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Firewood usage and indoor air pollution from traditional cooking fires in Gazi Bay, Kenya

Journal Article
Jung, J., & Huxham, M. (2019)
Firewood usage and indoor air pollution from traditional cooking fires in Gazi Bay, Kenya. Bioscience Horizons, 11, https://doi.org/10.1093/biohorizons/hzy014
Mangroves are increasingly being recognised for the important ecosystem services they provide, including carbon fixation, shoreline protection and fisheries habitats. In addit...

From fast food to a well-balanced diet: toward a programme focused approach to feedback in higher education

Journal Article
Wilder-Davis, K., Carless, D., Huxham, M., McCune, V., McLatchie, J., Jessop, T., & Marzetti, H. (2021)
From fast food to a well-balanced diet: toward a programme focused approach to feedback in higher education. Practitioner Research in Higher Education, 14(1), 3-15
Feedback may be considered ‘good’ according to many of the criteria in the literature whilst still having little or no impact on students’ learning in the longer term. Feedbac...

The Fish Community of an East African Mangrove: Effects of Turbidity and Distance from the Sea

Journal Article
Huxham, M., Kimani, E., & Augley, J. (2008)
The Fish Community of an East African Mangrove: Effects of Turbidity and Distance from the Sea. Western Indian Ocean journal of marine science, 7(1), 57-67. https://doi.org/10.4314/wiojms.v7i1.48254
Mangroves are often reported as nursery grounds for fish. Fish may enter mangroves in order to avoid predators, but may not need to do so if turbidity provides a sufficient pr...

The coastal conservation narrative is shifting from crisis to ecosystem services

Journal Article
Balke, T., Vovides, A. G., Ladd, C. J., & Huxham, M. (2023)
The coastal conservation narrative is shifting from crisis to ecosystem services. Marine Biology, 56, Article 3. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-022-01304-1
Conservation biology emerged as a crisis discipline in the 20th century amongst an increasing awareness of pollution and habitat loss. Since the early 2000s, societal and mone...

New records of the Sokoke pipit Anthus sokokensis from Kiono Forest Reserve, Bagamoyo District, northeastern Tanzania

Journal Article
Burgess, N., Cutts, C., & Huxham, M. (1991)
New records of the Sokoke pipit Anthus sokokensis from Kiono Forest Reserve, Bagamoyo District, northeastern Tanzania. Scopus, 15, (56-57). ISSN 0250-4162
New records of the Sokoke pipit Anthus sokokensis from Kiono Forest Reserve, Bagamoyo District, northeastern Tanzania

No longer exempt from good practice: using exemplars to close the feedback gap for exams

Journal Article
Scoles, J., Huxham, M., & McArthur, J. (2013)
No longer exempt from good practice: using exemplars to close the feedback gap for exams. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 38(6), 631-645. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2012.674485
In this paper, we discuss the anomaly between the increasing interest in feedback in current education research, the continued role of time-limited, unseen examinations as a f...

Data from: The thin(ning) green line? Investigating changes in Kenya’s seagrass coverage

Dataset
Harcourt, W. D., Briers, R. A., & Huxham, M. (2018)
Data from: The thin(ning) green line? Investigating changes in Kenya’s seagrass coverage. [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n08qs2s
Knowledge of seagrass distribution is limited to a few well-studied sites and poor where resources are scant (e.g. Africa), hence global estimates of seagrass carbon storage a...

Stable isotope records from otoliths as tracers of fish migration in a mangrove system.

Journal Article
Huxham, M., Kimani, E., Newton, J., & Augley, J. J. (2007)
Stable isotope records from otoliths as tracers of fish migration in a mangrove system. Journal of Fish Biology, 70, (1554-1567). doi:10.1111/j.1095-8649.2007.01443.x. ISSN 0022-1112
The ratios of stable isotopes 18O:16O and 13C:12C were measured in otolith carbon taken from nine species of fishes caught within mangroves and on the reef at Gazi Bay, Kenya....

How does governance mediate links between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation? Results from a systematic mapping and thematic synthesis of literature

Journal Article
Nunan, F., Menton, M., McDermott, C. L., Huxham, M., & Schreckenberg, K. (2021)
How does governance mediate links between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation? Results from a systematic mapping and thematic synthesis of literature. World Development, 146, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105595
Many efforts to improve the sustainable management of renewable natural resources in low- and middle-income countries seek to achieve ‘win-win’ outcomes – improved ecosystem h...

Feedback Unbound: from master to usher.

Book
McArthur, J., & Huxham, M. (2012)
Feedback Unbound: from master to usher. In S. Merry, M. Price, D. Carless, & M. Taras (Eds.), Reconceptualising Feedback In Higher EducationRoutledge
A major theme of this book is that feedback should encourage dialogue; between students and lecturers, amongst peers and individually, as a form of self-critique and reflectio...
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SHELTERs: Sustainable Homes Enabling the Long Term Empowerment of Refugees

2020 - 2024
This project addresses this major moral, humanitarian, and knowledge gap by following on from a highly successful seed-funded project, which developed—through participatory design and interdisciplinar...
Funder: Royal Academy of Engineering | Value: £314,324

PUNGUZA HEWA KAA : PARTNERS IN CARBON

2017 - 2018
Gazi Bay in southern Kenya has the potential to become a world-leading centre of excellence in the integration of ecosystem science and community development. Work there, led by scientists from Kenya ...
Funder: British Council | Value: £90,234

Carbon Cycling in Mangroves

2008 - 2011
This research has two related aims, both focused on a better understanding of carbon cycling and greenhouse gas emissions in mangroves: 1) To examine how controlled cutting, which reproduces on a smal...
Funder: Natural Environment Research Council | Value: £32,835

CESEA - coastal ecosystem services in east Africa

2013 - 2017
The CESEA project is a collaboration between scientists and researchers in Tanzania, Kenya and the UK. By bringing together experts in ecololgy and development it will find new ways to help local peop...
Funder: Natural Environment Research Council | Value: £281,546

From local roots to global branches: making NDCs work at three different levels

2019 - 2021
Blue Carbon habitats - mangroves, seagrass meadows and salt marshes - are unusually important and beautiful ecosystems. Stopping and reversing their loss commands the enthusiastic support of economist...
Funder: Natural Environment Research Council | Value: £124,255

Swahili Seas

2010 - 2013
People living on the coast of East Africa are amongst the World's poorest. They rely heavily on local ecosystems for their livelihoods and security; for example mangrove forests provide them with fire...
Funder: Natural Environment Research Council | Value: £208,911

Governance for ecosystem services and poverty alleviation

2016 - 2017
This research will draw on the extensive research undertaken by ESPA projects in a range of ecosystem contexts through two main areas of work. The first, supply-driven phase of the research will provi...
Funder: Natural Environment Research Council | Value: £8,552

CAMARV: Capacity building for mangrove assessment

2009 - 2011
Mangroves are tropical and sub-tropical forests that grow in the inter-tidal zone. They are valuable for many reasons: they provide shelter for juvenile fish, they protect shorelines from erosion, the...
Funder: Natural Environment Research Council | Value: £61,693

The juvenile fish fauna of a Kenyan mangrove forest: exploring new tools to understand growth and condition.

2016 - 2019
The project will work with a new PhD student who is collecting regular samples of juvenile fish from the Vanga mangrove forest in southern Kenya. The work will focus on two areas: 1) Describing the me...
Funder: ENU Development Trust | Value: £8,300

Bundling seagrass carbon with mangroves

2023 - 2023
The high costs of measuring carbon stocks and increments in subtidal seagrass beds mean that fully accredited seagrass carbon projects, using current standards and protocols, are not usually financial...
Value: £10,325

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