Louise J Bracken
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 234000 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Louise J Bracken |
| NOMBRES | Louise J |
| APELLIDO | Bracken |
| FIRMA | BRACKEN L J |
| AFILIACIONES | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1268-5516 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 172 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Maximising urban resilience using sustainable drainage systems (SuDS)
Nature-based solutions (NbS) have been adopted globally to address a range of societal and environmental issues. A significant proportion of NbS schemes are specifically designed for urban water management and fall under the umbrella of sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) and blue-green infrastructure (BGI). Despite being widely recognised as a preferred choice over ‘grey’ infrastructure across policy and practice, SuDS/BGI are still underused ac…
Distribution of Nature-based Solutions in cities across Europe
Nature-based Solutions (NBS) is a conceptual framework that seeks to use properties of nature to co-produce ecosystem services to build climate change resilience and improve quality of life by mitigating the relationship between health inequality and socio-economic adversity. This study investigates how the distribution of these forms of urban nature relate to trends in demographic change and social and economic indicators that influence material…
Exploring different framings of nature-based solutions with respect to governance, and citizen participation, beneficiaries, and quality of life outcomes
Cities are increasingly looking to nature-based solutions to not only tackle climate change, and biodiversity loss, reconnect people with nature but also make just transitions to sustainability. However, some scholars argue that normative framings that drive the implementation of NBS continue to reinforce hegemonism and neoliberalise nature. Furthermore, while cities increasingly foreground climate adaptation and green growth actions in social an…
How are Research for Development Programmes Implementing and Evaluating Equitable Partnerships to Address Power Asymmetries
The complexity of issues addressed by research for development (R4D) requires collaborations between partners from a range of disciplines and cultural contexts. Power asymmetries within such partnerships may obstruct the fair distribution of resources, responsibilities and benefits across all partners. This paper presents a cross-case analysis of five R4D partnership evaluations, their methods and how they unearthed and addressed power asymmetrie…
Muddy Glee, 18 years later
In this short paper, we thank the authors of the papers in this special section, and briefly respond to their insightful and important contributions. We then each provide a brief account of how the 2004 paper emerged, and reflect on our fieldwork ‘journeys’ since its publication
Biomass estimation in mangrove forests
Improved estimates of aboveground biomass (AGB) are required to improve our understanding of the productivity of mangrove forests to support the long-term conservation of these fragile ecosystems which are under threat from many natural and anthropogenic pressures. To understand how individual species affects biomass estimates in mangrove forests, five species-specific and four genus-specific allometric models were developed. Independent tree inv…
Empowering women through participatory action research in community-based disaster risk reduction efforts
Contextualizing the Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on food security in two small cities in Bangladesh
The COVID-19 pandemic is an evolving urban crisis. This research paper assesses impacts of the lockdown on food security and associated coping mechanisms in two small cities in Bangladesh (Mongla and Noapara) during March to May 2020. Due to restrictions during the prolonged lockdown, residents (in particular low-income groups) had limited access to livelihood opportunities and experienced significant or complete loss of income. This affected bot…
Interdisciplinarity and Geography
Calls for interdisciplinary research and teaching abound, and geography is uniquely placed to take advantage of these. Yet, interdisciplinary working is not necessarily straightforward, and confusion and debate are rife about the most suitable practices of undertaking interdisciplinary research and the subsequent quality of the work produced. This entry outlines the background to interdisciplinarity and the motivations for undertaking such work, …
Making water policy work in the United Kingdom
Competing paradigms of flood management in the Scottish/English borderlands
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how flood management practitioners rationalise the emergence of sustainable flood management. Key to this analysis are differences rooted in assumptions over what flood management is and should do. Design/methodology/approach – The popularity of natural flood management offers a case with which to explore how a dominant framing persists and how individuals at the government-public interface negoti…
Negotiating river restoration
Making sense of policy implementation
Can a Species Be a Person
The notion that an animal species is comparable with a human person is unusual but significant in North Atlantic societies. We analyze this trope to make a case for rhetoric culture theory as a powerful form of anthropological analysis. The "species is person" trope has been woven with other tropes to make moral and cosmological arguments in the present geosocial era of environmental crisis. The trope stands against two others in North Atlantic s…
Interdisciplinary research
Framing encompasses the processes of identifying and bounding the area of research and based on our own experiences as academics we have found significant differences in the ways that researchers establish and frame a disciplinary, compared to an interdisciplinary, research project. In this paper we have attempted to contribute to the development of the conceptual framework underpinning interdisciplinary research through analysis of interviews wi…
Interdisciplinarity within and beyond geography
This Special Section presents a selection of papers given at the Institute of British Geographers conference held in 2007 in a session titled ‘Interdisciplinarity within and beyond geography’. There is a long debate on working across disciplinary perspectives within geography, taken up since 2003 in the ‘Conversations across the divide’ sessions at the RGS-IBG conferences. ‘Conversations across the divide’ have developed into ‘activity across the…
Geomorphological equilibrium
Equilibrium is a central concept in geomorphology. Despite the widespread use of the term, there is a great deal of variability in the ways equilibrium is portrayed and informs practice. Thus, there is confusion concerning the precise meanings and usage of the concept. This confusion has arisen because of the enshrinement of Gilbert's original ideas as a myth that supports a narrow, short‐termist, process‐based approach to geomorphology that deve…
What do you mean?’ The importance of language in developing interdisciplinary research
Unity between human and physical geography continues to be debated widely. However, if geography is to take advantage of its unique positioning between the natural and social sciences, geographers need to be able to communicate more effectively and efficiently across human and physical specialisms. In this paper we focus on the significance and uses of language in interdisciplinary research practice. Interdisciplinary research faces a range of ch…
Physical and environmental geography and Area
In this, my first editorial since becoming the new Co-Editor of Area, I would like to revisit the ideas of the outgoing Co-Editor, Heather Viles. I do this to highlight the success of Area (and especially Heather) in widening the subject base of the journal and also to evaluate where Area (and myself in particular) should focus our efforts in the future. Heather's task to encourage the submission of more papers from geographers working in the fie…
Muddy glee’
Fieldwork in geography has come under close scrutiny from feminist and postcolonial scholars in recent years. In relation to physical geography, commentators have pointed to a range of practices and images (notably the ‘heroic’, masculinist ‘ideal’) that have acted to deter and exclude women, from undergraduates to senior academics. For some, fieldwork is one of the key sites of gender discrimination for women in physical geography. This paper st…
What do you mean?’ The importance of language in developing interdisciplinary research
Unity between human and physical geography continues to be debated widely. However, if geography is to take advantage of its unique positioning between the natural and social sciences, geographers need to be able to communicate more effectively and efficiently across human and physical specialisms. In this paper we focus on the significance and uses of language in interdisciplinary research practice. Interdisciplinary research faces a range of ch…
Can a Species Be a Person
The notion that an animal species is comparable with a human person is unusual but significant in North Atlantic societies. We analyze this trope to make a case for rhetoric culture theory as a powerful form of anthropological analysis. The "species is person" trope has been woven with other tropes to make moral and cosmological arguments in the present geosocial era of environmental crisis. The trope stands against two others in North Atlantic s…
Muddy glee’
Fieldwork in geography has come under close scrutiny from feminist and postcolonial scholars in recent years. In relation to physical geography, commentators have pointed to a range of practices and images (notably the ‘heroic’, masculinist ‘ideal’) that have acted to deter and exclude women, from undergraduates to senior academics. For some, fieldwork is one of the key sites of gender discrimination for women in physical geography. This paper st…
Negotiating river restoration
Interdisciplinary research
Framing encompasses the processes of identifying and bounding the area of research and based on our own experiences as academics we have found significant differences in the ways that researchers establish and frame a disciplinary, compared to an interdisciplinary, research project. In this paper we have attempted to contribute to the development of the conceptual framework underpinning interdisciplinary research through analysis of interviews wi…
Contextualizing the Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on food security in two small cities in Bangladesh
The COVID-19 pandemic is an evolving urban crisis. This research paper assesses impacts of the lockdown on food security and associated coping mechanisms in two small cities in Bangladesh (Mongla and Noapara) during March to May 2020. Due to restrictions during the prolonged lockdown, residents (in particular low-income groups) had limited access to livelihood opportunities and experienced significant or complete loss of income. This affected bot…
Making sense of policy implementation
Geomorphological equilibrium
Equilibrium is a central concept in geomorphology. Despite the widespread use of the term, there is a great deal of variability in the ways equilibrium is portrayed and informs practice. Thus, there is confusion concerning the precise meanings and usage of the concept. This confusion has arisen because of the enshrinement of Gilbert's original ideas as a myth that supports a narrow, short‐termist, process‐based approach to geomorphology that deve…
How are Research for Development Programmes Implementing and Evaluating Equitable Partnerships to Address Power Asymmetries
The complexity of issues addressed by research for development (R4D) requires collaborations between partners from a range of disciplines and cultural contexts. Power asymmetries within such partnerships may obstruct the fair distribution of resources, responsibilities and benefits across all partners. This paper presents a cross-case analysis of five R4D partnership evaluations, their methods and how they unearthed and addressed power asymmetrie…
Making water policy work in the United Kingdom
Interdisciplinarity within and beyond geography
This Special Section presents a selection of papers given at the Institute of British Geographers conference held in 2007 in a session titled ‘Interdisciplinarity within and beyond geography’. There is a long debate on working across disciplinary perspectives within geography, taken up since 2003 in the ‘Conversations across the divide’ sessions at the RGS-IBG conferences. ‘Conversations across the divide’ have developed into ‘activity across the…
Distribution of Nature-based Solutions in cities across Europe
Nature-based Solutions (NBS) is a conceptual framework that seeks to use properties of nature to co-produce ecosystem services to build climate change resilience and improve quality of life by mitigating the relationship between health inequality and socio-economic adversity. This study investigates how the distribution of these forms of urban nature relate to trends in demographic change and social and economic indicators that influence material…
Maximising urban resilience using sustainable drainage systems (SuDS)
Nature-based solutions (NbS) have been adopted globally to address a range of societal and environmental issues. A significant proportion of NbS schemes are specifically designed for urban water management and fall under the umbrella of sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) and blue-green infrastructure (BGI). Despite being widely recognised as a preferred choice over ‘grey’ infrastructure across policy and practice, SuDS/BGI are still underused ac…
Muddy Glee, 18 years later
In this short paper, we thank the authors of the papers in this special section, and briefly respond to their insightful and important contributions. We then each provide a brief account of how the 2004 paper emerged, and reflect on our fieldwork ‘journeys’ since its publication
Muddy glee’
Fieldwork in geography has come under close scrutiny from feminist and postcolonial scholars in recent years. In relation to physical geography, commentators have pointed to a range of practices and images (notably the ‘heroic’, masculinist ‘ideal’) that have acted to deter and exclude women, from undergraduates to senior academics. For some, fieldwork is one of the key sites of gender discrimination for women in physical geography. This paper st…
Geomorphological equilibrium
Equilibrium is a central concept in geomorphology. Despite the widespread use of the term, there is a great deal of variability in the ways equilibrium is portrayed and informs practice. Thus, there is confusion concerning the precise meanings and usage of the concept. This confusion has arisen because of the enshrinement of Gilbert's original ideas as a myth that supports a narrow, short‐termist, process‐based approach to geomorphology that deve…
What do you mean?’ The importance of language in developing interdisciplinary research
Unity between human and physical geography continues to be debated widely. However, if geography is to take advantage of its unique positioning between the natural and social sciences, geographers need to be able to communicate more effectively and efficiently across human and physical specialisms. In this paper we focus on the significance and uses of language in interdisciplinary research practice. Interdisciplinary research faces a range of ch…
Physical and environmental geography and Area
In this, my first editorial since becoming the new Co-Editor of Area, I would like to revisit the ideas of the outgoing Co-Editor, Heather Viles. I do this to highlight the success of Area (and especially Heather) in widening the subject base of the journal and also to evaluate where Area (and myself in particular) should focus our efforts in the future. Heather's task to encourage the submission of more papers from geographers working in the fie…
Interdisciplinary research
Framing encompasses the processes of identifying and bounding the area of research and based on our own experiences as academics we have found significant differences in the ways that researchers establish and frame a disciplinary, compared to an interdisciplinary, research project. In this paper we have attempted to contribute to the development of the conceptual framework underpinning interdisciplinary research through analysis of interviews wi…
Interdisciplinarity within and beyond geography
This Special Section presents a selection of papers given at the Institute of British Geographers conference held in 2007 in a session titled ‘Interdisciplinarity within and beyond geography’. There is a long debate on working across disciplinary perspectives within geography, taken up since 2003 in the ‘Conversations across the divide’ sessions at the RGS-IBG conferences. ‘Conversations across the divide’ have developed into ‘activity across the…
Can a Species Be a Person
The notion that an animal species is comparable with a human person is unusual but significant in North Atlantic societies. We analyze this trope to make a case for rhetoric culture theory as a powerful form of anthropological analysis. The "species is person" trope has been woven with other tropes to make moral and cosmological arguments in the present geosocial era of environmental crisis. The trope stands against two others in North Atlantic s…
Making sense of policy implementation
Negotiating river restoration
Competing paradigms of flood management in the Scottish/English borderlands
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how flood management practitioners rationalise the emergence of sustainable flood management. Key to this analysis are differences rooted in assumptions over what flood management is and should do. Design/methodology/approach – The popularity of natural flood management offers a case with which to explore how a dominant framing persists and how individuals at the government-public interface negoti…
Interdisciplinarity and Geography
Calls for interdisciplinary research and teaching abound, and geography is uniquely placed to take advantage of these. Yet, interdisciplinary working is not necessarily straightforward, and confusion and debate are rife about the most suitable practices of undertaking interdisciplinary research and the subsequent quality of the work produced. This entry outlines the background to interdisciplinarity and the motivations for undertaking such work, …
Making water policy work in the United Kingdom
Empowering women through participatory action research in community-based disaster risk reduction efforts
Contextualizing the Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on food security in two small cities in Bangladesh
The COVID-19 pandemic is an evolving urban crisis. This research paper assesses impacts of the lockdown on food security and associated coping mechanisms in two small cities in Bangladesh (Mongla and Noapara) during March to May 2020. Due to restrictions during the prolonged lockdown, residents (in particular low-income groups) had limited access to livelihood opportunities and experienced significant or complete loss of income. This affected bot…
Biomass estimation in mangrove forests
Improved estimates of aboveground biomass (AGB) are required to improve our understanding of the productivity of mangrove forests to support the long-term conservation of these fragile ecosystems which are under threat from many natural and anthropogenic pressures. To understand how individual species affects biomass estimates in mangrove forests, five species-specific and four genus-specific allometric models were developed. Independent tree inv…
Muddy Glee, 18 years later
In this short paper, we thank the authors of the papers in this special section, and briefly respond to their insightful and important contributions. We then each provide a brief account of how the 2004 paper emerged, and reflect on our fieldwork ‘journeys’ since its publication
Exploring different framings of nature-based solutions with respect to governance, and citizen participation, beneficiaries, and quality of life outcomes
Cities are increasingly looking to nature-based solutions to not only tackle climate change, and biodiversity loss, reconnect people with nature but also make just transitions to sustainability. However, some scholars argue that normative framings that drive the implementation of NBS continue to reinforce hegemonism and neoliberalise nature. Furthermore, while cities increasingly foreground climate adaptation and green growth actions in social an…
How are Research for Development Programmes Implementing and Evaluating Equitable Partnerships to Address Power Asymmetries
The complexity of issues addressed by research for development (R4D) requires collaborations between partners from a range of disciplines and cultural contexts. Power asymmetries within such partnerships may obstruct the fair distribution of resources, responsibilities and benefits across all partners. This paper presents a cross-case analysis of five R4D partnership evaluations, their methods and how they unearthed and addressed power asymmetrie…
Distribution of Nature-based Solutions in cities across Europe
Nature-based Solutions (NBS) is a conceptual framework that seeks to use properties of nature to co-produce ecosystem services to build climate change resilience and improve quality of life by mitigating the relationship between health inequality and socio-economic adversity. This study investigates how the distribution of these forms of urban nature relate to trends in demographic change and social and economic indicators that influence material…
Maximising urban resilience using sustainable drainage systems (SuDS)
Nature-based solutions (NbS) have been adopted globally to address a range of societal and environmental issues. A significant proportion of NbS schemes are specifically designed for urban water management and fall under the umbrella of sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) and blue-green infrastructure (BGI). Despite being widely recognised as a preferred choice over ‘grey’ infrastructure across policy and practice, SuDS/BGI are still underused ac…
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