Richard A Francis
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 965533 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Richard A Francis |
| PRENOMES | Richard A |
| SOBRENOME | Francis |
| ASSINATURA | FRANCIS R A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4598-0861 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Enhancing the Scrutiny Role of Select Committees
We report on a recent innovation for one Departmental Select Committee. While government policy commitments are well publicised, little attention is paid to the quality of commitments made or to assessing progress against those commitments. In 2020, the Health and Social Care Select Committee commissioned an Expert Panel to conduct independent, in-depth evaluations of government progress on selected policy commitments. The first evaluations in 20…
The raptor lockdown menu—Shifts in prey composition suggest urban peregrine diets are linked to human activities
Raptors can thrive in cities where food supplies are abundant and seasonally stable. The availability of such resources may be linked to spatiotemporally predictable human activities generating reliable food subsidies for both raptors and their prey, capable of sustaining large populations. However, raptors may become affected by shifts in human behaviour. Here, we explore how urban peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus diets respond to changes in hu…
Experiential learning in physical geography using arduino low-cost environmental sensors
Transmission teaching which centres around traditional lecturing discounts the variety of different learners and individual aptitudes. Physical Geography as a discipline has historically provided a range of teaching methods beyond lecturing which embrace field and laboratory activities, frequently adapting new research technologies to further student learning. While technological trends are increasing the demand for Geography graduates with GIS, …
Succeeding from nature
Non-human life has economic agency. It acts on the cultural values of products. Naturalness is an important, yet ambiguous, property in the market and imbues vibrant materials with organic, healthy, traditional, and other contingent properties. However, "natural" products can be succeeded in form and function by "synthetic" alternatives. Their value is further affected by non-humans. Our signal case explores Portuguese cork bark, an agroforestry …
Undergraduate student perceptions of assessment and feedback practice
Assessment and feedback practices sit at the heart of education and the student experience. This paper reports on undergraduate perceptions of assessment and feedback in the Department of Geography at King’s College London, UK. Twenty-eight first and second-year students across six focus groups provided comments on their understanding of feedback, their feedback experiences, and what they felt could be improved. It was clear that students desired…
Artificial lawn people
This paper explores a new artificial political ecology through a novel digital methodology. The emotional impacts of the replacement of living turfgrass landscapes with synthetic simulacra are researched via a netnography of animated and polarised online discussion. We investigate how the cultural use of domestic lawns has extended into the creation of non-living artificial lawns and how the environmental values of these new landscapes are debate…
Fruitlands
This is the first definitive account of Fruitlands, one of history’s most unsuccessful—but most significant—utopian experiments. It was established in Massachusetts in 1843 by Bronson Alcott (whose ten-year-old daughter Louisa May, future author of Little Women, was among the members) and an Englishman called Charles Lane, under the watchful gaze of Emerson, Thoreau, and other New England intellectuals. Alcott and Lane developed their own version…
Environmental Management
Environmental management is the management of our impact on the environment, and the environment's impact on us. It is usually performed to address environmental legislation or policies, and mainly refers to the methods and processes used to predict, measure and mitigate impacts. Environmental management has emerged in recent decades in response to increasing environmental awareness and usually involves stages of assessment, planning, action, and…
Stream Ecosystems
Streams are lotic ecosystems characterized by hierarchical organization of structure, three‐dimensional connectivity maintained by flows, and high spatiotemporal heterogeneity of habitat. They are naturally biodiverse and maintain species adapted to a range of flow conditions, across a variety of aquatic and riparian habitats. Microbes, meiofauna, and macroinvertebrates are the most abundant and diverse species, though plants and vertebrates may …
Fashion, Sustainability, and the Anthropocene
The unbridled consumption of clothing threatens the environment. A discussion is developing around the adoption of new materials and economic models to reduce the impacts of clothing production and use. We discuss these emergent technologies in the wider historical setting of the Anthropocene. The history of human-environmental interactions is interwoven with the development of international garment economies. This article provides an account of …
Mapping pedagogic frailty in geography education
Pedagogic frailty has been proposed as a unifying concept that may help to integrate institutional efforts to enhance teaching within universities by helping to maintain a simultaneous focus on key areas that are thought to impede the development of pedagogy. These areas and the links that have been proposed to connect them are interrogated here through the analysis of an autoethnographic narrative produced by a community “insider” who has consid…
Human conflict and ecosystem services
Environmental degradation resulting from warfare is a growing concern, particularly with increasing recognition of humanity's dependence on healthy ecosystems. Though environmental legislation does exist that seeks to prevent or mitigate environmental harm before, during and after conflict, it has limited scope and effectiveness. This may be one reason why the environmental laws of war are so rarely applied in attempts to bring parties responsibl…
What is special about urban ecologies
Urban ecosystems as ‘natural’ homes for biogeographical boundary crossings
Urban ecosystems have long been neglected in ecological theory and urban politics, with their respective tendencies towards anti-urbanism and exclusive humanism. As Hinchliffe et al. argue, ‘not pure enough to be true and not human enough to be political, urban wilds have no constituency’ (2005, 645). Ecologists have tended to focus on ‘pure’ places, free from and defined in relation to the degradation of the urban environment. Meanwhile urban th…
An investigation into the receptivity of undergraduate students to assessment empowerment
Providing empowerment to students with regard to assessment procedures is a potential mechanism for increasing students’ satisfaction with their education programme and environment. The receptivity of students is likely to vary according to several factors, including their confidence in the ability of assessors to adequately judge the quality of their work, their understanding of assessment procedures and the degree of autonomy they feel is appro…
Meeting the challenges of urban river habitat restoration
The River Thames is a heavily engineered urban system in recovery, though absence of habitat in the reaches through central London has restricted recovery in this area, making habitat creation or improvement a restoration priority. Here we discuss the pre‐disturbance Thames, its current ecological status, and then present a methodology for establishing habitat restoration potential through central London. Habitats primarily supporting ecological …
The Riverscape and the River - By Sylvia M Haslam
Allogenic and autogenic influences upon riparian vegetation dynamics
Riparian vegetation dynamics are regarded as being driven by allogenic hydrogeomorphological factors, with autogenic (plant‐induced) influences becoming more important as landform stability is achieved. Autogenic processes, however, may have a substantial influence on both plant dynamics and the river environment from the earliest stages of plant establishment. Various aspects of both allogenic and autogenic processes in riparian vegetation dynam…
Métafictions (1670–1730)
By Jean-Paul Sermain. (Les Dix-huitième Siècles, 65). Paris, Champion, 2002. 462 pp. The period of fictional history covered by this study, like the contemporary Hazardian ‘crise de conscience’, is one of flux and uncertainty. Between the collapse of the baroque novel and the generation of Prévost and Marivaux, a bewildering variety of genres struggle to emerge, and Jean-Paul Sermain's merit is to have traced a unity behind this fermentation in t…
Urban ecosystems as ‘natural’ homes for biogeographical boundary crossings
Urban ecosystems have long been neglected in ecological theory and urban politics, with their respective tendencies towards anti-urbanism and exclusive humanism. As Hinchliffe et al. argue, ‘not pure enough to be true and not human enough to be political, urban wilds have no constituency’ (2005, 645). Ecologists have tended to focus on ‘pure’ places, free from and defined in relation to the degradation of the urban environment. Meanwhile urban th…
Artificial lawn people
This paper explores a new artificial political ecology through a novel digital methodology. The emotional impacts of the replacement of living turfgrass landscapes with synthetic simulacra are researched via a netnography of animated and polarised online discussion. We investigate how the cultural use of domestic lawns has extended into the creation of non-living artificial lawns and how the environmental values of these new landscapes are debate…
Mapping pedagogic frailty in geography education
Pedagogic frailty has been proposed as a unifying concept that may help to integrate institutional efforts to enhance teaching within universities by helping to maintain a simultaneous focus on key areas that are thought to impede the development of pedagogy. These areas and the links that have been proposed to connect them are interrogated here through the analysis of an autoethnographic narrative produced by a community “insider” who has consid…
Undergraduate student perceptions of assessment and feedback practice
Assessment and feedback practices sit at the heart of education and the student experience. This paper reports on undergraduate perceptions of assessment and feedback in the Department of Geography at King’s College London, UK. Twenty-eight first and second-year students across six focus groups provided comments on their understanding of feedback, their feedback experiences, and what they felt could be improved. It was clear that students desired…
Human conflict and ecosystem services
Environmental degradation resulting from warfare is a growing concern, particularly with increasing recognition of humanity's dependence on healthy ecosystems. Though environmental legislation does exist that seeks to prevent or mitigate environmental harm before, during and after conflict, it has limited scope and effectiveness. This may be one reason why the environmental laws of war are so rarely applied in attempts to bring parties responsibl…
What is special about urban ecologies
Enhancing the Scrutiny Role of Select Committees
We report on a recent innovation for one Departmental Select Committee. While government policy commitments are well publicised, little attention is paid to the quality of commitments made or to assessing progress against those commitments. In 2020, the Health and Social Care Select Committee commissioned an Expert Panel to conduct independent, in-depth evaluations of government progress on selected policy commitments. The first evaluations in 20…
Succeeding from nature
Non-human life has economic agency. It acts on the cultural values of products. Naturalness is an important, yet ambiguous, property in the market and imbues vibrant materials with organic, healthy, traditional, and other contingent properties. However, "natural" products can be succeeded in form and function by "synthetic" alternatives. Their value is further affected by non-humans. Our signal case explores Portuguese cork bark, an agroforestry …
Fashion, Sustainability, and the Anthropocene
The unbridled consumption of clothing threatens the environment. A discussion is developing around the adoption of new materials and economic models to reduce the impacts of clothing production and use. We discuss these emergent technologies in the wider historical setting of the Anthropocene. The history of human-environmental interactions is interwoven with the development of international garment economies. This article provides an account of …
Métafictions (1670–1730)
By Jean-Paul Sermain. (Les Dix-huitième Siècles, 65). Paris, Champion, 2002. 462 pp. The period of fictional history covered by this study, like the contemporary Hazardian ‘crise de conscience’, is one of flux and uncertainty. Between the collapse of the baroque novel and the generation of Prévost and Marivaux, a bewildering variety of genres struggle to emerge, and Jean-Paul Sermain's merit is to have traced a unity behind this fermentation in t…
Allogenic and autogenic influences upon riparian vegetation dynamics
Riparian vegetation dynamics are regarded as being driven by allogenic hydrogeomorphological factors, with autogenic (plant‐induced) influences becoming more important as landform stability is achieved. Autogenic processes, however, may have a substantial influence on both plant dynamics and the river environment from the earliest stages of plant establishment. Various aspects of both allogenic and autogenic processes in riparian vegetation dynam…
An investigation into the receptivity of undergraduate students to assessment empowerment
Providing empowerment to students with regard to assessment procedures is a potential mechanism for increasing students’ satisfaction with their education programme and environment. The receptivity of students is likely to vary according to several factors, including their confidence in the ability of assessors to adequately judge the quality of their work, their understanding of assessment procedures and the degree of autonomy they feel is appro…
Meeting the challenges of urban river habitat restoration
The River Thames is a heavily engineered urban system in recovery, though absence of habitat in the reaches through central London has restricted recovery in this area, making habitat creation or improvement a restoration priority. Here we discuss the pre‐disturbance Thames, its current ecological status, and then present a methodology for establishing habitat restoration potential through central London. Habitats primarily supporting ecological …
The Riverscape and the River - By Sylvia M Haslam
Urban ecosystems as ‘natural’ homes for biogeographical boundary crossings
Urban ecosystems have long been neglected in ecological theory and urban politics, with their respective tendencies towards anti-urbanism and exclusive humanism. As Hinchliffe et al. argue, ‘not pure enough to be true and not human enough to be political, urban wilds have no constituency’ (2005, 645). Ecologists have tended to focus on ‘pure’ places, free from and defined in relation to the degradation of the urban environment. Meanwhile urban th…
What is special about urban ecologies
Human conflict and ecosystem services
Environmental degradation resulting from warfare is a growing concern, particularly with increasing recognition of humanity's dependence on healthy ecosystems. Though environmental legislation does exist that seeks to prevent or mitigate environmental harm before, during and after conflict, it has limited scope and effectiveness. This may be one reason why the environmental laws of war are so rarely applied in attempts to bring parties responsibl…
Mapping pedagogic frailty in geography education
Pedagogic frailty has been proposed as a unifying concept that may help to integrate institutional efforts to enhance teaching within universities by helping to maintain a simultaneous focus on key areas that are thought to impede the development of pedagogy. These areas and the links that have been proposed to connect them are interrogated here through the analysis of an autoethnographic narrative produced by a community “insider” who has consid…
Fruitlands
This is the first definitive account of Fruitlands, one of history’s most unsuccessful—but most significant—utopian experiments. It was established in Massachusetts in 1843 by Bronson Alcott (whose ten-year-old daughter Louisa May, future author of Little Women, was among the members) and an Englishman called Charles Lane, under the watchful gaze of Emerson, Thoreau, and other New England intellectuals. Alcott and Lane developed their own version…
Environmental Management
Environmental management is the management of our impact on the environment, and the environment's impact on us. It is usually performed to address environmental legislation or policies, and mainly refers to the methods and processes used to predict, measure and mitigate impacts. Environmental management has emerged in recent decades in response to increasing environmental awareness and usually involves stages of assessment, planning, action, and…
Stream Ecosystems
Streams are lotic ecosystems characterized by hierarchical organization of structure, three‐dimensional connectivity maintained by flows, and high spatiotemporal heterogeneity of habitat. They are naturally biodiverse and maintain species adapted to a range of flow conditions, across a variety of aquatic and riparian habitats. Microbes, meiofauna, and macroinvertebrates are the most abundant and diverse species, though plants and vertebrates may …
Fashion, Sustainability, and the Anthropocene
The unbridled consumption of clothing threatens the environment. A discussion is developing around the adoption of new materials and economic models to reduce the impacts of clothing production and use. We discuss these emergent technologies in the wider historical setting of the Anthropocene. The history of human-environmental interactions is interwoven with the development of international garment economies. This article provides an account of …
Undergraduate student perceptions of assessment and feedback practice
Assessment and feedback practices sit at the heart of education and the student experience. This paper reports on undergraduate perceptions of assessment and feedback in the Department of Geography at King’s College London, UK. Twenty-eight first and second-year students across six focus groups provided comments on their understanding of feedback, their feedback experiences, and what they felt could be improved. It was clear that students desired…
Artificial lawn people
This paper explores a new artificial political ecology through a novel digital methodology. The emotional impacts of the replacement of living turfgrass landscapes with synthetic simulacra are researched via a netnography of animated and polarised online discussion. We investigate how the cultural use of domestic lawns has extended into the creation of non-living artificial lawns and how the environmental values of these new landscapes are debate…
Succeeding from nature
Non-human life has economic agency. It acts on the cultural values of products. Naturalness is an important, yet ambiguous, property in the market and imbues vibrant materials with organic, healthy, traditional, and other contingent properties. However, "natural" products can be succeeded in form and function by "synthetic" alternatives. Their value is further affected by non-humans. Our signal case explores Portuguese cork bark, an agroforestry …
Experiential learning in physical geography using arduino low-cost environmental sensors
Transmission teaching which centres around traditional lecturing discounts the variety of different learners and individual aptitudes. Physical Geography as a discipline has historically provided a range of teaching methods beyond lecturing which embrace field and laboratory activities, frequently adapting new research technologies to further student learning. While technological trends are increasing the demand for Geography graduates with GIS, …
The raptor lockdown menu—Shifts in prey composition suggest urban peregrine diets are linked to human activities
Raptors can thrive in cities where food supplies are abundant and seasonally stable. The availability of such resources may be linked to spatiotemporally predictable human activities generating reliable food subsidies for both raptors and their prey, capable of sustaining large populations. However, raptors may become affected by shifts in human behaviour. Here, we explore how urban peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus diets respond to changes in hu…
Enhancing the Scrutiny Role of Select Committees
We report on a recent innovation for one Departmental Select Committee. While government policy commitments are well publicised, little attention is paid to the quality of commitments made or to assessing progress against those commitments. In 2020, the Health and Social Care Select Committee commissioned an Expert Panel to conduct independent, in-depth evaluations of government progress on selected policy commitments. The first evaluations in 20…
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