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MSc by Research success for CCRI’s Kate Smith

CCRI student, Kate Smith, has successfully completed her MSc by Research degree, which involved evaluating the use of 3D landscape visualisation technology (Google Earth) for enhancing and improving participation in Natural Flood Management

Running researcher crosses Scotland

In May 2018, research assistant Nick Lewis took a trip to Scotland where he ran the Southern Upland Way, Britain's first official coast-to-coast long distance footpath. Following on from a previous blog post, he has written a short piece reflecting upon his experiences on his latest trip.

On wildflowers

The winter of 2017/18 has been unusually long and cold. As spring finally appears to be establishing itself, John Powell revisits in part, a post he wrote two years ago and further considers how wildflowers can be considered public goods and how recent changes in EU legislation should protect insect pollinators.

Urban agriculture and guilty pleasures in the Czech Republic

For the last five years, Senior Research Fellow Dan Keech has been teaching in Brno on a short course about food and sustainability at the Masaryk University in Brno. This year he was persuaded to write a blog about his experiences about his time over there which always includes some local culinary delights.

Blogging on the Commons

As the most prolific blogger in CCRI, John Powell has set himself the challenge of writing a post per month during 2018. Nick Lewis, John's colleague and office room-mate, wanted to explore the reasons behind this and motivations for his regular outputs.

The real ‘tragedy of the commons’

It is fifty years since Garrett Hardin's paper 'Tragedy of the Commons' was published. In his latest blog post, senior research fellow, John Powell discusses this article, which continues to be cited and used throughout the world, despite the fact that Hardin's conceptual framework is, and always has been, flawed.