Robert Berry

Robert Berry
University of South Wales · Informatics

Geographical Information Systems

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October 2008 - present
University of Gloucestershire
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  • Research Associate

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Publications (50)
Technical Report
Maintenance options for traditional farm buildings under AES have remained highly popular and valued. As CS will be replaced by new Environmental Land Management schemes (E.L.M.) it is an appropriate point in time to undertake an assessment of them across both ES and CS, and the changes made to record both maintenance and wildlife potential in CS....
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This paper analyses the factors influencing public expenditure on the EU’s Risk Management Toolkit comparing six types of regional-level spatial autoregressive models, and finding that there is a predominance of socio-economic factors over risk and agro-ecological factors in the allocation of budget. Higher expenditure occurs in more affluent regio...
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This paper provides new insight into the evolution of geographical information science and systems (GIS) research via a computational analysis (in R) of 120,000 bibliographic records (from 1970 to 2022) downloaded from Scopus. We conduct an exploratory analysis of the data, then attempt to discover the thematic/topical structure of the GIS literatu...
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What exactly is resilience and how can it be enhanced? Farming systems in Europe are rapidly evolving while at the same time being under threat, as seen by the disappearance of dozens of farms every day. Farming systems must become more resilient in response to growing economic, environmental, institutional, and social challenges facing Europe's ag...
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Agriculture has a hugely important role to play in meeting many of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Ensuring the economic resilience of farms and improving their capacity to respond to a wide range of challenges is key if agriculture is to contribute positively to achieving SDGs and sustainable growth. This paper aims to calculate the...
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The Great South West partnership commissioned CCRI to identify the impacts of the Agricultural Transition on farmers and land managers in Devon, Somerset, Dorset and Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly (IoS), in order to assess the impacts and opportunities this might present to a wide range of stakeholders and policy makers. In England 85% of former Co...
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The challenges faced by agricultural systems call for an advance in risk management assessments. The paper proposes a comprehensive, participatory approach that accounts for multi-stakeholder perspectives relying on 11 focus groups hold in as many EU regions, for brainstorming and gathering suggestions to improve risk management. To this end, the c...
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The challenges faced by agricultural systems call for an advance in risk management (RM) assessments. This research identifies and discusses potential improvements to RM across 11 European Union (EU) farming systems (FS). The paper proposes a comprehensive, participatory approach that accounts for multi-stakeholder perspectives relying on 11 focus...
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This paper provides knowledge and recommendations for the “best practice” use of information, communication, and collaboration technologies for stakeholder engagement in UK-based planning and environmental decision-making. Tackling complex environmental issues requires inclusive and participatory decision-making processes, however current framework...
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Flooding and drought events, more frequent extreme weather, coastal erosion, wildfires, diseases affecting tree cover, changing land cover, challenges for habitats and species ranges are examples of how the landscape may change in the short or long term. Landscape changes may also be evident from mitigation measures, such as renewable energy genera...
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With the withdrawal of the UK from the European Union and increasing pressures from climate change, English arable farming resilience is in a fragile position. Most Brexit impact assessments have focused on quantitative analysis, however here we take a qualitative approach to assess how future trade agreements could impact the resilience of the UK...
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Background The changing climate of Wales is likely to have significant direct (e.g. changing land cover) and indirect (e.g. by influencing land use decisions) impacts on landscape character, quality and local distinctiveness. Flooding and drought events, more frequent extreme weather, coastal erosion, wildfires, diseases affecting tree cover and ch...
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This project is one of a series of pilot projects that seek to address the need for the heritage sector to better engage with the ecosystem services approach to assess the benefits that cultural heritage can provide to people’s health, wellbeing and prosperity. Understanding and capturing variability in the landscape context of historic linear feat...
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This project explores and tests how the cultural heritage values of buildings and structures can be incorporated into an ecosystem services framework, through considering them as both an integral part of their associated historic spaces and of their wider landscape settings. The project applies a methodology that identifies the ecosystem service ou...
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For improving sustainability and resilience of EU farming system, the current state needs to be assessed, before being able to move on to future scenarios. Assessing sustainability and resilience of farming systems is a multi-faceted research challenge in terms of the scientific domains and scales of integration (farm, household, farming system lev...
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This paper considers the development and evaluation of a Google Earth “virtual globe” tour for communicating spatial data and engaging stakeholders in the early stages of a natural flood management (NFM) planning scenario, using a rural UK river catchment that suffered significant flooding in 2007. With a range of diverse stakeholder interests to c...
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The changing climate of Wales is likely to have significant direct (e.g. changing land cover) and indirect (e.g. by influencing land use decisions) impacts on landscape character, quality and local distinctiveness. Flooding and drought events, more frequent extreme weather, coastal erosion, wildfires, diseases affecting tree cover and changing land...
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The School of Natural and Social Sciences (SNSS) and the Countryside and Communities Research Institute (CCRI) at the University of Gloucestershire were commissioned by the Environment Agency (EA) and the Isbourne Catchment Group (ICG) to undertake a Scoping Study of the River Isbourne to assess the feasibility and potential benefits of applying na...
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Learning is an important component for resilience building in farm systems, not least because resilience involves responding to a whole range of social, environmental, economic and political disturbances and changes. Farmers, therefore, need the ability to cope and adapt to these disturbances, or make radical realignments in response to major shock...
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Economic resilience is a concept used for farms facing shocks and their capacity to resist, adapt and achieve new equilibria enhancing their long term viability. Operationalizing the resilience concept is a difficult task due to its multidimensional and dynamic nature. Based on literature and risk management theory, this paper develops a composite...
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One approach to reducing flood risk that has received considerable interest is natural flood management (NFM), which aims to work with nature alongside other measures. Incorporating multiple NFM interventions over a wide area this is also thought to offer additional benefits for water quality and biodiversity. Using the River Isbourne catchment in...
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Flooding is a major and growing problem for communities in the UK •Community-centred approaches are increasingly common, with local residents keen to understand flood risk, mitigate against further flood events and become more resilient •But in order to do this they need to be well informed and understand the data presented to them. Research questi...
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of agricultural land diversity on the stability of farm performance. The planned approach will build on previous research in this area (Abson et al., 2013) by combining GIS-based spatial analysis and economic modelling to advance understanding of the relationship between the heterogeneity of agricu...
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Report for Department of Earth, Space and Environment and GIS Research Centre, University of Glamorgan. The aim of the report was to identify, through a review of the recent published literature, the main avenues for further research in the area of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for Hazard and Disaster Management (HADM).
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This chapter draws on an extensive literature review to provide an analysis of digital inclusion within minority community or group contexts with a specific focus on the take-up of digital technologies within communities of disabled people. First, it illustrates the complexity of digital inclusion and suggests that a community-based approach, whils...
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The Wales Institute of Socio-Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) is an interdisciplinary, cross-institutional academic research group based in Wales, UK. One of the key objectives of WISERD is to develop a spatial framework that enhances a researcher's ability to discover socio-economic research data relating to Wales with the aim of encou...
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There is an increasing interest in the use of IT-based tools to encourage public participation in environmental decision making. Typically, this has involved the development of (predominantly prototype) systems applied in workshop scenarios with those stakeholders with an immediate interest in the planning issue in hand. Increasingly, however, the...
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This project has aimed to gain an understanding of the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on changing cultures and patterns of connectivity within and between minority communities and the potential of multifaceted digital divides in constraining or shaping these forms of connectivity. It has used Wales as a test-bed and foc...
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Planning information pertaining to the potential visual impacts of proposed construction developments is particularly important in the case of wind farm planning, given the high levels of concern amongst members of the public regarding the perceived negative visual impacts of wind turbines on the landscape. Previous research has highlighted the sho...
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Effective information communication and public participation in the planning process are important elements for facilitating successful environmental decision-making. Previous research has demonstrated the importance of these factors for delivering benefits to a wide range of stakeholders in the planning system by increasing the transparency and ef...
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Effective information communication and public participation in the planning process are important elements for facilitating successful environmental decision-making. Previous research has demonstrated the importance of these factors for delivering benefits to a wide range of stakeholders in the planning system by increasing the transparency and ef...
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The Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) is a major new collaborative socio‐economic research programme involving five higher education institutions in Wales. This paper introduces the work of the WISERD data integration team and describes their plans for the development of an online geo‐portal. Their aim is to...
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In response to recent policy initiatives and UK and European legislation there is increasing focus on alternative methodologies and procedures to encourage public participation in environmental planning. This paper is concerned with outlining those methodologies that involve the use of IT methods in enabling a possible consensus to be reached betwe...

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