Pub Date : 2023-05-16DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2212654
Mostafa Hashim
ABSTRACT This study aims to determine Egypt’s potential for energy sources, and the volume of potential energy production and consumption, balancing inputs, outputs and availability of energy. The study depends on analyzing the map of Egypt’s energy balance of non-renewable and renewable energy, including oil, gas, solar, and wind energy, using UN-Energy Balance of Egypt data and the global solar and wind atlases of Egypt. It demonstrates that in 2020 Egypt’s production of fossil fuels is 89.03% of the total energy production, while renewable energy production is only 10.97%. More specifically, fossil fuel consumption is 97.8% of the total consumed energy, while energy consumption from renewable sources is 2.2%. Therefore, this study recommends that further studies should be conducted to explore ‘hybrid’ energy sources to solve Egypt’s energy crisis and to preserve the environment through clean energy sources, such as using green hydrogen and working on reducing emissions from fossil fuels. It is also recommended that there is value in employing GIS and RS applications to estimate the potential of renewable energy across the map of Egypt, and to present this information to possible investors who could expand the development of clean energy sources.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-10DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2210524
D. Sugden, A. E. Fallick
ABSTRACT The Scottish Alliance of Geoscience, Environment and Society (SAGES) was launched in May 2007 and thrives to this day (https://www.sages.ac.uk). It is a major research partnership between ten institutions in Scotland squarely focused on the prime problem of our time, namely understanding how the natural world works and how it interacts with human society. The inspiration driving SAGES is that we can all contribute more if we collaborate. Paul Bishop was a staunch believer in collaboration and played a pivotal role in the building of SAGES. The early history of SAGES and Paul’s contribution is little known and it seems fitting to address this in a special issue in his name.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-07DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2205853
T. Jonell, Iara Nave Calton, Martin D. Hurst, Peter Jones, Adam R. Lucas, S. Naylor
ABSTRACT Watermills have been an essential source of mechanical power for over two millennia. Their careful siting often took into account local hydrology, topography, and economic demand, attesting to the important place they held in premodern and early modern societies. This paper highlights the significance of Paul Bishop's work on mills over the last 20 years, which revealed that numerous historical watermills along Scottish rivers were closely located near overly steep stretches of river to maximize waterpower and minimize cost. Termed ‘knickpoints’, many of these steep erosional features formed thousands of years ago during and after melting of the British–Irish Ice Sheet. Post-glacial isostatic rebound caused rivers to erode into bedrock at rates set by river catchment size and sediment availability. Although bedrock knickpoints along the Scottish coast are relatively stable over human timescales (<103 years), knickpoints generated by milling in England have been invoked as potential hazards due to their potential to migrate over similar timescales. Bishop's observations on the colocation of knickpoints and watermills encouraged a more comprehensive investigation of the relationship between natural and human systems over the last 250 years and invited re-evaluation of prevailing narratives for the history of water technology and patterns of water-powered industrialization in Britain.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-23DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2196538
P. Elliott
ABSTRACT Phil Dodds's book is the first to explore Enlightenment Edinburgh's role across multiple scales, from individual people, books, houses, and shops to government and institutions at regional, national and international levels. As he shows, the city's character and the activities of its inhabitants and visitors were strongly determined by a forceful assertion of growing economic hegemony, warfare and colonialism, and the associated struggles for power. Exploiting numerous sources from archival materials to printed books, Dodds clearly demonstrates how richly interconnected the city's population was with its immediate hinterland, the Scottish nation and wider world. The book emphasises the dynamic, changing and interconnected processes revealed by ‘universalising’ Enlightenment Edinburgh, providing fresh thinking on subjects like the development of the New Town, the history of Edinburgh High School, and the changing composition of works published in the city.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-12DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2199712
G. Carruthers
ABSTRACT Attention is drawn in this brief note to how Paul Bishop’s interests as an earth scientist and physical geographer inspired the author in interpreting the poetry of Scotland’s national bard, Robert Burns. James Hutton’s geological theories regarding the age of the earth, the historical instability of the earth’s surface and the erosive powers of the elements likely influenced Burns, suggesting new inflections to the interpretation of at least two of his well-known poems. Paul Bishop’s assistance with respect to interpreting a Burns copyist’s poem is also explained.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2197869
B. Anderson
ABSTRACT In this position paper, I speculate on what we might learn about the politics of climate change if we stay with the possibility that boredom might be part of how subjects encounter and make sense of climate change. I argue that boredom enacts an ethically and politically ambivalent detachment from the demand to act that accompanies urgency-imbued vocabularies of crisis and emergency. Whether boredom is a refusal to face climate change, or a way of coping with and inhabiting the overwhelming, being bored with climate change allows existing attachments to fossil-fuelled lives and futures to continue. The event of climate change is ‘suspended’, in the sense that it is no longer affectively present. I distinguish this relation of ‘climate change suspension’ from two other ways of detaching from the event of climate change – ‘climate change denial’ and ‘climate change delay’. Unlike in denial or delay, in suspension the demand of climate change is held in abeyance, not ended. It returns in ways that blur the line between boredom and other affects. In conclusion, I reflect on the affective politics of climate change, and wonder about how boredom could become part of a progressive politics of climate change.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2194285
W. Adger
ABSTRACT Conferences of the UN climate change convention have legacies both in formal outcomes and treaties and in raising the profile of emerging climate dilemmas. The joint legacies of COP26 in Glasgow and COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh have been in elevating the profile and formalising the potential for solidaristic action on ‘Loss and Damage’ from climate change. This article reviews the documented outcomes on Loss and Damage from the two events to analyse the significance and constraints of this element of the overall climate change regime. Loss and Damage is likely to be constrained as a global collective action by the capacity to identify and measure losses and damages and by the ability of the climate change regime to deliver on meaningful resource transfers. Yet the formalisation of elements of climate justice through Loss and Damage is a real and lasting legacy of these COP events.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2226452
T. Bradwell, M. Stoker
ABSTRACT The seabed landscape around the Summer Isles (NW Scotland) hosts classic examples of subaqueous moraines formed at a Late Pleistocene tidewater ice-sheet margin. This suite of moraines, now within the Wester Ross Marine Protected Area, records oscillatory retreat of the grounding line of (one or more) large outlet glaciers receding from the open waters of the Minch into the fjords of Loch Broom and Little Loch Broom at the end of the last (Weichselian / Devensian) glaciation. The moraines, probably the best-studied examples in UK waters, formed by a combination of pushing, dumping and/or squeezing of sediment at the grounded tidewater glacier front. Their absence in some basins suggests that the glacier front was un-grounded (partially floating) in areas of deeper water. Some of these seabed moraines can be connected to ice-sheet moraines onshore, assigned to the Wester Ross Readvance, and dated to ca. 15.5 ka BP. Geomorphological evidence strongly suggests that the whole sequence represents relatively slow and punctuated ice-front retreat over a period of decades to centuries. Continued protection of these rare and distinctive seabed moraines is important, both on geological and ecological grounds. The moraines represent the first underwater Scottish Landform Example in this long-running series.
夏季群岛(苏格兰西北部)周围的海底景观拥有在晚更新世潮汐冰盖边缘形成的经典水下冰碛。这组冰碛现在位于西罗斯海洋保护区内，记录了(一个或多个)大型出口冰川的搁浅线的振荡退缩，这些冰川从明奇的开阔水域退缩到最后一次(魏希塞利/德文)冰川结束时的布鲁姆湖和小布鲁姆湖峡湾。冰碛可能是英国水域中研究得最好的例子，它是由搁浅的潮汐冰川前沿沉积物的推动、倾倒和/或挤压共同形成的。它们在一些盆地的缺失表明，在较深的水域，冰川前缘是不接地的(部分漂浮)。其中一些海底冰碛可以与岸上的冰原冰碛联系起来，属于西罗斯Readvance，其年代约为15.5 ka BP。地貌学证据有力地表明，整个序列在几十年到几个世纪的时间里代表了相对缓慢和间断的冰锋退缩。从地质和生态的角度来看，继续保护这些稀有而独特的海底冰碛非常重要。冰碛代表了这个长期系列中第一个水下苏格兰地貌的例子。
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2231405
M. Hurst, R. Thomas
ABSTRACT In this editorial, we highlight the ongoing role of Scottish landscapes and landforms in pushing the frontiers of physical geography research, with particular to the contributions in the Scottish Geographical Journal (previously Scottish Geographical Magazine) since its inception in the 1880s. We outline some important avenues of research during the journal’s lifetime and place them in the context of future challenges that Scotland and the world face, environmentally, economically and societally. Attention is also particularly paid to the Scottish Landform Examples (SLaX) series and to its continuation under the new editorial team. We invite new physical geography research contributions to the journal ‘in, of or from Scotland’ and its globally important landscapes.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-31DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2190997
Erin Pritchard
ABSTRACT This position piece is a response to the recently published review of my first monograph Dwarfism, Spatiality and Disabling Experiences. In this review I highlight the importance of positionality when focusing on disability research. In particular I focus on how my positionality resulted in emotions that were read as anger and bitterness. Drawing on Audre Lourde’s The Uses of Anger, this position piece argues that my response to disablism experienced by people with dwarfism is anger. This anger, not only helps to prevent feelings of pity, but is an emotion that can help to foster change. This anger is often in response to the long held belief that dwarf entertainment is somehow an appropriate occupation for people with dwarfism, which is rarely challenged. Lastly, this piece also responds to the critique of only including female participants. Again, this choice was informed by my positionality as a woman with dwarfism who was sexually assaulted by a potential participant. This position piece demonstrates that the researcher's positionality can evoke particular experiences from the research, which can also provoke certain emotions, such as anger.
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