By Amy Donovan, University of Cambridge In December 2018, I published a paper in Geo: Geography and Environment, entitled “Sublime … More
Category: Debate
Site-specific modulators control human responses to their local environment
Analysis of human-induced land-use changes, resulting in land cover patterns and understanding of its drivers, is hardly a new field … More
Improving Learning and Applying GIS in Interdisciplinary Research
I guess I’m not alone in either struggling with GIS (Geographic Information System) technologies, or seeing colleagues struggle to effectively … More
Global environmental images: history, politics, culture
We are happy to announce the publication of a special issue on global environmental images in the Open Collections of … More
Remediating the inequalities of geographic knowledge production through ‘chromatographical’ visualizations
There has been significant academic coverage of the inequitable power dynamics of geographic knowledge production (c.f. Simonsen 2004; Ferenčuhová 2016). … More
The place of data papers: Producing data for geography and the geography of data production
Geo: Geography and Environment recently published two papers on data practices in the geography. It is an accident they were … More
Joining Up Divided Data: The TEMPEST Database
We were very pleased to launch TEMPEST – our database of historical weather events – at this year’s RGS-IBG Annual … More
Revisiting the effects of climate change on salamander body size: the role of natural history collections
Our recent paper, The relationship between climate and adult body size in redback salamanders (Plethodon cinereus), found that salamanders were larger … More
Multiple stressors and ecological surprises
The expanding global human population, now about 7.5 billion, is increasing the pressure that we as a species put on … More
Opening-up (to) the politics of Anthropocene science
A group of scientists working for the International Commission on Stratigraphy recently recommended that the start of the Anthropocene epoch, … More
