, Marten Scheffer, Carl Folke, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Björn Nykvist, Cynthia A. de Wit, Terry Hughes, Sander van der Leeuw, Henning Rodhe, Sverker Sörlin, Peter K. Snyder, Robert Costanza, Uno Svedin, Malin Falkenmark, Louise Karlberg. Robert W. Corell. Victoria J. Fabry, James Hansen, Brian Walker, Diana Liverman, Katherine Richardson, Paul Crutzen & Jonathan A. Foley. 2009. A safe operating space for humanity. Nature 461, 472-475 (24 September 2009) | doi:10.1038/461472a;
  49. Boykoff, M, Bumpus, A, Liverman D, and Randalls S. 2009. Theorising the Carbon Economy. Introduction to the Special Issues. Environment and Planning A 41(10): 2357-2379.
  50. Richardson, K et. al. (including Liverman, D.) (2009) The Copenhagen Climate Congress Synthesis Report. Climate Change, Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions, Copenhagen 2009, 10-12 March, University of Copenhagen.
  51. Ana Malhado et al, Spatial trends in leaf size of Amazonian rainforest trees. Biogeosciences Discussions. (23th February)
  52. Ana Malhado et al, Spatial distribution and functional significance of leaf lamina shape in Amazonian forest trees Biogeosciences Discussions. (9th February)
  53. Malhi, Y. et al (2009) Exploring the likelihood and mechanism of a climate-change-induced dieback of the Amazon rainforest. PNAS
  54. Lewis, S.L., Malhi, Y. et al, Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests Nature Vol 457| 19 February 2009| doi:10.1038/nature07771
  55. Yadvinder Malhi et al, Comprehensive assessment of carbon productivity, allocation and storage in three Amazonian forests. Global Change Biology
  56. Parag Yael and J. Timmons Roberts (2009) A Battle Against the Bottles: Building, Claiming and Regaining Tap Water Trustworthiness. Society and Natural Resources, 22(7).
  57. Parag, Y. and Strickland, D. (2009) Personal Carbon Budgeting: What people need to know, learn and have in order to manage and live within a carbon budget, and the policies that could support them. UKERC Research Report, Demand Reduction Theme.
  58. Parag, Y., Strickland, D. and Capstick, S.(2009) Framing effect and behaviour: Personal Carbon Allowances versus taxation. Report for UKERC Demand Reduction Theme.
  59. Parag, Y. and Darby, S. (2009) Consumer–supplier–government triangular relations: Rethinking the UK policy path for carbon emissions reduction from the UK residential sector. Energy Policy. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2009.04.044
  60. Sithole, H., Smit, I.P.J. and Parr, C.L. (2009) Preliminary investigations into a potential ant invader in Kruger National Park, South Africa. African Journal of Ecology [early online].
  61. Parr, C.L., Woinarski, J.C.Z., & Pienaar, D.J. (2009) Cornerstones of biodiversity conservation? A cross-continental comparison of two key savanna protected areas. Biodiversity and Conservation.[early online]
  62. Dunn, R.R., Agosti, D., Andersen, A.N., Bruh, C.A., Cerdá, X., Ellison, A., Fisher, B.L., Fitzpatrick, M.C., Gibb, H., Gotelli, N.J., Gove, A.D., Guénard, B., Janda, M., Kaspari, M.E., Laurent, E.J., Lessard, J.P., Longino, J.T., Majer, J.D., Menke, S.B., McGlynn, T.P., Parr, C.L., Philpott, S.M., Pfeiffer, M., Retana, J., Suarez, A.V., Vasconcelos, H.L., Weiser, M.D., & Sanders, N.J. (2009) Climatic drivers of hemispheric asymmetry in global patterns of ant species richness. Ecology Letters 12: 324-333.
  63. Schellnhuber, H. J. (2009). Foreword 1. In Patt, A. G., Schröter, D., Klein, R. J. T., de la Vega-Leinert, A. C. (Eds.) Assessing Vulnerability to Global Environmental Change. Earthscan, xvii
  64. Schellnhuber, H. J. (2009). Regional climate change. Issues in Science and Technology, Spring 2009, 19
  65. Bulkeley, H., Schroeder, H., Janda, K., Zhao, J., Armstrong, A., Chu, Shu Yi, and Ghosh, S. (2009) Cities and Climate Change: The role of institutions, governance and urban planning. Report prepared for the World Bank Urban Symposium on Climate Change
  66. Okereke, C. and H. Schroeder (2009), "How can the objectives of justice, development and climate change mitigation be reconciled in the treatment of developing countries in a post-Kyoto settlement?", Climate and Development 1, 1: 10-15
  67. Schroeder, H. (2009), Leuchtkraft in Gefahr: Staedtische Energieversorgung", Politische Oekologie 114
  68. Sinden, G. (2009) The contribution of PAS 2050 to the evolution of international greenhouse gas emission standards. Int J Life Cycle Assess (2009) 14:195–203
  69. Shmelev S.E., Labajos-Rodrigues B., (2009) Dynamic Muticriteria Assessment of Macro Sustainability: Case Study of Austria, Ecological Economics, Vol. 68, Issue 10, pp. 2560-2573
  70. Shmelev S.E., Shmeleva I.A. (2009) Sustainable cities: problems of integrated interdisciplinary research, International Journal of Sustainable Development, Vol. 12, N. 1, pp. 4-23.
  71. Okereke, C., H. Bulkeley, and H. Schroeder (2009), "Conceptualizing Climate Governance beyond the International Regime", in: Global Environmental Politics 9:1, pp58-78
  72. Thornton, T. (2009) Anatomy of a Traditional Cultural Property: The Saga of Auke Cape. The George Wright Forum Vol26 (1)
  73. Zhao, J. (2011) ‘Climate change mitigation in Beijing, China’, Unpublished case study prepared for the Global Report on Human Settlements 2011