By Gordon Waitt and Theresa Harada, University of Wollongong Australia Australians no longer access affordable domestic energy supplies. Indeed, energy … More
Tag: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
When things do wrong: instruments, failure and geographical knowledge
By Charles W.J. Withers, The University of Edinburgh Instruments are vital in geographical exploration. But because they do not always … More
Why are English local authorities behaving like property companies?
By Brett Christophers, Uppsala University In March 2019, Harrogate Borough Council in North Yorkshire launched an independent, arms-length housing company … More
Can lakes and rivers have rights?: Voters in Toledo, Ohio weigh in
By Eden Kinkaid, University of Arizona In a recently passed ballot initiative, voters in Toledo, Ohio granted legal rights to … More
If Donald would meet Fatima
By Karen Culcasi, West Virginia University We live in a world today where 68.5 million people are forcibly displaced, which … 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
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
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
What do we want to save from extinction?
By Ben Garlick, York St John University The International Union for the Conservation of nature (IUCN) recently announced that nearly … More
