Katharine Richards
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 98507 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Katharine Richards |
| PRENOMES | Katharine |
| SOBRENOME | Richards |
| ASSINATURA | RICHARDS K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8170-6512 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 238 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Map and Archival Evidence of the Historical Avulsion of the Brahmaputra River
The Brahmaputra River is one of the world's largest rivers, entering the Bengal Basin from its extensive Himalayan catchment, flowing south through Bangladesh, and joining the Ganges to traverse a complex fan‐delta and enter the Bay of Bengal. When Major James Rennell surveyed the river to establish the ‘Route Surveys’ for the East India Company between 1765 and 1777, it followed a different course, turning to the South‐East into the Sylhet Basin…
Predicting Covid-19 booster intentions among college students using the health belief model
Background COVID-19 remains a significant public health threat. The primary purpose of this study was to test the health belief model (HBM) constructs in predicting COVID-19 booster intentions of college students. Methods A total of 285 students enrolled at large public university in the Southeastern U.S., who were 18 years and older, completed an online survey to assess COVID-19 vaccination status, prior or current COVID-19 infection, demographi…
Challenges and instructor strategies for transitioning to online learning during and after the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered an unprecedented shift to online learning, significantly impacting the higher education landscape. This paper examines the challenges faced by faculty and students during the rapid transition to online instruction and explores best practices for delivering effective online courses. The increased adoption of online learning created stress for faculty and resulted in academic setbacks for students. Although challenge…
The historical avulsion of the Tista River, and its relationship to the Brahmaputra
Alluvial fans are constructed when river deposition raises local elevations until the river "avulses" to an alternative lower elevation alignment. Avulsions may be triggered by exogenous events, such as floods that locally overtop the river's banks; they may then cause extreme flooding on a fan and have major impacts. Rivers draining the Himalayas into the Gangetic plain have behaved historically in this way; for example, the Kosi River's histori…
The Akchagylian stage (late Pliocene-early Pleistocene) in the North Caspian region
Water, energy and land insecurity in global supply chains
Adaptation to flooding in low-income urban settlements in the least developed countries
This study aims to use a whole systems approach (1) to understand the processes of adaptation to flooding of the urban poor; (2) to identify new knowledge of how low-income settlements might better adapt to climatic risks; and (3) to begin to develop appropriate guidance on this. Low-income urban settlements in the least developed countries (LDCs) present an extreme case where catastrophic natural hazards and chronic social hazards overlap. These…
Bushfires - Climate, people and policies
This Commentary considers the causal chain responsible for bushfires, prompted by the severe episode in SE Australia in 2019-2020. While not denying the role of climate and climate change, it focuses on ignition and fuel supply as areas where intervention might occur in order to mitigate future fire risk
Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
In periods of transition after political violence, a truth and reconciliation commission is one method for successor governments and international agencies to document past abuses of human rights. These temporary commissions investigate the covert activities of repressive regimes and rebel groups, document and publicize survivors' testimonies, and recommend institutional reforms and restitution for victims and their families. Most commissions pur…
Lithofacies and ichnofacies distribution in offshore sediments of the Langarud–Rudsar region of Iran, southern Caspian Sea
Innovative Computerized co-axial tomography (CAT)-scan methods have been applied to two short cores collected in the southern Caspian Sea, offshore from the Langarud–Rudsar region of Iran, to the east of the Sefidrud delta. Magnetic susceptibility (MS) readings, in association with other lithological criteria, are used to correlate the cores and calibrate to real time. The cores provide a sedimentary record from this largely unstudied region cove…
Revisiting the drivers of deforestation in the tropics
Introduction to the Special Issue
This introduction provides a rationale for the papers in this special issue, establishing a link between these and last year's special issue on the subject of defining applied linguistics, and arguing the case for greater attention to be given to methodological issues in our field. Papers in the collection are briefly introduced in the context of five developments that make the publication of a collection on this topic particularly timely: the pa…
Do livelihood typologies influence local perceptions of forest cover change? Evidence from a tropical forested and non-forested rural landscape in western Uganda
Truth Commissions
Reviewed by: Truth Commissions: Memory, Power, and Legitimacy by Onur Bakiner Katharine Richards Onur Bakiner, Truth Commissions: Memory, Power, and Legitimacy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 328 pp. After periods of mass violence, transitional governments are often called upon by their people, human rights groups, and international organizations to right the wrongs of the past. A truth commission is a restorative justice a…
Not all low-carbon energy pathways are environmentally “no-regrets” options
Energy system pathways which are projected to deliver minimum possible deployment cost, combined with low Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, are usually considered as ‘no-regrets’ options. However, the question remains whether such energy pathways present ‘no-regrets’ when also considering the wider environmental resource impacts, in particular those on land and water resources. This paper aims to determine whether the energy pathways of the UK’s Ca…
Approaches to evaluating model quality across different regime types in environmental and public health governance
Three decades of forest cover change in Uganda’s Northern Albertine Rift Landscape
Reconstructions of deltaic environments from Holocene palynological records in the Volga delta, northern Caspian Sea
New palynological and ostracod data are presented from the Holocene Volga delta, obtained from short cores and surface samples collected in the Damchik region, near Astrakhan, Russian Federation in the northern Caspian Sea. Four phases of delta deposition are recognized and constrained by accelerated mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon ages. Palynological records show that erosive channels, dunes (Baer hills) and inter-dune lakes were present dur…
Enhancing water security for the benefits of humans and nature — the role of governance
Environmental flows and water governance
Geographical connections
The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)'s annual Medals and Awards recognise achievements in the research, communication and teaching of a wide range of geographical knowledge. The speeches and citations are a record of the ceremony of 2013. With comments by Michael Palin, and Professors Keith Richards, Kelvyn Jones, Paul Longley and Susan Page, the speeches encompass travel, fluvial geomorphology, quantitative research, geographic information …
Fluctuations in Caspian sea level during the Quaternary
Transition towards a new global change science
Irreversible river water quality and the concept of the reference condition
In the W ater F ramework D irective ( WFD ), ‘water quality’ now refers to a comprehensive assessment of the state of aquatic ecosystems (whether fluvial or lacustrine), which are evaluated by their deviation from a pre‐determined historically‐based reference condition. However, the WFD does not consider theoretically whether water quality can be expected to recover to a historical condition; it simply assumes that it is possible for quality to b…
Using Micro-Analysis in Interviewer Training
Despite the recent growth of interest in the interactional construction of research interviews and advances made in our understanding of the nature of such encounters, relatively little attention has been paid to the implications of this for interviewer training, with the result that advice on interviewing techniques tends to be very general. Drawing on analyses of a feature of research interviews that is usually treated as analytically insignifi…
Geomorphology and Soils
Soils and Geomorphology
Thinking across the divide
This paper reports on a meeting which was held at the RGS/IBG annual conference in London in September 2003, where we aimed to investigate and debate some of the ways in which human and physical geography could (and should?) reopen a dialogue. This conference session was timely for three reasons. First, whilst human geography has a long tradition of engaging in philosophical discussion, physical geographers have been rather more reluctant to exam…
Transition towards a new global change science
Rivers
Outlining the environmental catchment factors which control the development of channel equilibrium, this book is a detailed review of alluvial river form and process
Complexity and emergence (another conversation)
At the Annual Conference of the RGS-IBG in 2005, on 31 August, another session was held in the series that began at the Annual Conference in 2003 under the generic title "Conversations across the divide". These meetings have evolved with the aim of encouraging human and physical geographers to communicate with one another about their concepts, methods, languages and research agendas (Harrison et al. 2004). In 2005, a conceptual theme was chosen: …
Conversations across the divide
Geography in the United Kingdom 1992-1996
Tr IURBULENT YEARS' AND 'MAJOR UPHEAVAL' have been phrases used to characterize both the periods 1984-88 and 1988-92 by previous authors of these quadrennial reviews of Geography in the UK (Bennett and Thornes, 1988; Gardner and Hay, 1992). Yet, when set against the enormous shifts and 'frenzied activity' (Johnston, 1995c) of the years 1992-96, those earlier periods seem in retrospect almost to have been years of relative stability and calm, pref…
Trends in qualitative research in language teaching since 2000
This paper reviews developments in qualitative research in language teaching since the year 2000, focusing on its contributions to the field and identifying issues that emerge. Its aims are to identify those areas in language teaching where qualitative research has the greatest potential and indicate what needs to be done to further improve the quality of its contribution. The paper begins by highlighting current trends and debates in the general…
River Channels
1. Rivers: environment, process and form: Keith S.Richards (Department of Geography, University of Cambridge) 2. Spatial adjustments to temporal variations in flood regime in some Australian rivers: Robin F.Warner (Department of Geography, University of Sydney) 3. The effect of active tectonics on alluvial river morphology: Daniel I.Gregory (Water Engineering and Technology Inc., Colorado) and Stanley A.Schumm (Department of Earth Sciences, Color…
Environmental flows and water governance
The future of research monographs
This Forum makes four points. First, it expands our knowledge on the writing and publishing of research monographs in different countries and so it moves beyond accounts which generalize from the UK experience. Second, the Forum considers international differences in the ways in which the assessment of academic performances affects the writing and publishing of geography research monographs. Third, it considers the ways in which structural change…
Revisiting the drivers of deforestation in the tropics
The nature of publishing and assessment in Geography and Environmental Studies
We present a summary of the kinds of outputs submitted to the Geography and Environmental Studies sub‐panel (H‐32) for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), and examine the relationships between the peer assessment of research quality that the RAE process has typified, and alternative modes of assessment based on bibliometrics. This comparison is effected using (in aggregate form) some of the results from the RAE, together with citation da…
Geomorphological Techniques
Water, energy and land insecurity in global supply chains
Not all low-carbon energy pathways are environmentally “no-regrets” options
Energy system pathways which are projected to deliver minimum possible deployment cost, combined with low Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, are usually considered as ‘no-regrets’ options. However, the question remains whether such energy pathways present ‘no-regrets’ when also considering the wider environmental resource impacts, in particular those on land and water resources. This paper aims to determine whether the energy pathways of the UK’s Ca…
Enhancing water security for the benefits of humans and nature — the role of governance
Some Ideas and Reflections on Teaching 'Ideas' in Geography
This paper outlines the characteristics of a seminar on realism which forms part of the teaching of 'ideas and methods in geography' in the department concerned. The seminar requires each of about a dozen students to answer a specific question by reading a single paper, writing a summary answer to the question based on this source, and delivering an oral presentation. The questions are structured to deal with abstract theoretical issues at first,…
The Role of Stability Analysis in the Interpretation of the Evolution of Threshold Slopes
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
Irreversible river water quality and the concept of the reference condition
In the W ater F ramework D irective ( WFD ), ‘water quality’ now refers to a comprehensive assessment of the state of aquatic ecosystems (whether fluvial or lacustrine), which are evaluated by their deviation from a pre‐determined historically‐based reference condition. However, the WFD does not consider theoretically whether water quality can be expected to recover to a historical condition; it simply assumes that it is possible for quality to b…
The historical avulsion of the Tista River, and its relationship to the Brahmaputra
Alluvial fans are constructed when river deposition raises local elevations until the river "avulses" to an alternative lower elevation alignment. Avulsions may be triggered by exogenous events, such as floods that locally overtop the river's banks; they may then cause extreme flooding on a fan and have major impacts. Rivers draining the Himalayas into the Gangetic plain have behaved historically in this way; for example, the Kosi River's histori…
Adaptation to flooding in low-income urban settlements in the least developed countries
This study aims to use a whole systems approach (1) to understand the processes of adaptation to flooding of the urban poor; (2) to identify new knowledge of how low-income settlements might better adapt to climatic risks; and (3) to begin to develop appropriate guidance on this. Low-income urban settlements in the least developed countries (LDCs) present an extreme case where catastrophic natural hazards and chronic social hazards overlap. These…
The Role of Stability Analysis in the Interpretation of the Evolution of Threshold Slopes
Reply to Comments by Dr D. L. Dunkerley
Geomorphological Techniques
Rivers
Outlining the environmental catchment factors which control the development of channel equilibrium, this book is a detailed review of alluvial river form and process
The Impact of River Channelization
Soils and Geomorphology
Geomorphology and Soils
River Channels
1. Rivers: environment, process and form: Keith S.Richards (Department of Geography, University of Cambridge) 2. Spatial adjustments to temporal variations in flood regime in some Australian rivers: Robin F.Warner (Department of Geography, University of Sydney) 3. The effect of active tectonics on alluvial river morphology: Daniel I.Gregory (Water Engineering and Technology Inc., Colorado) and Stanley A.Schumm (Department of Earth Sciences, Color…
Tropical Rain Forest Logging
From Guessing What Teachers Think to Finding out What Teachers Know
Eisner, E. (1983). The art and craft of teaching. Educational Leadership, 40, 5-13. Hopkins, D. (1985). A teacher's guide to action research. Milton Keynes, England: Open University Press. Kemmis, S. (1985). Action research and the politics of reflection. In D. Boud, R. Keogh, & D. Walker (Eds.), Reflection: Turning experience into learning (pp. 139-163). London: Kogan Page. Long, M., & Crookes, G. (1992). Three approaches to task-based syllabus …
Geography in the United Kingdom 1992-1996
Tr IURBULENT YEARS' AND 'MAJOR UPHEAVAL' have been phrases used to characterize both the periods 1984-88 and 1988-92 by previous authors of these quadrennial reviews of Geography in the UK (Bennett and Thornes, 1988; Gardner and Hay, 1992). Yet, when set against the enormous shifts and 'frenzied activity' (Johnston, 1995c) of the years 1992-96, those earlier periods seem in retrospect almost to have been years of relative stability and calm, pref…
Why Best Practice Is Not Good Enough
The editors of this volume assert that accounts of properly justified and fully contextualised responses to actual teaching (and teacher education) situations provide a valuable resource for professional development. We identify fully with this assertion and with the editors' stated intention to give such reports more attention than has previously been the case in TESOL Quarterly. Our concern in this piece is to take this position further by argu…
Some Ideas and Reflections on Teaching 'Ideas' in Geography
This paper outlines the characteristics of a seminar on realism which forms part of the teaching of 'ideas and methods in geography' in the department concerned. The seminar requires each of about a dozen students to answer a specific question by reading a single paper, writing a summary answer to the question based on this source, and delivering an oral presentation. The questions are structured to deal with abstract theoretical issues at first,…
Thinking across the divide
This paper reports on a meeting which was held at the RGS/IBG annual conference in London in September 2003, where we aimed to investigate and debate some of the ways in which human and physical geography could (and should?) reopen a dialogue. This conference session was timely for three reasons. First, whilst human geography has a long tradition of engaging in philosophical discussion, physical geographers have been rather more reluctant to exam…
‘Being the Teacher’
Recent debate on the standard classroom Initiation–Response–Follow-up pattern has focused particular attention on the final move and the contribution it can make to productive interaction in teacher-fronted situations. This paper suggests that current research in this area has tended to exaggerate the pedagogic impact of changes based on specifiable discourse moves, proposing instead an approach to analysis which takes account of the dynamic natu…
Complexity and emergence (another conversation)
At the Annual Conference of the RGS-IBG in 2005, on 31 August, another session was held in the series that began at the Annual Conference in 2003 under the generic title "Conversations across the divide". These meetings have evolved with the aim of encouraging human and physical geographers to communicate with one another about their concepts, methods, languages and research agendas (Harrison et al. 2004). In 2005, a conceptual theme was chosen: …
Janet Maybin
Janet Maybin's exploration of children's talk is an outstanding example of the value of exploring backstage talk, the encounters that take place outside conventional sites of engagement. Although classroom exchanges are not ignored, the focus of the book is on how 10–12 year-old children talk away from adults, and specifically how they construct their knowledge and identity at a key developmental point in their lives. It draws on a range of analy…
Conversations across the divide
The future of research monographs
This Forum makes four points. First, it expands our knowledge on the writing and publishing of research monographs in different countries and so it moves beyond accounts which generalize from the UK experience. Second, the Forum considers international differences in the ways in which the assessment of academic performances affects the writing and publishing of geography research monographs. Third, it considers the ways in which structural change…
Trends in qualitative research in language teaching since 2000
This paper reviews developments in qualitative research in language teaching since the year 2000, focusing on its contributions to the field and identifying issues that emerge. Its aims are to identify those areas in language teaching where qualitative research has the greatest potential and indicate what needs to be done to further improve the quality of its contribution. The paper begins by highlighting current trends and debates in the general…
The nature of publishing and assessment in Geography and Environmental Studies
We present a summary of the kinds of outputs submitted to the Geography and Environmental Studies sub‐panel (H‐32) for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), and examine the relationships between the peer assessment of research quality that the RAE process has typified, and alternative modes of assessment based on bibliometrics. This comparison is effected using (in aggregate form) some of the results from the RAE, together with citation da…
Using Micro-Analysis in Interviewer Training
Despite the recent growth of interest in the interactional construction of research interviews and advances made in our understanding of the nature of such encounters, relatively little attention has been paid to the implications of this for interviewer training, with the result that advice on interviewing techniques tends to be very general. Drawing on analyses of a feature of research interviews that is usually treated as analytically insignifi…
Fluctuations in Caspian sea level during the Quaternary
Transition towards a new global change science
Irreversible river water quality and the concept of the reference condition
In the W ater F ramework D irective ( WFD ), ‘water quality’ now refers to a comprehensive assessment of the state of aquatic ecosystems (whether fluvial or lacustrine), which are evaluated by their deviation from a pre‐determined historically‐based reference condition. However, the WFD does not consider theoretically whether water quality can be expected to recover to a historical condition; it simply assumes that it is possible for quality to b…
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