Katharine Richards

Biographic Data

ID98507
NAMEKatharine Richards
GIVEN NAMESKatharine
FAMILY NAMERichards
SIGNATURERICHARDS K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Cambridge
ORCID0000-0001-8170-6512
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS46
TOTAL CITATIONS238
AUTHOR COUNT46
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX8

  • Map and Archival Evidence of the Historical Avulsion of the Brahmaputra River

    Open AccessKatharine Richards, Hugh Brammer et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal2026

    The Brahmaputra River is one of the world's largest rivers, entering the Bengal Basin from its extensive Himalayan catchment, flowing south through Bangladesh, and joining the Ganges to traverse a complex fan‐delta and enter the Bay of Bengal. When Major James Rennell surveyed the river to establish the ‘Route Surveys’ for the East India Company between 1765 and 1777, it followed a different course, turning to the South‐East into the Sylhet Basin…

  • Predicting Covid-19 booster intentions among college students using the health belief model

    Open AccessHannah Priest Catalano, Julianne Christofora et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Background COVID-19 remains a significant public health threat. The primary purpose of this study was to test the health belief model (HBM) constructs in predicting COVID-19 booster intentions of college students. Methods A total of 285 students enrolled at large public university in the Southeastern U.S., who were 18 years and older, completed an online survey to assess COVID-19 vaccination status, prior or current COVID-19 infection, demographi…

  • Challenges and instructor strategies for transitioning to online learning during and after the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessKatharine Richards, Keith Richards et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Communication2023

    The COVID-19 pandemic triggered an unprecedented shift to online learning, significantly impacting the higher education landscape. This paper examines the challenges faced by faculty and students during the rapid transition to online instruction and explores best practices for delivering effective online courses. The increased adoption of online learning created stress for faculty and resulted in academic setbacks for students. Although challenge…

  • The historical avulsion of the Tista River, and its relationship to the Brahmaputra

    Open AccessKatharine Richards, Hugh Brammer et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal2021Cited by: 1References: 12

    Alluvial fans are constructed when river deposition raises local elevations until the river "avulses" to an alternative lower elevation alignment. Avulsions may be triggered by exogenous events, such as floods that locally overtop the river's banks; they may then cause extreme flooding on a fan and have major impacts. Rivers draining the Himalayas into the Gangetic plain have behaved historically in this way; for example, the Kosi River's histori…

  • The Akchagylian stage (late Pliocene-early Pleistocene) in the North Caspian region

    Open AccessOlga D Naidina, Katharine Richards et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2020

  • Water, energy and land insecurity in global supply chains

    Open AccessOliver Taherzadeh, Mike Bithell et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2020Cited by: 3References: 9

  • Adaptation to flooding in low-income urban settlements in the least developed countries

    Open AccessAnika Nasra Haque, Mike Bithell et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal2020Cited by: 1References: 13

    This study aims to use a whole systems approach (1) to understand the processes of adaptation to flooding of the urban poor; (2) to identify new knowledge of how low-income settlements might better adapt to climatic risks; and (3) to begin to develop appropriate guidance on this. Low-income urban settlements in the least developed countries (LDCs) present an extreme case where catastrophic natural hazards and chronic social hazards overlap. These…

  • Bushfires - Climate, people and policies

    Open AccessKatharine RichardsARTICLEGeographical Journal2020References: 26

    This Commentary considers the causal chain responsible for bushfires, prompted by the severe episode in SE Australia in 2019-2020. While not denying the role of climate and climate change, it focuses on ignition and fuel supply as areas where intervention might occur in order to mitigate future fire risk

  • Truth and Reconciliation Commissions

    Open AccessKatharine Richards, Richard Ashby WilsonOTHERThe International Encyclopedia of…2018

    In periods of transition after political violence, a truth and reconciliation commission is one method for successor governments and international agencies to document past abuses of human rights. These temporary commissions investigate the covert activities of repressive regimes and rebel groups, document and publicize survivors' testimonies, and recommend institutional reforms and restitution for victims and their families. Most commissions pur…

  • Lithofacies and ichnofacies distribution in offshore sediments of the Langarud–Rudsar region of Iran, southern Caspian Sea

    Open AccessHedieh Abbasian, Katharine Richards et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2018References: 2

    Innovative Computerized co-axial tomography (CAT)-scan methods have been applied to two short cores collected in the southern Caspian Sea, offshore from the Langarud–Rudsar region of Iran, to the east of the Sefidrud delta. Magnetic susceptibility (MS) readings, in association with other lithological criteria, are used to correlate the cores and calibrate to real time. The cores provide a sedimentary record from this largely unstudied region cove…

  • Revisiting the drivers of deforestation in the tropics

    Open AccessRonald Twongyirwe, Mike Bithell et al.ARTICLEJournal of Rural Studies2018Cited by: 5References: 7

  • Introduction to the Special Issue

    Seongsook Choi, Katharine Richards et al.ARTICLEApplied Linguistics2016

    This introduction provides a rationale for the papers in this special issue, establishing a link between these and last year's special issue on the subject of defining applied linguistics, and arguing the case for greater attention to be given to methodological issues in our field. Papers in the collection are briefly introduced in the context of five developments that make the publication of a collection on this topic particularly timely: the pa…

  • Do livelihood typologies influence local perceptions of forest cover change? Evidence from a tropical forested and non-forested rural landscape in western Uganda

    Open AccessRonald Twongyirwe, Mike Bithell et al.ARTICLEJournal of Rural Studies2016Cited by: 2References: 2

  • Truth Commissions

    Katharine RichardsARTICLEAnthropological Quarterly2016

    Reviewed by: Truth Commissions: Memory, Power, and Legitimacy by Onur Bakiner Katharine Richards Onur Bakiner, Truth Commissions: Memory, Power, and Legitimacy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 328 pp. After periods of mass violence, transitional governments are often called upon by their people, human rights groups, and international organizations to right the wrongs of the past. A truth commission is a restorative justice a…

  • Not all low-carbon energy pathways are environmentally “no-regrets” options

    Open AccessD Dennis Konadu, Zenaida Mourão et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2015Cited by: 3References: 3

    Energy system pathways which are projected to deliver minimum possible deployment cost, combined with low Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, are usually considered as ‘no-regrets’ options. However, the question remains whether such energy pathways present ‘no-regrets’ when also considering the wider environmental resource impacts, in particular those on land and water resources. This paper aims to determine whether the energy pathways of the UK’s Ca…

  • Approaches to evaluating model quality across different regime types in environmental and public health governance

    Open AccessBrian H MacGillivray, Katharine RichardsARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2015Cited by: 1References: 16

  • Three decades of forest cover change in Uganda’s Northern Albertine Rift Landscape

    Open AccessRonald Twongyirwe, Mike Bithell et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2015Cited by: 2References: 37

  • Reconstructions of deltaic environments from Holocene palynological records in the Volga delta, northern Caspian Sea

    Open AccessKatharine Richards, Keith Richards et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2014Cited by: 1References: 10

    New palynological and ostracod data are presented from the Holocene Volga delta, obtained from short cores and surface samples collected in the Damchik region, near Astrakhan, Russian Federation in the northern Caspian Sea. Four phases of delta deposition are recognized and constrained by accelerated mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon ages. Palynological records show that erosive channels, dunes (Baer hills) and inter-dune lakes were present dur…

  • Enhancing water security for the benefits of humans and nature — the role of governance

    Open AccessClaudia Pahl‐wostl, Margaret A Palmer et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2013Cited by: 3References: 10

  • Environmental flows and water governance

    Open AccessClaudia Pahl‐wostl, Angela H Arthington et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2013Cited by: 6References: 11

  • Geographical connections

    Open AccessJudith Rees, Michael Palin et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal2013

    The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)'s annual Medals and Awards recognise achievements in the research, communication and teaching of a wide range of geographical knowledge. The speeches and citations are a record of the ceremony of 2013. With comments by Michael Palin, and Professors Keith Richards, Kelvyn Jones, Paul Longley and Susan Page, the speeches encompass travel, fluvial geomorphology, quantitative research, geographic information …

  • Fluctuations in Caspian sea level during the Quaternary

    Open AccessKatharine Richards, Keith RichardsARTICLEQuaternary International2012

  • Transition towards a new global change science

    Open AccessClaudia Pahl‐wostl, Carlo Giupponi et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2012Cited by: 21References: 6

  • Irreversible river water quality and the concept of the reference condition

    Open AccessFeng Mao, Katharine Richards et al.ARTICLEArea2012Cited by: 2References: 41

    In the W ater F ramework D irective ( WFD ), ‘water quality’ now refers to a comprehensive assessment of the state of aquatic ecosystems (whether fluvial or lacustrine), which are evaluated by their deviation from a pre‐determined historically‐based reference condition. However, the WFD does not consider theoretically whether water quality can be expected to recover to a historical condition; it simply assumes that it is possible for quality to b…

  • Using Micro-Analysis in Interviewer Training

    Katharine Richards, Keith RichardsARTICLEApplied Linguistics2011

    Despite the recent growth of interest in the interactional construction of research interviews and advances made in our understanding of the nature of such encounters, relatively little attention has been paid to the implications of this for interviewer training, with the result that advice on interviewing techniques tends to be very general. Drawing on analyses of a feature of research interviews that is usually treated as analytically insignifi…