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Adaptation to climate change: legal challenges for protected areas

Cliquet, A.; Backes, C.; Harris, Jim A.; Howsam, Peter (Igitur, Utrecht Publishing and Archiving Services, 2009-07-01)

Climate change will cause further loss of biodiversity. As negative effects are already taking place, adaptive measures are required to protect biodiversity from the effects of climate change. The EU policy on climate ...
Assessment of heat mitigation capacity of urban greenspaces with the use of InVEST urban cooling model, verified with day-time land surface temperature data

Zawadzka, J. E.; Harris, Jim A.; Corstanje, Ronald (Elsevier, 2021-06-04)

Accurate quantification of the heat mitigation capacity of urban greenspaces is essential in planning decisions due to increased thermal pressures on existing and new urban environments associated with climate change. ...
Bioremediation of leachate from a green waste composting facility using waste-derived filter media

Tyrrel, Sean F.; Seymour, I.; Harris, Jim A. (Elsevier, 2008-11)

The evaluation of two waste-derived materials used to treat compost leachate by biofiltration is described in this paper. Nine biofilters were constructed using 240 l, high density polyethylene containers. Three containers ...
A bird's eye view: using circuit theory to study urban landscape connectivity for birds

Grafius, Darren Ronald; Corstanje, Ronald; Siriwardena, Gavin M.; Plummer, Kate E.; Harris, Jim A. (Springer, 2017-06-28)

Context Connectivity is fundamental to understanding how landscape form influences ecological function. However, uncertainties persist due to the difficulty and expense of gathering empirical data to drive or to validate ...
Bundling ecosystem services at a high resolution in the UK: trade-offs and synergies in urban landscapes

Karimi, James D.; Corstanje, Ron; Harris, Jim A. (Springer, 2021-04-29)

Context Ecosystem service bundles can be defined as the spatial co-occurrence of ecosystem services in a landscape. The understanding of the delivery of multiple ecosystem services as bundles in urban areas is limited. ...
Characterisation and control of the biosolids storage environment: Implications for E. coli dynamics

Fane, Sarah Elizabeth; Nocker, Andreas; Vale, Peter; Rivas Casado, Monica; Cartmell, Elise; Harris, Jim A.; Bajón Fernández, Yadira; Tyrrel, Sean F. (Elsevier, 2020-08-15)

E. coli survival in biosolids storage may present a risk of non-compliance with guidelines designed to ensure a quality product safe for agricultural use. The storage environment may affect E. coli survival but presently, ...
Characterising the biophysical, economic and social impacts of soil carbon sequestration as a greenhouse gas removal technology

Sykes, Alasdair J.; Macleod, Michael; Eory, Vera; Rees, Robert M.; Payen, Florian; Myrgiotis, Vasilis; Williams, Mathew; Sohi, Saran; Hillier, Jon; Moran, Dominic; Manning, David A. C.; Goglio, Pietro; Seghetta, Michele; Williams, Adrian; Harris, Jim A.; Dondini, Marta; Walton, Jack; House, Joanna; Smith, Pete (Wiley, 2019-09-18)

To limit warming to well below 2°C, most scenario projections rely on greenhouse gas removal technologies (GGRTs); one such GGRT uses soil carbon sequestration (SCS) in agricultural land. In addition to their role in ...
Defining and quantifying the resilience of responses to disturbance: a conceptual and modelling approach from soil science

Todman, Lindsay; Fraser, Fiona; Corstanje, Ronald; Deeks, Lynda K.; Harris, Jim A.; Pawlett, Mark; Ritz, Karl; Whitmore, A. P. (Nature Publishing Group, 2016-06-22)

There are several conceptual definitions of resilience pertaining to environmental systems and, even if resilience is clearly defined in a particular context, it is challenging to quantify. We identify four characteristics ...
Distinct respiratory responses of soils to complex organic substrate are governed predominantly by soil architecture and its microbial community

Fraser, Fiona; Todman, L. C.; Corstanje, Ronald; Deeks, Lynda K.; Harris, Jim A.; Pawlett, Mark; Whitmore, A. P.; Ritz, Karl (Elsevier, 2016-10-13)

Factors governing the turnover of organic matter (OM) added to soils, including substrate quality, climate, environment and biology, are well known, but their relative importance has been difficult to ascertain due to the ...
Ecological connectivity networks in rapidly expanding cities

Nor, Amal Najihah Muhamad; Corstanje, Ronald; Harris, Jim A.; Grafius, Darren R.; Siriwardena, Gavin M. (Elsevier, 2017-06-23)

Urban expansion increases fragmentation of the landscape. In effect, fragmentation decreases connectivity, causes green space loss and impacts upon the ecology and function of green space. Restoration of the functionality ...
Ecosystem services in cities: towards the international legal protection of ecosystem services in urban environments

Harris, Jim A. (Elsevier, 2017-01-18)

Biodiversity provides many ecosystem services in cities that are beneficial to human well-being including adaptation to the effects of climate change and positive effects of nature on human health. Rapid urbanization however ...
Editorial: Environmental data, governance and the sustainable city

Evans, James; Pregnolato, Maria; Rogers, Christopher D. F.; Harris, Jim A.; Topping, David (Frontiers, 2024-01-22)

The availability of new types of environmental data has the potential to change the ways in which cities are governed to improve their sustainability, resilience, and livability. Distributed sensors delivering real-time ...
Effect of temperature on bacteriophage-mediated lysis efficiency with a special emphasis on bacterial temperature history

Ameh, E. M.; Nocker, A.; Tyrrell, Sean; Harris, Jim A.; Orlova, E. V.; Ignatiou, A. (University of Mohammed Premier, Oujda, Morocco, 2022-09-30)

Despite the great potential of phages as biocontrol agents, there is much uncertainty about the environmental factors influencing lysis efficiency. In this study we investigated the effect of temperature using three distinct ...
Engineering difference: Matrix design determines community composition in wastewater treatment systems

Harris, Jim A.; Baptista, J. D. C.; Curtis, T. P.; Nelson, A. K.; Pawlett, Mark; Ritz, K.; Tyrrel, Sean F. (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam., 2012-03-01)

There is a growing view that the application of ecological theory has the potential to facilitate a transition from a descriptive to a predictive framework in wastewater engineering. In this study we tested the ...
Estimating food production in an urban landscape

Grafius, Darren R.; Edmondson, Jill L.; Norton, Briony A.; Clark, Rachel; Mears, Meghann; Leake, Jonathan R.; Corstanje, Ronald; Harris, Jim A.; Warren, Philip H. (Nature Publishing Group, 2020-03-20)

There is increasing interest in urban food production for reasons of food security, environmental sustainability, social and health benefits. In developed nations urban food growing is largely informal and localised, in ...
Evaluating agroecological farming practices

Burgess, Paul J.; Redhead, John; Girkin, Nicholas T.; Deeks, Lynda K.; Harris, Jim A.; Staley, Joanna T. (DEFRA, 2023-02-20)

There are a range of definitions for agroecologically-related farming systems and practices. In brief, organic farming places strong restrictions on inputs, agroecological analyses often focus on principles, and regenerative ...
Evidence Project Final Report: Evaluating the productivity, environmental sustainability and wider impacts of agroecological compared to conventional farming systems

Burgess, Paul J.; Staley, Joanna T.; Hurley, Paul D.; Rose, David Christian; Redhead, John R.; McCracken, Morag E.; Girkin, Nicholas T.; Deeks, Lynda K.; Harris, Jim A. (DEFRA, 2023-12-31)

Agriculture is a major cause of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, biodiversity loss, and pollution. Agroecological and regenerative farming have been advocated as alternative approaches that may have fewer negative (or even ...
Facilitating ecosystem assembly: Plant-soil interactions as a restoration tool

van der Bij, A. U.; Weijters, M. J.; Bobbink, R.; Harris, Jim A.; Pawlett, Mark; Ritz, K.; Benetková, P.; Moradi, J.; Frouz, J.; van Diggelen, Rudy (Elsevier, 2018-02-23)

Although plant-soil interactions are increasingly recognized as an important factor in ecosystem restoration, their effects on community assembly during de novo ecosystem establishment are largely unknown. In a heathland ...
Facilitating the elicitation of beliefs for use in Bayesian Belief modelling

Hassall, Kirsty L.; Dailey, Gordon; Zawadzka, Joanna; Milne, Alice E.; Harris, Jim A.; Corstanje, Ronald; Whitmore, Andrew P. (Elsevier, 2019-10-01)

Expert opinion is increasingly being used to inform Bayesian Belief Networks, in particular to define the conditional dependencies modelled by the graphical structure. The elicitation of such expert opinion remains a major ...
A Framework for Establishing Restoration Goals for Contaminated Ecosystems

Wagner, Anne M.; Larson, Diane L.; DalSoglio, Julie A.; Harris, Jim A.; Labus, Paul; Rosi-Marshall, Emma J.; Skrabis, Kristin E. (Wiley, 2015-12-18)

As natural resources become increasingly limited, the value of restoring contaminated sites, both terrestrial and aquatic, becomes increasingly apparent. Traditionally, goals for remediation have been set before any ...

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