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Dr Anna Lawrence
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Cultural & Historical Geographer | Managing Editor @RGS-IBG (views own) | critical plant studies | 19th C. floriculture
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Dr Anna Lawrence @annamlawrence.bsky.social · Oct 5
A very characterful medlar tree
Photo of a medlar tree with wriggly old branches against a blue sky Photo of brown medlar fruit clustered on the tree against a blue sky
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New Special Section in Area:

'Gentle Geographies' edited by @mattmattfinn.bsky.social & @drjeffers.bsky.social

This collection features five papers and an editorial introduction which reflect on ideas of 'gentleness' in research and practice.

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November 11, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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New in Geo:

'Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality' by Farhana Sultana

This paper critically examines the intersections of power, pedagogy and praxis in producing inequitable climate knowledge, global governance, policies and solutions.

doi.org/10.1002/geo2...
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Farhana Sultana (2025) entitled: 'Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality' with an orange banner at the top. Climate change intensifies existing inequities, disproportionately impacting marginalised populations, particularly in the Global South and Indigenous communities. This is maintained through inequitable global climate governance, policies and solutions. The paper argues that climate coloniality, the complex entanglements of colonial legacies with contemporary climate and ecological changes, operates through systemic knowledge-based marginalisation or epistemic injustice, serving as a key mechanism in the uneven production and distribution of climate harms. Beyond the more commonly discussed material dimensions of loss and damage, epistemic injustices arise from silencing critical voices and devaluing knowledge systems. The paper extends the scope of loss and damage debates by drawing attention to epistemic losses: the erasure of worldviews, ontologies and practices that are vital for just and sustainable climate futures. It critically examines the intersections of power, pedagogy and praxis in (re)producing epistemic injustices, while simultaneously revealing counter-narratives of refusal, resurgence and relationality. By engaging Indigenous and Global South scholarship, the paper underscores the need to decolonise knowledge systems that reproduce dominant climate narratives and heed the epistemological alternatives offered by land- and kinship-based knowledge systems. Advancing climate justice depends on confronting epistemic injustice as both a form of loss and a condition of possibility: centring Global South and Indigenous perspectives is essential for cultivating pluriversal, decolonial and just climate frameworks and futures.
October 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Sultana draws on documentary video content from the 'Voices from the Global South' project, produced by the Open University, @rgsibg.bsky.social & @igu-ugi.bsky.social, to illustrate the arguments in her paper.

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Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality
The material dimensions of loss and damage from climate change are compounded by systemic knowledge-based loss and epistemic injustice from the marginalisation and exclusion of critical voices and kn...
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October 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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areajournal.bsky.social
New Special Section in Area:

'Digging into Data' adds to our 'Thinking with Methods' collection, with 6 papers reflecting on the messy process of qualitative empirical analysis.

Edited by @citiesandstuff.bsky.social & Lauren Wagner - available here⬇️

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A black tile publicising the new 'Digging into Data: Learning together from analysis experiences' Special Section in Area. There is a quote from Lauren Wagner & Alan Latham's (2025) introduction in the centre. It reads: "We need to open up the process of doing analysis so that it does not feel like a process of simply following an established procedure, turning the handle, and magically getting a good finished research paper or dissertation". A second black tile publicising the 'Digging into Data: Learning together from analysis experiences' Special Section in Area. Listed contributors include: Lauren Wagner, Alan Latham, Jennie Middleton, Marta Bivand Erdal, Andrew Barnfield, Geoff Bates, Amanda Rogers, Jennie Doyle & Katja Garson.
October 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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🌋New in Geo🌋

'Safewashing in the conspicuous commodification of the hazardous aesthetic' by Geoff Main & Janet Speake

This paper introduces the concept of 'safewashing' as a lens through which to investigate urban property development in unsafe, hazard-prone locations.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Geoff Main & Janet Speake (2025) entitled: 'Safewashing in the conspicuous commodification of the hazardous aesthetic' with an orange banner at the top. In this paper, we introduce the concept of safewashing within the context of the hazardous aesthetic and the attractive view as a new lens through which to research issues relating to widespread, continuing urban property development in unsafe, hazard-prone locations. Recognising that many aesthetically attractive views can be simultaneously hazardous, we suggest that in the process of property development and marketing, unsafe locations may be masked through ‘washing out’ (i.e. overlooking or covering up) actual and/or potential risk in favour of driving urban growth, capital investment and profit. Underpinned by the concept of aesthetic common sense, we explore the commodification of the aesthetically appealing view and the safewashing of the reality of hazard and potential disaster. Questions are raised about how the practice of safewashing within the context of increasing human impacts and the financial costs of disasters may be challenged and addressed.
October 29, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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That’s us!
With @mariegibertflutre.bsky.social @marineduc.bsky.social @rlg.bsky.social and others !

Viva multilingual geographies viva!
tibg.bsky.social TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 14d
New in TIBG:

'Worlding geographies: A question of languages' by Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary et al.

This intervention responds to the 'Geography in the World' series, shifting focus to the process of worlding geographies & practices of multilingualism in the academy.

doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geo
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary, Cheikh Abdoul Ahad Mbacké Ba, Sophie Buhnik, Marine Duc, Juliet J. Fall, Marie Gibert-Flutre, Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch, Renaud Le Goix, Laura Péaud & Charlotte Ruggeri entitled: 'Worlding geographies: A question of languages' with a red banner at the top.
October 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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New in TIBG:

'Worlding geographies: A question of languages' by Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary et al.

This intervention responds to the 'Geography in the World' series, shifting focus to the process of worlding geographies & practices of multilingualism in the academy.

doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geo
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary, Cheikh Abdoul Ahad Mbacké Ba, Sophie Buhnik, Marine Duc, Juliet J. Fall, Marie Gibert-Flutre, Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch, Renaud Le Goix, Laura Péaud & Charlotte Ruggeri entitled: 'Worlding geographies: A question of languages' with a red banner at the top.
October 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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geoopenaccess.bsky.social
☁️New in Geo!☁️

'Glocalisation of environmental challenges: The impact of the war in Ukraine on smog and heating practices in Polish local communities' by Piotr Żuk & Paweł Żuk

doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Piotr Żuk & Paweł Żuk (2025) entitled 'Glocalisation of environmental challenges: The impact of the war in Ukraine on smog and heating practices in Polish local communities' with an orange banner at the top. This article analyses the impact of the war in Ukraine on air quality and heating practices in Polish cities. In this case, it does not focus on the direct impact of military activities, but on various social and political decisions, as well as changes in social behaviour undertaken under the influence of the energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine. The authors defend the thesis that it is worth analysing air quality and heating practices in local communities not only in the context of local and national policies but also by referring to global and transnational factors. Based on focus group interviews with the residents of Wrocław, they prove that global events may have an impact on local air quality and apartment heating methods and be a catalyst for processes in various spheres of local and national public life: legal–political, economic, environmental–spatial, health and socio-practical. The article proposes a glocalisation perspective as an approach that can integrate local social and environmental conditions with global ecological challenges, while also highlighting the impact of global factors—economic, political, energy-related and military—on local trends, behaviours and policies in the context of environmental protection.
October 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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areajournal.bsky.social
New in Area!

'Making geography move: The Royal Geographical Society and the exchange of periodical knowledge, 1830–1900' by Benjamin Newman

This paper examines how the RGS's Library and Map Committee controlled the circulation of the Society's journal in the 19th century.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Benjamin Newman (2025) entitled: 'Making geography move: The Royal Geographical Society and the exchange of periodical knowledge, 1830–1900' with a black banner at the top. This paper explores the decisions of the Royal Geographical Society's (RGS) Library and Map Committee in conditioning and constraining the circulation of Britain's first geographical periodical publication. Principally drawing on the committee's minutes in the last half of the nineteenth century, the paper unpicks the unwritten rules that shaped the flow of geographical knowledge to other institutions. As well as documenting the extent and reach of the RGS's periodical, the minutes also reveal the places to which the journal did not travel and the reasons for limiting the movement of geographical ideas and information. Uncovering the journal's travels in this way makes several important contributions to the history of geography and the geographies of knowledge. First, it contributes to new understandings of the RGS and its actors in conditioning the circulation and accumulation of nineteenth-century geographical knowledge. Second, it draws attention to the specificity of the periodical as a printed medium and illustrates its value in understanding the circulation of geography. Third, it makes clear the intricate processes that facilitate or disrupt the flow of geographical knowledge that should demand attention in the context of our modern-day scholarly practice.
October 21, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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New series just dropped! Victorian/ 19th C Global Anglophone folks, please take a look.

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Elements in Victorian Literature, Science, and the Environment « Humanities# « Cambridge Core Blog
Many eco-scholars today have lamented our current tendency to soft denial. We acknowledge major environmental concerns such as climate change while continuing to go about our lives as if they don’t ex...
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October 17, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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New in The GJ:

'Comparative peripheries and decarbonising the uneven geographies of academia' by Todd Denham et al.

This commentary reflects on international conference travel, drawing on attendee experiences of the hybrid 2023 RGS-IBG Annual Conference.

doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky
Screenshot of a commentary abstract in The Geographical Journal by Todd Denham, Wangui Kimari, Pia Treichel & Rachel Walters (2025) entitled: 'Comparative peripheries and decarbonising the uneven geographies of academia' with a blue banner at the top. International travel is a key source of academic greenhouse gas emissions and, therefore, is a priority for the sector's decarbonisation efforts. However, legacies of colonisation and carbon-intensive development mean that the global geography of knowledge production and exchange is highly concentrated in Europe and North America, notwithstanding increased access through decarbonisation initiatives such as conference hubs. This commentary draws on attendee experiences of two remote conference hubs, held in Nairobi, Kenya and Melbourne, Australia, in parallel with the hybrid 2023 Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) (RGS-IBG) conference, for which the in-person event was held in London. The varied experiences of these Nairobi and Melbourne RGS hubs highlight the plurality of peripheries, and how one's location within a continuum of peripheralisation shapes how academics from these sites are engaged in and can respond to academic decarbonisation efforts. We argue that the reproduction of Europe and North America as the centres of knowledge necessitates increased cognisance of the potentially conflicted aims of inclusion and the decarbonisation of academia, especially on academic peripheries. Ultimately, our argument is not against the decarbonisation of academia, which we view as critical against climate breakdown, but, rather, for greater attention to the decentring of knowledge production and its methods of transfer in decarbonisation efforts.
October 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Winter Well is on air BBC Radio 4 this week.

An audio guide to thriving in winter, with advice from medics, artists, poets and future-gazers on simple but effective ways to bring light into your life during the darkest part of the year.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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October 13, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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RGS-IBG book series relaunch with LSE Press
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RGS-IBG Series | LSE Press
Descrition of the partnership between LSE Press and the Royal Geographical Society  (with the Institute of British Geographers)
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October 1, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Some great historical geography papers on @areajournal.bsky.social's early view pages - Ben Newman's paper 'Making geography move: The Royal Geographical Society and the exchange of periodical knowledge, 1830–1900' for one... rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... ... (1/2)
Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper examines how the Royal Geographical Society's (RGS's) Library and Map Committee disciplined the exchange of the first English-language geographical journal in the nineteenth century. The p...
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October 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
annamlawrence.bsky.social
A very characterful medlar tree
Photo of a medlar tree with wriggly old branches against a blue sky Photo of brown medlar fruit clustered on the tree against a blue sky
October 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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excited & terrified that the first formal piece of work from my PhD is coming into the world in a book chapter in May '26! it sits alongside some amazing pieces & brilliant minds, and I'm very lucky! take a goosey: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/social-infra...
Social Infrastructure in Neighbourhoods and Cities
Social Infrastructure in Neighbourhoods and Cities - Studying the Facilities That Sustain Community, Social Networks and Trust; From parks to pubs, social infrastructures are the everyday places that ...
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October 5, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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whitehorsepress.bsky.social
‘Plant Perspectives’ 2.2 is now available online – entirely #openaccess thanks to our #subscribetoopen supporters and our generous individual donors. #plantstudies @plantperspectives.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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My paper on SDG investment pipelines in Ghana is now in the latest @tibg.bsky.social issue, in great company with other excellent works!
tibg.bsky.social TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · Oct 1
📢New issue of TIBG📢

Transactions' September Issue features two interventions on environmental crisis & geographies of creativity, 21 papers, and two commentaries on the war in Ukraine.

22/25 pieces are #OpenAccess and available to read here⬇️

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A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are eight tiles with 2 interventions and 6 standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) 'On limit and love in times of environmental crises' by Ihnji Jon 2) 'Geographies of creativity/creative geographies' by Pat Noxolo 3) '‘My body was no longer a problem’: Electric mountain biking, disability, and the cultural politics of green exercise' by Jim Cherrington & James Brighton 4) '‘A wonderful day and a wonderful crossing!’: Internment (im)mobilities, ambivalence, and the residual tourist gaze in Second World War Britain' by Michael Holden & Peter Adey 5) '‘Smartness’ narratives: A critical discourse analysis of smart eldercare in urban China' by Yi Yu 6) 'Critique beyond relation: The stakes of working with the negative, the void and the abyss' by David Chandler & Jonathan Pugh 7) 'Poetics in the work of three urban photographers: Love for the chaotic city from the site of urban rooftops' by Paulina Nordstrom 8) 'Places as refrains: A non-constructive alternative to assemblage thinking' by Peter Merriman A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) Climate change, bodies and diplomacy: Performing watery futures in Tuvalu Liam Saddington 2) Digital animal deathscapes: The online circulation of animals killed for conservation Alexandra Palmer 3) The medium is the message: The geographies of cryptocurrency remittances to Venezuela Daniel Robins 4) ‘One school, two systems’: Navigating the geographies of alternative education in an elite primary school in China Zhenjie Yuan, Huiyu Xie, Hong Zhu 5) Translating India to India: Travelling translations, Patanjali Ayurveda, and the visual language of spiritual consumerism Raksha Pande, Alastair Bonnett 6) Urban political ecologies of sewage surveillance: Creating vital and valuable public health data from wastewater 7) Constructive (in)visibility and the trafficking industrial complex: Leveraging borders for exploitation Audrey Lumley-Sapanski, Katarina Schwarz 8) Translations, translocations, and pluralism: A transnational and multilingual analysis of the circulation of radical geographical knowledge Federico Ferretti 9) From biopower to affirmative biopolitics: A (bio)political ecology of becoming with wolves Valerio Donfrancesco, Chris Sandbrook A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are eight tiles with 6 standard articles and 2 commentaries, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) Mining an Anthropocene in Japan: On the making and work of geological imaginaries Deborah P. Dixon, Carina J. Fearnley, Mark Pendleton 2) Uneven ambient futures: Intersecting heat and housing trajectories in England and Wales Caitlin Robinson, Lenka Hasova, Lin Zhang 3) Examining the ‘gendered’ places and spaces of UK doctoral education using multilevel modelling Laura Harriet Sheppard, Jonathan Reades, Richard P. J. Freeman 4) The (non-)performance of the financial frontier: Building investment pipelines for the Sustainable Development Goals in Ghana Abbie Yunita 5) Thinking through an ethnography of infrastructure: Commonsensical reasoning, road sharing, and everyday infrastructural settlements Alan Latham, Russell Hitchings, Michael Nattrass 6) (Re)wilding London: Fabric, politics, and aesthetics Jonathon Turnbull, Tom Fry, Jamie Lorimer 7) Resilient education: The role of digital technology in supporting geographical education in Ukraine Simon M. Hutchinson, Elizabeth R. Hurrell, Kateryna Borysenko, Vladyslav Popov, Dariia Kholiavchuk, Yana Popiuk 8) Imagining post-war futures amid cycles of destruction and efforts of reconstruction Constance Carr, Olga Kryvets
October 3, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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lsepress.bsky.social
In Nonauthoritarian Authority @jbrigstocke.bsky.social introduces the idea of nonauthoritarian authority: a form of power that pluralises marginalised and hidden voices and recognises diverse agencies.

📚 Publishing #OpenAccess in Spring 2026.

🔗https://press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.31389/lsepress.noa
October 2, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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lsepress.bsky.social
In Climate Hegemony, @laurieparsons.bsky.social brings us a human’s-eye view of the climate crisis, drawing on two decades’ research at the frontline of global development in Cambodia.

📚 Publishing via #OpenAccess in Spring 2026.

Find out more: press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3...
October 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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📢 New on the LSE Press blog!

How can geography publishing reflect today’s diverse and complex world?

📍Five minutes with Margath Walker and @jakehodder.bsky.social on the @rgsibg.bsky.social monograph series publishing #OpenAccess later this year with LSE Press.

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August 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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If you want to find out about publishing #OpenAccess in the RGS-IBG Book Series, take a look at this recent interview with our Co-Editors, Margath Walker & @jakehodder.bsky.social ⬇️
lsepress.bsky.social LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social · Aug 26
📢 New on the LSE Press blog!

How can geography publishing reflect today’s diverse and complex world?

📍Five minutes with Margath Walker and @jakehodder.bsky.social on the @rgsibg.bsky.social monograph series publishing #OpenAccess later this year with LSE Press.

blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsepress/202...
October 2, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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lsepress.bsky.social
We're delighted to share two upcoming books from our RGS-IBG Book Series! These books will be publishing via #OpenAccess in Spring 2026.

Find out more: https://press.lse.ac.uk/rgs-ibg-series

@laurieparsons.bsky.social @jbrigstocke.bsky.social @annamlawrence.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social
Graphic promoting the book Non-Authoritarian Authority, with LSE Press logo, RGS logo and Open Access logo. Graphic promoting the book Climate Hegemony, with LSE Press logo, RGS logo and Open Access logo.
October 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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We are thrilled to be partnering with RGS-IBG on their book series and seeing the first @lsepress.bsky.social books publish next year.
annamlawrence.bsky.social Dr Anna Lawrence @annamlawrence.bsky.social · Sep 29
Pleased to share the first two RGS-IBG Book Series titles to be published fully open access with @lsepress.bsky.social, available early 2026...

@laurieparsons.bsky.social
@jbrigstocke.bsky.social

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A book cover for Julian Brigstocke's forthcoming book 'Non-Authoritarian Authority: Cities, Materially and the Aesthetics of Power' published by LSE Press and the RGS-IBG, with a black and white aerial photograph of a large crowd in the background. A book cover for Laurie Parson's forthcoming book 'Climate Hegemony: Confronting the Politics of Environmental Impasse' published by LSE Press and the RGS-IBG, with a black and white photograph of three people riding on a scooter above a body of water filled with litter.
October 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Very excited to announce a NEW BOOK coming at the start of next year, with the RGS-IBG book series/ @lsepress.bsky.social

𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐲: 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞

More info to come, but take a peek at the cover and overview here 👇

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September 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM