John W Hall
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 260770 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John W Hall |
| NOMBRES | John W |
| APELLIDO | Hall |
| FIRMA | HALL J W |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2024-9191 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 133 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 176 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 131 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1951 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
What drives support for higher public spending?
This paper examines the role of individual and household characteristics in explaining patterns of support for higher public spending on seven of the most important public spending programmes including health, education, the police and defence. Different groups in the population, such as the elderly, those who are highly educated, and those who support particular political parties, tend to support distinctive types of spending. There is some evid…
Irreversibility in climate action
A-Mouldering in Our Graves
This essay reflects on the challenges of using the past to make the present more legible to students who may be alienated by the implications. Always susceptible to abuse, historical analogies are even more fraught in an era of intense polarization. Nevertheless, Andrew Jackson's rise to the presidency with the support of "the common man," the implementation of the spoils system, racialized conceptions of citizenship, distrust of professional exp…
Stabilizing time-lagged climate impacts requires net-negative emissions for centuries
In July 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) affirmed that States must prevent significant harm to the environment, including the climate system. Some of the most critical climate impacts, such as sea level rise (SLR) and permafrost thaw (PFT), will intensify for centuries even under 1.5–2 °C stabilization. In the terms expressed by the ICJ, we argue a duty exists to pursue stabilization of impacts at the lowest attainable levels. Using…
Mapping School Accessibility in Africa
Education is a cornerstone of sustainable development, yet large disparities in access persist across and within countries—particularly in Africa, where millions remain underserved. Among several factors influencing educational participation, physical accessibility to schools (in terms of travel time) is not comprehensively understood, especially in data‐scarce contexts. This study presents 90‐m resolution maps of school accessibility in Africa, …
Towards optimal anticipatory action
Flood Risk Assessment Methodology for Complex Railway Networks
Rail networks comprise complex interdependent systems with extensive trackside and off-track assets that are exposed to extreme weather-related hazards. In this paper, a methodology is presented for flood risk assessment of large rail networks and is demonstrated on the national rail network in Great Britain, which is analyzed for the impact of river flood hazards, with the disruptive impacts measured in terms of direct asset damages, disruptions…
Should Egypt be afraid of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam? The consequences of adversarial water policy on the Blue Nile
Although large dams can provide multiple benefits, they may negatively impact downstream riparians, and could be used to cause harm by withholding water. Concern about deliberately adversarial operation of the Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam (GERD) is mounting in Egypt and overshadows the regional negotiations around water resources. We simulate a range of operational policies for the GERD, including an adversarial operation policy, which could re…
Mars Before Marx
Climate threats to coastal infrastructure and sustainable development outcomes
Climate hazards pose increasing threats to development outcomes across the world’s coastal regions by impacting infrastructure service delivery. Using a high-resolution dataset of 8.2 million households in Bangladesh’s coastal zone, we assess the extent to which infrastructure service disruptions induced by flood, cyclone and erosion hazards can thwart progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Results show that climate hazards po…
The implications of further reservoir development on the Blue Nile in Ethiopia
We evaluate the implications for Ethiopia and Egypt of two dams that could be built upstream of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), in combination with hypothetical Ethiopian irrigation schemes upstream of these Blue Nile hydropower facilities. Two new dams could increase average annual hydropower on the Blue Nile River from Lake Tana to Khartoum and the Main Nile River from Khartoum to Aswan by almost 50% (30.2 TWh yr −1 to 44.7 TWh yr −…
Stefan Aune. Indian Wars Everywhere
The Cutting-Off Way
Ever since its publication in 1991, Patrick Malone’s The Skulking Way of War: Technology and Tactics among the New England Indians (Madison Books) has served as the standard primer on early Native American “ways of war” and their adaptation through contact with European colonists. Although Malone confined his study to New England in the years 1600 to 1677, The Skulking Way of War established a paradigm that many scholars extended across a broader…
A machine learning methodology to quantify the potential of urban densification in the Oxford-Cambridge Arc, United Kingdom
Regional-scale urban residential densification provides an opportunity to tackle multiple challenges of sustainability in cities. But framework for detailed large-scale analysis of densification potentials and their integration with natural capital to assess the housing capacity is lacking. Using a combination of Machine Learning Random Forests algorithm and exploratory data analysis (EDA), we propose density scenarios and housing-capacity estima…
Quantifying community resilience to riverine hazards in Bangladesh
Every year, 30–70% of Bangladesh is inundated with flood waters, which combined with erosion, affect between 10 and 70 million people annually. Rural riverine communities in Bangladesh have long been identified as some of the poorest populations, most vulnerable to riverine hazards. However, these communities have, for generations, also developed resilience strategies – considered as the combination of absorptive, adaptive, and transformative app…
Policy choices can help keep 4G and 5G universal broadband affordable
The UN Broadband Commission has committed to universal broadband by 2030. But can this objective really be affordably delivered? The aim of this paper is to assess universal broadband viability in the developing world, quantifying the relationship between demand-side revenue and supply-side cost. A comprehensive scenario-based simulation model is developed open-source, capable of evaluating the global cost-effectiveness of different 4G and 5G inf…
Designing green infrastructure and sustainable drainage systems in urban development to achieve multiple ecosystem benefits
Urbanisation is one of the greatest threats to biodiversity and ecological connectivity. Green infrastructure (GI) networks and corridors are promoted as a way to preserve habitat connectivity even in the context of urbanisation. Yet, previous research has a primary focus on the ecological benefits that may be provided by GI networks without also valuing other potential ecosystem services. There has also been a lack of research into how the desig…
The unequal distribution of water risks and adaptation benefits in coastal Bangladesh
How can diverse national food and land-use priorities be reconciled with global sustainability targets? Lessons from the Fable initiative
There is an urgent need for countries to transition their national food and land-use systems toward food and nutritional security, climate stability, and environmental integrity. How can countries satisfy their demands while jointly delivering the required transformative change to achieve global sustainability targets? Here, we present a collaborative approach developed with the FABLE—Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land, and Energy—Consortium t…
Sustainable pathways towards climate and biodiversity goals in the UK
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-022-01242-8
Evaluating the benefits of national adaptation to reduce climate risks and contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals
Scaling up national climate adaptation under the Paris Agreement is critical not only to reduce risk, but also to contribute to a nation’s development. Traditional adaptation assessments are aimed at evaluating adaptation to cost-effectively reduce risk and do not capture the far-reaching benefits of adaptation in the context of development and the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). By grounding adaptation planning in an SDG vision, we …
The utility of built environment geospatial data for high-resolution dasymetric global population modeling
Assessing water security across scales
Efficient pathways to zero-carbon energy use by water supply utilities
Urban water utilities are increasing their use of energy-intensive technologies such as desalination and long-distanced pumped transfers. Under pressure to reduce their energy-related carbon emissions to zero, water utilities have devised a variety of energy management strategies, including the purchase of renewable energy and self-generation of electricity using locally installed renewables. These strategies will incur different costs for the ut…
Government and Local Power in Japan, 500-1700. A Study Based on Bizen Province
This important study of Japan in premodern times, embracing a span of nearly thirteen centuries, is directed toward the illumination of some important elements of continuity in Japanese history, . It is an effort to explain through the detailed analysis of a microcosm -- the small province of Bizen -- the fundamental institutions of political organization and social and economic structure upon which Japanese government has rested. It seeks histor…
Infrastructure for sustainable development
Assessing the effectiveness of non-structural flood management measures in the Thames Estuary under conditions of socio-economic and environmental change
Maritime Asia, 1500-1800
Delivering on the Sustainable Development Goals through long-term infrastructure planning
The effects of changing land use and flood hazard on poverty in coastal Bangladesh
Electricity generation and cooling water use
Thermoelectric generation contributes to 80% of global electricity production. Cooling of thermoelectric plants is often achieved by water abstractions from the natural environment. In England and Wales, the electricity sector is responsible for approximately half of all water abstractions and 40% of non-tidal surface water abstractions. We present a model that quantifies current water use of the UK electricity sector and use it to test six decar…
Japan From Prehistory to Modern Times
Introduction:Japan’s Historical Position Japan’s Historical Setting Origins of the Japanese People and Their Culture Formation of the Early Japanese State The Yamato State and the Spread of Chinese Influence The Aristocratic Age The Feudal Age The First European Encounter Nobunaga,Hideyoshi and the Pacification of the Daimyo The Tokugawa Period〔ほか〕
The Castle Town and Japan's Modern Urbanization
Japan's role in Far Eastern history has been unique in many respects. Traditionally an integral part of the Chinese zone of civilization, Japan has nonetheless demonstrated a marked ability to remain independent of continental influence. In recent years Japan's remarkable record of adjustment to the conditions imposed upon her by the spread of Western civilization to the Orient has raised the provocative question of why Japan, of all Far Eastern …
Creating an ensemble of future strategies for national infrastructure provision
Feudalism in Japan - a Reassessment
The question of whether Japan can rightly be said to 'have had feudalism' is by no means settled. Although Westerners have been writing about 'Japanese feudalism' for well over a hundred years, the acceptability of this practice is still a matter of controversy among professional historians, notably among those who make the study of medieval Europe their specialty. To a long line of Western historians ending with Herbert Norman, however, there wa…
The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan
Prioritising resilience policies to reduce welfare losses from natural disasters
Quantified flood risk assessments focus on asset losses, neglecting longer-term impacts to household welfare via income and consumption losses. The extent of welfare losses depends upon resilience – the ability to anticipate, resist, cope, recover and learn from a shock. Here, we use a novel welfare loss modelling framework and perform a high-resolution spatial analysis in coastal Bangladesh to quantify welfare losses from a tropical cyclone unde…
Observed impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on global trade
Experiences of integrated assessment of climate impacts, adaptation and mitigation modelling in London and Durban
The urgent need to reconfigure and transform urban areas to consume fewer resources, emit less pollution, minimize greenhouse gas production, protect natural ecosystems and increase the adaptive capacity to deal with climate risks is widely recognized. The implementation of improved sustainability measures in cities requires integrated thinking that encompasses a whole range of urban functions, often implying a major restructuring of urban energy…
How can diverse national food and land-use priorities be reconciled with global sustainability targets? Lessons from the Fable initiative
There is an urgent need for countries to transition their national food and land-use systems toward food and nutritional security, climate stability, and environmental integrity. How can countries satisfy their demands while jointly delivering the required transformative change to achieve global sustainability targets? Here, we present a collaborative approach developed with the FABLE—Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land, and Energy—Consortium t…
Medieval Japan. Essays in Institutional History
Rule by Status in Tokugawa Japan
Tanuma Okitsugu (1719-1788)
This is a study of Tanuma Okitsugu, the most powerful political figure in Japan during the quarter century between 1760-1786. The book also provides a descriptive history of mid-eighteenth-century Japan
Evaluating the benefits of national adaptation to reduce climate risks and contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals
Scaling up national climate adaptation under the Paris Agreement is critical not only to reduce risk, but also to contribute to a nation’s development. Traditional adaptation assessments are aimed at evaluating adaptation to cost-effectively reduce risk and do not capture the far-reaching benefits of adaptation in the context of development and the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). By grounding adaptation planning in an SDG vision, we …
Informing national adaptation for sustainable development through spatial systems modelling
Access through Innovation
(1992). Access through Innovation: New Colleges for New Students. The Journal of Higher Education: Vol. 63, No. 4, pp. 472-474
Government and Local Power in Japan, 500-1700. A Study Based on Bizen Province
This important study of Japan in premodern times, embracing a span of nearly thirteen centuries, is directed toward the illumination of some important elements of continuity in Japanese history, . It is an effort to explain through the detailed analysis of a microcosm -- the small province of Bizen -- the fundamental institutions of political organization and social and economic structure upon which Japanese government has rested. It seeks histor…
Quantifying community resilience to riverine hazards in Bangladesh
Every year, 30–70% of Bangladesh is inundated with flood waters, which combined with erosion, affect between 10 and 70 million people annually. Rural riverine communities in Bangladesh have long been identified as some of the poorest populations, most vulnerable to riverine hazards. However, these communities have, for generations, also developed resilience strategies – considered as the combination of absorptive, adaptive, and transformative app…
The unequal distribution of water risks and adaptation benefits in coastal Bangladesh
Sustainable pathways towards climate and biodiversity goals in the UK
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-022-01242-8
An Historical Study of Japanese Society
Occasional Papers, No. 1
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Studies in the Demography of Tokugawa Japan
Japan's Northern Frontier
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A Report from Hokkaido
The Castle Town and Japan's Modern Urbanization
Japan's role in Far Eastern history has been unique in many respects. Traditionally an integral part of the Chinese zone of civilization, Japan has nonetheless demonstrated a marked ability to remain independent of continental influence. In recent years Japan's remarkable record of adjustment to the conditions imposed upon her by the spread of Western civilization to the Orient has raised the provocative question of why Japan, of all Far Eastern …
Tanuma Okitsugu (1719-1788), Forerunner of Modern Japan
Tanuma Okitsugu (1719-1788)
This is a study of Tanuma Okitsugu, the most powerful political figure in Japan during the quarter century between 1760-1786. The book also provides a descriptive history of mid-eighteenth-century Japan
The Motivation of Political Leadership in the Meiji Restoration
The Meiji Restoration of 1868 constitutes one of the great turning points in Japanese history. Standing as the culminating events of the political struggle which agitated Japan in the years following the forcible "opening" of the country to the Western world, it signaled the end of the Tokugawa hegemony and the establishment of a new central authority under which Japan was to embark upon an era of unprecedented national development. Few episodes …
Tanuma Okitsugu
Materials for the Study of Local History in Japan
The history of Japan during the two and a half centuries prior to the opening of the country in 1854 has traditionally been told as a story of the rise and fall of the Tokugawa central government. It is natural, of course, for historians to view a national history in this fashion, that is, in terms of the political and cultural center of affairs. Yet in the case of Tokugawa Japan, this approach has certain serious shortcomings. We have only to fo…
Tanuma Okitsugu (1719-1788)
The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan
Village Japan
Village Japan
The Location of Yamatai
Foundations of the Modern Japanese Daimyo
The institutional foundations of the Tokugawa daimyo have been obscured by the lack of insight which historians have traditionally shown into the history of the Ashikaga period and, in particular, into the late Ashikaga, or Sengoku, age. Like the Dark Ages in Europe, this chapter of Japanese history has been accepted in historiography as a dark and formless era of war and trouble. Japanese historians have dismissed the Sengoku period as a time of…
Historians of China and Japan
Arthur F. Wright, John W. Hall; Historians of China and Japan, The American Historical Review, Volume 67, Issue 4, 1 July 1962, Pages 978–985, https://doi.
Feudalism in Japan - a Reassessment
The question of whether Japan can rightly be said to 'have had feudalism' is by no means settled. Although Westerners have been writing about 'Japanese feudalism' for well over a hundred years, the acceptability of this practice is still a matter of controversy among professional historians, notably among those who make the study of medieval Europe their specialty. To a long line of Western historians ending with Herbert Norman, however, there wa…
CHAPTER I. Changing Conceptions of the Modernization of Japan1
Okubo Toshimichi
They Came to Japan
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