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Communal Geographies: Before and Beyond Partition in South Asia (2025)
Book
Legg, S., Gould, W., & Gupta, C. (Eds.). (2025). Communal Geographies: Before and Beyond Partition in South Asia. Routledge

This book builds on the latest research on India’s Partition and the politics of communal identity and explores the intricate relationship between community and religion on the one hand, and space or geography on the other.
Reconsidering the role... Read More about Communal Geographies: Before and Beyond Partition in South Asia.

Exploring the spatial composition of UK social housing (2025)
Journal Article
Clare, N., Kearsey, J., & French, S. (2025). Exploring the spatial composition of UK social housing. Radical Housing Journal, 7(1), 7-26. https://doi.org/10.54825/KQNR4096

This paper explores the potentials and challenges of organising in (and at times against-and-beyond) social housing. Drawing on extended research across the UK with a range of tenants, activists, and housing staff we illustrate the need for fine-grai... Read More about Exploring the spatial composition of UK social housing.

The SahulCHAR collection: a palaeofire database for Australia, New Guinea, and New Zealand (2025)
Journal Article
Rehn, E., Cadd, H., Mooney, S., Cohen, T. J., Munack, H., Codilean, A. T., Adeleye, M., Beck, K. K., Iv, M. C., Gouramanis, C., Hanson, J. M., Jones, P. J., Kershaw, A. P., Mackenzie, L., Maisie, M., Mariani, M., Matley, K., Mcwethy, D., Mills, K., Moss, P., …Wilmshurst, J. (2025). The SahulCHAR collection: a palaeofire database for Australia, New Guinea, and New Zealand. Earth System Science Data, 17(6), 2681-2692. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2681-2025

Recent global fire activity has highlighted the importance of understanding fire dynamics across time and space, with records of past fire (palaeofire) providing valuable insights to inform us on current and future management challenges. New records... Read More about The SahulCHAR collection: a palaeofire database for Australia, New Guinea, and New Zealand.

A multi-model assessment of global freshwater temperature and thermoelectric power supply under climate change (2025)
Journal Article
Jones, E. R., van Beek, R., Antonio Cardenas Belleza, G., Burek, P., Dugdale, S. J., Flörke, M., Fridman, D., Gosling, S. N., Kumar, R., & Mercado-Bettin, D. (in press). A multi-model assessment of global freshwater temperature and thermoelectric power supply under climate change. Environmental Research: Water, https://doi.org/10.1088/3033-4942/addffa

Water temperature is a key abiotic factor influencing aquatic ecosystem health and the services provided to both nature and humans. Global water temperature models offer possibilities to improve our understanding of water temperature regimes, which i... Read More about A multi-model assessment of global freshwater temperature and thermoelectric power supply under climate change.

Against cultural competence: social housing and institutional post-racism (2025)
Journal Article
CLARE, N., & Clare, G. (2025). Against cultural competence: social housing and institutional post-racism. Housing, Theory and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2025.2513595

This paper focuses on recent efforts to combat racialised inequalities in English social housing through ‘cultural competence’. Based on longitudinal, mixed qualitative research it argues that, despite good intentions, the approach is ineffective at... Read More about Against cultural competence: social housing and institutional post-racism.

A Partially Pooled NSUM Model: Detailed estimation of CSEM trafficking prevalence in Philippine municipalities (2025)
Journal Article
Nyarko-Agyei, A., Moser, S., Seymour, R. G., Brewster, B., Li, S., Weir, E., Landman, T., Wyman, E., Torres, C. B., Fell, I., & Boyd, D. (2025). A Partially Pooled NSUM Model: Detailed estimation of CSEM trafficking prevalence in Philippine municipalities. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C, Article qlaf033. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrsssc/qlaf033

Effective policy and intervention strategies to combat human trafficking for child sexual exploitation material (CSEM) production require accurate prevalence estimates. Traditional Network Scale Up Method (NSUM) models often necessitate stan-dalone s... Read More about A Partially Pooled NSUM Model: Detailed estimation of CSEM trafficking prevalence in Philippine municipalities.

Opportunities and challenges for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity in the robotics age (2025)
Journal Article
Pringle, S., Dallimer, M., Goddard, M. A., Le Goff, L. K., Hart, E., Langdale, S. J., Fisher, J. C., Abad, S.-A., Ancrenaz, M., Angeoletto, F., Auat Cheein, F., Austen, G. E., Bailey, J. J., Baldock, K. C. R., Banin, L. F., Banks-Leite, C., Barau, A. S., Bashyal, R., Bates, A. J., Bicknell, J. E., …Davies, Z. G. (2025). Opportunities and challenges for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity in the robotics age. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 9(6), 1031-1042. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02704-9

With biodiversity loss escalating globally, a step change is needed in our capacity to accurately monitor species populations across ecosystems. Robotic and autonomous systems (RAS) offer technological solutions that may substantially advance terrest... Read More about Opportunities and challenges for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity in the robotics age.

‘Piling up a treasury of knowledge’: Archiving as knowledge production and professional practice in the Stevenson engineering firm (2025)
Journal Article
Dishington, R. (2025). ‘Piling up a treasury of knowledge’: Archiving as knowledge production and professional practice in the Stevenson engineering firm. Journal of Historical Geography, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.001

Archives were a significant site of engineering work in the nineteenth century. Through an examination of the case study of the Stevenson family engineering firm, this article argues that engineers consciously and intentionally collected documents to... Read More about ‘Piling up a treasury of knowledge’: Archiving as knowledge production and professional practice in the Stevenson engineering firm.

Similarities and divergent patterns in hydrologic fluxes and storages simulated by global water models (2025)
Journal Article
Tiwari, A. D., Pokhrel, Y., Boulange, J., Burek, P., Guillaumot, L., Gosling, S. N., Grillakis, M., Hanasaki, N., Koutroulis, A., Ostberg, S., Otta, K., Schmied, H. M., Satoh, Y., Scanlon, B., Stacke, T., & Yokohata, T. (2025). Similarities and divergent patterns in hydrologic fluxes and storages simulated by global water models. Nature Water, 3, Article 550-560. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-025-00435-6

Global water models (GWMs) are critical tools for understanding the Earth’s water cycle and water resource management under a changing climate and accelerating human interventions. Although GWMs have been evaluated for hydrologic fluxes (for example,... Read More about Similarities and divergent patterns in hydrologic fluxes and storages simulated by global water models.

A Time‐ and Cost‐Effective eDNA Protocol to Survey Freshwater Mussels (Bivalvia: Unionida) in Tropical Rivers (2025)
Journal Article
Zieritz, A., Richmond, T., Melzer, F., Rahim, K. A. A., Wilson, J., Kassim, H. F. B., & Hartikainen, H. (2025). A Time‐ and Cost‐Effective eDNA Protocol to Survey Freshwater Mussels (Bivalvia: Unionida) in Tropical Rivers. Environmental DNA, 7(3), Article e70099. https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.70099

Tropical freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionida) are one of the most endangered groups of animals globally, but conservation is hindered by a lack of species distribution data. Traditional hand-sampling is time- and cost-intensive and not always poss... Read More about A Time‐ and Cost‐Effective eDNA Protocol to Survey Freshwater Mussels (Bivalvia: Unionida) in Tropical Rivers.

Widespread pesticide pollution in two English river catchments of contrasting land-use: from sediments to fish (2025)
Journal Article
Ramage, C. I., Alfama Lopes dos Santos, R., Yon, L., Johnson, M. F., & Vane, C. H. (2025). Widespread pesticide pollution in two English river catchments of contrasting land-use: from sediments to fish. Environmental Pollution, 375, Article 126371. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2025.126371

Water, sediments, fish and invertebrates were collected along two English rivers (R. Tone, Sommerset and R. Wensum, Norfolk) and analysed for 52 pesticides to assess source to sea spatial distribution and track bioaccumulation within wildlife. Chemic... Read More about Widespread pesticide pollution in two English river catchments of contrasting land-use: from sediments to fish.

Environmental Stewardship Education in Tuvalu Part 2: Insights into Curriculum Integration and Classroom Realities (2025)
Journal Article
Tinilau, S. S., Hemstock, S. L., Mercer, T. G., Hannaford, M., & Kythreotis, A. P. (2025). Environmental Stewardship Education in Tuvalu Part 2: Insights into Curriculum Integration and Classroom Realities. Sustainability, 17(9), 4119. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17094119

This commentary is the second in a two-part series on Environmental Stewardship Education (ESE) in Tuvalu. While Part 1 examined the alignment between education and environmental policies, this follow-up focuses on how those policies are—or are not—t... Read More about Environmental Stewardship Education in Tuvalu Part 2: Insights into Curriculum Integration and Classroom Realities.

Plant diversity dynamics over space and time in a warming Arctic (2025)
Journal Article
García Criado, M., Myers-Smith, I. H., Bjorkman, A. D., Elmendorf, S. C., Normand, S., Aastrup, P., Aerts, R., Alatalo, J. M., Baeten, L., Björk, R. G., Björkman, M. P., Boulanger-Lapointe, N., Butler, E. E., Cooper, E. J., Cornelissen, J. H. C., Daskalova, G. N., Fadrique, B., Forbes, B. C., Henry, G. H., Hollister, R. D., …Vellend, M. (2025). Plant diversity dynamics over space and time in a warming Arctic. Nature, 642, 653-661. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08946-8

The Arctic is warming four times faster than the global average1 and plant communities are responding through shifts in species abundance, composition and distribution2, 3–4. However, the direction and magnitude of local changes in plant diversity in... Read More about Plant diversity dynamics over space and time in a warming Arctic.

Projected exposure of terrestrial vertebrates to different extreme climate events reveals high vulnerability to multiple hazards (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Heinicke, S., Zantout, K., Kühl, H. S., Reyer, C. P., Zimmermann, S., Billing, M., Gosling, S. N., Grillakis, M., Hantson, S., Ito, A., Kou-Giesbrecht, S., Koutroulis, A., Mester, B., Müller Schmied, H., Ostberg, S., Otta, K., Pokhrel, Y., & Frieler, K. (2025, April). Projected exposure of terrestrial vertebrates to different extreme climate events reveals high vulnerability to multiple hazards. Presented at EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria and online

When can we detect lianas from space? Toward a mechanistic understanding of liana‐infested forest optics (2025)
Journal Article
Visser, M. D., Detto, M., Meunier, F., Wu, J., Foster, J. R., Marvin, D. C., van Bodegom, P. M., Bongalov, B., Nunes, M. H., Coomes, D., Verbeeck, H., Guzmán Q, J. A., Sanchez‐Azofeifa, A., Chandler, C. J., van der Heijden, G. M. F., Boyd, D. S., Foody, G. M., Cutler, M. E. J., Broadbent, E. N., Serbin, S. P., …Pacala, S. W. (2025). When can we detect lianas from space? Toward a mechanistic understanding of liana‐infested forest optics. Ecology, 106(4), Article e70082. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70082

Lianas, woody vines acting as structural parasites of trees, have profound effects on the composition and structure of tropical forests, impacting tree growth, mortality, and forest succession. Remote sensing could offer a powerful tool for quantifyi... Read More about When can we detect lianas from space? Toward a mechanistic understanding of liana‐infested forest optics.