By Nicola Brimblecombe, Mark Green and Danny Dorling Cover Photo: Five people sleeping rough outside the School of Geography and…
4 new features to the journals: explained
By Phil Emmerson, RGS-IBG Readers of the RGS-IBG journals may have noticed a couple of changes over the last few…
How will China power its global urban expansion?
By Joe Williams, Durham University, UK and Caitlin Robinson, Newcastle University, UK In June 2019, a tribunal in Kenya halted…
How you feel in the gym matters. It’s a matter of social justice.
We are bombarded with messages to ‘move more.’ Physical activity is good for us, we’re told. In the right doses, yes, meeting minimum levels of activity reduces our risk of chronic conditions like type 2 diabetes, some cancers, cardiovascular diseases, and depression, plus it helps with stress and our general quality of life.
It seems often forgotten, however, that ‘moving more’ usually means going somewhere. For many of us, that place is the gym. And gyms can be more, or less, inviting.
Comparing artificial lighting in rural UK and India.
By Robert Shaw (Newcastle University, UK) and Ankit Kumar (Eindhoven University of Technology, NL) Public lighting is widely understood as…
Integrating Cultural and Natural Heritage for Sustainable Urban Development
by Creighton Connolly, University of Lincoln Heritage is increasingly recognised as central to planetary wellbeing and sustainability initiatives. For instance,…
What walking the city streets might tell us about spatial justice and democracy
By Elaine Stratford, University of Tasmania In cities around the world, on any day or night, billions of us walk…
The geographies of Political Parties
by Sam Halvorsen, Queen Mary University, London Political parties matter. We do not have to look far to see that…
Global Encounters: Voluntourism in Fiji
By Sharon McLennan, Massey University/Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Voluntourism, the phenomenon that combines international volunteering with the more traditional tourist…
Rethinking geopolitical events: to understand Britain’s Iraq war, turn to art
By Alan Ingram, University College London In March 2018, a remarkable object – a winged bull deity made from brightly-coloured…
Energy Revolution in Cuba
By Gustav Cederlöf, King’s College London In March 2019, Prince Charles was front page news in Cuba. The royal visit…
Archives in Context? Reflections on Changing Forms of Fieldwork
By Timur Hammond, Syracuse University, USA ‘Decontextualization’ – the capacity for statements and objects to be removed from the contexts…
A Crisis in Cambodian Microfinance
By W. Nathan Green, University of Wisconsin-Madison Cambodia is in the midst of an over-indebtedness crisis. The culprit? Microfinance. In…
Planned relocation in low-lying coastal villages in Fiji
By Celia McMichael, The University of Melbourne, and Teresia Powell, University of the South Pacific The global mean sea level…
Energy inequities in social housing: negotiating the ‘new normal’
By Gordon Waitt and Theresa Harada, University of Wollongong Australia Australians no longer access affordable domestic energy supplies. Indeed, energy…
US military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries – shrinking this war machine is a must
By Benjamin Neimark, Lancaster University; Oliver Belcher, Durham University, and Patrick Bigger, Lancaster University The US military’s carbon bootprint is…
On what basis are urban futures being decided?
By Martin Price and Hanna Ruszczyk, Durham University There is little doubt that the world is urbanizing at a dramatic…
When things do wrong: instruments, failure and geographical knowledge
By Charles W.J. Withers, The University of Edinburgh Instruments are vital in geographical exploration. But because they do not always…
How do we explain and evaluate institutional reforms in China?
By Kean Fan Lim, Newcastle University China is currently engaged in an escalating ‘trade war’ with the USA. That it…
How do young people experience the outdoors, and why does it matter?
By Jo Hickman Dunne, Loughborough University Outdoor education is often considered to be a central tenant of a holistic and…
Let’s talk about sex
By Sam Miles, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine How do researchers go about interviewing people about sex and…
Reflections on “sublime encounters” with the media
By Amy Donovan, University of Cambridge, first published on Geo: Geography and Environment’s bloghttps://wordpress.com/post/blog.geographyandenvironment.com/635 In December 2018, I published a…
Why are English local authorities behaving like property companies?
By Brett Christophers, Uppsala University In March 2019, Harrogate Borough Council in North Yorkshire launched an independent, arms-length housing company…
Can lakes and rivers have rights?: Voters in Toledo, Ohio weigh in
By Eden Kinkaid, University of Arizona In a recently passed ballot initiative, voters in Toledo, Ohio granted legal rights to…
If Donald would meet Fatima
By Karen Culcasi, West Virginia University We live in a world today where 68.5 million people are forcibly displaced, which…
New home, new clothes: the old ones no longer fit once you move to the country
By Rachael Wallis, University of Southern Queensland. First Published in The Conversation. What happens if you decide to jump in,…
Flood Risk Management #10yearchallenge
By Thea Wingfield, University of Liverpool The first viral craze of 2019 had already taken hold as fireworks welcoming the…
Five countries hold 70% of world’s remaining wilderness; but does anyone there agree?
By Phillip and April Vannini, Royal Roads University A recent study conducted by researchers from the University of Queensland (UQ) and the Wildlife…
Historians rethink the Green Revolution
By Glenn Davis Stone, Washington University in St. Louis A memorable episode of The West Wing, the dramatic series about…
Should we promote commodity crops in forest frontiers?
By Sango Mahanty, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University Among aid agencies, agricultural value chain interventions are…
Are more and more of us restricting the freedoms of others in everyday life?
By Kathryn Cassidy, Northumbria University Increasingly immigration legislation has shifted the policing of the UK’s border away from the margins and into…
With a little help from my family: how do researchers negotiate the risks and problems of doing fieldwork
Menusha De Silva, Singapore Management University, and Kanchan Gandhi, New Delhi How can higher education institutions ensure the safety of…
