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Peter Atkins

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6037-6873
Phone: +44 (0)191 384 2919
Address: Department of Geography
Durham University
Durham DH1 4LU
United Kingdom
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Research paper thumbnail of Factors affecting slum sanitation projects in Dhaka City: learning from the dynamics of social-technological-governance systems
Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, 2014
Historically, the Government of Bangladesh has faced serious challenges in urban sanitation while... moreHistorically, the Government of Bangladesh has faced serious challenges in urban sanitation while public policy continuously bypasses questions related to the overall condition of the urban slums and their complex and filthy neighbourhood environment. Considering the diverse local settings of the urban slums, this paper attempts to explore the varied dynamics of 'social-technological-governance' (STG) systems from different categories of government (GO) and non-governmental organisation-managed slums where sanitation projects have been implemented. The analysis of STG systems not only uncovers different factors that affect sanitation projects but also offers a guideline that could address the overwhelming slum sanitation agenda in the context of metropolitan cities. The paper adopts a qualitative stance to explore the STG system and compare dynamics across the study areas. As is widely understood, local contextual issues are important in implementing sanitation projects and first-hand qualitative information has therefore been gathered and analysed to make sense of on-the-ground realities.
Research paper thumbnail of Bovine tuberculosis and badgers in Britain: relevance of the past
Epidemiology and infection, 2013
The European badger (Meles meles) has been identified as a wildlife reservoir of bovine tuberculo... moreThe European badger (Meles meles) has been identified as a wildlife reservoir of bovine tuberculosis and a source of transmission to cattle in Britain and Ireland. Both behavioural ecology and statistical ecological modelling have indicated the long-term persistence of the disease in some badger communities, and this is postulated to account for the high incidence of bovine tuberculosis in cattle across large tracts of England and Wales. This paper questions this consensus by using historical cartographic evidence to show that tuberculosis in cattle had a very different spatial distribution before 1960 to the present day. Since few of the badgers collected in road traffic accidents between 1972 and 1990 had tuberculosis in counties such as Cheshire, where the disease had until shortly before that been rife in the cattle population, the role of badgers as reservoirs in spreading disease in similar counties outside the south-west of England has to be questioned.(Received June 29 2012)(Revised October 11 2012)(Accepted December 04 2012)(Online publication January 25 2013)
Research paper thumbnail of Coalition culls and zoonotic ontologies
Coalition culls and zoonotic ontologies
Research paper thumbnail of Small water bodies in Bangladesh
Area, 2010
Excavations are easy in the soft, unconsolidated sediments of Bangladesh and are widespread for t... moreExcavations are easy in the soft, unconsolidated sediments of Bangladesh and are widespread for the creation of raised, flood-free homestead platforms. Small water bodies form in the resulting hollows and are used for fisheries, livestock management, irrigation, bathing and washing clothes. Despite their importance to everyday life, there is no up-todate inventory or monitoring. The paper uses remote sensing, GIS and a number of qualitative data collection techniques to reconstruct the pattern of the small water bodies in Shahjadpur thana. It concludes that there has been an expansion in their numbers but no systematic planning of their use.
Research paper thumbnail of The compilation of London Directories
The directories of London, 1677-1977, 1990
Research paper thumbnail of A history of London directories: 1856-1977
The directories of London, 1677-1977, 1990
Research paper thumbnail of A history of London directories: before 1856
The directories of London, 1677-1977, 1990
Research paper thumbnail of Introduction: the Directories of London 1677-1977
The Directories of London 1677-1977, 1990
Research paper thumbnail of The past, present and future of the study of People, Land and Time
ISBN: 0340677147 and 0470236590 http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780340677148/ CHAPTER 23.... moreISBN: 0340677147 and 0470236590http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780340677148/ CHAPTER 23. CONCLUSION: THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF THE STUDY OF PEOPLE, LAND AND TIME 'We are the absolute masters of what the earth produces. We enjoy the mountains and the plains, the rivers are ours. We sow the seed and plant the trees. We fertilize the earth, ... we stop, direct, and turn the rivers, in short by our hands we endeavour, by our various operations in this world, to make, as it were another nature'. Cicero, De re deorum II.39, 45, 53.
Research paper thumbnail of Conservation
People, Land & Time, 1998
Research paper thumbnail of Globalized landscapes
People, Land & Time, 1998
Research paper thumbnail of The Global Era
People, Land & Time, 1998
Research paper thumbnail of 'Other' landscapes
People, Land & Time, 1998
ISBN: 0340677147 and 0470236590 http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780340677148/ CHAPTER 20.... moreISBN: 0340677147 and 0470236590http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780340677148/ CHAPTER 20. 'OTHER' LANDSCAPES 'Our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire.' Edmund Burke (1775) Speech on conciliation with America.
Research paper thumbnail of Postmodern landscapes
People, Land & Time, 1998
capitalism are crumbling, along with the world view of objective science. Knowledge is now said to be more fragmented into separate units that have no overarching theories (metatheories) drawing them together, and which can no longer claim superiority over each other in their search for some elusive, absolute truth. This new relativism most encouragingly means that voices car be heard other than that of the white, male, western, middle class, English-speaking protestant o! the traditional stereotype of power. Feminism, multiculturalism and a post-colonial view of the world are all struggling to be heard. Second, postmodem consumers can choose the place and the time they wish to experience. Television is the main vehicle for delivering a vast increase in the range of culture and entertainment into the living room but the design of buildings and other urban spaces has recently performed the same function by simulating exotic and historical styles, what has been called elsewhereness.
Fourth, what appeared to be the immutable foundation of the economy, a manufacturing sector based in large assembly line factories and producing standardized products for a mass market, has been questioned. Cracks have begun to appear in the highly successful but somewhat rigid Fordist (named after Henry Ford the car manufacturer) version of capitalism, and a more flexible mode of production has been born in agglomerations of smaller plants where vertical integration and scale economies, traditional concems of Fordism, have been replaced by new financial arrangements, new types of sourcing of components, the recruitment of labour in new industrial regions, and a release of innovative energy to create new products. The resulting industnal landscapes (Chapter 15) are filled with relatively small factories and science parks rather than large plants common up to the 1970s. Fifth, the innate fragmentation of postmodemity has geographical implications in a tessellation of cultural and political space. The nation state, so characteristic of the centralizing tendencies of modemity, is losing credibility and not a little power to local formations of identity. The Soviet Union has split into its component parts, and even the unity of Federal Russia is threatened by secessionist tendencies in Chechnya. The bloody sundering of Yugoslavia and the inter- communal fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovena are further testimonies to the struggle of submerged nationalities for self-determination.
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Figure 17.5 MetroCentre, Gateshead Source: P.J. Atkins Figure 17.5 MetroCentre, Gateshead The larger malls offer a large range of services in addition to the retailing, from leisure facilities to hotel accommodation. They are cities within cities, although a residential element is not common. For Judd (1995) ‘typically they reproduce a stylized, romanticized, even fairy-tale interpretation of city architecture and culture. They attempt to make perfect what is flawed’. For Goss (1993, 33) they are ‘artificial fantasy worlds hermetically sealed against the unsanitary and unsafe outside world’.
Research paper thumbnail of Modern urban landscapes: modern cities and city life
People, Land & Time, 1998
Ficure 16.6 A model of the land use of Manchester, as described by Friedrich Engels in 1844 Source: Dennis, R. 1984: English industrial cities of the nineteenth century: a social geography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press As land-uses became more attuned to these market forces, specialization grew and spatial patterns of functional zonation crystallized into recognizable outcomes on the ground. The separation of manufacturing industry, residential housing, and commerce into their own concentric rings or sectors had a clear logic (Figure 16.6). They were described vividly by Friedrich Engels in Manchester in 1844 and were later modelled in the Chicago of the 1920s by Emest Burgess. The patterns were not static, however, with successions of change according to competition and sectoral shifts in the economy. An example is the flight to the suburbs of the wealthy and middle class former residents of the city centre, whose houses were then subdivided into flats and rented to working people and immiarants.
Research paper thumbnail of Industrial landscapes
People, Land & Time, 1998
Ficure 15.7 Industrial pollution in the Lower Swansea Valley Source: Bromley, R.D.F. 1991: The Lower Swansea Valley. In Humphrys, G. (ed.) Geographical excursions from Swansea. Volume 2: human landscapes. Swansea: University of Wales, 33-56 Itis more than a little ironic that out of the ashes of industries cremated on the funeral pyre lit by market forces there have arisen new jobs in industrial museums such as Beamish and Ironbridge. These have been created by an alliance of enthusiasts keen on the preservation of rapidly disappearing industrial artefacts and heritage entrepreneurs who see a market niche for industrial tourism. Of course, such jobs are very few in number.

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