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A Passive Urban Revolution (2024)
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Cowan, T. (2024). A Passive Urban Revolution

This response builds on the critical insights and interventions provided here, elaborating how Subaltern Frontiers might provide a useful lens to explore the unsettled geographies of passive revolution on India’s urban frontier.

A survey of past and future changes in global river flow (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Gudmundsson, L., Brunner, M., Döll, P., Fluet-Chouinard, E., Gosling, S. N., Hirabayashi, Y., …Zhou, X. (2024, April). A survey of past and future changes in global river flow. Presented at EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria & Online

Understanding the effects of spatially variable riparian tree planting strategies to target water temperature reductions in rivers (2024)
Journal Article
Dugdale, S. J., Malcolm, I. A., & Hannah, D. M. (2024). Understanding the effects of spatially variable riparian tree planting strategies to target water temperature reductions in rivers. Journal of Hydrology, 635, Article 131163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131163

Climate change is increasing river temperature globally, altering the thermal suitability for iconic cold-water adapted fishes. In regions with low tree cover, the impacts of projected climate change on river temperature will be particularly pronounc... Read More about Understanding the effects of spatially variable riparian tree planting strategies to target water temperature reductions in rivers.

Exploring the role of study abroad in decolonising geography curricula (2024)
Journal Article
Clare, N., & Keenan, L. (in press). Exploring the role of study abroad in decolonising geography curricula. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2024.2338118

Studying abroad has the potential to contribute to wider processes of curriculum decolonisation. More often than not, however, it can actually serve to recolonise and reproduce multiscalar forms of privilege, with the majority of programs seeing stud... Read More about Exploring the role of study abroad in decolonising geography curricula.

Future malaria environmental suitability in Africa is sensitive to hydrology (2024)
Journal Article
Smith, M. W., Willis, T., Mroz, E., James, W. H. M., Klaar, M. J., Gosling, S. N., & Thomas, C. J. (in press). Future malaria environmental suitability in Africa is sensitive to hydrology. Science,

Changes in climate shift the geographic locations that are suitable for malaria transmission owing to thermal constraints on vector Anopheles mosquitos and Plasmodium spp. malaria parasites and the availability of surface water for vector breeding. P... Read More about Future malaria environmental suitability in Africa is sensitive to hydrology.

The effects of extreme heat on human health in tropical Africa (2024)
Journal Article
Kunda, J. J., Gosling, S. N., & Foody, G. M. (in press). The effects of extreme heat on human health in tropical Africa. International Journal of Biometeorology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-024-02650-4

This review examines high-quality research evidence that synthesises the effects of extreme heat on human health in tropical Africa. Web of Science (WoS) was used to identify research articles on the effects extreme heat, humidity, Wet-bulb Globe Tem... Read More about The effects of extreme heat on human health in tropical Africa.

Just public algorithms: Mapping public engagement with the use of algorithms in UK public services (2024)
Journal Article
Pallett, H., Price, C., Chilvers, J., & Burall, S. (2024). Just public algorithms: Mapping public engagement with the use of algorithms in UK public services. Big Data and Society, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517241235867

This paper proposes and models a novel approach to public engagement with the use of algorithms in public services. Algorithms pose significant risks which need to be anticipated and mitigated through democratic governance, including public engagemen... Read More about Just public algorithms: Mapping public engagement with the use of algorithms in UK public services.

Pesticide-related risks embodied in global soybean trade (2024)
Journal Article
Wang, J., Geng, X., Wang, P., Yang, J., Yang, Y., Chan, F. K. S., …Chen, W. (2024). Pesticide-related risks embodied in global soybean trade. Cell Reports Sustainability, 1(3), Article 100055. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsus.2024.100055

Pesticides may help safeguard food security but endanger the local ecosystem and farmer health. The globalization of the food trade is masking such impacts by separating production from consumption, and its effects on pesticide use and their related... Read More about Pesticide-related risks embodied in global soybean trade.

The scale of two cities: the geographies of Paris and London in the 1720s (2024)
Journal Article
Heffernan, M. (2024). The scale of two cities: the geographies of Paris and London in the 1720s. Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0073

This essay considers an early eighteenth-century quarrel about the geographical dimensions of Paris and London. The dispute involved representatives of the Académie Royale des Sciences in Paris and the Royal Society in London. The three participants—... Read More about The scale of two cities: the geographies of Paris and London in the 1720s.

Mainstreaming social sciences expertise in UK environment policy and practice organisations: retrospect and prospect (2024)
Journal Article
Morris, C., Brockett, B. F., Selwood, S., Carr, V., Hall, J., Hughes, J., & Ambrose-Oji, B. (2024). Mainstreaming social sciences expertise in UK environment policy and practice organisations: retrospect and prospect. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11(1), Article 399. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-02891-z

Building upon the concept of mainstreaming social sciences within conservation, we consider their mainstreaming, and so integration, within UK environment policy and practice (EPP) organisations. The paper responds to increasing calls to recognise th... Read More about Mainstreaming social sciences expertise in UK environment policy and practice organisations: retrospect and prospect.

Rainforest response to glacial terminations before and after human arrival in Lutruwita (Tasmania) (2024)
Journal Article
Cooley, S., Fletcher, M., Lisé-Pronovost, A., May, J., Mariani, M., Gadd, P., …Heijnis, H. (2024). Rainforest response to glacial terminations before and after human arrival in Lutruwita (Tasmania). Quaternary Science Reviews, 329, Article 108572. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108572

Limited understanding of how Indigenous people have created and managed the Australian landscape continues to have repercussions on how landscapes are culturally interpreted and managed today. Addressing this is critically important as climate change... Read More about Rainforest response to glacial terminations before and after human arrival in Lutruwita (Tasmania).

City drafting: property-making and bureaucratic urbanism in South Asia (2024)
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Jonnalagadda, I., & Cowan, T. (2024). City drafting: property-making and bureaucratic urbanism in South Asia. City, 28(1-2), 7-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2024.2321024

This Special Feature explores the negotiated bureaucratic politics shaping urbanization in South Asia. City drafting refers to the flexible and contextual practices, procedures and policies required to haul diverse property regimes into order and pro... Read More about City drafting: property-making and bureaucratic urbanism in South Asia.

Reconnecting a stream channel to its floodplain: implications for benthic diatoms and macroinvertebrate trophic structure (2024)
Journal Article
Edwards, P. M., Popp, N. C., Pan, Y., Weilhoefer, C. L., Peterman, A. B., Mork, L. A., …Popp, B. N. (2024). Reconnecting a stream channel to its floodplain: implications for benthic diatoms and macroinvertebrate trophic structure. Restoration Ecology, Article e14123. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.14123

Streams systems draining upland landscapes provide valuable ecosystem services, but they are vulnerable to incision and channelization caused by anthropogenic disturbance. Restoring a degraded stream to its pre‐disturbance condition by reconnecting t... Read More about Reconnecting a stream channel to its floodplain: implications for benthic diatoms and macroinvertebrate trophic structure.

Integrative phylogenetic, phylogeographic and morphological characterisation of the Unio crassus species complex reveals cryptic diversity with important conservation implications (2024)
Journal Article
Lopes-Lima, M., Geist, J., Egg, S., Beran, L., Bikashvili, A., Van Bocxlaer, B., …Froufe, E. (2024). Integrative phylogenetic, phylogeographic and morphological characterisation of the Unio crassus species complex reveals cryptic diversity with important conservation implications. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 195, Article 108046. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2024.108046

The global decline of freshwater mussels and their crucial ecological services highlight the need to understand their phylogeny, phylogeography and patterns of genetic diversity to guide conservation efforts. Such knowledge is urgently needed for Uni... Read More about Integrative phylogenetic, phylogeographic and morphological characterisation of the Unio crassus species complex reveals cryptic diversity with important conservation implications.

Rising water temperature in rivers: Ecological impacts and future resilience (2024)
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Johnson, M. F., Albertson, L. K., Algar, A. C., Dugdale, S. J., Edwards, P., England, J., …Wood, P. J. (2024). Rising water temperature in rivers: Ecological impacts and future resilience. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, Article e1724. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1724

Rising water temperatures in rivers due to climate change are already having observable impacts on river ecosystems. Warming water has both direct and indirect impacts on aquatic life, and further aggravates pervasive issues such as eutrophication, p... Read More about Rising water temperature in rivers: Ecological impacts and future resilience.

Notable shifts beyond pre-industrial streamflow and soil moisture conditions transgress the planetary boundary for freshwater change (2024)
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Porkka, M., Virkki, V., Wang-Erlandsson, L., Gerten, D., Gleeson, T., Mohan, C., …Kummu, M. (2024). Notable shifts beyond pre-industrial streamflow and soil moisture conditions transgress the planetary boundary for freshwater change. Nature Water, https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-024-00208-7

Human actions compromise the many life-supporting functions provided by the freshwater cycle. Yet, scientific understanding of anthropogenic freshwater change and its long-term evolution is limited. Here, using a multi-model ensemble of global hydrol... Read More about Notable shifts beyond pre-industrial streamflow and soil moisture conditions transgress the planetary boundary for freshwater change.

Temperance lives and landscape: Lady Elizabeth Biddulph, Lady Henry Somerset, and late nineteenth-century Ledbury (2024)
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Beckingham, D., & Watkins, C. (2024). Temperance lives and landscape: Lady Elizabeth Biddulph, Lady Henry Somerset, and late nineteenth-century Ledbury. Rural History, https://doi.org/10.1017/s0956793324000013

This article considers the relationship of two prominent leaders of British women’s temperance, Lady Henry Somerset and Lady Elizabeth Biddulph. They were noteworthy for taking opposing sides when the British Women’s Temperance Association divided on... Read More about Temperance lives and landscape: Lady Elizabeth Biddulph, Lady Henry Somerset, and late nineteenth-century Ledbury.