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Abbott, Dina and Wilson, Gordon (2015). The Lived Experience of Climate Change: Knowledge, Science and Public Action. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Johnson, Hazel and Wilson, Gordon (2009). Learning for Development. Development Matters. London: Zed Books.

Fawssett, Susan; Hanlin, Rebecca; Le Mare, Ann; Papaioannou, Theodoros and Wilson, Gordon eds. (2009). Introducing Development. Milton Keynes: Open University Worldwide.

Wilson, Gordon; Furniss, Pamela and Kimbowa, Richard eds. (2009). Environment, Development, and Sustainability: Perspectives and cases from around the world. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Robbins, Peter; Wield, David and Wilson, Gordon (2021). Engineering for Development. In: Allen, Tim and Thomas, Alan eds. Poverty and Development in the 21st Century Third Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 416–432.

Pérez Salgado, Francisca; Wilson, Gordon and van der Klink, Marcel (2014). Transforming academic knowledge and the concept of Lived Experience: Intervention Competence in an international e-learning programme. In: Azeiteiro, Ulisses Miranda; Leal Filho, Walter and Caeiro, Sandra eds. E-Learning and Education for Sustainability. Environmental Education, Communication and Sustainability (35). Frankfurt am Main: Springer, pp. 59–70.

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Wilson, Gordon (2009). Making the connections between environment, development, and sustainability. In: Wilson, Gordon; Furniss, Pamela and Kimbowa, Richard eds. Environment, Development, and Sustainability: Perspectives and cases from around the world. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 3–12.

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Wilson, Gordon (2009). Conclusion. In: Wilson, Gordon; Furniss, Pamela and Kimbowa, Richard eds. Environment, Development, and Sustainability: Perspectives and cases from around the world. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 274–280.

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Wilson, Gordon (2002). Technology, knowledge and development. In: Desai, Vandana and Potter, Robert eds. The Companion to development studies. London, UK: Arnold, pp. 219–223.

Robbins, Peter; Wield, David; Wilson, Gordon; Watkins, Andrew and MacPhail, Peter (2020). Global (best) together with (or against) local networks and practices? Liquid engineering and the uses programme. Journal of International Development, 32(1) pp. 118–28.

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Robbins, Peter; Wield, David and Wilson, Gordon (2020). Exploring the Global and the Local in Engineering and International Development: towards a liquid engineering approach. Journal of International Development, 32(1) pp. 5–10.

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Robbins, Peter; Wield, David and Wilson, Gordon (2020). Engineering for Development as Borderland Activity. Engineering Studies, 12(1) pp. 58–78.

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Perez Salgado, Francisca; Abbott, Dina and Wilson, Gordon (2018). Dimensions of professional competences for interventions towards sustainability. Sustainability Science, 13(1) pp. 163–177.

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Robbins, Peter T.; Wield, David and Wilson, Gordon (2017). Mapping Engineering & Development Research Excellence in the UK: An Analysis of REF2014 Impact Case Studies. Journal of International Development, 29(1) pp. 89–105.

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Robbins, Peter; Watkins, Andrew; Wield, David and Wilson, Gordon (2017). Development Engineering Meets Development Studies. Third World Quarterly, 38(10) pp. 2187–2207.

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Abbott, Dina and Wilson, Gordon (2014). Climate change: lived experience, policy and public action. International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 6(1) pp. 5–18.

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Wilson, Gordon (2012). The lived experience of climate change: expanding the knowledge base through collaborative Master's curriculum in the European Union. International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development, 6(1) pp. 43–52.

Abbott, Dina and Wilson, Gordon (2012). The lived experience of climate change: complementing the natural and social Sciences for knowledge, policy and action. The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses, 3(4) pp. 99–114.

Wilson, Gordon; Abbott, Dina; de Kraker, Joop; Salgado Pérez, Paquita; Terwisscha van Scheltinga, Catharien and Willems, Patrick (2011). ‘The lived experience of climate change’: creating open educational resources and virtual mobility for an innovative, integrative and competence-based track at Masters level. International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning,, 3(2) pp. 111–123.

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Johnson, Hazel and Wilson, Gordon (2009). Learning and mutuality in municipal partnerships and beyond: a focus on northern partners. Habitat International, 33(2) pp. 210–217.

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Wilson, Gordon (2009). The world has problems while universities have disciplines: Universities meeting the challenge of environment through interdisciplinary partnerships. Journal of the World Universities Forum, 2(2) pp. 57–62.

Wilson, Gordon (2008). Our knowledge ourselves: Engineers (re)thinking technology in development. Journal of International Development, 20(6) pp. 739–750.

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Wilson, Gordon (2007). Knowledge, innovation and re-inventing technical assistance for development. Progress in Development Studies, 7(3) pp. 183–199.

Wilson, Gordon and Johnson, Hazel (2007). Knowledge, learning and practice in North-South practitioner-to-practitioner municipal partnerships. Local Government Studies, 33(2) pp. 253–269.

Wilson, Gordon (2007). Beyond the Dichotomies in Technology for Development. Geography Compass, 1(2) pp. 119–135.

Abbott, Dina; Brown, Suzanne and Wilson, Gordon (2006). Development management as reflective practice. Journal of International Development, 19(2) pp. 187–203.

Chipika, Stephen and Wilson, Gordon (2006). Enabling technological learning among light engineering SMEs in Zimbabwe through networking. Technovation, 26(8) pp. 969–979.

Wilson, Gordon (2006). Beyond the technocrat? The professional expert in development practice. Development and Change, 37(3) pp. 501–523.

Johnson, Hazel and Wilson, Gordon (2006). North-South/South-North partnerships: closing the 'mutuality gap'. Public Administration and Development, 26(1) pp. 71–80.

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Johnson, Hazel and Wilson, Gordon (2006). Connecting people and places: spaces for thinking, learning, knowledge and action. Journal of International Development, 18(6) pp. 747–755.

Mohan, Giles and Wilson, Gordon (2005). The Antagonistic relevance of development studies. Progress in Development Studies, 5(4) pp. 261–278.

Johnson, Hazel and Wilson, Gordon (2000). Biting the bullet: civil society, social learning and the transformation of local governance. World Development, 28(11) pp. 1891–1906.

Johnson, Hazel and Wilson, Gordon (2000). Institutional sustainability: community and waste management in Zimbabwe. Futures, 32(3) pp. 301–316.

Johnson, Hazel and Wilson, Gordon (1999). Institutional sustainability as learning. Development in Practice, 9(1/2) pp. 43–55.

Johnson, Hazel; Pinder, Richard and Wilson, Gordon (2011). Beyond means and ends: learning, engagement and towards an emancipatory development management. In: EADI-DSA 2011 Conference (13th EADI General Conference): Rethinking Development in an Age of Scarcity and Uncertainty: New Values, Voices and Alliances for Increased Resilience, 19-22 Sep 2011, York, UK.

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Teixeira, António Moreira; Nicolau, Paula Bacelar; Caeiro, Sandra; Dams, Lieve; van Dorp, Kees Jan and Wilson, Gordon (2011). The lived experience of sustainable learning: the LECH-e OER Project bridging formal and non formal lifelong learners. In: EDEN Annual Conference: Learning and Sustainability: The New Ecosystem of Innovation and Knowledge, 19-22 Jun 2011, Dublin, Ireland.

Robbins, P.; Wield, D. and Wilson, G. eds. (2020). Journal of International Development 32 (1). Special issue and policy arena: The global and the local in engineering and international development. Wiley.

Johnson, Hazel and Wilson, Gordon (2000). Biting the Bullet: Civil Society, Social Learning and the Transformation of Local Governance. DPP Working Paper 44; Development Policy and Practice Research Group, Faculty of Technology, The Open University.

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Johnson, Hazel and Wilson, Gordon (1998). Performance, learning and sustaining: reflections on development management for sustainable development. DPP Working Paper 39; Development Policy and Practice Research Group, Faculty of Technology, The Open University.

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Wilson, Gordon (1995). From Day-to-Day Coping to Strategic Management: Developing Technological Capability Among Small-Scale Enterprises in Zimbabwe. DPP Working Paper 33; Development Policy and Practice Research Group, Faculty of Technology, The Open University.

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Wilson, Gordon (1993). Technological capability in small-scale development projects supported by UK-based NGOs. DPP Working Paper 25; Development Policy and Practice Research Group, Faculty of Technology, The Open University.

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