Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2023.2171101
Miza Moreau, H. Parr, C. Philo
ABSTRACT The rationale for this theme section on ‘COP26, human geography and earth futures’ is explained. A previous special issue of this journal – entitled ‘Climate change, COP26 and the crucible of crisis’, published during 2020 in anticipation of COP26 – is deployed to frame the specifically human-geographical concerns of the present theme section. Contributions to the theme section were initially prepared and presented in late-2021 and early-2022, around the time of COP26 itself, before then being substantially revised for publication here. The ‘placedness’ of COP26 in the city of Glasgow is important for four of the articles in this section, taking seriously certain human geographies of COP26 itself as windows on the wider problematics of climate change, its injustices and how to respond. Further aspects of understanding, imagining and representing climate change then shape the other three articles, exploring different ways in which diverse actors – with different knowledges, expertise and orientations – potentially make a difference to thinking climate change past, present and future.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-23DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2022.2158366
N. Macdonald, S. Naylor, J. Bowen, A. Harvey-Fishenden, E. Graham
ABSTRACT We present a weather history for Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides, an island chain off the northwest coast of Scotland. It combines a new 164-year composite rainfall record representative of the settlement of Stornoway (1857–2019), alongside descriptive accounts of weather harvested from the school logbooks from the Nicolson Institute in Stornoway (1873–1974). The school logbooks record the experiences of the school, school children and wider community throughout the seasons. We describe the construction of the rainfall record for the period 1857–2019 and present analyses of long-term annual and seasonal variability, with a particular focus on wet/dry extremes. In examining instrumental and qualitative sources together, we consider not just climate, but also the impacts and responses of extreme weather on the communities of the Outer Hebrides and specifically Stornoway. The climate of the late nineteenth century in the Outer Hebrides was climatologically and meteorologically challenging, with harsh storms, severe cold, and droughts with notable societal impacts. School logbooks provide the opportunity to examine societal responses to past climate variability, enabling a better understanding of how future climates may be adapted and responded too.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-05DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2022.2161008
Miza Moreau
ABSTRACT This paper is concerned with both the affective and material dimensions of encounters among people, and between people and the city, during the COP26 summit in Glasgow, focusing on protest activities that aimed to engage the broader public. The discussion draws from my participation in, and observations of, two protests, the Youth Activist Climate March and the Climate Activist March, and observations of changes in public open spaces in Glasgow for COP26. Fieldwork street photography was instrumental in this study for discovering diverse encounters that were sometimes too transient to register through observations alone. It was deployed as a heuristic method, drawing from personal ‘in the moment’ experiences of the protests, as well as theories of public space and urban morphology, with the aim to discover how changing interactions between bodies and material spaces temporarily reconfigured Glasgow’s public realm. By making material/social relationships more transparent, this paper aims to address shortcomings in protest literature through addressing the material specificity of urban space. I argue that the diversity of Glasgow’s urban spaces enabled varied engagement with protest activities, among protesters, and between protesters and onlookers, and as a result created an overall inclusive, affective experience.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-05DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2022.2161009
Martin Jones
Dr Gordon MacLeod, Reader in Human Geography at Durham University, died on 14th October 2022, aged 58 (Figure 1). Gordon was an internationally significant thinker and shaper of interdisciplinary debates in urban and regional political economy. His distinctive writing style – a brilliant thematic synthesis of literatures from many disciplinary fields, blended with commentaries on policy, politics, and personalities – captured the imagination of established academics and deeply influenced a critical generation of graduate students around the world. Gordon’s generosity of academic character was matched by a gregarious willingness to always share, discuss, and debate ideas, throughout the working day and conference night. He leaves a corpus of work of significant international standing that continues to provide a benchmark for high-quality geographical political economy through the dynamic interface between economic and political geography. Born on the 19th May 1964 in Stornoway, Lewis, in the Western Isles, Gordon MacLeod was the son of a civil servant (Father, Donnie) and retailer (Mother, Peggy). The family was known as entrepreneurs and smart intelligent folk. He was an only child and lived at 16 North Figure 1. Gordon MacLeod, Tolsta Beech, Isle of Lewis, 2009.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-03DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2022.2162111
B. Sağlam, Mehmet Boyatan, F. Sivrikaya
ABSTRACT Forest fires are one of the most important factors for forest ecosystem and cause ecosystem destruction such as decreasing forest area, biodiversity in the Mediterranean region. Türkiye located in Mediterranean region is exposed to hundreds of fires every year, which damage forest. Mapping forest fire risk and danger constitutes an important basis for preventing fire damages. Geographical Information System is used for mapping forest fire risk and making the accurate and fast decision. This study is designed to develop a GIS-based decision support systems (DSS) to produce a forest fire risk and danger map for Türkiye. DSS uses topography, stand structure and anthropogenic factors for mapping forest fire risk and danger. DSS was developed using the C-sharp (C#) programming language with the help of Add-in in the ArcGIS. DSS has been successfully tested on case study sites in Kozan and Milas Forest Enterprises in Türkiye. In conclusion, the DSS has contributed to the forest managers to fight forest fire effectively. This study will make an important contribution to both the General Directorate of Forestry, which is in the position of implementing it, and the scientific community.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-22DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2022.2157867
D. Dixon
ABSTRACT The increased likelihood of extreme heat events is a profoundly important aspect of our global climate emergency, and yet the link between weather and climate remains a difficult subject to communicate. Here, I focus on a graphic that is on its way to becoming viral: Warming Stripes. Warming Stripes use a simple two-colour spectral palette – tints of blue and red, long a feature of weather maps – to signal relative yearly temperatures. Eschewing the argument that such hues have a universal affective capacity, and reflecting on its designer’s comments on the potential introduction of a new colour, purple, to indicate extreme heat, I argue that it is as a constructed, learned association between temperature and colour that there is further potential for this visual to intimate a warning. That is, while the potential introduction of purple signals a breach regarding accustomed climatic conditions, what is also breached is our capacity to maintain a standard of measurement by which to capture such conditions. I expand on this argument via reference to a prior of just such a breach, as a forecasted heatwave prompted the Australian Bureau of Meteorology to introduce a new colour to the hot end of its temperature scale: purple.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-18DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2022.2157866
A. Bobbette
ABSTRACT This essay considers the possibilities of re-thinking what a climate change observatory might be. Rather than reproducing science as usual, climate change observatories assembled with faith institutions, might open new potential for experimental environmental knowledge practices. The essay examines these ideas through an account of an experimental environmental observatory based in churches in the Solomon Islands.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-06DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2022.2125563
H. Parr
ABSTRACT This paper represents a short ethnographic encounter with the site of the COP26 Climate Conference in Glasgow in 2021. It communicates an experiential picturing of the site as it was assembled and disassembled, as this was recorded in notes, conversations, via phone footage and in a short talk afterwards with human geography colleagues at the University of Glasgow. The paper seeks to make sense of this short experiential encounter by drawing from scholarship on ethnography, security and events of emergency assemblage. The paper concludes by reflection on the ordinary purpose of walking sites of climate security and emergency.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14702541.2022.2140187
G. Kearns
This six-volume series captures the dynamic energies transmitted over more than 300 years of the established literary landmarks that constitute Irish literary life. Ambitious in scope and depth, and accommodating new critical perspectives and approaches, Irish Literature in Transition captures the ongoing changes in the Irish literary canon. Each of the six volumes revises our understanding of established issues and texts and, simultaneously, introduces new questions, approaches
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