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Causes and consequences of recent degradation of the Magdalena River basin, Colombia (2022)
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Salgado, J., Shurin, J. B., Vélez, M. I., Link, A., Lopera-Congote, L., González-Arango, C., …de Luna, G. (2022). Causes and consequences of recent degradation of the Magdalena River basin, Colombia. Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 7(6), 451-465. https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10272

The Magdalena River in Colombia is one of the world's largest (discharge = 7100 m3 s−1) tropical rivers, hosting > 170 aquatic vertebrate species. However, concise synthesis of the current ecological and environmental status is lacking. By documentin... Read More about Causes and consequences of recent degradation of the Magdalena River basin, Colombia.

Assuring the quality of VGI on land use and land cover: experiences and learnings from the LandSense project (2022)
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Foody, G., Long, G., Schultz, M., & Olteanu-Raimond, A. (2022). Assuring the quality of VGI on land use and land cover: experiences and learnings from the LandSense project. Geo-Spatial Information Scienc, https://doi.org/10.1080/10095020.2022.2100285

The potential of citizens as a source of geographical information has been recognized for many years. Such activity has grown recently due to the proliferation of inexpensive location aware devices and an ability to share data over the internet. Rece... Read More about Assuring the quality of VGI on land use and land cover: experiences and learnings from the LandSense project.

Epistemic Borderwork: Violent Pushbacks, Refugees, and the Politics of Knowledge at the EU Border (2022)
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Davies, T., Isakjee, A., & Obradovic-Wochnik, J. (2023). Epistemic Borderwork: Violent Pushbacks, Refugees, and the Politics of Knowledge at the EU Border. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 113(1), 169-188. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2022.2077167

Borders are sites of epistemic struggle. Focusing on the illegal tactic of the “pushback,” which is routinely deployed by state authorities to forcefully expel asylum seekers from European Union territory without due process, this article explores th... Read More about Epistemic Borderwork: Violent Pushbacks, Refugees, and the Politics of Knowledge at the EU Border.

Spatial Growth Rate of Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Lineages in England, September 2020-December 2021 (2022)
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Smallman-Raynor, M. R., & Cliff, A. D. (2022). Spatial Growth Rate of Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Lineages in England, September 2020-December 2021. Epidemiology and Infection, 150, Article e145. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268822001285

This paper uses a robust method of spatial epidemiological analysis to assess the spatial growth rate of multiple lineages of SARS-CoV-2 in the local authority areas of England, September 2020-December 2021. Using the genomic surveillance records of... Read More about Spatial Growth Rate of Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Lineages in England, September 2020-December 2021.

Zombie resistance: Reanimated labour struggles and the legal geographies of authoritarian neoliberalism in Cambodia (2022)
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Lawreniuk, S. (2023). Zombie resistance: Reanimated labour struggles and the legal geographies of authoritarian neoliberalism in Cambodia. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 48(1), 39-55. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12564

As neoliberalism lurches through its zombie phase – intellectually dead but dominant – critical scholars chart the global ascendancy of authoritarian variants of neoliberalism. Distinguished, in particular, by the rise of constitutional and legal str... Read More about Zombie resistance: Reanimated labour struggles and the legal geographies of authoritarian neoliberalism in Cambodia.

Domesticating cleaner cookstoves for improved respiratory health: Using approaches from the sanitation sector to explore the adoption and sustained use of improved cooking technologies in Nepal (2022)
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Jewitt, S., Smallman-Raynor, M., Binaya, C., Robinson, B., Adhikari, P., Evans, C., …Hall, I. P. (2022). Domesticating cleaner cookstoves for improved respiratory health: Using approaches from the sanitation sector to explore the adoption and sustained use of improved cooking technologies in Nepal. Social Science and Medicine, 308, Article 115201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115201

Drawing on village-based data from Nepal, this paper explores the transferability of the Integrated Behavioural Model for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (IBM-WASH) to the clean cooking sector and its potential to elucidate how barriers to improved coo... Read More about Domesticating cleaner cookstoves for improved respiratory health: Using approaches from the sanitation sector to explore the adoption and sustained use of improved cooking technologies in Nepal.

From autonomous to autonomist geographies (2022)
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Gray, N., & Clare, N. (2022). From autonomous to autonomist geographies. Progress in Human Geography, 46(5), 1185-1206. https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325221114347

Autonomist Marxist ideas and concepts are resurgent and, with their latent spatiality, are well placed to contribute to radical geographical debates. In particular, the methodology of ‘class composition’ analysis provides a rigorous, materialist crit... Read More about From autonomous to autonomist geographies.

Pollen‐based reconstruction reveals the impact of the onset of agriculture on plant functional trait composition (2022)
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Veeken, A., Santos, M. J., McGowan, S., Davies, A. L., & Schrodt, F. (2022). Pollen‐based reconstruction reveals the impact of the onset of agriculture on plant functional trait composition. Ecology Letters, 25(9), 1937-1951. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14063

The onset of agriculture improved the capacity of ecosystems to produce food, but inadvertently altered other vital ecosystem functions. Plant traits play a central role in determining ecosystem properties, therefore we investigated how the onset of... Read More about Pollen‐based reconstruction reveals the impact of the onset of agriculture on plant functional trait composition.

Globally widespread and increasing violations of environmental flow envelopes (2022)
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Virkki, V., Alanärä, E., Porkka, M., Ahopelto, L., Gleeson, T., Mohan, C., …Kummu, M. (2022). Globally widespread and increasing violations of environmental flow envelopes. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 26(12), 3315-3336. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-3315-2022

Human actions and climate change have drastically altered river flows across the world, resulting in adverse effects on riverine ecosystems. Environmental flows (EFs) have emerged as a prominent tool for safeguarding the riverine ecosystems, but at t... Read More about Globally widespread and increasing violations of environmental flow envelopes.

A global synthesis of ecosystem services provided and disrupted by freshwater bivalve molluscs (2022)
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Zieritz, A., Sousa, R., Aldridge, D. C., Douda, K., Esteves, E., Ferreira-Rodríguez, N., …Vaz, A. S. (2022). A global synthesis of ecosystem services provided and disrupted by freshwater bivalve molluscs. Biological Reviews, 97(5), 1967-1998. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12878

Identification of ecosystem services, i.e. the contributions that ecosystems make to human well-being, has proven instrumental in galvanising public and political support for safeguarding biodiversity and its benefits to people. Here we synthesise th... Read More about A global synthesis of ecosystem services provided and disrupted by freshwater bivalve molluscs.

The timing of unprecedented hydrological drought under climate change (2022)
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Satoh, Y., Yoshimura, K., Pokhrel, Y., Kim, H., Shiogama, H., Yokohata, T., …Oki, T. (2022). The timing of unprecedented hydrological drought under climate change. Nature Communications, 13(1), Article 3287. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30729-2

Droughts that exceed the magnitudes of historical variation ranges could occur increasingly frequently under future climate conditions. However, the time of the emergence of unprecedented drought conditions under climate change has rarely been examin... Read More about The timing of unprecedented hydrological drought under climate change.

The Environmental Risk Transition and Changing Health in Low and Middle Income Countries (2022)
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Jewitt, S., & Smallman-Raynor, M. (in press). The Environmental Risk Transition and Changing Health in Low and Middle Income Countries. Geography Review Magazine,

Many low and middle income countries continue to experience a transition in the major causes of illness and death as they develop economically. Particularly rapid transitions have been witnessed in some countries of South and Southeast Asia and, to a... Read More about The Environmental Risk Transition and Changing Health in Low and Middle Income Countries.

High exposure of global tree diversity to human pressure (2022)
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Guo, W., Serra-Diaz, J. M., Schrodt, F., Eiserhardt, W. L., Maitner, B. S., Merow, C., …Svenning, J. (2022). High exposure of global tree diversity to human pressure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(25), Article e2026733119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2026733119

Safeguarding Earth’s tree diversity is a conservation priority due to the importance of trees for biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services such as carbon sequestration. Here, we improve the foundation for effective conservation of global tre... Read More about High exposure of global tree diversity to human pressure.

A possible role for river restoration enhancing biodiversity through interaction with wildfire (2022)
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Pugh, B. E., Colley, M., Dugdale, S. J., Edwards, P., Flitcroft, R., Holz, A., …Field, R. (2022). A possible role for river restoration enhancing biodiversity through interaction with wildfire. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31(10), 1990-2004. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13555

Background: Historically, wildfire regimes produced important landscape-scale disturbances in many regions globally. The “pyrodiversity begets biodiversity” hypothesis suggests that wildfires that generate temporally and spatially heterogeneous mosai... Read More about A possible role for river restoration enhancing biodiversity through interaction with wildfire.

Nutrient availability in the North Pacific region not primarily driven by climate through the Quaternary (2022)
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Snelling, A. M., Swann, G. E., Pashley, V., Lacey, J. H., Horstwood, M. S., & Leng, M. J. (2022). Nutrient availability in the North Pacific region not primarily driven by climate through the Quaternary. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 601, Article 111109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111109

The subarctic North Pacific Ocean is a relatively understudied region in terms of palaeoclimate, limiting our understanding of how the region has both driven and responded to palaeoenvironmental events. Today, the subarctic North Pacific Ocean is mar... Read More about Nutrient availability in the North Pacific region not primarily driven by climate through the Quaternary.

DNA metabarcoding unravels unknown diversity and distribution patterns of tropical freshwater invertebrates (2022)
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Zieritz, A., Lee, P. S., Han, W. E. W., Lim, S. Y., Sing, K. W., Chan, W. N., …Wilson, J. J. (2022). DNA metabarcoding unravels unknown diversity and distribution patterns of tropical freshwater invertebrates. Freshwater Biology, 67(8), 1411-1427. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13926

Tropical freshwater invertebrate species are becoming extinct without being described, and effective conservation is hampered by a lack of taxonomic and distribution data. DNA metabarcoding is a promising tool for rapid biodiversity assessments that... Read More about DNA metabarcoding unravels unknown diversity and distribution patterns of tropical freshwater invertebrates.

Geographies of ruralisation or ruralities? The death and life of a category (2022)
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Parsons, L., & Lawreniuk, S. (2022). Geographies of ruralisation or ruralities? The death and life of a category. Dialogues in Human Geography, 12(2), 204-207. https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206221102937

The rural sphere has suffered from underrepresentation in recent years in part due to growing interest in the urban. A perhaps equally important aspect of the decline has been the troubling of the spatial boundaries that define the rural and urban am... Read More about Geographies of ruralisation or ruralities? The death and life of a category.

Citizen science for Earth Observation (Citzens4EO): understanding current use in the UK (2022)
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Boyd, D. S., Foody, G. M., Brown, C., Mazumdar, S., Marshall, H., & Wardlaw, J. (2022). Citizen science for Earth Observation (Citzens4EO): understanding current use in the UK. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 43(8), 2965-2985. https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2022.2076574

The role of Earth observation (EO) data in addressing societal problems from environmental through to humanitarian should not be understated. Recent innovation in EO means provision of analysis ready data and data cubes, which allows for rapid use of... Read More about Citizen science for Earth Observation (Citzens4EO): understanding current use in the UK.

Not quite cooking on gas: Understanding biogas plant failure and abandonment in Northern Tanzania (2022)
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Hewitt, J., Holden, M., Robinson, B., Jewitt, S., & Clifford, M. J. (2022). Not quite cooking on gas: Understanding biogas plant failure and abandonment in Northern Tanzania. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 165, Article 112600. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2022.112600

The potential for biogas to fulfil an integral role in promoting sustainable energy solutions, particularly in the Global South, is evident, and especially pertinent in the Sustainable Development Goal era. Internationally, multiple initiatives drive... Read More about Not quite cooking on gas: Understanding biogas plant failure and abandonment in Northern Tanzania.

Fluffy Rivers: How Our Clothes Can Harm Rivers and The Oceans (2022)
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Stanton, T., Johnson, M., Gomes, R. L., Nathanail, P., Macnaughtan, W., & Kay, P. (2022). Fluffy Rivers: How Our Clothes Can Harm Rivers and The Oceans. Frontiers for Young Minds, 10, Article 743943. https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2022.743943

Microplastics are one of the most well-known types of environmental pollution. A microplastic is any piece of plastic smaller than 5 mm (about the size of one of the circles on top of a Lego® block). Microplastics come in a variety of shapes and they... Read More about Fluffy Rivers: How Our Clothes Can Harm Rivers and The Oceans.