The latest from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) publications
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.
By Robert Shaw (Newcastle University, UK) and Ankit Kumar (Eindhoven University of Technology, NL) Public lighting is widely understood as…
by Creighton Connolly, University of Lincoln Heritage is increasingly recognised as central to planetary wellbeing and sustainability initiatives. For instance,…
By Elaine Stratford, University of Tasmania In cities around the world, on any day or night, billions of us walk…
by Sam Halvorsen, Queen Mary University, London Political parties matter. We do not have to look far to see that…
By Sharon McLennan, Massey University/Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Voluntourism, the phenomenon that combines international volunteering with the more traditional tourist…
By Alan Ingram, University College London In March 2018, a remarkable object – a winged bull deity made from brightly-coloured…
By Gustav Cederlöf, King’s College London In March 2019, Prince Charles was front page news in Cuba. The royal visit…
By Timur Hammond, Syracuse University, USA ‘Decontextualization’ – the capacity for statements and objects to be removed from the contexts…
By W. Nathan Green, University of Wisconsin-Madison Cambodia is in the midst of an over-indebtedness crisis. The culprit? Microfinance. In…
By Celia McMichael, The University of Melbourne, and Teresia Powell, University of the South Pacific The global mean sea level…
By Gordon Waitt and Theresa Harada, University of Wollongong Australia Australians no longer access affordable domestic energy supplies. Indeed, energy…
By Benjamin Neimark, Lancaster University; Oliver Belcher, Durham University, and Patrick Bigger, Lancaster University The US military’s carbon bootprint is…
By Martin Price and Hanna Ruszczyk, Durham University There is little doubt that the world is urbanizing at a dramatic…
By Charles W.J. Withers, The University of Edinburgh Instruments are vital in geographical exploration. But because they do not always…
By Kean Fan Lim, Newcastle University China is currently engaged in an escalating ‘trade war’ with the USA. That it…
By Jo Hickman Dunne, Loughborough University Outdoor education is often considered to be a central tenant of a holistic and…
By Sam Miles, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine How do researchers go about interviewing people about sex and…
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…
By Brett Christophers, Uppsala University In March 2019, Harrogate Borough Council in North Yorkshire launched an independent, arms-length housing company…
By Eden Kinkaid, University of Arizona In a recently passed ballot initiative, voters in Toledo, Ohio granted legal rights to…
By Karen Culcasi, West Virginia University We live in a world today where 68.5 million people are forcibly displaced, which…
By Rachael Wallis, University of Southern Queensland. First Published in The Conversation. What happens if you decide to jump in,…
By Thea Wingfield, University of Liverpool The first viral craze of 2019 had already taken hold as fireworks welcoming the…
By Phillip and April Vannini, Royal Roads University A recent study conducted by researchers from the University of Queensland (UQ) and the Wildlife…
By Glenn Davis Stone, Washington University in St. Louis A memorable episode of The West Wing, the dramatic series about…
By Sango Mahanty, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University Among aid agencies, agricultural value chain interventions are…
By Kathryn Cassidy, Northumbria University Increasingly immigration legislation has shifted the policing of the UK’s border away from the margins and into…
Menusha De Silva, Singapore Management University, and Kanchan Gandhi, New Delhi How can higher education institutions ensure the safety of…
By Tomas Frederiksen, Lecturer in International Development, Global Development Institute and Matthew Himley, Associate Professor of Geography (Illinois State University) The extractive…
