Geography is a uniquely international discipline. It is concerned with describing and explaining the world in all its infinite variety. … More
Category: Debate
Drawing, remembering, knowing: natural history and the ecological imagination
By Meredith Root-Bernstein (Aarhus University) Geo: Geography and Environment recently published my personal essay about how natural history practices have … More
Uneven geographies of openness and information
By Helen Pallett (University of East Anglia, UK) Open access to information and data appears to be a cause which has … More
Learning from guano: In search of a paleo-seabird proxy
By Jessica Conroy (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) Take a vacation to the Galápagos Islands and you’re bound to see … More
Being philosophical about crowdsourced geographic information
By Renée Sieber (McGill University, Canada) and Muki Haklay (University College London, UK) Our recent paper, The epistemology(s) of volunteered geographic information: … More
Mapping the “Tribes” of London
By Alex Singleton, University of Liverpool, UK Our paper, The internal structure of Greater London: a comparison of national and regional geodemographic … More
A response to Mike Hulme’s “Climate and its changes: a cultural appraisal”
By Werner Krauss, University of Hamburg, Germany A cultural appraisal of climate and its changes is more than only adding … More
Response to Leonelli et al (2015): Thinking About “Open” Science
By James Porter, University of Leeds, UK As a research community we’re being urged to “open” science up like never before. … More
Reflexion: Does the logic of the University sector allow space for Open Science? A response to Leonelli et al.
By George Adamson, King’s College London, UK How does a researcher gain legitimacy? Within the UK context legitimacy is increasingly informed … More
Co-producing openness
A couple of weeks ago I spent at a few days at the annual conference of the RGS-IBG, where nearly … More
