By Phillip and April Vannini, Royal Roads University A recent study conducted by researchers from the University of Queensland (UQ) and the Wildlife … More
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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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
Proximity to a freight railway has a negative impact on house prices: Quantifying the cost in Santa Marta, Colombia
By Jorge Chica-Olmo, Rafael Cano-Guervos, University of Granada, Spain, and Ivan Tamaris-Turizo, University of Magdalena, Colombia The city of Santa Marta, Colombia, located … More
DNA sequencing can help fight epidemics — but there are privacy risks
By Liam Shaw, University of Oxford and Nicola C. Sugden, University of Manchester* A portable DNA sequencer in action: UGA CAES/Extension/Flickr … More
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 … More
Should we be (re)connecting children with ‘nature’ and ‘natural’ resources?
By Peter Kraftl, University of Birmingham, UK The Guardian newspaper recently reported that the UK’s National Trust had been criticised … More
When do we move, and how far?
By Frances Darlington-Pollock (University of Liverpool), Nik Lomax, and Paul Norman (University of Leeds) Many of us will move house multiple … More
Scaling-up climate action: a geographer’s primer
By Stefan Bouzarovski, University of Manchester & Håvard Haarstad, University of Bergen ‘World gets climate change ultimatum’ declared the UK Independent’s front page … More
