Naomi Walford
Biographic Data
| ID | 559967 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Naomi Walford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Naomi |
| FAMILY NAME | Walford |
| SIGNATURE | WALFORD N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kingston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9182-0252 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 131 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Address‐ Versus Postcode‐Based Building Blocks for the Creation of Small Area Statistical Geographies: Some Lessons From the 1911 British Population Census
Postal geography is increasingly used to define spatial units for data collection and statistical reporting in British population censuses. There has been a shift from defining a single set of spatial units for each census to creating areas with greater consistency across censuses using artificial polygons around collections of postcoded addresses. However, the question remains whether creating new zones for the purpose of reporting aggregate sta…
Land use/land cover on the South Downs, England in the 1870s: A case study mapping and applying landscape metrics to the Ordnance Survey Parish Books of Reference
Land use/land cover sits alongside other basic types of information about a country, such as its population and economy. However, in contrast with population data, which have been supplied by the decennial British Population Census since 1801 (apart from 1941), the routine and periodic collection of land‐use/land‐cover data has proved more challenging. Notable exceptions include the First and Second Land Utilisation surveys of the 1930s and 1960s…
A stroll in the park, a view of water: Quantifying older people's interaction with ‘green’ and ‘blue’ spaces in urban areas
This article explores the extent to which 'green' and ‘blue’ (water-based) spaces in the environment are of interest to older people in their everyday lives and connects with research showing growing understanding of the importance of such spaces in urban areas and increasing numbers of active and mobile older people in societies around the world. We are concerned with both large-scale or formal 'green' and ‘blue’ features (open countryside, park…
Celebrating census
Older People, Town Centres and the Revival of the ‘High Street’
Concern for the future of town centres and their retail cores, the ‘high street’, is not new. Responses to this have often been somewhat one dimensional, focusing on their role as places of consumption, employment, leisure and heritage. We consider the potential multiple roles of older people in helping revive and rejuvenate town centres given the centrality of place for healthy supportive living, community and social participation and ‘ageing in…
Alcohol and Personal Security in the Built Environment: Student Engagement in the Night-time Economy of Kingston upon Thames, London, UK
London has a diverse and dynamic night-time economy (NTE) valued in 2018 at £5 billion. The London Assembly’s vision for future growth includes creative partnerships with outer-London boroughs to share opportunity and minimise economic decline in suburban high streets. Studies from cities across the UK recognise the contribution of University students to the NTE, but the situation in suburban London is under-researched. This exploratory study bas…
Residential neighbourhood classification: An environmentally enhanced approach
Demographic and social context of deaths during the 1854 cholera outbreak in Soho, London: A reappraisal of Dr John Snow's investigation
Bringing historical British Population Census records into the 21st century: A method for geocoding households and individuals at their early‐20th‐century addresses
Increased use of geographical information systems (GISs) for social scientific research has highlighted the analytical possibilities offered by unlocking historical data sources that are impractical with contemporary data. Genealogists and social scientific researchers have used information relating to individuals, households, and their addresses contained in the British historical census records for a number of years. This article takes geograph…
Using 3D modelling and game engine technologies for interactive exploration of cultural heritage: An evaluation of four game engines in relation to roman archaeological heritage
Assessing the user response to differences in functionality when visualising 3D models of cultural heritage sites using the Technology Readiness Index
Assessing the needs of older people in urban settings: Integration of emotive, physiological and built environment data
Design of the built environment for navigability and walkability is an increasingly important aspect of urban planning. This focus derives in part from increasing interest in lifestyles and behaviours, including level of physical activity and health outcomes. Geographical information systems and virtual realities are playing a significant role in advancing this agenda: examples exist of integrating qualitative data (words about or visual images o…
The changing nature of GIS and the provision of formal GIS education in the UK: A case study
The arrival of the term Geographical Information System (GIS) in the 1960s soon created a demand for training and education in the use of this specialist hardware and software. Initially the main focus was on training people to use GIS, formal named degree programmes leading to postgraduate and undergraduate qualifications arrived later. This paper explores the changing landscape of U.K. degree level GIS education drawing on contemporary informat…
Internal Migration: Geographical Perspectives and Processes
Internal Migration: Geographical Perspectives and Processes
Outworking of the Second Demographic Transition: National Trends and Regional Patterns of Fertility Change in Poland, and England and Wales, 2002-2012
One of the main indicators of the second demographic transition (SDT) is the decline of fertility to below the replacement level (2.1 births per woman). The onset of the SDT in Europe spread across Western Europe in the 1960s and subsequently diffused to other parts of the continent. In Eastern Europe, a fall in total fertility rates below the replacement level was recorded at the beginning of the 1990s and was associated by some researchers with…
Planning for an Ageing Society: Voices from the Planning Profession
The population of the United Kingdom is ageing inexorably, a trend which requires policy-makers, including spatial planners, to be creative and innovative in meeting the needs of older people. The significance of place in the lives of older people has been demonstrated by many researchers (see for example Peace et al., 2006; Gilroy, 2008) and underlines that spatial planners must be age aware. This paper uses qualitative research with planning pr…
The extent and impact of the 1940 and 1941 “plough-up” campaigns on farming across the South Downs, England
Older people and outdoor environments: Pedestrian anxieties and barriers in the use of familiar and unfamiliar spaces
Development and Design of a Web-Based Interface to Address Geographical Incompatibility in Spatial Units
The issue of how to address geographical incompatibility between aggregate statistical data sources is one affecting researchers in many countries. The increased amount of data from recent British Population Censuses has been accompanied by considerable changes in both administrative and electoral boundaries as well as those of areas specifically defined for census data collection and statistical output purposes. This paper reviews the extent of …
Residential development on gardens in England: Their role in providing sustainable housing supply
Thirty Years of Geographical (In)consistency in the British Population Census: Steps towards the Harmonisation of Small‐Area Census Geography
The existence of digital boundary data files to accompany area census statistics for small units has now become accepted as the norm in respect of population census output in many countries. However, there has been growing variation in the specification of census geography and widespread inconsistency in the sets of polygons between the constituent countries of the UK. This paper reports on research that has created data sets of consistent areas …
An analysis of the changing dependency ratios for small areas in 1981, 1991 and 2001: A Norfolk case study
Please click here to download the map associated with this article. The analysis of demographic and socio-economic change in the UK is hampered by adjustments made to the principal, reliable source of data for small areas, the decennial Population Census, and by the statistical problem of absolute changes having disproportionate effects on of account of variability in population totals at the start of the period(s) under investigation. The two ma…
Spatial data on the web: Modeling and management ‐ Edited by Alberto Belussi, Barbara Catania, Eliseo Clementin and Elena Ferrari
A comparative analysis of population ageing in urban and rural areas of England and Wales, and Poland over the last three census intervals
Population ageing has become a feature of many European and other Western countries over the last two decades as older people become more dominant in their demographic structures. This trend has the potential for important economic and social impacts, which are likely to be played out in both national and local contexts. This paper demonstrates the feasibility of comparing regional‐level population data over a historical period, and of tracking c…
Productivism is allegedly dead, long live productivism. Evidence of continued productivist attitudes and decision-making in South-East England
Older people and outdoor environments: Pedestrian anxieties and barriers in the use of familiar and unfamiliar spaces
Multiple succession and land division on family farms in the South East of England: A counterbalance to agricultural concentration
A comparative analysis of population ageing in urban and rural areas of England and Wales, and Poland over the last three census intervals
Population ageing has become a feature of many European and other Western countries over the last two decades as older people become more dominant in their demographic structures. This trend has the potential for important economic and social impacts, which are likely to be played out in both national and local contexts. This paper demonstrates the feasibility of comparing regional‐level population data over a historical period, and of tracking c…
Agricultural adjustment: Adoption of and adaptation to policy reform measures by large-scale commercial farmers
Outworking of the Second Demographic Transition: National Trends and Regional Patterns of Fertility Change in Poland, and England and Wales, 2002-2012
One of the main indicators of the second demographic transition (SDT) is the decline of fertility to below the replacement level (2.1 births per woman). The onset of the SDT in Europe spread across Western Europe in the 1960s and subsequently diffused to other parts of the continent. In Eastern Europe, a fall in total fertility rates below the replacement level was recorded at the beginning of the 1990s and was associated by some researchers with…
Bringing historical British Population Census records into the 21st century: A method for geocoding households and individuals at their early‐20th‐century addresses
Increased use of geographical information systems (GISs) for social scientific research has highlighted the analytical possibilities offered by unlocking historical data sources that are impractical with contemporary data. Genealogists and social scientific researchers have used information relating to individuals, households, and their addresses contained in the British historical census records for a number of years. This article takes geograph…
The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia
Using 3D modelling and game engine technologies for interactive exploration of cultural heritage: An evaluation of four game engines in relation to roman archaeological heritage
The extent and impact of the 1940 and 1941 “plough-up” campaigns on farming across the South Downs, England
Thirty Years of Geographical (In)consistency in the British Population Census: Steps towards the Harmonisation of Small‐Area Census Geography
The existence of digital boundary data files to accompany area census statistics for small units has now become accepted as the norm in respect of population census output in many countries. However, there has been growing variation in the specification of census geography and widespread inconsistency in the sets of polygons between the constituent countries of the UK. This paper reports on research that has created data sets of consistent areas …
Geographical and geodemographic connections between different types of small area as the origins and destinations of migrants to Mid-Wales
The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia
Assessing the user response to differences in functionality when visualising 3D models of cultural heritage sites using the Technology Readiness Index
The changing nature of GIS and the provision of formal GIS education in the UK: A case study
The arrival of the term Geographical Information System (GIS) in the 1960s soon created a demand for training and education in the use of this specialist hardware and software. Initially the main focus was on training people to use GIS, formal named degree programmes leading to postgraduate and undergraduate qualifications arrived later. This paper explores the changing landscape of U.K. degree level GIS education drawing on contemporary informat…
Residential development on gardens in England: Their role in providing sustainable housing supply
Searching for a residential resting place: Population in‐migration and circulation in Mid‐Wales
Mid‐Wales has experienced considerable fluctuation in its intercensal population change over many decades. Having undergone a protracted period of depopulation, mainly connected with industrial restructuring in various sectors and the general process of urbanisation, its population levels started to rise in the 1960s and 1970s. A significant part of this growth is attributed to a change in the direction of migration, with people moving into rathe…
Reconstructing the Small Area Geography of Mid‐Wales for an Analysis of Population Change 1961–95
Reversal of the long‐established trend of rural depopulation during recent decades has countered the continuing decline to which peripheral rural areas of developed countries were condemned in the 1960s. This paper reconstructs the small area geography of Mid‐Wales in order to provide a set of consistent small spatial units for examining net intercensal population and household change since 1961, and for projecting the 1961 community population t…
Telecommunications and disabled people: A rural perspective
The Rural Areas Database: A Geographical Information and Mapping System for the Management and Integration of Data on Rural Britain
Nigel Walford, Mandy Lane, Jean Shearman, The Rural Areas Database: A Geographical Information and Mapping System for the Management and Integration of Data on Rural Britain, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 14, No. 2 (1989), pp. 221-230
The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia
The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia
The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia
Preparing for fieldwork with census small area statistics
(1985). Preparing for fieldwork with census small area statistics. Journal of Geography in Higher Education: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 73-81
The Rural Areas Database: A Geographical Information and Mapping System for the Management and Integration of Data on Rural Britain
Nigel Walford, Mandy Lane, Jean Shearman, The Rural Areas Database: A Geographical Information and Mapping System for the Management and Integration of Data on Rural Britain, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 14, No. 2 (1989), pp. 221-230
Information on the common agricultural policy
Telecommunications and disabled people: A rural perspective
Monitoring Demographic and Socioeconomic Characteristics of Intercensal Populations: A British Local Authority Perspective
Reconstructing the Small Area Geography of Mid‐Wales for an Analysis of Population Change 1961–95
Reversal of the long‐established trend of rural depopulation during recent decades has countered the continuing decline to which peripheral rural areas of developed countries were condemned in the 1960s. This paper reconstructs the small area geography of Mid‐Wales in order to provide a set of consistent small spatial units for examining net intercensal population and household change since 1961, and for projecting the 1961 community population t…
Agricultural adjustment: Adoption of and adaptation to policy reform measures by large-scale commercial farmers
A past and a future for diversification on farms? some evidence from large‐scale, commercial farms in south east england
Diversification has been identified as a common response to the agricultural crisis of the 1980s and to the changing ethos of agricultural policy in the closing decade of the twentieth century. In particular, farmers operating large‐scale farms have been prominent in adopting this approach, just as they were innovative across a range of farming practices in the expansion and modernisation of their agricultural production in earlier decades. Can w…
Productivism is allegedly dead, long live productivism. Evidence of continued productivist attitudes and decision-making in South-East England
Searching for a residential resting place: Population in‐migration and circulation in Mid‐Wales
Mid‐Wales has experienced considerable fluctuation in its intercensal population change over many decades. Having undergone a protracted period of depopulation, mainly connected with industrial restructuring in various sectors and the general process of urbanisation, its population levels started to rise in the 1960s and 1970s. A significant part of this growth is attributed to a change in the direction of migration, with people moving into rathe…
Multiple succession and land division on family farms in the South East of England: A counterbalance to agricultural concentration
Multifunctional agriculture a new paradigm for European agriculture and rural development
Geographical and geodemographic connections between different types of small area as the origins and destinations of migrants to Mid-Wales
A comparative analysis of population ageing in urban and rural areas of England and Wales, and Poland over the last three census intervals
Population ageing has become a feature of many European and other Western countries over the last two decades as older people become more dominant in their demographic structures. This trend has the potential for important economic and social impacts, which are likely to be played out in both national and local contexts. This paper demonstrates the feasibility of comparing regional‐level population data over a historical period, and of tracking c…
Spatial data on the web: Modeling and management ‐ Edited by Alberto Belussi, Barbara Catania, Eliseo Clementin and Elena Ferrari
An analysis of the changing dependency ratios for small areas in 1981, 1991 and 2001: A Norfolk case study
Please click here to download the map associated with this article. The analysis of demographic and socio-economic change in the UK is hampered by adjustments made to the principal, reliable source of data for small areas, the decennial Population Census, and by the statistical problem of absolute changes having disproportionate effects on of account of variability in population totals at the start of the period(s) under investigation. The two ma…
Thirty Years of Geographical (In)consistency in the British Population Census: Steps towards the Harmonisation of Small‐Area Census Geography
The existence of digital boundary data files to accompany area census statistics for small units has now become accepted as the norm in respect of population census output in many countries. However, there has been growing variation in the specification of census geography and widespread inconsistency in the sets of polygons between the constituent countries of the UK. This paper reports on research that has created data sets of consistent areas …
Residential development on gardens in England: Their role in providing sustainable housing supply
Planning for an Ageing Society: Voices from the Planning Profession
The population of the United Kingdom is ageing inexorably, a trend which requires policy-makers, including spatial planners, to be creative and innovative in meeting the needs of older people. The significance of place in the lives of older people has been demonstrated by many researchers (see for example Peace et al., 2006; Gilroy, 2008) and underlines that spatial planners must be age aware. This paper uses qualitative research with planning pr…
The extent and impact of the 1940 and 1941 “plough-up” campaigns on farming across the South Downs, England
Older people and outdoor environments: Pedestrian anxieties and barriers in the use of familiar and unfamiliar spaces
Development and Design of a Web-Based Interface to Address Geographical Incompatibility in Spatial Units
The issue of how to address geographical incompatibility between aggregate statistical data sources is one affecting researchers in many countries. The increased amount of data from recent British Population Censuses has been accompanied by considerable changes in both administrative and electoral boundaries as well as those of areas specifically defined for census data collection and statistical output purposes. This paper reviews the extent of …
Geography (38 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Population (21 works) · Demography (19 works) · Political science (16 works) · Archaeology (14 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Census (13 works) · Demography (13 works) · Rural development and sustainability (12 works)