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Mobility as a service : defining a transport utopia (2022)
Journal Article
Brown, C., Hardman, M., Davies, N., & Armitage, R. (2022). Mobility as a service : defining a transport utopia. Future Transportation, 2(1), 300-309

Having been widely acknowledged as enabling access to education, employment, leisure and social activities, transport choices are also the cause of many challenges cities face. Recognising that change is needed, planners and policymakers are consider... Read More about Mobility as a service : defining a transport utopia.

Residential neighbourhood classification : an environmentally enhanced approach (2020)
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Walford, N., & Armitage, R. (2020). Residential neighbourhood classification : an environmentally enhanced approach. Applied Geography, 121, 102219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2020.102219

National small area classifications in Britain were first produced over 40 years ago using statistics from 1971 Population Census and have now become a regular feature of governmental, academic and commercial analysis of census information. These c... Read More about Residential neighbourhood classification : an environmentally enhanced approach.

A comparison of air pollution in different socio-economic areas (2020)
Thesis
Houghton, R. A comparison of air pollution in different socio-economic areas. (Dissertation). University of Salford

Air pollution has a significant impact on human health causing around 40,000 deaths annually in the United Kingdom (RCPCH, 2016). This thesis examines the variations in Particulate Matter concentration across areas of different socio-economic status.... Read More about A comparison of air pollution in different socio-economic areas.

Urban agriculture in shared spaces : the difficulties with collaboration in an age of austerity (2019)
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St Clair, R., Hardman, M., Armitage, R., & Sherriff, G. (2020). Urban agriculture in shared spaces : the difficulties with collaboration in an age of austerity. Urban Studies, 57(2), 350-365. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098019832486

The expanding critical literature on Urban Agriculture (UA) makes links between the withdrawal of state services and the institutionalisation of volunteering, while observing that challenging funding landscapes can foster competitive environments be... Read More about Urban agriculture in shared spaces : the difficulties with collaboration in an age of austerity.

Urban agriculture : evaluating informal and formal practices (2018)
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Hardman, M., St. Clair, R., Adams, D., Armitage, R., Barry, V., Larkham, P., & Sherriff, G. (2018). Urban agriculture : evaluating informal and formal practices. North West geography (Online), 18(1), 1-10

Urban agriculture (UA) is a fast-increasing element in many settlements in the Global North. This paper reviews the diversity of UA activity, ranging from legal to illegal, formal to informal. Focusing particularly on current research on UA projects... Read More about Urban agriculture : evaluating informal and formal practices.

Guerrilla gardening and green activism : rethinking the informal urban growing movement (2017)
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Hardman, M., Lovemore, C., Magidimisha, H., Larkham, P., Scott, A., & Armitage, R. (2018). Guerrilla gardening and green activism : rethinking the informal urban growing movement. Landscape and Urban Planning, 170, 6-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.08.015

Green activism and guerrilla gardening lie at the more informal end of the urban food growing movement, but little is known about the extent of this practice or the future of such unplanned activities. Accordingly, this paper firstly explores a ran... Read More about Guerrilla gardening and green activism : rethinking the informal urban growing movement.

The trouble with temporary : impacts and pitfalls of a meanwhile community garden in Wythenshawe, South Manchester (2017)
Journal Article
St Clair, R., Hardman, M., Armitage, R., & Sherriff, G. (2017). The trouble with temporary : impacts and pitfalls of a meanwhile community garden in Wythenshawe, South Manchester. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 33(6), 548-557. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742170517000291

The rise of Urban Agriculture projects across the UK has led to a surge of interest in their efficacy and resulting social impacts. Real Food Wythenshawe is a Lottery-funded urban food project in the UK that aims to teach the population of Wythensh... Read More about The trouble with temporary : impacts and pitfalls of a meanwhile community garden in Wythenshawe, South Manchester.

Street trees reduce the negative effects of urbanization on birds (2017)
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urbanization on birds. PLoS ONE, 12(e01744), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0174484

The effects of streets on biodiversity is an important aspect of urban ecology, but it has been neglected worldwide. Several vegetation attributes (e.g. street tree density and diversity) have important effects on biodiversity and ecological proces... Read More about Street trees reduce the negative effects of urbanization on birds.

Appraisal of social-ecological innovation as an adaptive response by stakeholders to local conditions : mapping stakeholder involvement in horticulture orientated green space management (2016)
Journal Article
management. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 18, 86-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2016.05.010

Urban areas are hubs of creativity and innovation providing fertile ground for novel responses to modern environmental challenges. Previous studies have attempted to conceptualise the ecological, social and political potential of social-ecological... Read More about Appraisal of social-ecological innovation as an adaptive response by stakeholders to local conditions : mapping stakeholder involvement in horticulture orientated green space management.

Social-ecological innovation : adaptive responses to urban environmental conditions (2016)
Journal Article
Dennis, M., Armitage, R., & James, P. (2016). Social-ecological innovation : adaptive responses to urban environmental conditions. Urban Ecosystems, 19(3), 1063-1082. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-016-0551-3

Novel approaches to natural resource management, particularly those which promote stakeholder participation, have been put forward as fundamental ingredients for establishing resilient, polycentric forms of environmental governance. This is nowhere m... Read More about Social-ecological innovation : adaptive responses to urban environmental conditions.

Sustainable regeneration : everyday landscapes of food acquisition, Pendleton (2016)
Report
Adams, M., Cornes, C., Armitage, R., Miah, A., Clark, A., & St Clair, R. (2016). Sustainable regeneration : everyday landscapes of food acquisition, Pendleton

The report is structured as follows. Chapter two provides the context to the research, outlining why a study of food acquisition and digital inclusion is necessary in Pendleton at this time, and why both issues are linked to the current regeneration... Read More about Sustainable regeneration : everyday landscapes of food acquisition, Pendleton.

Vegetation phenology and habitat discrimination : impacts for E.multilocularis transmission host modelling (2016)
Journal Article
Marston, C., Giraudoux, P., Armitage, R., Danson, F., Reynolds, S., Wang, Q., …Craig, P. (2016). Vegetation phenology and habitat discrimination : impacts for E.multilocularis transmission host modelling. Remote Sensing of Environment, 176, 320-327. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2016.02.015

Echinococcus multilocularis (Em), a parasitic tapeworm, is responsible for a significant burden of human disease across continental Asia. Here, we use a time-series of MODIS 16-day 250 m Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) satellite data to quantify the... Read More about Vegetation phenology and habitat discrimination : impacts for E.multilocularis transmission host modelling.

Calculating association indices in captive animals : controlling for enclosure size and shape (2015)
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Chadwick, C., Springate, D., Rees, P., Armitage, R., & O’Hara, S. (2015). Calculating association indices in captive animals : controlling for enclosure size and shape. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 169, 100-106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2015.05.001

Indices of association are used to quantify and evaluate social affiliation among animals living in groups. Association models assume that physical proximity is an indication of social affiliation; however, individuals seen associating might simply b... Read More about Calculating association indices in captive animals : controlling for enclosure size and shape.

A random forest approach for predicting the presence of Echinococcus multilocularis intermediate host Ochotona spp. presence in relation to landscape characteristics in western China (2014)
Journal Article
Marston, C., Danson, F., Armitage, R., Giradoux, P., Pleydell, D., Wang, Q., …Craig, P. (2014). A random forest approach for predicting the presence of Echinococcus multilocularis intermediate host Ochotona spp. presence in relation to landscape characteristics in western China. Applied Geography, 55, 176-183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2014.09.001

Understanding distribution patterns of hosts implicated in the transmission of zoonotic disease remains a key goal of parasitology. Here, random forests are employed to model spatial patterns of the presence of the plateau pika (Ochotona spp.) smal... Read More about A random forest approach for predicting the presence of Echinococcus multilocularis intermediate host Ochotona spp. presence in relation to landscape characteristics in western China.

Developing a dual-wavelength full-waveform terrestrial laser scanner to characterise forest canopy structure (2014)
Journal Article
Danson, F., Gaulton, R., Armitage, R., Mathias, D., Gunawan, O., Philip, L., …Ramirez, A. (2014). Developing a dual-wavelength full-waveform terrestrial laser scanner to characterise forest canopy structure. Agricultural and forest meteorology, 198, 7-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2014.07.007

The development of a dual-wavelength full-waveform terrestrial laser scanner to measure the three-dimensional structure of forest canopies is described, and field measurements used to evaluate and test the instrument measurement characteristics. The... Read More about Developing a dual-wavelength full-waveform terrestrial laser scanner to characterise forest canopy structure.

Optical medium spatial resolution satellite constellation data for monitoring woodland in the UK (2014)
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Ogunbadewa, E., Armitage, R., & Danson, F. (2014). Optical medium spatial resolution satellite constellation data for monitoring woodland in the UK. Forests, 5(7), 1798-1814. https://doi.org/10.3390/f5071798

The aim of this study was to test the potential of a constellation of remote sensing satellites, the Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC), for retrieving a temporal record of forest leaf area index (LAI) in the United Kingdom (U.K.). Ground-based... Read More about Optical medium spatial resolution satellite constellation data for monitoring woodland in the UK.

Testing the application of terrestrial laser scanning to measure forest canopy gap fraction (2013)
Journal Article
Ramirez Cardozo, F., Armitage, R., & Danson, F. (2013). Testing the application of terrestrial laser scanning to measure forest canopy gap fraction. Remote Sensing, 5(6), 3037-3056. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs5063037

Terrestrial laser scanners (TLS) have the potential to revolutionise measurement of the three-dimensional structure of vegetation canopies for applications in ecology, hydrology and climate change. This potential has been the subject of recent resear... Read More about Testing the application of terrestrial laser scanning to measure forest canopy gap fraction.

Mapping fuel moisture content in upland vegetation using airborne hyperspectral imagery (2012)
Journal Article
Al-Moustafa, T., Armitage, R., & Danson, F. (2012). Mapping fuel moisture content in upland vegetation using airborne hyperspectral imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment, 127, 74-83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2012.08.034

This paper tests the application of airborne hyperspectral image data for estimating live vegetation fuel moisture content (FMC) in a Calluna vulgaris-dominated semi-natural upland area in the United Kingdom. Airborne hyperspectral imagery was collec... Read More about Mapping fuel moisture content in upland vegetation using airborne hyperspectral imagery.

Terrestrial laser scanning measurements to characterise temporal changes in forest canopies (2011)
Thesis
Cardozo, F. Terrestrial laser scanning measurements to characterise temporal changes in forest canopies. (Thesis). Salford : University of Salford

Light detection and ranging (lidar) systems are active sensors capable of creating a permanent three-dimensional (3D) record of forest canopy structure. This 3D characterisation can provide increased accuracy for aboveground biomass estimates in h... Read More about Terrestrial laser scanning measurements to characterise temporal changes in forest canopies.