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Way-finding agendas through Transactions (2023)
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Esson, J., Breines, M., Brickell, K., Hope, J., Yee Koh, S., Lawrence, A. M., …Sparke, M. (2023). Way-finding agendas through Transactions. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12651

This is the first in a series of occasional editorials in which we guide our readers through groups of papers that we consider to be ‘way-finding’ contributions to geographical debates. Our emphasis on ‘way-finding’ and navigating through scholarly w... Read More about Way-finding agendas through Transactions.

Jaffa's contested heritage trails: Using city walking tours to study, affirm, and protest the politics of space and memory (2023)
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Huss, M. (2023). Jaffa's contested heritage trails: Using city walking tours to study, affirm, and protest the politics of space and memory. Political Geography, 107, 102998. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.102998

The article concerns the role of heritage sites and performances in fuelling as well as resisting colonial domination over space and memory in the city of Jaffa. Using this case study, it maps the ways urban planning, preservation practices, and a sp... Read More about Jaffa's contested heritage trails: Using city walking tours to study, affirm, and protest the politics of space and memory.

Global mapping of river sediment bars (2023)
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Carbonneau, P. E., & Bizzi, S. (2023). Global mapping of river sediment bars. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5739

Recently, deep learning has been increasingly applied to global mapping of land‐use and land‐cover classes. However, very few studies have addressed the problem of separating lakes from rivers, and to our knowledge, none have addressed the issue of m... Read More about Global mapping of river sediment bars.

Critical observational drawing in geography: Towards a methodology for ‘vulnerable’ research (2023)
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Brice, S. (2024). Critical observational drawing in geography: Towards a methodology for ‘vulnerable’ research. Progress in Human Geography, 48(2), 206-223. https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325231208899

Recent years have seen increasing experimentation with drawing as a first-hand method for observation, reflection, and analysis in critical geographical research. Interestingly, much of this work comes from scholars who in various ways are working fr... Read More about Critical observational drawing in geography: Towards a methodology for ‘vulnerable’ research.

When planetary cosmopolitanism meets the Buddhist ethic: Recycling, karma and popular ecology in Singapore (2023)
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Shee, S. Y., Woods, O., & Kong, L. (2023). When planetary cosmopolitanism meets the Buddhist ethic: Recycling, karma and popular ecology in Singapore. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12654

By thinking with and through Buddhist cosmology, this paper explores the emergence of an ethical sensibility—what we call planetary cosmopolitanism—that is based on not just a spatially expanded ethic of care to ecological worlds, but also a temporal... Read More about When planetary cosmopolitanism meets the Buddhist ethic: Recycling, karma and popular ecology in Singapore.

An ancient river landscape preserved beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (2023)
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Jamieson, S. S. R., Ross, N., Paxman, G. J. G., Clubb, F. J., Young, D. A., Yan, S., …Siegert, M. J. (2023). An ancient river landscape preserved beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Nature Communications, 14(1), Article 6507. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42152-2

The East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) has its origins ca. 34 million years ago. Since then, the impact of climate change and past fluctuations in the EAIS margin has been reflected in periods of extensive vs. restricted ice cover and the modification o... Read More about An ancient river landscape preserved beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Postseismic Deformation in the Northern Antarctic Peninsula Following the 2003 and 2013 Scotia Sea Earthquakes (2023)
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Nield, G. A., King, M. A., Koulali, A., & Samrat, N. (2023). Postseismic Deformation in the Northern Antarctic Peninsula Following the 2003 and 2013 Scotia Sea Earthquakes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128(10), e2023JB026685. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023jb026685

Large earthquakes in the vicinity of Antarctica have the potential to cause postseismic viscoelastic deformation affecting measurements of displacement that are used to constrain models of glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA). In November 2013, a Mw 7.... Read More about Postseismic Deformation in the Northern Antarctic Peninsula Following the 2003 and 2013 Scotia Sea Earthquakes.

Conceptualising US Immigration Detention as Carceral Real Estate (2023)
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Martin, L. L. (2023). Conceptualising US Immigration Detention as Carceral Real Estate. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12992

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement operates the largest detention system in the world, holding over 35,000 people in October 2023. The vast majority of this capacity is outsourced to corrections firms, particularly the two largest, CoreCivic... Read More about Conceptualising US Immigration Detention as Carceral Real Estate.

Can the EU taxonomy for sustainable activities help upscale investments into urban nature-based solutions? (2023)
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Papari, C., Toxopeus, H., Polzin, F., Bulkeley, H., & Menguzzo, E. V. (2024). Can the EU taxonomy for sustainable activities help upscale investments into urban nature-based solutions?. Environmental Science and Policy, 151, Article 103598. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2023.103598

We analyze the potential of the European Union (EU) Taxonomy (ET) for Sustainable Activities to mobilize investments for the sustainability transition toward urban nature-based solutions (UNBS). We map the current investment landscape of UNBS in Euro... Read More about Can the EU taxonomy for sustainable activities help upscale investments into urban nature-based solutions?.

Chemical Oxygen Demand as a Measure of Fluvial Organic Matter Oxidation State (2023)
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Worrall, F., Clay, G. D., Howden, N. J. K., & Burt, T. P. (2023). Chemical Oxygen Demand as a Measure of Fluvial Organic Matter Oxidation State. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 128(10), Article e2022JG007248. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022jg007248

The oxidative ratio (OR) of the terrestrial biosphere is directly related to the size of the terrestrial biosphere carbon sink. In turn, OR of naturally occurring organic matter can be directly related to the oxidation state of the carbon in naturall... Read More about Chemical Oxygen Demand as a Measure of Fluvial Organic Matter Oxidation State.

Plio‐Pleistocene Southwest African Hydroclimate Modulated by Benguela and Indian Ocean Temperatures (2023)
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Rubbelke, C. B., Bhattacharya, T., Feng, R., Burls, N. J., Knapp, S., & McClymont, E. L. (2023). Plio‐Pleistocene Southwest African Hydroclimate Modulated by Benguela and Indian Ocean Temperatures. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(19), Article e2023GL103003. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023gl103003

Future projections of southwestern African hydroclimate are highly uncertain. However, insights from past warm climates, like the Pliocene, can reveal mechanisms of future change and help benchmark models. Using leaf wax hydrogen isotopes to reconstr... Read More about Plio‐Pleistocene Southwest African Hydroclimate Modulated by Benguela and Indian Ocean Temperatures.

Controls on upstream-migrating bed forms in sandy submarine channels (2023)
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Englert, R. G., Vellinga, A. J., Cartigny, M. J., Clare, M. A., Eggenhuisen, J. T., & Hubbard, S. M. (in press). Controls on upstream-migrating bed forms in sandy submarine channels. Geology, https://doi.org/10.1130/g51385.1

Submarine channels parallel river channels in their ability to transport sediment. However in contrast to rivers, sediment transport and bed-form development in submarine channels are less well understood. Many steep (>1°), sandy submarine channels a... Read More about Controls on upstream-migrating bed forms in sandy submarine channels.

Composition of planktonic foraminifera test-bound organic material and implications for carbon cycle reconstructions (2023)
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Paoloni, T., Hoogakker, B., Navarro Rodriguez, A., Pereira, R., McClymont, E. L., Jovane, L., & Magill, C. (2023). Composition of planktonic foraminifera test-bound organic material and implications for carbon cycle reconstructions. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10, Article 1237440. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1237440

Introduction: Foraminiferal shells are extensively used to reconstruct the marine environment in the geological past. The foraminifera test-bound organic material (FBOM), sheltered by the test from potential diagenetic alteration and contamination, h... Read More about Composition of planktonic foraminifera test-bound organic material and implications for carbon cycle reconstructions.

Speaking Stata: Replacing missing values: The easiest problems (2023)
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Cox, N. J. (2023). Speaking Stata: Replacing missing values: The easiest problems. The Stata Journal, 23(3), 884-896. https://doi.org/10.1177/1536867x231196519

Missing values are common in real datasets, and what to do about them is a large and challenging question. This column focuses on the easiest problems in which a researcher is clear, or at least highly confident, about what missing values should be i... Read More about Speaking Stata: Replacing missing values: The easiest problems.

Lithium, Brexit and Global Britain: Onshoring battery production networks in the UK (2023)
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Bridge, G., & Faigen, E. (2023). Lithium, Brexit and Global Britain: Onshoring battery production networks in the UK. The Extractive Industries and Society, 16, Article 101328. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2023.101328

As demand for electrical energy storage scales, production networks for lithium-ion battery manufacturing are being re-worked organisationally and geographically. The UK - like the US and EU - is seeking to onshore lithium-ion battery production and... Read More about Lithium, Brexit and Global Britain: Onshoring battery production networks in the UK.

Hydrosocial geographies: Cycles, spaces and spheres of concern (2023)
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Liao, Y., & Schmidt, J. J. (2023). Hydrosocial geographies: Cycles, spaces and spheres of concern. Progress in Environmental Geography, https://doi.org/10.1177/27539687231201667

Over recent decades, hydrosocial scholarship focusing on the plural, often contested relations of waters and societies has advanced significantly. This article reviews hydrosocial scholarship in three steps that are contextualized by geography's long... Read More about Hydrosocial geographies: Cycles, spaces and spheres of concern.

Playful finance: Gamification and intermediation in FinTech economies (2023)
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Lai, K. P., & Langley, P. (2024). Playful finance: Gamification and intermediation in FinTech economies. Geoforum, 151, Article 103848. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103848

This paper examines how digital gamification techniques, which incorporate video gaming elements (rather than full-fledged games) into apps, are reshaping the logics and practices of intermediation that are core to FinTech economies. First, we argue... Read More about Playful finance: Gamification and intermediation in FinTech economies.

High rates of rock organic carbon oxidation sustained as Andean sediment transits the Amazon foreland-floodplain (2023)
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Dellinger, M., Hilton, R. G., Baronas, J. J., Torres, M. A., Burt, E. I., Clark, K. E., …West, A. J. (2023). High rates of rock organic carbon oxidation sustained as Andean sediment transits the Amazon foreland-floodplain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(39), Article e2306343120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2306343120

The oxidation of organic carbon contained within sedimentary rocks (“petrogenic” carbon, or hereafter OCpetro) emits nearly as much CO2 as is released by volcanism, thereby playing a key role in the long-term global C budget. High erosion rates in mo... Read More about High rates of rock organic carbon oxidation sustained as Andean sediment transits the Amazon foreland-floodplain.