Stephen Morse
Biographic Data
| ID | 3697024 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Morse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Morse |
| SIGNATURE | MORSE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Remote sensing and citizen science for habitat mapping: A machine learning approach to lowland heathland in Surrey, UK
In a time of extensive global biodiversity loss, conservation efforts increasingly rely on high‐resolution, accurate, up‐to‐date habitat maps to guide decision‐making and strategic interventions. Many products have been developed in response, using machine learning (ML) methods to automate habitat classification, often relying on satellite imagery due to the limited availability of ecological survey data at a landscape scale. To ensure that these…
Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability 9/10: Afro-Eurasia: Assessing Sustainability
The impact of Covid-19 on business perspectives of sustainable development and corporate social responsibility in China
Waste Separation Behaviour of College Students under a Mandatory Policy in China: A Case Study of Zhengzhou City
The need for effective solid waste management (SWM) is an important environmental and public health issue. As a key way of minimizing municipal solid waste (MSW), source separation has in recent years become the centre of discussion in China. Following the example of Shanghai, the city of Zhengzhou introduced its mandatory waste separation measures on 1 December 2019. But does the mandatory regulation work? This study aims to investigate the wast…
Rich Pictures: Encouraging Resilient Communities
Rich Pictures focuses on the value of developing visual narratives – Rich Pictures – as an important component and starting point for community participation. A key device for the community to share ideas and perspectives on current and potential future situations, Rich Pictures provide a shared space for members to set out ideas and negotiate. While Rich Pictures are widely and globally used, this is the first book discussing their use, and how …
Water consumption and subjective wellbeing: An analysis of British households
Trade-offs in the exploration of Sustainable Livelihoods: Experience from a micro-credit intervention in Nigeria
The paper discusses the Sustainable Livelihood Approach (SLA) as implemented by a Catholic Church development organisation (Diocesan Development Services; DDS) in Nigeria, including the trade-offs involved and the meaning of 'success' with this process. SLA sets out to assess the ability of a social unit to enhance its assets and capabilities in the face of shocks and stresses over time and could be said to be a practical framework for evidence-b…
Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability Vol. 9: Afro-Eurasia
Attracting Attention for the Cause. The Reporting of Three Indices in the UK National Press
The universal common good: Faith‐based partnerships and sustainable development
Partnership is increasingly espoused as the best relationship between members of the sustainable development aid chain, and implies a respect for the position of all and a desire to avoid a situation where one group dominates another. It also implies a form of relationship that is not just ‘better’ for the sake of it but that is more able to help achieve sustainable development. However, given the inevitable inequalities in power between donors t…
Creating a greater partnership: Analysing partnership in the Catholic Church development chain
This paper presents results from a project designed to explore the meaning and function of partnership within the Catholic Church development chain. The geography literature has had little to say about such aid chains, especially those founded on faith‐based groups. The relationships between three Catholic Church‐based donors – referred to as A, B and C – with development personnel of the diocese of the Abuja Ecclesiastical Province (AEP) as well…
The geography of tyranny and despair: Development Indicators and the Hypothesis of Genetic Inevitability of National Inequality
Development geography has long sought to understand why inequalities exist and the best ways to address them. Dependency theory sets out an historical rationale for under development based on colonialism and a legacy of developed core and under-developed periphery. Race is relevant in this theory only insofar that Europeans are white and the places they colonised were occupied by people with darker skin colour. There are no innate biological reas…
The economic impact of genetically modified cotton on South African smallholders: Yield, profit and health effects
Results of a large-scale survey of resource-poor smallholder cotton farmers in South Africa over three years conclusively show that adopters of Bt cotton have benefited in terms of higher yields, lower pesticide use, less labour for pesticide application and substantially higher gross margins per hectare. These benefits were clearly related to the technology, and not to preferential adoption by farmers who were already highly efficient. The small…
Making development simple. The genetic deterministic hypothesis for economic development
Analysing institutional partnerships in development: A contract between equals or a loaded process
Partnerships are complex, diverse and subtle relationships, the nature of which changes with time, but they are vital for the functioning of the development chain. This paper reviews the meaning of partnership between development institutions as well as some of the main approaches taken to analyse the relationships. The latter typically revolve around analyses based on power, discourse, interdependence and functionality. The paper makes the case …
Is Corruption Bad for Environmental Sustainability? A Cross-National Analysis
This paper explores the hypothesis that higher levels of corruption are detrimental to environmental sustainability. It does this by employing the Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) and its component variables and indicators as promoted by the World Economic Forum and the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) created by Transparency International (TI). Both the CPI and ESI were shown to be statistically significantly related to income (proxied …
Making ‘dirty’ nations look clean? The nation state and the problem of selecting and weighting indices as tools for measuring progress towards sustainability
Integrating Methods for Developing Sustainability Indicators to Facilitate Learning and Action
Reed, M., E. D. G. Fraser, S. Morse, and A. J. Dougill. 2005. Integrating methods for developing sustainability indicators to facilitate learning and action. Ecology and Society 10(1): r3. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01296-1001r03
Voices from the aid 'chain: The Personal Dynamics of Care
This paper uses a simplified model of the aid 'chain' to explore some causes and consequences of breakdown in communication. Although the rhetoric of Northern-based donors is awash with words such as 'partnership' and 'inclusion' when dealing with their Southern-based partners, the situation in practice is different. Unequal power relationships sometimes result in donor imposition of Perspectives and values. It is our contention, based on a colle…
Institutional sustainability: At what price? UNDP and the new cost-sharing model in Brazil
By the turn of the twenty-first century, UNDP had embraced a new form of funding based on ‘cost-sharing’, with this source accounting for 51 per cent of the organisation’s total expenditure worldwide in 2000. Unlike the traditional donor - recipient relationship so common with development projects, the new cost-sharing modality has created a situation whereby UNDP local offices become ‘subcontractors’ and agencies of the recipient countries becom…
For better or for worse, till the human development index do us part
Donors and Sustainability in the Provision of Financial Services in Nigeria
Dependence Index (SDO' developed by Higher values of SDI effectively imply 'unsustainability' of the FS while zero or negative values of the SDI suggest that the FS is 'sustainable'
Making ‘dirty’ nations look clean? The nation state and the problem of selecting and weighting indices as tools for measuring progress towards sustainability
Voices from the aid 'chain: The Personal Dynamics of Care
This paper uses a simplified model of the aid 'chain' to explore some causes and consequences of breakdown in communication. Although the rhetoric of Northern-based donors is awash with words such as 'partnership' and 'inclusion' when dealing with their Southern-based partners, the situation in practice is different. Unequal power relationships sometimes result in donor imposition of Perspectives and values. It is our contention, based on a colle…
Analysing institutional partnerships in development: A contract between equals or a loaded process
Partnerships are complex, diverse and subtle relationships, the nature of which changes with time, but they are vital for the functioning of the development chain. This paper reviews the meaning of partnership between development institutions as well as some of the main approaches taken to analyse the relationships. The latter typically revolve around analyses based on power, discourse, interdependence and functionality. The paper makes the case …
Is Corruption Bad for Environmental Sustainability? A Cross-National Analysis
This paper explores the hypothesis that higher levels of corruption are detrimental to environmental sustainability. It does this by employing the Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) and its component variables and indicators as promoted by the World Economic Forum and the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) created by Transparency International (TI). Both the CPI and ESI were shown to be statistically significantly related to income (proxied …
The universal common good: Faith‐based partnerships and sustainable development
Partnership is increasingly espoused as the best relationship between members of the sustainable development aid chain, and implies a respect for the position of all and a desire to avoid a situation where one group dominates another. It also implies a form of relationship that is not just ‘better’ for the sake of it but that is more able to help achieve sustainable development. However, given the inevitable inequalities in power between donors t…
Attracting Attention for the Cause. The Reporting of Three Indices in the UK National Press
Integrating Methods for Developing Sustainability Indicators to Facilitate Learning and Action
Reed, M., E. D. G. Fraser, S. Morse, and A. J. Dougill. 2005. Integrating methods for developing sustainability indicators to facilitate learning and action. Ecology and Society 10(1): r3. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01296-1001r03
Institutional sustainability: At what price? UNDP and the new cost-sharing model in Brazil
By the turn of the twenty-first century, UNDP had embraced a new form of funding based on ‘cost-sharing’, with this source accounting for 51 per cent of the organisation’s total expenditure worldwide in 2000. Unlike the traditional donor - recipient relationship so common with development projects, the new cost-sharing modality has created a situation whereby UNDP local offices become ‘subcontractors’ and agencies of the recipient countries becom…
Trade-offs in the exploration of Sustainable Livelihoods: Experience from a micro-credit intervention in Nigeria
The paper discusses the Sustainable Livelihood Approach (SLA) as implemented by a Catholic Church development organisation (Diocesan Development Services; DDS) in Nigeria, including the trade-offs involved and the meaning of 'success' with this process. SLA sets out to assess the ability of a social unit to enhance its assets and capabilities in the face of shocks and stresses over time and could be said to be a practical framework for evidence-b…
Creating a greater partnership: Analysing partnership in the Catholic Church development chain
This paper presents results from a project designed to explore the meaning and function of partnership within the Catholic Church development chain. The geography literature has had little to say about such aid chains, especially those founded on faith‐based groups. The relationships between three Catholic Church‐based donors – referred to as A, B and C – with development personnel of the diocese of the Abuja Ecclesiastical Province (AEP) as well…
The geography of tyranny and despair: Development Indicators and the Hypothesis of Genetic Inevitability of National Inequality
Development geography has long sought to understand why inequalities exist and the best ways to address them. Dependency theory sets out an historical rationale for under development based on colonialism and a legacy of developed core and under-developed periphery. Race is relevant in this theory only insofar that Europeans are white and the places they colonised were occupied by people with darker skin colour. There are no innate biological reas…
Donors and Sustainability in the Provision of Financial Services in Nigeria
Dependence Index (SDO' developed by Higher values of SDI effectively imply 'unsustainability' of the FS while zero or negative values of the SDI suggest that the FS is 'sustainable'
Donors and Sustainability in the Provision of Financial Services in Nigeria
Dependence Index (SDO' developed by Higher values of SDI effectively imply 'unsustainability' of the FS while zero or negative values of the SDI suggest that the FS is 'sustainable'
For better or for worse, till the human development index do us part
Voices from the aid 'chain: The Personal Dynamics of Care
This paper uses a simplified model of the aid 'chain' to explore some causes and consequences of breakdown in communication. Although the rhetoric of Northern-based donors is awash with words such as 'partnership' and 'inclusion' when dealing with their Southern-based partners, the situation in practice is different. Unequal power relationships sometimes result in donor imposition of Perspectives and values. It is our contention, based on a colle…
Institutional sustainability: At what price? UNDP and the new cost-sharing model in Brazil
By the turn of the twenty-first century, UNDP had embraced a new form of funding based on ‘cost-sharing’, with this source accounting for 51 per cent of the organisation’s total expenditure worldwide in 2000. Unlike the traditional donor - recipient relationship so common with development projects, the new cost-sharing modality has created a situation whereby UNDP local offices become ‘subcontractors’ and agencies of the recipient countries becom…
Making ‘dirty’ nations look clean? The nation state and the problem of selecting and weighting indices as tools for measuring progress towards sustainability
Integrating Methods for Developing Sustainability Indicators to Facilitate Learning and Action
Reed, M., E. D. G. Fraser, S. Morse, and A. J. Dougill. 2005. Integrating methods for developing sustainability indicators to facilitate learning and action. Ecology and Society 10(1): r3. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01296-1001r03
The economic impact of genetically modified cotton on South African smallholders: Yield, profit and health effects
Results of a large-scale survey of resource-poor smallholder cotton farmers in South Africa over three years conclusively show that adopters of Bt cotton have benefited in terms of higher yields, lower pesticide use, less labour for pesticide application and substantially higher gross margins per hectare. These benefits were clearly related to the technology, and not to preferential adoption by farmers who were already highly efficient. The small…
Making development simple. The genetic deterministic hypothesis for economic development
Analysing institutional partnerships in development: A contract between equals or a loaded process
Partnerships are complex, diverse and subtle relationships, the nature of which changes with time, but they are vital for the functioning of the development chain. This paper reviews the meaning of partnership between development institutions as well as some of the main approaches taken to analyse the relationships. The latter typically revolve around analyses based on power, discourse, interdependence and functionality. The paper makes the case …
Is Corruption Bad for Environmental Sustainability? A Cross-National Analysis
This paper explores the hypothesis that higher levels of corruption are detrimental to environmental sustainability. It does this by employing the Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) and its component variables and indicators as promoted by the World Economic Forum and the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) created by Transparency International (TI). Both the CPI and ESI were shown to be statistically significantly related to income (proxied …
The universal common good: Faith‐based partnerships and sustainable development
Partnership is increasingly espoused as the best relationship between members of the sustainable development aid chain, and implies a respect for the position of all and a desire to avoid a situation where one group dominates another. It also implies a form of relationship that is not just ‘better’ for the sake of it but that is more able to help achieve sustainable development. However, given the inevitable inequalities in power between donors t…
Creating a greater partnership: Analysing partnership in the Catholic Church development chain
This paper presents results from a project designed to explore the meaning and function of partnership within the Catholic Church development chain. The geography literature has had little to say about such aid chains, especially those founded on faith‐based groups. The relationships between three Catholic Church‐based donors – referred to as A, B and C – with development personnel of the diocese of the Abuja Ecclesiastical Province (AEP) as well…
The geography of tyranny and despair: Development Indicators and the Hypothesis of Genetic Inevitability of National Inequality
Development geography has long sought to understand why inequalities exist and the best ways to address them. Dependency theory sets out an historical rationale for under development based on colonialism and a legacy of developed core and under-developed periphery. Race is relevant in this theory only insofar that Europeans are white and the places they colonised were occupied by people with darker skin colour. There are no innate biological reas…
Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability Vol. 9: Afro-Eurasia
Attracting Attention for the Cause. The Reporting of Three Indices in the UK National Press
Trade-offs in the exploration of Sustainable Livelihoods: Experience from a micro-credit intervention in Nigeria
The paper discusses the Sustainable Livelihood Approach (SLA) as implemented by a Catholic Church development organisation (Diocesan Development Services; DDS) in Nigeria, including the trade-offs involved and the meaning of 'success' with this process. SLA sets out to assess the ability of a social unit to enhance its assets and capabilities in the face of shocks and stresses over time and could be said to be a practical framework for evidence-b…
Rich Pictures: Encouraging Resilient Communities
Rich Pictures focuses on the value of developing visual narratives – Rich Pictures – as an important component and starting point for community participation. A key device for the community to share ideas and perspectives on current and potential future situations, Rich Pictures provide a shared space for members to set out ideas and negotiate. While Rich Pictures are widely and globally used, this is the first book discussing their use, and how …
Water consumption and subjective wellbeing: An analysis of British households
Waste Separation Behaviour of College Students under a Mandatory Policy in China: A Case Study of Zhengzhou City
The need for effective solid waste management (SWM) is an important environmental and public health issue. As a key way of minimizing municipal solid waste (MSW), source separation has in recent years become the centre of discussion in China. Following the example of Shanghai, the city of Zhengzhou introduced its mandatory waste separation measures on 1 December 2019. But does the mandatory regulation work? This study aims to investigate the wast…
The impact of Covid-19 on business perspectives of sustainable development and corporate social responsibility in China
Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability 9/10: Afro-Eurasia: Assessing Sustainability
Remote sensing and citizen science for habitat mapping: A machine learning approach to lowland heathland in Surrey, UK
In a time of extensive global biodiversity loss, conservation efforts increasingly rely on high‐resolution, accurate, up‐to‐date habitat maps to guide decision‐making and strategic interventions. Many products have been developed in response, using machine learning (ML) methods to automate habitat classification, often relying on satellite imagery due to the limited availability of ecological survey data at a landscape scale. To ensure that these…
Economics (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Business (12 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Sustainability (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Public relations (5 works)