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‘As long as I keep moving, the air is a little cooler’: studying weather experiences and practices

Martin Mahony This week, parts of the UK have been basking in temperatures around 20 degrees Celsius  ‘At long last!’ many … More

behaviour, climate, methodology, practices, sustainability, Weather

Seeing glacial change: optical consistency through the camera and the archive

Martin Mahony Towards the end of last year I visited an exhibition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Museum entitled ‘Rivers … More

Atmosphere & Biosphere, Climatology, Earth Observation, Environment and Society, Global Issues, Hydrology and Water Resources

Genetically Modified Boundaries

Martin Mahony When prominent environmentalist Mark Lynas recently announced that he no longer opposes the genetic modification of agricultural crops, … More

agriculture, biotechnology, controversy, Environment and Society, environmental poltiics, GM, science

Vexed Natures: Geoengineering in the UK Media

By Martin Mahony Geoengineering – or “deliberate large-scale intervention in the Earth’s climate system, in order to moderate global warming” (as … More

Climatology, Environment and Society, Geoengineering, media

New Geographies of Animal Subjectivity

By Martin Mahony The identity, experiences and and behaviour of animals – in short, their subjectivity – has been a topic … More

Animal geographies, Cultural Geography, Environment and Society

Governing from Above: The Vertical Geopolitics of Climate Change

Martin Mahony Global geopolitics have conventionally been conceived of in terms of the horizontal actions and interactions of territorially-bounded nation … More

Climate change, Climatology, conflict, Environment and Society, Political Geography, Vertical geopolitics, water

Climate Change: A Little Further Round the Pragmatic Turn?

Martin Mahony A few weeks back I wrote a post on here which reflected on whether the outcomes of the … More

Climate politics, Climate pragmatism, Climatology, Environment and Society, Global Issues, Scale

Before the Flood: Modelling Hybridity at the Science-Policy Interface

Martin Mahony Yesterday the UK Met Office reported that 2012 was the country’s second wettest year on record. The announcement … More

climate, Climatology, Environment and Society, Flooding, Hydrology and Water Resources, Modelling, Participatory science, Weather

Doha: A Pragmatic Turn in Global Climate Politics?

Martin Mahony The conclusion of the recent United Nations (UN) climate change negotiations in Doha generated an interesting spread of … More

Climate politics, Climate pragmatism, Environment and Society, Global Issues, Political Geography

The Map Precedes the Territory

Martin Mahony Geographers and critical cartographers have long acknowledged that maps do not simply and unproblematically represent the territory depicted … More

Cartography, Global Issues, maps, Political Geography, Spatial politics, Territory

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