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Fluvial processes and landforms (2022)
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Ferguson, R. I., Lewin, J., & Hardy, R. J. (2022). Fluvial processes and landforms. Memoirs, 58(1), 257-270. https://doi.org/10.1144/m58-2021-18

The period 1965–2000 saw a sustained increase in research and publications on fluvial processes and landforms. The trend towards generalization and/or mechanistic understanding, rather than site-specific history, continued. Research was multidiscipli... Read More about Fluvial processes and landforms.

Slopes: solute processes and landforms (2022)
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Burt, T., Pinay, G., Worrall, F., & Howden, N. (2022). Slopes: solute processes and landforms. Memoirs, 58(1), 191-204. https://doi.org/10.1144/m58-2021-5

This chapter reviews research on solutes by fluvial geomorphologists in the period 1965–2000; growing links with biogeochemical research are emphasized later in the chapter. Brief reference is necessarily made to some research from before and after t... Read More about Slopes: solute processes and landforms.

Constraining the Carbon Budget of Peat Ecosystems: Application of Stoichiometry and Enthalpy Balances (2022)
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Worrall, F., Boothroyd, I. M., Clay, G. D., Moody, C. S., Heckman, K., Burt, T. P., & Rose, R. (2022). Constraining the Carbon Budget of Peat Ecosystems: Application of Stoichiometry and Enthalpy Balances. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127(10), https://doi.org/10.1029/2022jg007003

We consider how the stoichiometry and energy content of organic matter reservoirs and fluxes through and from a peatland enable the fluxes and storage of carbon within a peatland to be constrained. We include the elemental composition of the above- a... Read More about Constraining the Carbon Budget of Peat Ecosystems: Application of Stoichiometry and Enthalpy Balances.

Nitrate transport velocity data in the global unsaturated zones (2022)
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Yang, C., Wang, L., Chen, S., Li, Y., Huang, S., Zeng, Q., & Chen, Y. (2022). Nitrate transport velocity data in the global unsaturated zones. Scientific Data, 9(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01621-x

Nitrate pollution in groundwater, which is an international problem, threatens human health and the environment. It could take decades for nitrate to transport in the groundwater system. When understanding the impacts of this nitrate legacy on water... Read More about Nitrate transport velocity data in the global unsaturated zones.

Decolonizing energy justice from the ground up: Political ecology, ontology, and energy landscapes (2022)
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Tornel, C. (2023). Decolonizing energy justice from the ground up: Political ecology, ontology, and energy landscapes. Progress in Human Geography, 47(1), 43-65. https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325221132561

The purpose of the paper is to expand the concept of energy justice by considering the struggles over coloniality and cultural identity in the Global South and their interactions with the spatial and historical development of energy systems and the o... Read More about Decolonizing energy justice from the ground up: Political ecology, ontology, and energy landscapes.

Border troubles: urban nature and the remaking of public/private divides (2022)
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Armstrong, A., Bulkeley, H., Tozer, L., & Kotsila, P. (2022). Border troubles: urban nature and the remaking of public/private divides. Urban Geography, https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2022.2125669

Traditional interventions to “bring nature into the city” were often motivated by a concern to create forms of public space which would provide a public good. Despite such well-intentioned motivations, these public forms of urban nature have always b... Read More about Border troubles: urban nature and the remaking of public/private divides.

Complex spatio-temporal structure of the Holocene Thermal Maximum (2022)
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Cartapanis, O., Jonkers, L., Moffa-Sanchez, P., Jaccard, S. L., & de Vernal, A. (2022). Complex spatio-temporal structure of the Holocene Thermal Maximum. Nature Communications, 13(2022), Article 5662. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33362-1

Inconsistencies between Holocene climate reconstructions and numerical model simulations question the robustness of climate models and proxy temperature records. Climate reconstructions suggest an early-middle Holocene Thermal Maximum (HTM) followed... Read More about Complex spatio-temporal structure of the Holocene Thermal Maximum.

Fragmentary embeddedness: Challenges for alternative food networks in Guangzhou, China (2022)
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Zhong, S., Hughes, A., Crang, M., Zeng, G., & Hocknell, S. (2022). Fragmentary embeddedness: Challenges for alternative food networks in Guangzhou, China. Journal of Rural Studies, 95, 382-390. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.09.008

Alternative food networks (AFNs) have been viewed as being more deeply embedded in the fabric of places and the social relations of their food systems than conventional food networks, and have been regarded as ‘spaces of hope’ for addressing sustaina... Read More about Fragmentary embeddedness: Challenges for alternative food networks in Guangzhou, China.

Urban Popular Economies (2022)
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Benjamin, S., Castronovo, A., Cavallero, L., Cielo, C., Gago, V., Guma, P., …Tonucci, J. (2022). Urban Popular Economies. Public Culture, 34(3 (98)), 333-357. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9937241

What is a life worth living and how is it concretely actualized by an urban majority making often unanticipated, unformatted uses of the urban to engender livelihoods in a dynamic and open-ended process? This is the key question undertaken in this co... Read More about Urban Popular Economies.

Race and Climate Change: Towards Anti-Racist Ecologies (2022)
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Tilley, L., Ranawana, A., Baldwin, A., & Tully, T. (2023). Race and Climate Change: Towards Anti-Racist Ecologies. Politics, 43(2), 141-152. https://doi.org/10.1177/02633957221127166

Global South scholars have long documented and theorised their communities’ struggles against the ecological degradation, toxic contamination, and climate change–related extreme weather events which result from the overlapping ills of colonialism, im... Read More about Race and Climate Change: Towards Anti-Racist Ecologies.

Reconstructing sedimentary processes in a Permian channel–lobe transition zone: an outcrop study in the Karoo Basin, South Africa (2022)
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Pohl, F., Eggenhuisen, J., de Leeuw, J., Cartigny, M., Brooks, H., & Spychala, Y. (2023). Reconstructing sedimentary processes in a Permian channel–lobe transition zone: an outcrop study in the Karoo Basin, South Africa. Geological Magazine, 160(1), 107-126. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016756822000693

Turbidity currents commonly bypass sediment in submarine channels on the continental slope, and deposit sediment lobes farther down-dip on the flat and unconfined abyssal plain. Seafloor and outcrop data have shown that the transition from bypass to... Read More about Reconstructing sedimentary processes in a Permian channel–lobe transition zone: an outcrop study in the Karoo Basin, South Africa.

Carbon and sediment fluxes inhibited in the submarine Congo Canyon by landslide-damming (2022)
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Pope, E. L., Heijnen, M. S., Talling, P. J., Jacinto, R. S., Gaillot, A., Baker, M. L., …Urlaub, M. (2022). Carbon and sediment fluxes inhibited in the submarine Congo Canyon by landslide-damming. Nature Geoscience, 15(10), 845-853. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-01017-x

Landslide-dams, which are often transient, can strongly affect the geomorphology, and sediment and geochemical fluxes, within subaerial fluvial systems. The potential occurrence and impact of analogous landslide-dams in submarine canyons has, however... Read More about Carbon and sediment fluxes inhibited in the submarine Congo Canyon by landslide-damming.

New integrated molecular approaches for understanding lake settlements in NW Europe (2022)
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Brown, A., Fonville, T., Van Hardenbroek, M. R., Cavers, G., Crone, A., McCormick, F., …Pirrie, D. (2022). New integrated molecular approaches for understanding lake settlements in NW Europe. Antiquity, 96(389), 1179-1199. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2022.70

Lake settlements, particularly crannogs, pose several contradictions – visible yet inaccessible, widespread yet geographically restricted, persistent yet vulnerable. To further our understanding, we have developed the integrated use of palaeolimnolog... Read More about New integrated molecular approaches for understanding lake settlements in NW Europe.

Improving above ground biomass estimates of Southern Africa dryland forests by combining Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 multispectral imagery. (2022)
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Ruusa, M., Rosser, N., & Donoghue, D. (2022). Improving above ground biomass estimates of Southern Africa dryland forests by combining Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 multispectral imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment, 282, Article 113232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.113232

Having the ability to make accurate assessments of above ground biomass (AGB) at high spatial resolution is invaluable for the management of dryland forest resources in areas at risk from deforestation, forest degradation pressure and climate change... Read More about Improving above ground biomass estimates of Southern Africa dryland forests by combining Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 multispectral imagery..

Making sense of digital health data: Negotiating epistemological tensions of everyday eating in Singapore (2022)
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Shee, S. Y. (2022). Making sense of digital health data: Negotiating epistemological tensions of everyday eating in Singapore. Geoforum, 136, 92-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.09.001

Engagements with personal digital data are growing in recent decades, as many digital technologies offer any interested user the opportunity to track their habits and practices. Yet, far from being objective and neutral conduits of knowledge, digital... Read More about Making sense of digital health data: Negotiating epistemological tensions of everyday eating in Singapore.

Environmental Geography and the Inheritance of Western Technoscience (2022)
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Lehman, J. S., & Johnson, E. (2022). Environmental Geography and the Inheritance of Western Technoscience. Progress in Environmental Geography, 1(1-4), 23-32. https://doi.org/10.1177/27539687221124613

How has environmental geography grappled with the inheritances of Western technoscience? On one hand, as a discipline, we are now well aware of science's entanglements with imperial projects and racist logics, not to mention the omissions and silence... Read More about Environmental Geography and the Inheritance of Western Technoscience.

60 million years of glaciation in the Transantarctic Mountains (2022)
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Barr, I. D., Spagnolo, M., Rea, B. R., Bingham, R. G., Oien, R. P., Adamson, K., …Tomkins, M. D. (2022). 60 million years of glaciation in the Transantarctic Mountains. Nature Communications, 13(1), Article 5526. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33310-z

The Antarctic continent reached its current polar location ~83 Ma and became shrouded by ice sheets ~34 Ma, coincident with dramatic global cooling at the Eocene-Oligocene boundary. However, it is not known whether the first Antarctic glaciers formed... Read More about 60 million years of glaciation in the Transantarctic Mountains.

A continental-scale chironomid training set for reconstructing Arctic temperatures (2022)
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Medeiros, A. S., Chipman, M. L., Francis, D. R., Hamerlík, L., Langdon, P., Puleo, P. J., …Axford, Y. (2022). A continental-scale chironomid training set for reconstructing Arctic temperatures. Quaternary Science Reviews, 294, Article 107728. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107728

We present chironomid species assemblage data from 402 lakes across northern North America, Greenland, Iceland, and Svalbard to inform interpretations of Holocene subfossil chironomid assemblages used in paleolimnological reconstruction. This calibra... Read More about A continental-scale chironomid training set for reconstructing Arctic temperatures.