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Shining a light: digging into data means more than just coding

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic Publications December 12, 2025December 11, 2025
Climate Inequality Politics

Common use and collective freedom: Amazonian Forest Peoples reimagine the commons

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic Publications December 10, 2025December 11, 2025

Urban river livelihoods: why moving communities isn’t always the answer to floods

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic Publications December 2, 2025December 2, 2025

Reimagining rural policy through mission-led governance

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic Publications November 24, 2025November 21, 2025

States of Precarity: new Report and Best Practice Action Plans

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic Publications November 21, 2025November 21, 2025
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Secret Maps at the British Library reconsiders the lines that shape our world

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsNovember 19, 2025November 18, 2025
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Landscapes

When the dam broke: the 1925 disaster that reshaped a Welsh community and a country’s safety laws

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsNovember 18, 2025November 17, 2025
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Original Content

Empowering autistic learners in geosciences

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsOctober 30, 2025October 28, 2025
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Landscapes Original Content

Grief pilgrimage and social prescribing: geography of healing

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsOctober 29, 2025October 27, 2025
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Landscapes Original Content

What participatory geographers can contribute to studying urban renewal over the long term

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsOctober 27, 2025October 27, 2025
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Inequality Original Content

Understanding social and spatial patterns of overcrowding in England and Wales

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsOctober 9, 2025October 8, 2025
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Inequality

 Cape Town community gardens: growing justice

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsOctober 6, 2025October 3, 2025
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Original Content

Remapping youth mobility and Working Holiday Maker schemes: geographic lessons for UK-EU relations post-Brexit

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsSeptember 16, 2025September 15, 2025
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Inequality Landscapes

Oil, exclusion, and livelihoods in Ghana’s offshore fisheries

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsSeptember 5, 2025September 4, 2025
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Inequality Original Content

Good news stories about nutrition in the Global South exist – but our leaders must build upon them

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsSeptember 4, 2025September 4, 2025
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HE Geography Original Content

Studying Geography at university: how to succeed in the first year of your new degree

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsAugust 15, 2025November 21, 2025
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Translation: ‘Geografías de la esclavitud en Les Malouines/Las Malvinas/Falklands Islands: La conexión cimarrona/quilombola’ by Ana Zavala Guillen, TIBG

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsAugust 12, 2025August 11, 2025
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Inequality Original Content

Why do plantation enclaves (re) produce a geography of backwardness?

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJuly 31, 2025July 29, 2025
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Landscapes Original Content

Memories of forced displacement and mediating atmospheric bordering

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJuly 30, 2025July 29, 2025
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Inequality Landscapes Original Content

The “walk that changed Britain”? Revealing the echoes of the Mass Trespass

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJuly 14, 2025July 11, 2025
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Climate Original Content Politics

Wales’ climate action: lessons for a sustainable future

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJune 30, 2025June 25, 2025
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Culture Politics

Conspiracy theories in times of political turmoil

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJune 25, 2025June 20, 2025
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Climate Culture Original Content

Minecraft as Public Geoscience? Between new digital geographies and the data of dispossession

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJune 24, 2025June 19, 2025
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Climate Inequality Politics

Commons and care in the Anthropocene

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJune 23, 2025June 17, 2025
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Politics

UK looks to military gap years to boost recruitment in the face of growing geopolitical tension

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJune 18, 2025June 17, 2025
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Culture Inequality Politics

The myth of the white working-class Northern man

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJune 3, 2025June 2, 2025
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Landscapes Original Content

What counts as evidence? Evidence from the World Commission on Dams

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsMay 21, 2025May 14, 2025
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HE Geography Inequality Original Content

How to make field education in geography more anti-racist: seven key steps

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsMay 19, 2025November 21, 2025
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Landscapes Original Content

A call for interest for a network for independent geographers

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsMay 15, 2025May 14, 2025
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Landscapes Original Content

What does radical wildlife care look like?

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsApril 28, 2025May 19, 2025
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Original Content Politics

Liquid democracy: rethinking democracy through its fluidity

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsApril 9, 2025April 16, 2025
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Inequality Original Content Politics

Kelantan’s airport policy: geographical lessons for local development

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsApril 2, 2025April 1, 2025
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Inequality Original Content

Post-pandemic geographies of working from home: more of the same for spatial inequalities?

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsMarch 26, 2025March 26, 2025
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Climate HE Geography Landscapes Original Content

From plane to train: promoting low-carbon travel for geography field courses in UK higher education

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJanuary 30, 2025November 21, 2025
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Climate Inequality

The rise of firefighters-for-hire exposes the inequality of climate-driven disasters

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJanuary 28, 2025January 27, 2025
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Climate

LA fires show the human cost of climate-driven ‘whiplash’ between wet and dry extremes

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJanuary 16, 2025January 15, 2025
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HE Geography Inequality

Resources for change: raising awareness of the challenges of fixed term contracts in geography departments

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJanuary 13, 2025November 21, 2025
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Climate

Mangroves in the Maldives have been drowning as sea level rises – new study

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsNovember 27, 2024November 26, 2024
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Climate Culture Landscapes

Keir Starmer says the UK can decarbonise without disruption – that’s neither true nor helpful

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsNovember 25, 2024November 20, 2024
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Climate Landscapes

Scientific models trust the land to soak up lots of CO₂ – the reality is a lot more messy

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsNovember 21, 2024November 20, 2024
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Original Content

Changing author name and pronouns in academic publications: a user guide

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsNovember 18, 2024November 20, 2024
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Inequality Original Content

Improving the black student experience at universities

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsNovember 12, 2024November 12, 2024
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Inequality

Religious hate crimes in England and Wales are at a record high – but many still go unreported

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsOctober 23, 2024November 12, 2024
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Politics

Cambodia: journalist arrest signals false dawn for democracy as the country slides into authoritarianism

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsOctober 21, 2024November 12, 2024
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Climate

Five ways to improve the global voluntary carbon credit markets

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJuly 8, 2024October 17, 2024
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Climate

International development can tackle the climate and migration crises together

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJuly 3, 2024October 17, 2024
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Inequality Landscapes

UK cities need greener new builds – and more of them

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJuly 1, 2024October 17, 2024
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Climate Politics

Why India didn’t have the ‘climate election’ it needed, even amid a lethal heatwave

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJune 25, 2024October 17, 2024
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Climate Culture Landscapes

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga – blink and you’ll miss a solarpunk alternative to series’ usual dystopia

by RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJune 24, 2024October 17, 2024
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