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Increase data sharing or die? An initial view for natural catastrophe insurance Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2022-01-02 P.D. Timms,J.K. Hillier,C.P. Holland
ABSTRACT This article is an illustration of geography in action, recounting an investigation into an industry’s views of data sharing. The insurance sector is fundamentally analytics driven and based on geospatial data. One option for more effective and efficient insurance for natural hazard risks (e.g. flooding, earthquake) is, in theory, to increase the sharing of data between the various (re)insurance
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The state and voluntary sector in austere times: 10 years of National Citizen Service Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Sarah Mills,Catherine Waite
ABSTRACT In this article we examine the latest chapter in the relationship between the state and the voluntary sector in the UK. We present an analysis of the UK Government’s ‘National Citizen Service’ (NCS) scheme and map the landscape of youth services over the past decade. Drawing on interview data with delivery providers of the programme, and key government and policy actors, we explore the new
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Solving the housing market crisis in England and Wales: from New Towns to garden communities Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Stephen Essex,Olivia Wilson
ABSTRACT This article examines the causes of the current housing crisis in England and Wales as it has emerged since the 1940s and the potential contribution of an alternative model of sustainable housing delivery in the form of garden communities. The analysis focuses on the shifts in housing needs, political ideology, spatial planning policy, the house-building industry, and the role of the land
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Teaching the geographies of the homeless: a GeoCapabilities approach Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Richard Bustin
ABSTRACT This article unpicks the geographies of homelessness in urban areas, which is a form of deprivation underrepresented in school geography. First it explores the micro- and macro-level factors that contribute to homelessness and how these affect the lives of homeless people. The concept of Firstspace, Secondspace and Thirdspace is used to deconstruct their lived experiences. After touching upon
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The heterogeneous nature of second homes: the case of the Alpujarra, Granada Province, Spain Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Graham Mowl,Michael Barke,Helen King
ABSTRACT This article builds on the current recognition of the uneven geography of the second home phenomenon. Where other studies have attempted local-scale analysis of second homes, there has been a tendency to characterise localities as homogeneous and a failure to fully recognise key geographical variations in the composition of second home characteristics within local areas. This analysis demonstrates
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Connecting climate models to community needs Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2021-09-02 Aideen Foley
Introduction It is increasingly being recognised that there is a need to anticipate future climate change so that we can respond to it with forethought. However, a ‘predict then act’ approach to climate adaptation might not be appropriate because plans that seem optimal under one scenario may be regretted if future conditions are different to what was projected (Johnson, 2021). Climate models have
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Closures, clusters and deprivation: the geographies of high street betting shops in the early twenty-first century Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2021-09-02 Tim Hall,Peter Jones,Grace Nash-Williams
ABSTRACT Betting shops have been a familiar, if not universally loved, feature on the High Street in all towns and cities throughout the UK for some 60 years. In recent years, concerns have been expressed about the undesirability of their presence in the urban retail environment. This article analyses the geographies of betting shops in six urban areas in the UK. It explores the basic geographies of
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An analysis of how deep-sea sediments and ice cores provide a record of Quaternary climate change Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2021-09-02 Matthew Ball
Introduction This article explores the range of methods available to analyse ice and deep-sea sediment cores. It also explores the value of such cores in the context of reconstructing a record of Quaternary climate change, or paleoclimatic reconstruction. Paleoclimatic reconstruction is an extremely important and useful field of research due to the practical benefits it provides for the study of climate
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The colour of climate change: making the racial injustice of climate change visible Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2021-09-02 Jeremy Williams
ABSTRACT Drawing on a presentation given at the Geographical Association’s Annual Conference in April 2021 (Williams, 2021a), this article investigates the way that depictions of planet Earth are often simplified to green continents on blue oceans, accidentally universalising a white and western perspective of the Earth. The article demonstrates how this effect is evident in language too, where commentators
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GlacierMap: a virtual opportunity to explore the Andes’ vanishing glaciers Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2021-09-02 Caroline Clason,Sally Rangecroft,Gina Kallis,Shaun Lewin,Tom Mullier
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Cover the ice or ski on grass? Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2021-09-02 Rachael E. Carver,Fiona S. Tweed
ABSTRACT Climate change is having a world-wide impact, particularly on the cryosphere, which is experiencing rapid melting with a range of consequences for the environment and society. In many places, reduced snow and ice have implications for the experiences of visitors. This article reviews the impacts of deglaciation on glacier and ski tourism and in doing so, it brings together human and physical
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The new age of the nation state? Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2021-05-04 Daniel Hammett,Lucy Jackson
ABSTRACT Despite concerns during the 1990s and 2000s to the contrary, the nation-state remains at the core of the world’s political system. Recent popular geography texts have connected the longevity of states to physical geography (that we are Prisoners of Geography (Marshall, 2015)) and to inherent divisions shaping conflict politics at all levels (that we are Divided (Marshall, 2018)). This article
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Unnatural hazards: multiplying the questions we ask Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2021-05-04 Cyrus Nayeri
ABSTRACT There has been a resurgence of interest in interrogating the naturalness of hazards. The majority of these concerns draw attention to the political, social and economic factors that influence the effects of hazards in different places. This analysis seeks to contextualise these debates within the broader intellectual history of human and environmental geographical studies of natural hazards
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Animal geographies: food retailers, fast food companies and animal welfare Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2021-05-04 Peter Jones,Daphne Comfort
Introduction During the past decade, animal geographies have attracted increasing attention within the discipline. Sellick (2020), for example, traces the development of animal geographies using the example of cattle and their relationships with space, place and landscape. She suggests that the driving force behind animal geographies was ‘how should humans treat animals in an ethical way’ (Sellick
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Geographies of education: cross-border schooling between Shenzhen and Hong Kong Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2021-05-04 Johanna Waters,Maggi Leung
ABSTRACT In the context of increasing disciplinary interest in ‘geographies of education’, this article looks at the particular phenomenon of cross-border schooling (CBS), wherein children are involved in daily boundary crossing for education and engage in a (usually) arduous commute. Here, we draw upon a recent research project involving CBS at the Shenzhen–Hong Kong border. We consider three aspects
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The pedagogical effects of psychogeographic urban exploration and mapping Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2021-05-04 Minsung Kim
ABSTRACT This article outlines research on incorporating the notion of psychogeography into an educational context in order to examine its pedagogical benefits empirically. The psychogeographic project implemented involved preservice (student) teachers in South Korea exploring urban space, reflecting on their experiences and creating psychogeographic maps. Based on a thematic analysis of the participants’
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Walking together, alone during the pandemic Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2021-05-04 Morag Rose
Being in the field is frequently at the centre of geographical pedagogy. We plan trips, tours and expeditions to explore, understand and be in the territory that interests us. In the past we may ha...
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Organising concepts in geography education: a model Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2021-05-04 Lotta Dessen Jankell,Johan Sandahl,David Örbring
ABSTRACT This article presents a model for organising geographical concepts that aims to support teachers’ choices of what to teach and how to organise a cohesive and appropriate teaching plan for school geography. The model is a result of a collaborative research process between researchers and Swedish teachers. The purpose was to explore how the core concepts of geography, which are implicit in the
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Maxwell Street: Writing and thinking place Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Emma Rawlings Smith
This article puts Tim Cresswell’s most recent book Maxwell Street: Writing and Thinking Place in the spotlight. Tim Cresswell is Ogilvie Professor of Geography at the University of Edinburgh, poet ...
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Contemporary labour geographies within changing places Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Paul Griffin
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A teacher’s role in making a given knowledge curriculum into a powerful knowledge curriculum Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Qian Gong,Clare Brooks,Yushan Duan
Through examining the case of one senior high school geography teacher who has an understanding of powerful knowledge, this article presents the possibility of making a given geographical knowledge...
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Geography citizens: from witness to action Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Richard Yarwood
Last week I went for an eye test. The optometrist sat me in front of a machine, asked me to peer down a scope and requested that I told her what I could see. ‘Streets deserted, the public asked to ...
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How much is soil erosion costing us? Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2021-01-02 John Boardman
Soils have many functions including flood alleviation and carbon storage, and act as repositories of micro-organisms and archaeological artefacts. To the farmer and to society, soils are the princip...
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Topple the racists 2: decolonising the space and the institutional memory of geography Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Gerry Kearns
In this, the second of two linked articles, I move from efforts to address the colonial legacy of our public spaces to consider the colonial marking of the spaces and institutional memory of the di...
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From banal to everyday nationalism: narrations of nationhood Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Daniel Hammett
We encounter the nation on a daily basis, often in unnoticed ways, but ways that nonetheless communicate ideas and ideals of nationhood to us. Nationalism remains an incredibly powerful force, not ...
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Dryland river adjustments in a warming world Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Stephen Tooth
As the impacts of global environmental change increase, media reports on the profound adjustments to landforms, landscapes and ecosystems are becoming more common. Reports on apparent increases in ...
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Topple the racists 1: decolonising the space and institutional memory of the university Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Gerry Kearns
: The activism around ‘Black Lives Matter’ following the killing of George Floyd on 25 May 2020 in Minneapolis, USA, has brought further attention to the racism inscribed into the space and...
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Spotlight on… Critical school geography Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 John Huckle
Students, subject and society: the three factors shaping the aims, content and pedagogy of school geography However, the needs of students and society are contested, as are the content and modes of enquiry of geography Here, Huckle discusses the theory and practice of critical school geography
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Spotlight on… Urban resilience: is it old wine in a new bottle? Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Xin Mai
This article discusses the concept of resilience and its theoretical contributions to urban geography After a review of the evolution of resilience in studies of engineering, ecology and social sciences, the article outlines the potential contributions of resilience with regard to related concepts such as stability, competitiveness and sustainability It highlights that resilience thinking challenges
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Confronting the deafening silence on race in geography education in England: learning from anti-racist, decolonial and Black geographies Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Steve Puttick,Amber Murrey
School geography in England has been largely silent on issues around race, which stands in contrast to important strands of thought in the discipline. In this intervention, we explore two influentia...
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Time for geography to catch up with the world Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 Alex Standish
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The science tradition in physical geography: 2016 A level specifications and ‘powerful geography’ Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2020-11-01 W. Brian Whalley
In this article an overview is made of the subject content of A level 2016 specifications of physical geography by contextualising physical geography and by examining the concept of ‘powerful geogra...
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Youth experiences of the decent work deficit Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Anna Barford,Rachel Coombe,Rachel Proefke
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Training and retaining geography specialists for schools in England Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Mary Biddulph,Alan Kinder
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The need for a stronger integration of technology with school-based map work Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Krystle Ontong,Koketso Khule
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How and why national curriculum frameworks are failing geography Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Eleanor Rawling
Morgan (2017) suggests that our failure to identify a core of geographical knowledge that should be taught in schools is leading to ‘the making of geographical ignorance’. At a time of centralised ...
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Larissa and the global financial crisis: a Greek middle-sized city after the burst of speculative urbanisation Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Cécile Coudrin
This article argues that, because of their function, their position and their size, middle-sized cities can shed new light on the dimensions and temporalities of the global financial crisis (GFC). ...
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Geography amid COVID-19 — inequality, decent work, and curriculum Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Steve Puttick
Questions about what it means to have - in the language of Sustainable Development Goal 8 - 'decent work' have run throughout the debates and policy responses to COVID-19, with many commentaries in the UK highlighting the contradiction of those now celebrated as 'key workers' having been recently been labelled as 'unskilled labour' by the Home Office Drawing on comparisons across the examples of England
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Geography teacher educators' perspectives on the place of children's geographies in the classroom Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Lauren Hammond, John H. McKendrick
While many have extolled the benefits of incorporating children’s geographies in school geography (Biddulph, 2012; Yarwood and Tyrell, 2012; Roberts, 2017), its place in the classroom is uncertain (Catling, 2011; Hammond, 2020). To gain a more nuanced understanding of how, and why, children’s geographies are drawn upon and engaged with in school geography, this article examines the philosophies and
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Connecting with a place through making a video Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Alison Brown
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An introduction to new animal geographies: the case of cattle Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Jessica Sellick
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After the rural idyll: representations of the British countryside as a non-idyllic environment Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Tim Hall
This paper explores a somewhat overlooked tradition of non-idyllic representations of the British countryside, particularly characteristic of the post-World War Two period. It considers the collective significance of these representations and what they tell us of the place of the rural within contemporary British culture. The paper takes a broad survey approach, highlighting the representation of rural
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Ethnic diversity is increasing: does this mean the UK is becoming more segregated? Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Gemma Catney
(2020). Ethnic diversity is increasing: does this mean the UK is becoming more segregated? Geography: Vol. 105, No. 1, pp. 34-38.
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Waste management in England and the ‘circular economy’ model Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Deepak Gopinath
By tracing the emergence of waste strategy in England, leading up to the most recent strategy launched in 2018, this article aims to aid the development of a shared understanding of what 'waste' means. It also looks at emerging and competing interpretations of waste locally, nationally and at EU level, as well as the shifting roles and responsibilities of the various stakeholders. The review is followed
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How many extra people should London be planning for? Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2019-11-01 Tony Champion
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The ‘Global Wetland Outlook’ report Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2019-11-01 Stephen Tooth,Bennie van der Waal
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25 years of protest: migration control and the power of local activism Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2019-11-01 Nick Gill,Daniel Fisher,Jo Hynes
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Mapping the City: participatory mapping with young people Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2019-11-01 Jon Swords, Mike Jeffries, Holly East, Sebastian Messer
In this article we discuss an ongoing research project that uses participatory mapping to gain insights into the worlds of young people. For the last ten years we have worked with hundreds of peopl...
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The witch, the wasteland and the gateway to Hell: Iceland's volcanoes and their hazards Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2019-11-01 Fiona S. Tweed
Iceland has become a popular travel destination and a favoured location for Earth and environmental science fieldwork. Iceland’s volcanoes periodically feature in news headlines and events over the last ten years remind us that Icelandic volcanic activity can have transboundary impacts with disruptions to modern society. This article reviews recent Icelandic volcanic activity and uses it as a frame
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Changing places: geographies of post-disaster landscapes Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2019-11-01 Simon Dickinson
This article introduces some of the ways geographers have attempted to make sense of disaster recovery landscapes. Acknowledging that geographers frame ‘place’ as layered with meaning, the article seeks to open out discussion about how disasters (and recovery from them) might change the ways in which people understand and connect with specific places. Importantly, disasters are not just characterised
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Climate change and coastal policy: the need to address erosion-flooding interactions for effective coastal risk management Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2019-07-01 James A. Pollard
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Groundhog Day: the great floods of 2015 Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2019-07-01 Graham Haughton,Iain White
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Time to face up to the realities of climate change Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2019-07-01 Mayer Hillman
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Acts of European citizenship: how Britons resident in France have been negotiating post-Brexit futures Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2019-07-01 Fiona Ferbrache
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Remapping geography: using cartograms to change our view of the world Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2019-07-01 Benjamin D. Hennig
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Bioinvasions and the idea of the Mediterranean Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2019-07-01 Simon Pooley
While there has been much research on the impacts of European trade and the resulting spread of invasive plants, animals and diseases elsewhere on the planet, considerably less attention has been paid to the reverse flow. In this article I draw on examples from the book I co-edited with Ana Queiroz, Histories of Bioinvasions in the Mediterranean (Springer, 2018), and discuss both gaps and prospects
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Everyday bordering: the internal reach of the UK's borders Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2019-07-01 Kathryn Cassidy
This 'Challenging Assumptions' article considers the changing regulation of migration to the UK, and how the 2014 and 2016 Immigration Acts have effectively created 'border guards' out of members of the public.
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Exploring terroir: a sense of place in food and farming Geography (IF 1.088) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Rory Hill