By Kean Fan Lim, Newcastle University China is currently engaged in an escalating ‘trade war’ with the USA. That it … More
Tag: China
Exploring political-economic influences on official environmental reports
By Yonten Nyima, Sichuan University, China Not long ago, China’s state media, Xinhua News Agency, reported that grassland cover in … More
Mobilising affinity ties for humanitarianism at the war-torn China-Myanmar border
By Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho, National University of Singapore A few days after Christmas 2016, a social media post caught my eye. It … More
Can new remote sensing technologies improve diplomacy in shared river catchments?
By Joseph J. Bailey, University of Nottingham, UK. Rivers are the arteries of the world, carrying life-giving water to the … More
New in Area – Issue 2 Editors’ spotlights, & the 2014 Area Prize recipient announced
By Fiona Nash, Managing Editor RGS-IBG Issue 2 of Area is now available on-line; the Editors’ highlights include: A special section … More
Moving towards a living wage in the UK
By Izabela Delabre, University of Reading On 18th October 2014, thousands of people took to the streets of London for … More
Better Growth, Better Climate?
By Izabela Delabre, University of Reading On the eve of the UN Climate Summit in New York on 23 September, the … More
Frontiers as Dilemma
By Po-Yi Hung, National Taiwan University “From relative obscurity a few decades ago, tea from Yunnan, especially Pu’er, has become … More
From “overstocking” to “overgrazing”: more livestock as a symbol of wealth?
By Yonten Nyima Sichuan University, China In 2011 China, which claims to have the world’s second largest grassland area after Australia, launched its largest … More
Geographers’ Mobility in Academia
By Benjamin Sacks In a series of mid-1980s studies, Pierre Bourdieu explicated his ethnocentric conceptions of capital accumulation, conversion, and … More
