W G Rees
Biographic Data
| ID | 5591699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W G Rees |
| GIVEN NAMES | W G |
| FAMILY NAME | Rees |
| SIGNATURE | REES W G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6020-1232 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 198 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 61 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1925 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Estimating the Potential for Rooftop Generation of Solar Energy in an Urban Context Using High-Resolution Open Access Geospatial Data: A Case Study of the City of Tromsø, Norway
An increasing trend towards the installation of photovoltaic (PV) solar energy generation capacity is driven by several factors including the desire for greater energy independence and, especially, the desire to decarbonize industrial economies. While large ‘solar farms’ can be installed in relatively open areas, urban environments also offer scope for significant energy generation, although the heterogeneous nature of the surface of the urban fa…
Russian dilemma for global arctic science
Polar regions are critically implicated in our understanding of global climate change. This is particularly the case for the Arctic, where positive feedback loops and climate tipping points enhance complexity and urgency. Half of the Arctic and much of the world’s permafrost zone lie within Russian territory. Heightened geopolitical tensions, however, have severely damaged scientific collaboration between Russia and previously well established ac…
The Positional Effects of Education on Social Capital in the UK
Social research consistently identifies education as a key driver of social capital, providing skills, experiences and values facilitating social interaction. This theory cannot explain, however, why indicators of social capital (such as social trust) have not increased despite the massification of higher education in Europe and America. Efforts to explain this paradox have suggested the sorting effects of education may be more important for unde…
Fourth Report on the Publication and Conservation of the Tomb of Ramesses III in the Valley of the Kings (KV 11)
The following article presents preliminary results of a sondage in the burial chamber (hall J) and a visual survey in the areas H, I, J, Ja-Jd, K1, K2, and L during the 2019/2020 field season carried out by The Ramesses III (KV 11) Publication and Conservation Project in the tomb of pharaoh Ramesses III.1 The detailed description and interpretation of the initial excavation work were omitted from the Second Report2 because it required more extens…
Three decades of remote sensing subarctic vegetation in northern Russia: A case study in science diplomacy
The vegetation at and beyond the northern edge of the world’s boreal forest plays an important though imperfectly understood role in the climate system. This is particularly true within Russia, where only a small proportion of the boreal land area has been studied in depth, and little is known about its recent evolution over time. We describe a long-term collaboration between institutions in Russia and the United Kingdom, aimed at developing a be…
A liberal higher education for all? The massification of higher education and its implications for graduates’ participation in civil society
In recent years, questions about the purpose of higher education (HE) have come to the fore as HE tuition fees have escalated both in the UK and internationally. The extent to which universities provide students with opportunities for developing skills needed not only for future employment but participation in civic life has become an important contemporary issue. Drawing on interviews with 29 graduates from three distinct types of UK higher educ…
Climate-driven phenological changes in the Russian Arctic derived from Modis LAI time series 2000–2019
Arctic surface temperature has increased at approximately twice the global rate over the past few decades and is also projected to warm most in the 21st century. However, the mechanism of Arctic vegetation response to this warming remains largely uncertain. Here, we analyse variations in the seasonal profiles of MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer Leaf Area Index (LAI) and ERA-interim cumulative near-Surface Air Temperature (SAT Σ ) ove…
Second Report on the Publication and Conservation of the Tomb of Ramesses III in the Valley of the Kings (KV 11)
The Ramesses III (KV 11) Publication and Conservation Project is currently developing a site management, conservation and publication strategy for the severely damaged tomb of pharaoh Ramesses III in order to prevent further deterioration and to preserve this cultural heritage site for future generations. Along with first urgent measures of conservation, a geo-archaeological survey of KV 11 and its surroundings, as well as a geomatic and photogra…
Moscow University’s field station in the Khibiny Mountains, Russian Arctic: A 70-year history to the present day
The Khibiny Educational and Scientific Station (KESS) of the Faculty of Geography, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), was founded in 1948. It is one of the oldest stations of the MSU Faculty of Geography and the only one located north of the Arctic Circle. It is also one of the oldest continuously operating arctic field stations in the world. For more than 70 years, the research station has fostered scientific and international collabo…
Finding Antarctica’s Pole of Inaccessibility
Antarctica’s Pole of Inaccessibility (Southern Pole of Inaccessibility (SPI)) is the point on the Antarctic continent farthest from its edge. Existing literature exhibits disagreement over its location. Using two revisions of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research’s Antarctic Digital Database, we calculate modern-day positions for the SPI around 10 years apart, based on the position of the “outer” Antarctic coastline, i.e. its boundary wi…
The 'civic premium' of university graduates: The Impact of Massification on Associational Membership
Considerable attention has been paid to the economic benefits of participating in higher education, particularly the ‘economic premium’ of graduates compared to non-graduates. Although the civic contribution of graduates has been widely acknowledged and discussed, there has been a dearth of empirical analysis that investigates this contribution. Furthermore, the massification of higher education in the UK, US, and many other countries, has had pr…
Widening Access’ to higher education: The reproduction of university hierarchies through policy enactment
Patterns of participation in higher education (HE) in the UK, as elsewhere, have been marked by social inequalities for decades. UK Governments have responded with a plethora of policies and agendas aimed at addressing this broad social issue. However, little is known about how higher education institutions (HEIs) interpret and ‘enact’ these policies in relation to institution-specific contexts. Drawing on concepts from policy sociology this pape…
The proposed institutional reform of the Indian Ocean Rim Academic Group
Do livelihood typologies influence local perceptions of forest cover change? Evidence from a tropical forested and non-forested rural landscape in western Uganda
Three decades of forest cover change in Uganda’s Northern Albertine Rift Landscape
Finding the Arctic pole of inaccessibility
The Arctic pole of inaccessibility (API), defined as the point on the Arctic Ocean that is farthest from any land, is commonly asserted to lie at 84° 03′ N, 174° 51′ W. We show that the true position is 85° 48′ N, 176° 09′ E, over 200 km from the traditional location. The reason for this error is unknown
Assessment of spring floods and surface water extent over the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District
Remote sensing of Arctic water bodies is an essential method for monitoring the dynamics of frozen ground. Thaw lake change provides insight into the state of permafrost. In the vast Arctic and sub-Arctic areas capturing changes in lake extent is assisted by satellite data. In particular, active microwave sensors can be used in a straightforward manner for water body classifications. This study uses the pan-Siberian datasets that are provided und…
Devolution and geographies of education: The use of the Millennium Cohort Study for ‘home international’ comparisons across the UK
Following political devolution in the late 1990s and the establishment of the governments for Wales and Scotland, the education systems of the four home countries of the UK have significantly diverged. Consequently, not only does that mean that education research in the UK has to be sensitive to such divergence, but that the divergence of policy and practice provides an important opportunity to undertake comparative research within the UK. Such ‘…
Assessment of Aster global digital elevation model data for Arctic research
A new source of digital elevation data, the advanced spaceborne thermal emission and reflection radiometer (ASTER) global digital elevation model (GDEM), has been freely available since 2009. It provides enormously greater coverage of the Arctic than previous satellite derived ‘global’ digital elevation models, extending to a latitude of 83 °N in contrast to 60 °N. The GDEM is described as a preliminary, research grade product. This paper investi…
James Croll: A scientist ahead of his time
James Croll (1821–1890) was a Scottish scientist who made major, although still largely unrecognised, contributions to the theory of the effects of variations in the Earth's orbit on the global climate. He was the first to identify the importance of positive feedbacks in the climate system, especially the ice-albedo feedback, and he placed the astrochronological method on a sound footing. Croll's theory was the first to predict multiple ice ages.…
Introduction: The 11th International Circumpolar Remote Sensing Symposium
The 11 th International Circumpolar Remote Sensing Symposium (ICRSS) was held at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge from 20 to 24 September 2010. The ICRSS series began in Yellowknife in 1990 and has been held biennially since then. The 2010 meeting was the sixth time it had been held in Europe and the second time in the UK, but the first time in Cambridge. 35 people attended the meeting, from 11 countries, and over 20 oral presentat…
Automated spaceborne detection of degraded vegetation around Monchegorsk, Kola Peninsula, Russia
This paper develops a simple method for the detection of ‘vegetation anomalies’, locations where the amount of vegetation, estimated through the use of the normalised difference vegetation index (NDVI), is significantly lower than expected on the basis of topographic factors alone. The method is developed and tested using satellite imagery from the area around the town of Monchegorsk on the Kola Peninsula, Russia. This area has been subject to he…
Analysis of human impact on boreal vegetation around Monchegorsk, Kola peninsula, using automated remote sensing technique
The boreal vegetation of the sub-Arctic comprises more than 30% of the Earth's forest area and plays a major role in controlling the global environment. In the 20th century the boreal vegetation of Fennoscandia was significantly changed by heavy industrialisation leaving many forest areas damaged or dying. Due to severe climate conditions of the sub-Arctic such vegetation changes are traceable over long periods of time. This provides an opportuni…
Out‐of‐school learning: Variations in provision and participation in secondary schools
There is overwhelming evidence of the benefits of out‐of‐school learning. It is likely to be particularly important for disadvantaged students who have fewer material and cultural resources in the home to supplement their classroom work. However, despite the research evidence and political moves to promote out‐of‐school learning, it would appear that the provision of such activities is increasingly threatened by resource constraints, regulation a…
The governance of educational inequalities: The limits of area-based initiatives
This paper examines the background, assumptions and impact of the current fashion for area-based initiatives (ABIs). Since coming to power in 1997, New Labour has increasingly sought to tackle education and other inequalities in the UK through distributing resources on an area basis. Although at first sight the policy of targeting resources at the most deprived areas appears to offer a straightforward means of redistributing welfare, it can be de…
The Services Economy, Subcontracting and the New Employment Relations: Contract Catering and Cleaning
Sociological discussion of expansion in services employment has been unnecessarily limited. An examination of developments in under-explored sectors such as personal services and `low-level' producer services demonstrates the fruitfulness of analysis in terms of the social and technical divisions of labour, especially with respect to the growth of subcontracting. However, contrary to theories of the `flexible firm', this restructuring is complex,…
Reappraising the Apparent Underachievement of Boys at School
This article challenges two widely-held beliefs about the differences in the performance of boys and girls at school. The 'gap' between the achievement of boys and girls is not growing, and may be shrinking. The gap is not predominantly a problem of low achievement, nor is it uniformly distributed across the range of attainments. The gap, in favour of girls, mainly appears at the higher levels in any assessment. The change in understanding of the…
History, place and the learning society: Towards a sociology of lifetime learning
This paper aims to shift the debate on the Learning Society away from the normative focus which has predominated hitherto. Rather than beginning with questions about what a Learning Society ought to constitute, we seek to engage with the patterns of participation in learning through the life‐course and their determinants. Our discussion begins with an examination of the way in which the official discourse of the Learning Society is dominated by h…
Regional Restructuring, Class Change, and Political Action: Preliminary Comments on the 1984–1985 Miners' Strike in South Wales
This paper sets out an analysis of the determination of the character of the 1984–1985 miners' strike. This character is to be understood in terms of the continuities between the strike and preceding developments in terms of (1) the reorganisation of the British coal industry, (2) wider patterns of change in the economic and social structure of the coalfields, and (3) active and self-conscious political organisation, especially within the Nationa…
Two dimensions of time: The changing social context of lifelong learning
(1999). Two dimensions of time: The changing social context of lifelong learning. Studies in the Education of Adults: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 35-48
Social change, rural localities and the state: The restructuring of rural wales
Coalfield Culture’ and the 1984–1985 Miners' Strike: A Reply to Sunley
Sunley's advocacy of ‘coalfield cultures’ as an element in the determination of the 1984–1985 miners' strike in Britain is critically evaluated. Although there are substantial differences between coalfields in their historically rooted political and industrial behaviour, and in their wider social relations and practices, the nature and determination of such ‘cultures’ is more complex than Sunley suggests. This complexity reinforces the arguments …
Status Zero’: A study of jobless school‐leavers in South Wales
Considerable concern has been expressed over the plight of those young people who, on leaving school, fail to enter a training programme or a job. However, very little systematic research has been carried out on these jobless — or, as we put it, ‘Status Zero’ — school‐leavers. This paper begins to report the results of a study, carried out in a single TEC/LEA area in industrial South Wales, which aims to fill this gap. On the basis of extended in…
The ‘new vocationalism’: Further education and local labour markets
Current policies aimed at promoting a ‘new vocationalism’ through changes in vocational training in further education are based upon a particular functional model of labour market behaviour, which sees the relationships between technical qualifications, training and recruitment to jobs as unproblematic. In fact, however, this model bears little relationship to the realities of actual labour markets, especially given the enormous diversity which e…
Widening Access’ to higher education: The reproduction of university hierarchies through policy enactment
Patterns of participation in higher education (HE) in the UK, as elsewhere, have been marked by social inequalities for decades. UK Governments have responded with a plethora of policies and agendas aimed at addressing this broad social issue. However, little is known about how higher education institutions (HEIs) interpret and ‘enact’ these policies in relation to institution-specific contexts. Drawing on concepts from policy sociology this pape…
Devolution and geographies of education: The use of the Millennium Cohort Study for ‘home international’ comparisons across the UK
Following political devolution in the late 1990s and the establishment of the governments for Wales and Scotland, the education systems of the four home countries of the UK have significantly diverged. Consequently, not only does that mean that education research in the UK has to be sensitive to such divergence, but that the divergence of policy and practice provides an important opportunity to undertake comparative research within the UK. Such ‘…
Industrial pollution in the Kol'skiy Poluostrov, Russia
This paper describes some of the very severe problems of pollution found in the industrialised regions of Kol'skiy Poluostrov (Kola Peninsula) in the European Russian Arctic. Information concerning this area, as is the case for other parts of the former Soviet Union, has tended in the past to be inaccessible, or highly fragmented. By assembling information from a variety of sources, including discussion with local experts, the authors have produc…
The governance of educational inequalities: The limits of area-based initiatives
This paper examines the background, assumptions and impact of the current fashion for area-based initiatives (ABIs). Since coming to power in 1997, New Labour has increasingly sought to tackle education and other inequalities in the UK through distributing resources on an area basis. Although at first sight the policy of targeting resources at the most deprived areas appears to offer a straightforward means of redistributing welfare, it can be de…
Copper Sheathing an Example of Technological Diffusion in the English Merchant Fleet
The Positional Effects of Education on Social Capital in the UK
Social research consistently identifies education as a key driver of social capital, providing skills, experiences and values facilitating social interaction. This theory cannot explain, however, why indicators of social capital (such as social trust) have not increased despite the massification of higher education in Europe and America. Efforts to explain this paradox have suggested the sorting effects of education may be more important for unde…
Do livelihood typologies influence local perceptions of forest cover change? Evidence from a tropical forested and non-forested rural landscape in western Uganda
Three decades of forest cover change in Uganda’s Northern Albertine Rift Landscape
Out‐of‐school learning: Variations in provision and participation in secondary schools
There is overwhelming evidence of the benefits of out‐of‐school learning. It is likely to be particularly important for disadvantaged students who have fewer material and cultural resources in the home to supplement their classroom work. However, despite the research evidence and political moves to promote out‐of‐school learning, it would appear that the provision of such activities is increasingly threatened by resource constraints, regulation a…
Changing places: Britain's demographic, economic and social complexion
Polar mirages
After a brief outline of how mirages are formed in polar regions, this paper discusses several kinds of mirages noted in the literature of polar exploration—those creating illusory land, the Novaya Zemlya effect, longrange visibility and magnification, and multiple images and the Fata Morgana
Russian dilemma for global arctic science
Polar regions are critically implicated in our understanding of global climate change. This is particularly the case for the Arctic, where positive feedback loops and climate tipping points enhance complexity and urgency. Half of the Arctic and much of the world’s permafrost zone lie within Russian territory. Heightened geopolitical tensions, however, have severely damaged scientific collaboration between Russia and previously well established ac…
Moscow University’s field station in the Khibiny Mountains, Russian Arctic: A 70-year history to the present day
The Khibiny Educational and Scientific Station (KESS) of the Faculty of Geography, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), was founded in 1948. It is one of the oldest stations of the MSU Faculty of Geography and the only one located north of the Arctic Circle. It is also one of the oldest continuously operating arctic field stations in the world. For more than 70 years, the research station has fostered scientific and international collabo…
The 'civic premium' of university graduates: The Impact of Massification on Associational Membership
Considerable attention has been paid to the economic benefits of participating in higher education, particularly the ‘economic premium’ of graduates compared to non-graduates. Although the civic contribution of graduates has been widely acknowledged and discussed, there has been a dearth of empirical analysis that investigates this contribution. Furthermore, the massification of higher education in the UK, US, and many other countries, has had pr…
Finding the Arctic pole of inaccessibility
The Arctic pole of inaccessibility (API), defined as the point on the Arctic Ocean that is farthest from any land, is commonly asserted to lie at 84° 03′ N, 174° 51′ W. We show that the true position is 85° 48′ N, 176° 09′ E, over 200 km from the traditional location. The reason for this error is unknown
James Croll: A scientist ahead of his time
James Croll (1821–1890) was a Scottish scientist who made major, although still largely unrecognised, contributions to the theory of the effects of variations in the Earth's orbit on the global climate. He was the first to identify the importance of positive feedbacks in the climate system, especially the ice-albedo feedback, and he placed the astrochronological method on a sound footing. Croll's theory was the first to predict multiple ice ages.…
South Wales and the March, 1284-1415
An Historical Atlas of Wales from Early to Modern Times
Copper Sheathing an Example of Technological Diffusion in the English Merchant Fleet
An Historical Atlas of Wales from Early to Modern Times
Geology of the North-West European Continental Shelf. Vol. 1
Faludi's 'Sociology in Planning Education: A Critical Comment
Regional Restructuring, Class Change, and Political Action: Preliminary Comments on the 1984–1985 Miners' Strike in South Wales
This paper sets out an analysis of the determination of the character of the 1984–1985 miners' strike. This character is to be understood in terms of the continuities between the strike and preceding developments in terms of (1) the reorganisation of the British coal industry, (2) wider patterns of change in the economic and social structure of the coalfields, and (3) active and self-conscious political organisation, especially within the Nationa…
Coalfield Culture’ and the 1984–1985 Miners' Strike: A Reply to Sunley
Sunley's advocacy of ‘coalfield cultures’ as an element in the determination of the 1984–1985 miners' strike in Britain is critically evaluated. Although there are substantial differences between coalfields in their historically rooted political and industrial behaviour, and in their wider social relations and practices, the nature and determination of such ‘cultures’ is more complex than Sunley suggests. This complexity reinforces the arguments …
Eclipses visible from polar regions 1987–1989
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Cities in Crisis. The Political Economy of Urban Development in Post-War Britain
Changing places: Britain's demographic, economic and social complexion
Reconstruction of an atmospheric temperature profile from a 166-year old polar mirage
A method has been developed for deducing the variation with height of the atmospheric temperature, using the observed form of a mirage as the input. This method is applicable to the class of mirages in which the object appears undistorted, although magnified, vertically displaced, and quite possibly inverted: here applied to an observation of this class of mirage made by Dr William Scoresby in 1822, it is used to deduce the nature of the temperat…
Polar mirages
After a brief outline of how mirages are formed in polar regions, this paper discusses several kinds of mirages noted in the literature of polar exploration—those creating illusory land, the Novaya Zemlya effect, longrange visibility and magnification, and multiple images and the Fata Morgana
Social change, rural localities and the state: The restructuring of rural wales
The ‘new vocationalism’: Further education and local labour markets
Current policies aimed at promoting a ‘new vocationalism’ through changes in vocational training in further education are based upon a particular functional model of labour market behaviour, which sees the relationships between technical qualifications, training and recruitment to jobs as unproblematic. In fact, however, this model bears little relationship to the realities of actual labour markets, especially given the enormous diversity which e…
The Scoresby ship mirage of 1822
A very clear mirage observed by Scoresby in the Greenland Sea shows an inverted ship floating above the horizon. This mirage can be mathematically reconstructed using a linear image diagram. Scoresby's description is here re-examined: anew set of essential assumptions is distilled from his report, and an ‘exact’ reproduction of the mirage is obtained to match these conditions
The Services Economy, Subcontracting and the New Employment Relations: Contract Catering and Cleaning
Sociological discussion of expansion in services employment has been unnecessarily limited. An examination of developments in under-explored sectors such as personal services and `low-level' producer services demonstrates the fruitfulness of analysis in terms of the social and technical divisions of labour, especially with respect to the growth of subcontracting. However, contrary to theories of the `flexible firm', this restructuring is complex,…
A new wind-chill nomogram
This paper describes an improved nomogram (a graphical device avoiding the need for calculation) for estimating wind-chill and assessing the danger of frostbite. The nomogram incorporates recent theoretical work on the rate of heat loss from a clothedperson in cold or windy conditions
Australian Urban and Regional Research: An Introduction
Industrial pollution in the Kol'skiy Poluostrov, Russia
This paper describes some of the very severe problems of pollution found in the industrialised regions of Kol'skiy Poluostrov (Kola Peninsula) in the European Russian Arctic. Information concerning this area, as is the case for other parts of the former Soviet Union, has tended in the past to be inaccessible, or highly fragmented. By assembling information from a variety of sources, including discussion with local experts, the authors have produc…
Status Zero’: A study of jobless school‐leavers in South Wales
Considerable concern has been expressed over the plight of those young people who, on leaving school, fail to enter a training programme or a job. However, very little systematic research has been carried out on these jobless — or, as we put it, ‘Status Zero’ — school‐leavers. This paper begins to report the results of a study, carried out in a single TEC/LEA area in industrial South Wales, which aims to fill this gap. On the basis of extended in…
The Role of Institutional Networks in Local Economic Development: A new model of governance?
(1997). The role of institutional networks in local economic development: A new model of governance? Local Economy: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 104-118.
History, place and the learning society: Towards a sociology of lifetime learning
This paper aims to shift the debate on the Learning Society away from the normative focus which has predominated hitherto. Rather than beginning with questions about what a Learning Society ought to constitute, we seek to engage with the patterns of participation in learning through the life‐course and their determinants. Our discussion begins with an examination of the way in which the official discourse of the Learning Society is dominated by h…
Are vegetation indices useful in the Arctic
This paper describes a preliminary investigation of the extent to which the normalised difference vegetation index (NDVI), derived from satellite optical imagery, can indicate the extent of damage to upland tundra (fruticose lichen and dwarf shrub) vegetation. We combine the results of a previously reported classification of Landsat multispectral scanner imagery from Kol'skiy Poluostrov, Russia, with field measurements of the biomass and spectral…
Networking for Local Economic Development
The twin themes of ‘globalisation’ and ‘localisation’ have been prominent features in the debate about economic development since the mid-1980s. Paradoxically, as the economy becomes more and more globalised the local dimension of economic development has attracted more and more interest from both scholars and policy-makers. One of the reasons for this apparent paradox is that localities and regions are the day-to-day arenas in which the pressure…
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