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Geo is a fully open access international journal publishing original articles from across the spectrum of geography and environment research.

Edited by @laurieparsons.bsky.social, @chrisdarvill.bsky.social, Le Yu & Karen Bickerstaff. .. more

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Jul 31

📢Since our relaunch 2 years ago, we have been working hard to create a space for geographical & interdisciplinary research on climate change, the environment & sustainability which doesn't fit neatly in sub-disciplinary journals

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Geo: Geography and Environment is a fully open access journal that publishes papers from across and beyond the discipline of geography that focus on the environment, climate change, and sustainability. It is published on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).

With a commitment to promoting interdisciplinary research and global perspectives, we welcome new, critical, and underrepresented ideas from leading scholars and emerging voices in pursuit of fresh viewpoints and solutions to the world’s most pressing environmental problems.

Journal Metrics:
CiteScore = 2.9
Journal Impact Factor = 3.8
Acceptance Rate = 43%
Submission to First Decision = 55 days

Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · 8d

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'Shaping interconnected geography in Central and Eastern European academia—Key research challenges for the future' by @utriculator.bsky.social et al.

This paper explores the entanglement of the natural & social sciences in Central & Eastern European geography

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Mariusz Lamentowicz, Grzegorz Micek, Mateusz C. Strzelecki & Tomasz Wites (2025) entitled: 'Shaping Interconnected Geography in Central and Eastern European Academia—Key Research Challenges for the Future' with an orange banner at the top.

Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · 11d

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'Desires for in situ adaptation versus out-migration? The impact of flooding and cyclones on polder communities in the Bangladesh delta' by Emily Stone et al.

This paper draws on in-depth interviews with residents of rural polder communities in Bangladesh.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Emily Stone, Rebecca Holloway, Brendan Moore, Michael Steckler & Robert Stojanov (2025) entitled: 'Desires for In Situ Adaptation Versus Out-Migration? The Impact of Flooding and Cyclones on Polder Communities in the Bangladesh Delta' with an orange banner at the top.

In Bangladesh's delta, rural communities have long held lives inseparable from seasonal flooding, adapting their homes and livelihoods to the annual monsoon. However, land subsidence, changing seasons, severe storms, increased salinity, and rising sea levels are threatening local livelihoods. The objective of this paper is to understand rural residents' perceptions of climate impacts and adaptation measures, focusing on their mobility choices. Through 15 qualitative, semi-structured interviews with 22 representatives from two embanked polder localities in southwest Bangladesh, we explored the following questions: (i) How do local residents perceive recent climate and environmental changes? (ii) How are local residents coping with these changes and what external assistance do they require to maintain their livelihoods; and (iii) How do local residents perceive migration or partial migration as a potential adaptation strategy? While these communities report an increased frequency of extreme climate events and severe flooding, our findings also reveal a lack of external assistance for adaptation solutions. Moreover, most families are either unwilling or unable to completely migrate out of affected areas. Therefore, increased support—the provision of fresh drinking water, money to recoup lost income and assistance rebuilding or reinforcing homes—is essential for building adaptive capacity and increasing local resilience in the face of climate shocks.

Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · 14d

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'Beyond nation-state climate governance: 𝘊𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘰-𝘛𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘰 and decolonial feminist pathways to justice' by Miriam Gay-Antaki

This paper explores COP and UNFCCC negotiations to critically interrogate human rights approaches to climate justice.

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Beyond Nation‐State Climate Governance: Cuerpo‐Territorio and Decolonial Feminist Pathways to Justice

Climate governance fails not despite nation-states' efforts at inclusion but because the nation-state form itself, in its dependence on the severance of body-territory cannot address how this severan...

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · 15d

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'Repoliticising the coast: A post-foundational commentary on integrative governance and blue infrastructure' by Luca Scheunpflug & Kira Gee

This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Blue Infrastructures: Mapping the visual while unpacking the unseen'.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Luca Scheunpflug & Kira Gee (2025) entitled: 'Repoliticising the Coast: A Post-Foundational Commentary on Integrative Governance and Blue Infrastructure' with an orange banner at the top.

Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · 16d

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'Place-based sustainability transformations for just futures: A systematic review' by Katie Keddie et al.

This paper presents a review of research on sustainability transformations, revealing significant variation in how justice & equity are addressed.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Katie Keddie, Sam Beaver, Elizabeth A. Law, Christopher D. Ives & Rachel S. Friedman (2025) entitled: 'Place-Based Sustainability Transformations for Just Futures: A Systematic Review' with an orange banner at the top.

The planet is facing enduring and intersecting challenges from climate change, land degradation, habitat and biodiversity loss, as well as social inequalities. To achieve sustainability in the face of these crises, transformative changes are essential. While the path towards a more sustainable future has the capacity to bring net social benefits, it also holds the potential to exacerbate vulnerabilities. As such, there is growing recognition that social equity and justice must be central to action for sustainability transformations. However, it remains unclear what characterises a ‘just transformation’ and how to achieve it. To develop a baseline understanding of how social justice is integrated into sustainability transformations and to help guide research and practice in this emerging field, we present a systematic literature review of 125 papers that explicitly account for social equity and justice in research on place-based transformations. Results reveal considerable variation and ambiguity in how the concepts of transformation and equity are employed, and highlight a focus on a narrow set of systems, with a large number of papers focusing on energy and urban transformations, located primarily in the Global North. While distributional and procedural dimensions of justice are frequently addressed, contextual and restorative justice remain underexplored. We identify key areas that require future attention in research and practice, including promoting interdisciplinary research that champions global inclusivity as well as a more explicit consideration of contextual justice and place.

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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgsibg.bsky.social · 21d

📣Work with us! The Society is seeking an Editorial Assistant to support the publication of its academic journals (part time, fixed term contract).

Application deadline: 11 December.

Find out more: https://ow.ly/8tZU50XCI4w

Editorial Assistant for RGS-IBG Journals | Job vacancy

An exciting opportunity to develop a greater understanding of the academic peer review and publishing process. Part time, six-month fixed term contract.

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · 22d

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'Mapping Africa's climate extremes: Delineation of thermal equator under current & future climate scenarios' by Tabaro Kabanda

This study presents a high-resolution mapping of the thermal equator's migration across Africa under a high-emissions climate scenario
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Mapping Africa's Climate Extremes: Delineation of Thermal Equator Under Current and Future Climate Scenarios

This study presents a high-resolution mapping of the thermal equator's migration across Africa under a high-emissions climate scenario (SSP3-7.0). Using CHELSA V2.1 and downscaled CMIP6 data, I ident...

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · 23d

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'The Amazonian common use territory: Pluriverse or insurgent universality?' by @jfraser.bsky.social et al.

This paper analyses Brazil's first Território de Uso Comum, drawing on Karen Ng's interpretation of Fanon's concept of concrete universal humanity.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by James A. Fraser, Mauricio Torres, Luke Parry, Wilde Itaborahy, Victoria Frausin, Natalia Guerrero & Josinaldo Aleixo (2025) entitled: 'The Amazonian Common Use Territory: Pluriverse or Insurgent Universality?' with an orange banner at the top.

Reposted by Le Yu, Margot C. Finn

Dr Anna Lawrence @annamlawrence.bsky.social · 25d

🚨 Job opportunity🚨

We are looking for an editorial assistant to work with me on the RGS journals (TIBG, The GJ, Area & Geo) as we move online systems.

🗓6 months fixed term
🕑0.4 FTE
📍Remote working option
❗️Closing date 11th Dec

Please share & apply! Happy to answer Qs.
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Editorial Assistant for RGS-IBG Journals | Job vacancy

An exciting opportunity to develop a greater understanding of the academic peer review and publishing process. Part time, six-month fixed term contract.

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Reposted by Le Yu, Fabián Muniesa, John Hogan

Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 25d

Today is my first day in my new job at the Uni of Manchester, and I have a new article to share!

‘Operation Hurricane’: Narrating Climate Change as Imperial Mess.

This article is something a bit different, playing with format to explore why climate storytelling matters.

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ABSTRACT
How climate change is narrated matters. Every story that is told of climate change contains its own causes of the problem, its own solutions and its own vision of the future. This article juxtaposes two stories: the dominant story of climate change as represented by the IPCC and a counter-story of climate change as ‘imperial mess’. This language comes from Alice Te Punga Somerville and her book Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay About Captain Cook (2020). In this book, Te Punga Somerville writes about colonialism in Aotearoa and the Pacific as a story that can be told in endless different ways, with each story drawing out different elements. Number 223 of her project, ‘In Montebello Islands’, discusses the British nuclear weapons testing programme. The tests were called ‘Operation Hurricane’, and Te Punga Somerville writes that the whole imperial mess of the past five centuries could be called “Operation Hurricane”. This article takes this claim as a prompt, both methodologically and theoretically, in order to argue that climate change needs to be understood in a historically and geographically informed way, where the colonial history becomes the present, coloniality and resistance entwine and the ‘way out of the mess’ has to be found in a fight against the entirety of Operation Hurricane. The contribution of the article is twofold: First, this article contributes to literatures that understand climate change as a historical process of imperial violence, by directly addressing what this changes about an analysis of climate politics. Second, it contributes to critiques of the IPCC by showing how its approach depoliticises climate change through the way it narrates and communicates climate science as separate from historical and structural processes.

Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · 28d

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'Adapting to uncertainty: Knowing shifting sands and blue infrastructure in unpredictable seas' by @dennis228.bsky.social & Jonas Hein

This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: Blue Infrastructures: Mapping the visual while unpacking the unseen'.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Dennis Schüpf & Jonas Hein (2025) entitled: 'Adapting to Uncertainty: Knowing Shifting Sands and Blue Infrastructure in Unpredictable Seas' with an orange banner at the top.

Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · 29d

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'Cultivating scientific authority: A vegetal geography of Chinese rhododendrons at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh' by @mingcan-rong.bsky.social

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Mingcan Rong (2025) entitled: 'Cultivating Scientific Authority: A Vegetal Geography of Chinese Rhododendrons at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh' with an orange banner at the top.

This paper presents a vegetal geography of Chinese rhododendrons at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), examining the mechanisms through which RBGE's scientific authority is established in the field of Rhododendron research and conservation. Building on the geographical conceptualisation of relational plant agency, this paper extends it by illustrating that attending to the rhododendron–people–environment relationship sheds light on the ecological–political nature of the Rhododendron species at RBGE, the broader historical contexts that stimulate the accumulation, and the environmental conditions that encourage the maintenance. Drawing on interviews, observation and document analysis, I illustrate the contribution and labour of the underappreciated Chinese collectors in the historical botanical exploration, discuss rhododendron's ‘plantiness’ and examine RBGE's contemporary activities that aim to accumulate and sustain the ex situ rhododendrons both materially and epistemically. I argue that the scientific authority of RBGE has been shaped by the semi-colonial history of China after the First Opium War ending in 1842, the encounters between British botanists and local collectors, as well as RBGE's intentional accumulation and maintenance of rhododendrons and related knowledge, all of which are mediated by rhododendrons' agency and continue to influence today's conservation dynamics.

Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Nov 25

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A literature review on climate smart strategies: Localising climate action and advancing some possibilities for artificial intelligence in resilience building for small-scale farmers in Zimbabwe' by Siphephisiwe Dube & Sadhana Manik

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A Literature Review on Climate Smart Strategies: Localising Climate Action and Advancing Some Possibilities for Artificial Intelligence in Resilience Building for Small‐Scale Farmers in Zimbabwe

Small-scale farmers across the world face numerous challenges exacerbated by climate change which severely affects their farming activities. Similarly in Zimbabwe, small-scale farmers are struggling ...

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James A. Fraser🍉 @jfraser.bsky.social · Nov 24

The Amazonian Common Use Territory: Pluriverse or Insurgent Universality? doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

The Amazonian Common Use Territory: Pluriverse or Insurgent Universality?

This article analyses Brazil's first Território de Uso Comum (TUC) in the Amazon as an experiment in insurgent universality—a women-led, grassroots struggle advancing collective rights through shared...

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alanelliott.bsky.social @alanelliott.bsky.social · Nov 21

PhD work by @mingcan-rong.bsky.social on the colonial legacy of cultivating scientific authority through the lens of Rhododendron @thebotanics.bsky.social
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Cultivating Scientific Authority: A Vegetal Geography of Chinese Rhododendrons at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

The paper presents a vegetal geography of Chinese rhododendrons at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), examining the mechanisms through which RBGE's scientific authority is established in the ....

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Nov 19

🏝️New in Geo!🏝️

'Epistemic violence in global climate governance: The case of climate finance in Vanuatu' by @johannatunn.bsky.social

This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Political Ecologies of Islands: Environmental & Climate (In)Justices'.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Johanna Tunn (2025) entitled: 'Epistemic Violence in Global Climate Governance: The Case of Climate Finance in Vanuatu' with an orange banner at the top.

This paper explores mechanisms of epistemic violence enacted through the climate finance (access) industry in Vanuatu, shedding light on the colonial inflictions of multilateral green funds in global climate governance. While the climate crisis is a reality in Vanuatu, its access to direct climate finance remains constrained, as it is not an accredited entity to any of the major climate funds. This serves as a gateway for a growing climate finance (access) industry that has established itself across the Pacific and in Vanuatu. Using an action-theoretical perspective that centres acts of doing epistemic violence, this paper identifies four mechanisms of epistemic violence enacted through Vanuatu's climate finance (access) industry: distortion via the mistranslation of realities; imposition via rendering people and regions investable; devaluation via rendering people incapable and exploitation through the extraction of knowledges and exhaustion of resources. Rather than improving access and equity for frontline communities, this paper elaborates that epistemic violence remains the modus operandi of Vanuatu's climate finance (access) industry—and is thus complicit in the perpetration of physical violence in the form of losses and damages, ecocide and epistemicide. Dismantling this system would at least require the islanding of climate finance, emphasising local agency and self-determination over externally imposed, extractive models.

Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Nov 18

🏝️New in Geo!🏝️

'"Operation Hurricane": Narrating climate change as imperial mess' by Charlotte Weatherill

This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Political Ecologies of Islands: Environmental & Climate (In)Justices'.

doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Charlotte Kate Weatherill (2025) entitled: '‘Operation Hurricane’: Narrating Climate Change as Imperial Mess' with an orange banner at the top.

Reposted by Le Yu

Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · Nov 14

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

Important new paper from Farhana Sultana

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Reposted by Le Yu, John Hogan

Naima Kraushaar-Friesen @naimakf.bsky.social · Nov 10

New publication on hydrogen imaginaries in the Geographies of Energy Futures theme of @geoopenaccess.bsky.social with @Gavin Bridge and @eoraborealis.bsky.social as part of the Carbonscapes project.

#hydrogen #sociotechnicalimaginaries #STS #energytransition #energyfutures #UKenergypolicy

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Between energy transition and industrial revival: Exploring hydrogen imaginaries in the United Kingdom and Teesside

Hydrogen is increasingly positioned as a key enabler of global net-zero transitions, hailed for its versatility and low-carbon emissions potential. Yet hydrogen's nascent future is contested, with di...

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Nov 7

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'Electronic waste and environmental sustainability in Ghana: Aligning national policies with the sustainable development goals' by Richard Kwame Adom & Mulala Danny Simatele

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Richard Kwame Adom & Mulala Danny Simatele (2025) entitled: 'Electronic waste and environmental sustainability in Ghana: Aligning national policies with the sustainable development goals' with an orange banner at the top.

Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Nov 5

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'Between energy transition and industrial revival: Exploring hydrogen imaginaries in the United Kingdom and Teesside' by @naimakf.bsky.social et al.

This paper uses the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries to explore hydrogen as a potential enabler of net-zero
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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Naima Kraushaar-Friesen, Gavin Bridge & Magdalena Kuchler (2025) entitled: 'Between energy transition and industrial revival: Exploring hydrogen imaginaries in the United Kingdom and Teesside' with an orange banner at the top.

Reposted by Philip Bell

Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Oct 31

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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Reposted by Philip Bell

Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Oct 31

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'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.

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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.

Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Oct 29

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'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.

Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Oct 24

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'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

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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.

Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Sep 30

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'From maps to models: Participation and contestability in the dynamic management of natural resources' by @calebscoville.bsky.social et al.

This paper compares how participation is conceived in static vs dynamic ocean management.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo by Caleb Scoville, Razvan Amironesei, Lily Xu, Melissa Chapman, Nicholas R. Record & Carl Boettiger entitled: 'From maps to models: Participation and contestability in the dynamic management of natural resources' with an orange banner at the top.

Reposted by Le Yu

Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · Sep 27

New article out in Geo: Geography and Environment with an interdisciplinary dream team of coauthors: “From maps to models: Participation and contestability in the dynamic management of natural resources.”
doi.org/10.1002/geo2... (open access)

How does stakeholder participation in natural resource management change when conservation rules are grounded in near real-time data? Recent technological advances have increased the feasibility of the ‘dynamic management’ of natural resources, which promises to align the spatiotemporal scales of management with ecological variability and resource use. Drawing on Kelty's (2020) concept of ‘contributory autonomy’, this article offers a critical comparison of how participation is conceived of in the more established context of static conservation areas and planning versus the emergent field of dynamic management. A systematic review of the dynamic ocean management literature reveals a varied, but shallow engagement with the topic of stakeholder participation in that context. Whereas static management regimes are governed by relatively intuitive and contestable maps, dynamic management is governed by models and data flows. Overall, the decision-making stakeholder of participatory mapping processes under static management is displaced by the stakeholder conceived as an ‘end-user’ of a dynamic management product and consultant in its design. Yet, these shifts also open up potential points of contestation, which may pattern the future theory and practice of participation in dynamic management: counterdata, countermodelling and data chokepoints. Beyond the empirical focus on oceans, this article contributes to broader conversations about the political stakes of environmental data, and algorithmic and artificial intelligence-driven natural resource conservation by considering how possibilities for participation are foreclosed, enabled and reconstituted by new spatiotemporal and technological conditions.

Reposted by Le Yu

Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · Sep 23

If you are still looking for that reading at the intersection of environment, health, extraction and disposession (with a dash of the digital)...

Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Jun 13

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'Minecraft's territory: Alberta's oil sands, settler knowledge infrastructure & digital geographies' by @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social

This paper traces how the data used for a Minecraft extension are tied to broader extractive networks of knowledge production.

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A photograph showing the 3D print of the Minecraft model of Peace River - a cross section of the geological formation of this site in different shades of grey and white to show the layers beneath the surface of the earth.

Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Sep 23

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'Between dunes and estuary: Forecasting mangrove forest change on primate culture and isolated livelihoods in Maranhão, Brazil' by Andrea Presotto et al.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Andrea Presotto, Stuart E. Hamilton, Gustavo A. Castellanos-Galindo, Ricardo R. Santos & Roberta Salmi (2025) entitled: 'Between dunes and estuary: Forecasting mangrove forest change on primate culture and isolated livelihoods in Maranhão, Brazil' with an orange banner at the top.

Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Sep 19

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'Urban oases and spatial injustices: Community gardens in the Cape Flats through a Lefebvrian lens' by Tinashe P. Kanosvamhira

This paper explores how gardeners in Cape Town, South Africa, transform neglected land as and everyday act of urban spatial justice.

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