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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · 11d

🌍New in Geo!🌍

'From maps to models: Participation and contestability in the dynamic management of natural resources' by @calebscoville.bsky.social et al.

This paper compares how participation is conceived in static vs dynamic ocean management.

doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo by Caleb Scoville, Razvan Amironesei, Lily Xu, Melissa Chapman, Nicholas R. Record & Carl Boettiger entitled: 'From maps to models: Participation and contestability in the dynamic management of natural resources' with an orange banner at the top.

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Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 14d

New article out in Geo: Geography and Environment with an interdisciplinary dream team of coauthors: “From maps to models: Participation and contestability in the dynamic management of natural resources.”
doi.org/10.1002/geo2... (open access)

How does stakeholder participation in natural resource management change when conservation rules are grounded in near real-time data? Recent technological advances have increased the feasibility of the ‘dynamic management’ of natural resources, which promises to align the spatiotemporal scales of management with ecological variability and resource use. Drawing on Kelty's (2020) concept of ‘contributory autonomy’, this article offers a critical comparison of how participation is conceived of in the more established context of static conservation areas and planning versus the emergent field of dynamic management. A systematic review of the dynamic ocean management literature reveals a varied, but shallow engagement with the topic of stakeholder participation in that context. Whereas static management regimes are governed by relatively intuitive and contestable maps, dynamic management is governed by models and data flows. Overall, the decision-making stakeholder of participatory mapping processes under static management is displaced by the stakeholder conceived as an ‘end-user’ of a dynamic management product and consultant in its design. Yet, these shifts also open up potential points of contestation, which may pattern the future theory and practice of participation in dynamic management: counterdata, countermodelling and data chokepoints. Beyond the empirical focus on oceans, this article contributes to broader conversations about the political stakes of environmental data, and algorithmic and artificial intelligence-driven natural resource conservation by considering how possibilities for participation are foreclosed, enabled and reconstituted by new spatiotemporal and technological conditions.

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 18d

If you are still looking for that reading at the intersection of environment, health, extraction and disposession (with a dash of the digital)...

Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Jun 13

💻New in Geo!🛢️

'Minecraft's territory: Alberta's oil sands, settler knowledge infrastructure & digital geographies' by @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social

This paper traces how the data used for a Minecraft extension are tied to broader extractive networks of knowledge production.

doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

A photograph showing the 3D print of the Minecraft model of Peace River - a cross section of the geological formation of this site in different shades of grey and white to show the layers beneath the surface of the earth.

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · 18d

🐒New in Geo!🐒

'Between dunes and estuary: Forecasting mangrove forest change on primate culture and isolated livelihoods in Maranhão, Brazil' by Andrea Presotto et al.

doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Andrea Presotto, Stuart E. Hamilton, Gustavo A. Castellanos-Galindo, Ricardo R. Santos & Roberta Salmi (2025) entitled: 'Between dunes and estuary: Forecasting mangrove forest change on primate culture and isolated livelihoods in Maranhão, Brazil' with an orange banner at the top.

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · 22d

🌱New in Geo!🌱

'Urban oases and spatial injustices: Community gardens in the Cape Flats through a Lefebvrian lens' by Tinashe P. Kanosvamhira

This paper explores how gardeners in Cape Town, South Africa, transform neglected land as and everyday act of urban spatial justice.

doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

This is a graphical abstract for this paper published in Geo: Geography and Environment.

It is a diagram of 'Henri Lefebvre's Theory of the Social Production of Space' with three boxes beneath the title labelled 'Perceived Space: Spatial agency vs. structural constraints'; 'Conceived Space: Symbolic reclamation vs. institutional erasure'; 'Lived Space: Relational space-making'. These all point towards the topic of the paper which is 'Urban community gardens in the Cape Flats'.

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Trivik Verma @trivikrama.bsky.social · 24d

✨ I’m excited to share our new open-access article in @geoopenaccess.bsky.social, led by Juliana Gonçalves and with wonderful arts-based research by Namrata Narendra.

The editorial process has been amazing - so thankful to the team for offering both very meaningful feedback and being fair to us.

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · 24d

🌎New in Geo!🌍

'Everything about climate change is disproportionate: Principles for spatial justice in urban climate action' by J.E. Goncalves, N. Narendra & @trivikrama.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by J. E. Goncalves, N. Narendra & T. Verma (2025) entitled 'Everything about climate change is disproportionate: Principles for spatial justice in urban climate action' with an orange banner at the top.

As climate change makes the future of urban living appear increasingly daunting, many people and communities are already experiencing climate impacts. This paper highlights the disproportionate nature of climate change, from unequal historical responsibilities to unequal climate impacts that fall on the most vulnerable and unequal prospects that hinder people and countries from adapting to a changing climate now and in the future. Through an arts-based literature review, the paper demonstrates that climate change's effects and responses often reinforce existing inequalities, systematically pushing people, communities and entire countries into further vulnerability. Acknowledging that spatial processes play a critical role in creating, shaping and perpetuating inequalities and oppression, we advocate for spatial justice in climate action and offer eight principles to support spatial scholars and practitioners in adopting a critical perspective on climate change in urban contexts.

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Sep 10

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Sep 10

🌴New in Geo!🌴

'Assessing the carbon sequestration potential of church forest and their implication for climate change mitigation in Jabitehinan District, Ethiopia' by Addisu Bitew Birhanie et al.

doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

A graphical abstract for an article published in Geo about the contribution of church forests in Ethiopia to climate change mitigation. The graphic outlines a carbon stock assessment of church forests in three agroecological zones: semi-arid, sub-humid, and temperate highland. It highlights that a stratified systematic sampling approach was used in the paper, 60 sample plots were used with quadrants, and DBH (diameter at breast height) was measured at 1.3m.

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Sep 8

💧New in Geo!💧

'Integrating spatially disaggregated stakeholders' knowledge and opinions to enhance water governance in the Murray–Darling Basin' by Paul Hong et al.

This study examines stakeholder perspectives on Murray-Darling Basin policies in Australia from 2009-2021.

doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Paul Hong, Yongping Wei, Frederick Bouckaert, Kim Johnston & Brian Head (2025) entitled: 'Integrating spatially disaggregated stakeholders' knowledge and opinions to enhance water governance in the Murray–Darling Basin' with an orange banner at the top.

Effective river basin governance requires integrating diverse stakeholder knowledge and opinions to achieve sustainable environmental, economic and cultural outcomes. However, a measurable method for integrating these perspectives remains undeveloped. This study aims to assess the knowledge and opinions of spatially diverse stakeholders regarding the policy initiatives in the Murray–Darling Basin (MDB) from 2009 to 2021, focusing on the catchments with the misalignment between basin conditions and policy across environmental, economic and cultural dimensions. The analysis identifies significant misalignments in the Lower Murray, Barwon–Darling–Lower Darling, Gwydir and Murrumbidgee catchments, where economic priorities dominate basin conditions while environmental concerns are emphasised in policy development. Environmental advocacy and academic groups are the main drivers of reform, while agricultural stakeholders, Catchment Management Authorities and Indigenous groups present obstacles to progress. These groups require more focused engagement to facilitate governance shifts. The findings underscore the need for targeted consultation to better align policy and basin conditions.

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Sep 4

🫘New in Geo!🫘

'Decoding Brazil's bean belt: Spatiotemporal patterns, production systems and the pulse of bean production (2011-2022)' by Clever Lucas Aguilar et al.

This paper maps the key bean production areas in Brazil in the context of changing climates & food security.

doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

Four maps of Brazil highlighting harvest areas and the major bean-producing belts in the country.

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Sep 2

🪴New in Geo!🪴

'"Quiet" green community innovations at the interface of public and private ownership in an old neighbourhood in Zhengzhou, China' by Yanhui Shi et al.

This paper examines informal urban gardening practices within a 70-year-old neighbourhood in Zhengzhou.

doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Yanhui Shi, Terry R. Slater, A. Rob MacKenzie & Yueming Shi (2025) entitled: "‘Quiet’ green community innovations at the interface of public and private ownership in an old neighbourhood in Zhengzhou, China"

This paper examines informal urban gardening practices within a 70-year-old industrial neighbourhood in Zhengzhou, central China, employing the conceptual framework of ‘annexed common space for private green infrastructure’ (ACS-PGI). Through urban morphological and typological analysis, it interrogates how historical institutional legacies, urban land tenure regimes, local governance structures, socio-spatial configurations and cultural-agricultural traditions collectively inform and sustain these grassroots greening practices. Adopting a structural attribution system framework, the study advances a comprehensive understanding of the multifaceted structural determinants underpinning informal gardening. Departing from Western-centric interpretations that often frame such practices as acts of political contestation, the Zhengzhou case elucidates a historically embedded, socially legitimised and spatially articulated phenomenon rooted in collective memory, communal land-use rights and tacit state tolerance. This research contributes to urban socio-environmental scholarship by underscoring the necessity of situating informal urban greening within its distinct institutional and cultural-historical context, thereby offering critical insights for the theorisation of sustainable urban green infrastructure and community agency.

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Aug 28

🔋New dialogue in Geo!🔋

'Impact in the energy social sciences and humanities: How we matter matters' by @sidsareen.bsky.social et al.

doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky #geo

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Siddharth Sareen, Marianne Ryghaug, Dominic Boyer & Cymene Howe entitled: 'Impact in the energy social sciences and humanities: How we matter matters' with an orange banner at the top.

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Aug 27

Two hours to go until our #RGSIBG25 keynote panel on 'The Future of Environmental Geography'! 🌎🌍🌏

Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Aug 26

Don't miss our Geo Keynote tomorrow at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference!

This panel brings our editors in conversation with Kathryn Yusoff, James Dyke, Ankit Kumar & Lynda Yorke on 'The Future of Environmental Geography'.

🕐14:40
📍Teaching & Learning Building: Lecture Theatre 1 (& online)

Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgsibg.bsky.social · Aug 7

Our Annual International Conference is coming up! 🌍

On 26-29 August, we'll welcome 2,000+ geography professionals to the University of Birmingham for 400+ sessions, talks and events covering all types of geographical science. Learn more: http://bit.ly/4lgkPnk

📷: University of Birmingham

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Aug 26

We're hoping this session might be recorded, so look out for it on the online conference platform! Looking forward to receiving your paper soon, & all the best for your own conference presentation.

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Aug 26

Don't miss our Geo Keynote tomorrow at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference!

This panel brings our editors in conversation with Kathryn Yusoff, James Dyke, Ankit Kumar & Lynda Yorke on 'The Future of Environmental Geography'.

🕐14:40
📍Teaching & Learning Building: Lecture Theatre 1 (& online)

Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgsibg.bsky.social · Aug 7

Our Annual International Conference is coming up! 🌍

On 26-29 August, we'll welcome 2,000+ geography professionals to the University of Birmingham for 400+ sessions, talks and events covering all types of geographical science. Learn more: http://bit.ly/4lgkPnk

📷: University of Birmingham

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Aug 22

🔆New in Geo!🔆

'"Fine, you made your energy, but how much did we have to pay for this?" Embracing situated energy ecologies for pluriversal futures' by @shayanshokrgozar.bsky.social & @sidsareen.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky #geo

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Shayan Shokrgozar & Siddharth Sareen (2025) entitled: '"Fine, you made your energy, but how much did we have to pay for this?": Embracing situated energy ecologies for pluriveral futures' with an orange banner at the top.

Growing energy and material throughput, climate change targets and political economic evolution have spurred rapid deployment of lower-carbon energy infrastructures. Many of these developments have relied on ‘cheap nature’, often covering agropastoral and indigenous lands, which raises questions about the implications of energy transitions for non-industrial lifeways. This article explores the onto-epistemological foundations that comprise the emergent energy transitions paradigm. Anchored in ethnographic findings from fieldwork in Rajasthan (India), we identify naturalism as the dominant ontological basis of knowledge production in global energy policies and examine its imaginaries and practices. We draw on Philippe Descola's ontological modes of identification to question universalism and demonstrate its perpetuation through energy transition practices. These approaches overlook socioecological complexity, a gap starkly showcased by the solar energy rollout in agropastoral Rajasthan, with Jaisalmer district as its epicentre. To overcome these limitations, we propose and empirically test the Situated Energy Ecologies principles, which combine (a) a post-productivist approach based on a commitment to energy sufficiency; (b) a commitment to ontological and epistemic recognition, to better capture place-based ways of knowing and being; and (c) autonomous practices based on prefigurative politics and agonism. By integrating a wider array of human experiences, this tripartite heuristic fosters a pluralistic understanding of energy-society relations towards emancipatory engagement.

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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · Aug 14

🌍Are you attending the RGS-IBG Annual Conference in Birmingham later this month?🌏

🚌You can request free bus travel around Birmingham during the week of the conference - just complete the form below by Sunday 17th August.

Geographers please share!

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Microsoft Forms

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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgsibg.bsky.social · Aug 7

Our Annual International Conference is coming up! 🌍

On 26-29 August, we'll welcome 2,000+ geography professionals to the University of Birmingham for 400+ sessions, talks and events covering all types of geographical science. Learn more: http://bit.ly/4lgkPnk

📷: University of Birmingham

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Aug 6

🗺️New in Geo!🗺️

'Enhancing expert elicitation techniques through participatory mapping: Application to marine environment assessments in Palawan, Philippines' by Billy Tusker Haworth et al.

doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky #geo

Photograph of workshop participants drawing on basemaps of Palawan using coloured markers and plastic overlays. Photo by Billy Tusker Haworth.

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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgsibg.bsky.social · Aug 4

Welcome to our Bluesky account! 👋

We love all things geographical, and as a Society we support geography and geographers across the world 🌍

Follow us for updates, events, opportunities and more 📣

Learn more about our work on our website 👉 https://www.rgs.org/

📷 Matt Chung

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Jul 31

We are delighted to share our highest Impact Factor to date, 3.8, which reflects the quality work published by our authors

Thank you to everyone who has chosen to publish with us & we look forward to working with more of you over the coming years

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... 3/3

Screenshot of the journal's Aims & Scope page:

Aims and Scope
Geo is a fully open access international journal which publishes original articles from across and beyond the discipline of geography that focus on the environment, climate change, and sustainability. We welcome new, critical, and underrepresented ideas from leading scholars and emerging voices in pursuit of fresh viewpoints and solutions to the world's most pressing environmental problems.

We welcome papers in a range of formats - regular papers, dialogues, commentaries, visual essays, reviews - that engage with environmental issues from a geographical perspective.

Papers in Geo can also foster methodological development including collaborative forms of knowledge production, interdisciplinary approaches, and the innovative use of quantitative and/or qualitative data sets.

We are especially encouraging of submissions by authors from the Global South and underrepresented academic communities within the Global North. As a fully open access journal, Geo is proud of its broad geographical reach in both authorship and readership.

Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Jul 31

We have co-curated 5 'Geo Themes' which are setting agendas in emerging fields of environmental research - anyone can submit work on these themes ⬇️

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... 2/3

Screenshot showing the Geo Themes overview page:

Geo: Geography and Environment hosts a number of "Themes" each year that reflect current debates in environmental geography and speak to issues raised by our community. Each theme is managed by an advisory team of leading academics who develop, curate, and invite a range of contributions and conversations.

Each theme is open for submissions — you can connect your submission with a theme on the ScholarOne submission system. If you wish to discuss a submission, please contact one of the theme leads, or the editorial office (journals@rgs.org). Please also contact the editorial office if you have an idea for a new theme.

Our current themes are:

"Climate Change, AI and Sustainability" led by Mark Maslin, James Dyke, Eric Nost, Ruth Machen, Jenny Goldstein, and Luis Alvarez León;

"Decolonising Climate Geography" led by Farhana Sultana, Kathryn Yusoff, and Miriam Gay-Antaki;

"Geographies of Energy Futures" led by Catherine Butler, Peter Forman, and Ankit Kumar;

"The Future of Fieldwork in a Changing World" led by Ewan Woodley, Naomi Holmes, Stewart Barr, and Lynda Yorke;

"The Place and Politics of Marine Governance" led by Pamela Buchan, Catherine Queen, Natasha Bradshaw, Freya Croft, Aisling Lannin, and Kira Gee.

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Jul 24

🎣New in Geo!🛢️

'Poverty alleviation in fishing communities affected by oil production in Ghana: Does income diversification matter?' by Akwasi Mensah-Bonsu et al.

This paper investigates the impacts of fishing bans near offshore oilfields in Ghana on coastal livelihoods.

doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

Painted illustration showing a Ghanaian fisherman on the left with a full basket of fish and an oil rig in the sea behind him with an 'exclusion zone' around it. On the right, two fishermen sit in in their boat on the beach with the oil rig still in the background and a 'no fishing' sign on the beach.

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Jul 22

⛰️New in Geo!⛰️

'Combining scientific and local knowledge to understand climate change effects in high mountains: A case study from Porshinev Jamoat, Tajikistan' by Aslam Q. Qadamov et al.

doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Aslam Q. Qadamov, Roy C. Sidle & Arnaud Caiserman (2025) entitled 'Combining scientific and local knowledge to understand climate change effects in high mountains: A case study from Porshinev Jamoat, Tajikistan' with an orange banner at the top.

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Jul 18

🌲New in Geo!🌲

'Spatiotemporal dynamics of vegetation cover and drought conditions in West Darfur, Sudan: Implications of climate variability and future projections' by Abdalrahman Ahmed & Kornel Czimber

doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Abdalrahman Ahmed & Kornel Czimber (2025) entitled 'Spatiotemporal dynamics of vegetation cover and drought conditions in West Darfur, Sudan: Implications of climate variability and future projections' with an orange banner at the top.

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Jul 14

🌊New in Geo!🌊

'Muddying the grounds of environmental justice in the Pacific mangroves: From recognition to feeling for justice at the food-climate nexus' by Heide K. Bruckner

This paper is part of a forthcoming Special Section on the political ecologies of islands.

doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Heide K Bruckner (2025) entitled 'Muddying the grounds of environmental justice in the Pacific mangroves: From recognition to feeling for justice at the food-climate nexus' with an orange banner at the top.

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Jul 2

🌍New commentary in Geo🌎

'Beyond disciplines: Strengthening boundary crossing through geography' by Gary Kass

doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky