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‘My Family Needed Me’: Exploring Caring Dimensions and Care Circulation among Older Venezuelans on the Move in Peru (2023)
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Blouin, C., & Borios, S. (2023). ‘My Family Needed Me’: Exploring Caring Dimensions and Care Circulation among Older Venezuelans on the Move in Peru. Journal of Refugee Studies, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fead041

The humanitarian, political, and socio-economic crisis in Venezuela has generated an unprecedented migration to other South American countries. In the last six years, Peru has become the second receptor of Venezuelan people after Colombia and the fir... Read More about ‘My Family Needed Me’: Exploring Caring Dimensions and Care Circulation among Older Venezuelans on the Move in Peru.

Managed Urban Retreat: The Trouble with Crisis Narratives (2023)
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Rahman, M. F., Lewis, D., Kuhl, L., Baldwin, A., Ruszczyk, H., Nadiruzzaman, M., & Mahid, Y. (2023). Managed Urban Retreat: The Trouble with Crisis Narratives. Urban Geography, https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2023.2228094

In response to narratives of the mass movement of people triggered by climate change, a number of “managed retreat” models have been proposed as policy options, especially for densely populated urban areas in the Global South. Reviewing a case study... Read More about Managed Urban Retreat: The Trouble with Crisis Narratives.

Amplified surface warming in the south-west Pacific during the mid-Pliocene (3.3–3.0 Ma) and future implications (2023)
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Grant, G. R., Williams, J. H. T., Naeher, S., Seki, O., McClymont, E. L., Patterson, M. O., …Johnson, K. (2023). Amplified surface warming in the south-west Pacific during the mid-Pliocene (3.3–3.0 Ma) and future implications. Climate of the Past, 19(7), 1359-1381. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1359-2023

Based on Nationally Determined Contributions concurrent with Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) 2-4.5, the IPCC predicts global warming of 2.1–3.5 ∘C (very likely range 10–90th percentile) by 2100 CE. However, global average temperature is a poor i... Read More about Amplified surface warming in the south-west Pacific during the mid-Pliocene (3.3–3.0 Ma) and future implications.

An urban ‘age of timber’? Tensions and contradictions in the low-carbon imaginary of the bioeconomic city (2023)
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van Veelen, B., & Knuth, S. (2023). An urban ‘age of timber’? Tensions and contradictions in the low-carbon imaginary of the bioeconomic city. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486231179815

What will the low-carbon cities of tomorrow be made from? We see an unexpected answer today in the return of ‘premodern’/‘preindustrial’ materials to central cities and skylines. Champions of new mass timber materials have driven a race on iconic ‘pl... Read More about An urban ‘age of timber’? Tensions and contradictions in the low-carbon imaginary of the bioeconomic city.

Kitchen phenomenologies: Antiromantic poetics of space and food in the Anthropocene (2023)
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Astorga de Ita, D. (2023). Kitchen phenomenologies: Antiromantic poetics of space and food in the Anthropocene. Area, 55(4), 514-522. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12889

This paper considers the kitchen and the phenomenological values that emerge from it. In this text the kitchen is seen as a space of possibility within the context of the Capitalocene, from which new values and imaginations for a more sustainable fut... Read More about Kitchen phenomenologies: Antiromantic poetics of space and food in the Anthropocene.

Global variability and controls on the accumulation of fallout radionuclides in cryoconite (2023)
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Clason, C. C., Baccolo, G., Łokas, E., Owens, P. N., Wachniew, P., Millward, G. E., …Di Mauro, B. (2023). Global variability and controls on the accumulation of fallout radionuclides in cryoconite. Science of the Total Environment, 894, Article 164902. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164902

The accumulation of fallout radionuclides (FRNs) from nuclear weapons testing and nuclear accidents has been evaluated for over half a century in natural environments; however, until recently their distribution and abundance within glaciers have been... Read More about Global variability and controls on the accumulation of fallout radionuclides in cryoconite.

Pathways to Urban Equality through the Sustainable Development Goals: Modes of Extreme Poverty, Resilience, and Prosperity (2023)
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Lavell, A., McFarlane, C., Moore, H. L., Woodcraft, S., & Yap, C. (2023). Pathways to Urban Equality through the Sustainable Development Goals: Modes of Extreme Poverty, Resilience, and Prosperity. International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 15(1), 215-229. https://doi.org/10.1080/19463138.2023.2226099

There has been a tendency for debates around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to focus on particular Goals or Targets. What tends to get lost, however, is the bigger picture. In this paper we ask: to what extent and under what conditions do t... Read More about Pathways to Urban Equality through the Sustainable Development Goals: Modes of Extreme Poverty, Resilience, and Prosperity.

Quaternary Earth-science and Palaeolithic conservation initiatives in the Tejo (Tagus), Portugal: Comparison with the Lower Thames, UK (2023)
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Cunha, P. P., Bridgland, D. R., Figueiredo, S., Martins, A. A., Allen, P., & White, M. J. (2023). Quaternary Earth-science and Palaeolithic conservation initiatives in the Tejo (Tagus), Portugal: Comparison with the Lower Thames, UK. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 134(4), 476-489. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2023.04.006

Geoconservation measures in the River Tejo, the Portuguese reach of the Tagus, are compared with those in the Thames downstream of London (UK). Both are fluvio-estuarine reaches with staircases of Pleistocene depositional terraces, each with importan... Read More about Quaternary Earth-science and Palaeolithic conservation initiatives in the Tejo (Tagus), Portugal: Comparison with the Lower Thames, UK.

Predicting turbidity current activity offshore from meltwater-fed river deltas (2023)
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Bailey, L. P., Clare, M. A., Pope, E. L., Haigh, I. D., Cartigny, M. J., Talling, P. J., …Heijnen, M. (2023). Predicting turbidity current activity offshore from meltwater-fed river deltas. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 604, Article 117977. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117977

Quantification of the controls on turbidity current recurrence is required to better constrain land to sea fluxes of sediment, carbon and pollutants, and design resilient infrastructure that is vulnerable to such flows. This is particularly important... Read More about Predicting turbidity current activity offshore from meltwater-fed river deltas.

The Indexification of Poverty: The Covert Politics of Small‐Area Indices (2023)
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Kiely, E., & Strong, S. (2023). The Indexification of Poverty: The Covert Politics of Small‐Area Indices. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12959

In recent decades statistical indices have become a dominant method for measuring many features of the social world. While the resulting enumerations are regularly cited by critical human geographers, the wider political stakes of indexing the world... Read More about The Indexification of Poverty: The Covert Politics of Small‐Area Indices.

Climate Evolution Through the Onset and Intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation (2023)
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McClymont, E., Ho, S., Ford, H., Bailey, I., Berke, M., Bolton, C., …Tangunan, D. (2023). Climate Evolution Through the Onset and Intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation. Reviews of Geophysics, 61(3), Article e2022RG000793. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022rg000793

The Pliocene Epoch (~5.3-2.6 million years ago, Ma) was characterized by a warmer than present climate with smaller Northern Hemisphere ice sheets, and offers an example of a climate system in long-term equilibrium with current or predicted near-futu... Read More about Climate Evolution Through the Onset and Intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation.

Patterns of valley incision beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet revealed using automated mapping and classification (2023)
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Paxman, G. (2023). Patterns of valley incision beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet revealed using automated mapping and classification. Geomorphology, 436(September), Article 108778. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2023.108778

The Greenland Ice Sheet covers an area of 1.7 million km2, equivalent to ∼79 % of the surface of Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) and ∼1.2 % of the Earth's land surface. The macro-scale geomorphology beneath the ice can provide a valuable record of past... Read More about Patterns of valley incision beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet revealed using automated mapping and classification.

Buoyancy forcing: A key driver for northern North Atlantic SST variability across multiple time scales (2023)
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Risebrobakken, B., Jensen, M. F., Langehaug, H. R., Eldevik, T., Britt Sandø, A., Li, C., …De Schepper, S. (2023). Buoyancy forcing: A key driver for northern North Atlantic SST variability across multiple time scales. Climate of the Past, 19(5), 1101–1123. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1101-2023

Analyses of observational data (from year 1870 AD) show that sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies along the pathway of Atlantic Water transport in the North Atlantic, the Norwegian Sea and the Iceland Sea are spatially coherent at multidecadal tim... Read More about Buoyancy forcing: A key driver for northern North Atlantic SST variability across multiple time scales.

The characteristics and preservation potential of Hurricane Irma's overwash deposit in southern Florida, USA (2023)
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Joyse, K. M., Khan, N. S., Moyer, R. P., Radabaugh, K. R., Hong, I., Chappel, A. R., …Horton, B. P. (2023). The characteristics and preservation potential of Hurricane Irma's overwash deposit in southern Florida, USA. Marine Geology, 461, Article 107077. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2023.107077

Overwash deposits from tropical cyclone-induced storm surges are commonly used as modern analogues for paleo-storm studies. However, the evolution of these deposits between their time of deposition and their incorporation into the geologic record is... Read More about The characteristics and preservation potential of Hurricane Irma's overwash deposit in southern Florida, USA.

On the varied impact of the Storegga tsunami in northwest Scotland (2023)
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Woodroffe, S. A., Hill, J., Bustamante‐Fernandez, E., Lloyd, J. M., Luff, J., Richards, S., & Shennan, I. (2023). On the varied impact of the Storegga tsunami in northwest Scotland. Journal of Quaternary Science, https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3539

In this paper we evaluate new data and those from previous studies in northwest Scotland and perform a modelling study to test the hypothesis that the Storegga tsunami (submarine slope failure off the continental shelf of Central Norway dated to 8120... Read More about On the varied impact of the Storegga tsunami in northwest Scotland.

Channel migration in the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau and its implication for fluvial response to the interaction between rapid tectonic activity, climatic fluctuation and human influence (2023)
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Pan, B., Li, X., Hu, Z., Bridgland, D., Mo, Q., Dong, Z., …Zhong, M. (2023). Channel migration in the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau and its implication for fluvial response to the interaction between rapid tectonic activity, climatic fluctuation and human influence. Quaternary Science Reviews, 310, Article 108126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108126

Mass Loss of Glaciers and Ice Caps Across Greenland Since the Little Ice Age (2023)
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Carrivick, J. L., Boston, C. M., Sutherland, J. L., Pearce, D., Armstrong, H., Bjørk, A., …Smith, M. W. (2023). Mass Loss of Glaciers and Ice Caps Across Greenland Since the Little Ice Age. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(10), Article e2023GL103950. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023gl103950

Glaciers and ice caps (GICs) are important contributors of meltwater runoff and to global sea level rise. However, knowledge of GIC mass changes is largely restricted to the last few decades. Here we show the extent of 5327 Greenland GICs during Litt... Read More about Mass Loss of Glaciers and Ice Caps Across Greenland Since the Little Ice Age.

Extreme Flood Sediment Production and Export Controlled by Reach‐Scale Morphology (2023)
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Baynes, E. R. C., Kincey, M. E., & Warburton, J. (2023). Extreme Flood Sediment Production and Export Controlled by Reach‐Scale Morphology. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(10), Article e2023GL103042. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023gl103042

Rapid earth surface evolution is discrete in nature, with short-duration extreme events having a widespread impact on landscapes despite occurring relatively infrequently. Here, we exploit a unique opportunity to identify the broad, process-based, co... Read More about Extreme Flood Sediment Production and Export Controlled by Reach‐Scale Morphology.

Geography and ethics II: Justification and the ethics of anti-oppression (2023)
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Schmidt, J. J. (2023). Geography and ethics II: Justification and the ethics of anti-oppression. Progress in Human Geography, 47(6), 859-869. https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325231174965

This report on geography and ethics focusses on the justification of normative evaluations. Justifying why actions are right or wrong often relies on appeals to high-order principles, such as the common good. But this is not always the case, as this... Read More about Geography and ethics II: Justification and the ethics of anti-oppression.

Living digitally like a migrant: Everyday smartphone practices and the (Re)mediation of hostile state-affects (2023)
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Morgan, H. (2023). Living digitally like a migrant: Everyday smartphone practices and the (Re)mediation of hostile state-affects. Progress in Human Geography, https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325231174311

Over the last decade, geographical research has documented how digital technologies are changing experiences of (im)mobility into and within Europe. For irregular migrants in the European context, the smartphone has become a vital digital tool for me... Read More about Living digitally like a migrant: Everyday smartphone practices and the (Re)mediation of hostile state-affects.