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Category: The Geographical Journal
Taiwan Tea: Ongoing Struggles over Food Nationalism
By Po-Yi Hung and Yu-Hsiu Lien, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Local tea in Taiwan – whether traditional high mountain oolong, … More
Who dies young in a rich city? Increasingly the homeless
By Nicola Brimblecombe, Mark Green and Danny Dorling Cover Photo: Five people sleeping rough outside the School of Geography and … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
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
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
