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Leslie Mabon
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Senior Lecturer in Environmental Systems, Faculty of STEM, Open University, UK. Sustainability science for resilient and just coastal places. Scotland - Japan - Taiwan. Future Earth Coasts Fellow. Big Raith Rovers fan.

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Leslie Mabon @ljmabon.bsky.social · Jun 25
New paper on relationships and responsibility in Fukushima coastal fisheries, and treated water releases from the Daiichi nuclear plant. We share interviews from before and during releases with fishers, managers, sellers +more working on the Fukushima coast.

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ABSTRACT Treated water releases into the Pacific from the Fukushima Dai'ichi nuclear plant in Japan have drawn opposition from fishing communities, who accused proponents of acting irresponsibly in commencing releases before gaining local support. The controversy reflects questions in social licence to operate and social impact assessment about how proponents' responsibilities to host communities encompass knowledge production and fit with broader visions for a locality. Research into geographies of responsibility—how society takes care and enacts responsibility across space and place—helps think through what it means to take responsibility for host communities. Focusing on the Fukushima Dai'ichi treated water releases, we therefore aim to explore how relational responsibility becomes manifest in a complex and emotive environmental situation. Through interviews with people working in coastal Fukushima fisheries, we find that alongside economic motivations, a desire to ‘defend’ the Fukushima coast for future generations drives cooperatives to continue fishing and demonstrate safety and quality of Fukushima seafood. Those working in fisheries understand marine radioactivity cannot neatly be managed across scales, and that providing more and better scientific data is unlikely to bring others on-side if proponents are not seen as taking responsibility for the Fukushima coast. We argue that in a complex and emotive environmental situation like Fukushima Dai'ichi, multiple actors may hold responsibilities to place and people, and that intermediary organisations are important in enabling relational responsibility. However, proponents must be cognisant of power and resourcing differentials, and ensure those assuming responsibility for place receive financial and technical support.

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Leslie Mabon @ljmabon.bsky.social · 8d
It was, I believe. A bit yoghurt-y, but ok!

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Leslie Mabon @ljmabon.bsky.social · 8d
Since school bus discourse is going on: I remember one day everyone who travelled on a specific bus got pulled out of class and marched to the hall, because someone threw a yoghurt out the window from the top deck and it hit a horse, and they needed to find out who did it.
drdominicdean.bsky.social Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social · 8d
Since school bus discourse is going on: The highlight of my own school bus years was when my bus crashed into another bus of the same company on an otherwise empty road - neither driver wanted to make space for the other so they just did a massive side swipe. Good times!

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Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social · 8d
Since school bus discourse is going on: The highlight of my own school bus years was when my bus crashed into another bus of the same company on an otherwise empty road - neither driver wanted to make space for the other so they just did a massive side swipe. Good times!

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Leslie Mabon @ljmabon.bsky.social · 10d
It did not rain for the first time in nearly a fortnight today, so I took the day off at very short notice and cycled from Kilmartin to Tayvallich and back over the Crinan Canal. This turned out to be a very good idea.
A bicycle leaning against a signpost in front of a marina for yachts and small commercial boats. A canal channel, with some small buildings in the middleground in front of decidious woodland. A flat, calm harbour at sunrise, with yachts and small pleasure plus commercial vessels in the water. Sunrise over low-lying marshland.

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Leslie Mabon @ljmabon.bsky.social · 16d
Big shout out to whichever school or department on the OU campus was having the music round of their Christmas quiz with the window open as I walked past yesterday with my coffee - you eliminated me from #Whamageddon 😒 Other than that, you're all fantastic folk to work with! 🙂

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Leslie Mabon @ljmabon.bsky.social · 18d
New paper on temperate coastal forests, the values they bring to people, and how environmental management can support these forests in a changing climate. Enabled by @royalsociety.org International Exchanges grant w/@openuniversity.bsky.social + Klaipeda University.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Temperate coastal forests: contributions and evidence requirements for resilient coastal societies - Anthropocene Coasts
Temperate coastal forests can support the resilience of coastal societies by reducing climate-related impacts and supporting people’s wellbeing and connectivity. The ecological diversity within temper...
link.springer.com

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Leslie Mabon @ljmabon.bsky.social · 23d
I recently appeared on @footpolpodcast.bsky.social to discuss football, industry, place identity and a just transition - with a healthy dose of examples including Iwaki FC, Airdrie keeper John Martin, and the offshore wind supply chain permeating Raith Rovers:

www.buzzsprout.com/2253650/epis...
Fueling or burning the game? Football clubs, fans and energy companies ft. Leslie Mabon - The FootPol Podcast
In the latest FootPol Podcast episode, Leslie Mabon, senior lecturer in environmental systems at The Open University discusses how football’s deep ties to industry reveal a bigger story about climate ...
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Leslie Mabon @ljmabon.bsky.social · 24d
Science of the Total Environment delisted. Any time a story like this breaks, I have a great deal of sympathy for other authors who have published their research in the journal in good faith, and for the reviewers and editors who have done their job properly.

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The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing
One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 bill...
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Leslie Mabon @ljmabon.bsky.social · 24d
This is going to sound a bit salty, but - if you claim an author has not read widely enough, and then provide a list of 'key texts' written exclusively by white men at prestigious Western universities to make your point, then I would argue YOU have also not read widely enough.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 29d
And feat. on football, ideology, and politics: @liberopodcast.bsky.social w/ @jackpittbrooke.bsky.social, @brewin.bsky.social & @rorysmith.bsky.social; @migueldelaney.bsky.social for @the-independent.com; @footpolpodcast.bsky.social w/ @guyburton.net & @ljmabon.bsky.social...

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Leslie Mabon @ljmabon.bsky.social · Nov 25
I remember when stuff like this used to end the careers of people at all points along the political spectrum.

Sadly, the news cycle will move on, and within a week he'll be back grabbing airtime, pint and cigarette in hand, as if nothing ever happened.
pippacrerar.bsky.social Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · Nov 24
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”

Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school

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