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{"title":"Just Agri-Food Transitions: Assessing the Implications of Contrasting Decarbonisation Pathways for Small Businesses","authors":"Elpida Apostolopoulou,&nbsp;Will Eadson,&nbsp;Caroline Linhares","doi":"10.1002/geo2.70109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.70109","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the position of small businesses within just transitions to net zero agri-food systems. Decarbonising global agri-food systems is fundamental to net zero goals. Decarbonisation processes have varying implications for different people and across different geographies, prompting concerns for equity and inclusion. In this context, there has been a growing concern for a ‘just transition’ to net zero. To date, small businesses have not been considered a concern for just transition, but examination of the agri-food system highlights their importance in achieving an inclusive and equitable transition. Drawing from a semi-systematic literature review, we provide a thematic analysis of agri-food transitions, synthesising a novel research agenda through combining agri-food just transition and small business decarbonisation scholarship. In our review, we (1) investigate existing understanding of the position of small businesses within agri-food transitions; (2) produce a framework to analyse implications for small firms under different transition pathways; and (3) outline the transition-induced justice considerations that arise. Highlighting key research gaps and moving beyond existing literature, we develop an archetypal transitions framework to conceptualise and better understand what a just transition for agri-food small businesses looks like in three different, but interrelated, pathways: (a) agri-food system localisation; (b) demand-led dietary transitions; and (c) intensive tech-led transitions. Analysing these pathways, we identify key points of opportunity and challenge for different types of business across the agri-food supply chain. Through case study examples, we uncover the interrelationships and trade-offs that net zero transitions create for small businesses. Providing broader implications for agri-food sustainability, our framework shapes future research avenues, allowing for rethinking of small business agri-food just transitions and reimagining more equitable agri-food systems, built upon solidarity.</p>","PeriodicalId":44089,"journal":{"name":"Geo-Geography and Environment","volume":"13 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/geo2.70109","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149205451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Post-Connection Electricity Access Complexities in Eswatini: Household Energy Stacking","authors":"Helena Hastie,&nbsp;Wisdom Mdumiseni Dlamini","doi":"10.1002/geo2.70108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.70108","url":null,"abstract":"<p>High electrification rates can conceal persistent forms of energy poverty when access is measured as a grid/no-grid condition. This study examines electricity access as a situated and post-connection process in Eswatini, a small, landlocked country with a comparatively high electrification rate, strong import dependence on South Africa and uneven rural/peri-urban energy practices. Drawing on mixed-methods fieldwork in two rural communities and two peri-urban informal settlements, and on a 2017 Population and Housing Census enumeration-area (EA) energy dataset, the paper demonstrates that electricity access is shaped by affordability, reliability, repair geographies and the availability of alternative fuels. The findings demonstrate that grid connection does not necessarily translate into sufficient energy access: electricity is widely used for lighting and phone charging, while cooking remains strongly differentiated by place. Nationally, the EA data show much higher electricity use for lighting than for cooking, and a pronounced rural dependence on firewood. Qualitative data indicate that rural households with grid connections continued to rely heavily on firewood, while peri-urban households combined electricity with propane, paraffin and candles. The paper contributes to critical energy geographies by theorising Eswatini as a liminal energy geography positioned between South Africa's grid-centred electricity system and the off-grid/pay-as-you-go solar regimes more prominent in eastern and parts of southern Africa. It argues that energy access research and policy must move beyond infrastructural connection, towards sufficiency, reliability, affordability and clean-cooking transitions that reflect the spatial and relational realities of household energy use.</p>","PeriodicalId":44089,"journal":{"name":"Geo-Geography and Environment","volume":"13 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/geo2.70108","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149146243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Heat Susceptibility Mapping Across Khulna District, Bangladesh: Development and Analysis of a Comprehensive Heat Vulnerability Index and Delineating Intervention Areas","authors":"Mahin Rahman,&nbsp;Tasnia Haque,&nbsp;Tanmoy Chakraborty","doi":"10.1002/geo2.70107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.70107","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This research assesses heat vulnerability in Khulna, Bangladesh, by developing a heat vulnerability index (HVI) to evaluate susceptibility to extreme heat. The analysis considers 19 factors that represent exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity, including critical variables like humidity and air temperature, which were previously recommended but not included in one index of earlier studies. Principal component analysis (PCA) is used to analyse and standardise these variables across 13 upazilas (sub-districts), uncovering notable differences in vulnerability across the region. Five upazilas are identified as high-risk areas, with Khan Jahan Ali being the most vulnerable which is 5.77 times more vulnerable than the least affected upazila, Dumuria. Sensitivity demonstrates a strong correlation (0.88) with the HVI, emphasising the interconnection of socio-economic and demographic factors to heat event impacts. The study highlights the unique importance of Khulna for such an analysis due to its tropical climate, high humidity and geographic position near the Sundarbans and coastal regions, which expose it to compounded climate risks, including urban heat island effects and socio-economic vulnerabilities. Although Khulna is a growing urban centre with a diverse population, it has lacked region-specific assessments which makes this study the first to systematically map and quantify its heat vulnerability. The findings emphasise the need for targeted interventions, including enhancing green infrastructure where needed most through patchwork hotspot analysis, increasing public awareness and integrating heat resilience into urban planning, aiming to support healthy ecology and sustainable urban development and climate management in line with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This study provides a detailed spatial analysis of heat vulnerability, offering critical insights to guide policymakers and planners in developing tailored strategies, implementing protective measures and enhancing community resilience to extreme heat events.</p>","PeriodicalId":44089,"journal":{"name":"Geo-Geography and Environment","volume":"13 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/geo2.70107","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149145941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Doomsday Saviours: On the Agency of Indigenous Objects in Nepal","authors":"Ankita Shrestha","doi":"10.1002/geo2.70106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.70106","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As indigenous/local knowledge finds its decolonial calling as the power-adjusted commodity of contemporary capitalist crises, we present evidence of how agency may be historically extracted from its holders: the Indigenous Peoples. We explore the ontopolitics of indigeneity, or the underlying assumptions of ‘who is considered indigenous’. We identify this ontopolitics as operant within the indigenous paradox of self-government that continues to define the limits of indigenous agency as a nation-state prerogative. We ask: what does it then mean for the Indigenous to self-govern? Our scholarship turns to Nepal's federal era boundary-making politics and identifies how, afflicted with ‘aphasic dismembering’, Indigenous People's articulation of their agency within new territorial boundaries of their social and political realities reinforces colonial caste and ethnic hierarchies while further embedding communities within nation-state governance. Examining notions of territory and identity reified in service of state control, we draw from an ethnographic case study of two communities in rural western Nepal, where indigenous forms of boundary-making and resource management are ceding to newly revised frontiers of federalism; where communities battle for indigeneity through material and cultural resource ownership that revitalise colonial caste/ethnic domination and reinforce indigenous difference; and where politically robust auto-management systems become newly suppressed. Reinforcing the indigenous paradox of Nepal's ‘non-postcolonial’ nation-state history, where there are no colonisers but only colonised, indigenous ontologies then preserve the antagonism, or the indigenous difference, required in state's agentialisation of the Indigenous such that colonial caste/ethnic hierarchies become meaningful, and, hence, resurrected. At the core of the contemporary desire for indigenous resistance however lies the impulse to unearth history. But we ask: <i>with what exactly</i>? We conclude: Indigenous resistance is not a path to liberation but a double bind. To resurrect the past is to reinscribe the very ontologies of governance that first rendered indigenous life legible, liveable. Governable.</p>","PeriodicalId":44089,"journal":{"name":"Geo-Geography and Environment","volume":"13 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/geo2.70106","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149145610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Future of Environmental Geography","authors":"Kathyrn Yusoff,&nbsp;James Dyke,&nbsp;Ankit Kumar,&nbsp;Lynda Yorke,&nbsp;Laurie Parsons","doi":"10.1002/geo2.70104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.70104","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Around the world, the environmental crisis is deepening. Rising global temperatures are fuelling socioecological threats and damage with distinctly uneven geographical consequences. Although rapid and drastic reductions in carbon emissions are critical to preventing climate breakdown, our institutional, societal and individual responses have to date fallen short of what is needed. In the context of this urgency, how we respond now will profoundly reshape the geographies of our lives and will continue to do so far into the future. As geographers, we have a crucial role to play not only in analysing and anticipating these changes but also in advocating, as researchers, collaborators, teachers and citizens, for more sustainable futures. Here our speakers—all leading thinkers in environmental geography and currently shaping agenda-setting themes in <i>Geo: Geography and Environment</i>—address the place of geography in advancing and advocating for more sustainable, lower carbon and fairer socioecological places and futures. They will reflect on their own experiences and research interests and, in doing so, address questions and debates that speak directly to the vision of geography as a space for new, critical and underrepresented ideas in pursuit of fresh viewpoints and solutions to the world's most pressing environmental problems.</p>","PeriodicalId":44089,"journal":{"name":"Geo-Geography and Environment","volume":"13 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/geo2.70104","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148994337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Situated Regenerativity: A Relational Framework for Socio-Ecological Transformation","authors":"Gediminas Lesutis,&nbsp;Georg Hubmann,&nbsp;Tino Imsirovic,&nbsp;Diana Barrera-Salazar","doi":"10.1002/geo2.70099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.70099","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Amidst converging ecological, social and political crises, regenerativity is gaining traction as a paradigm for urban transformation, seeking to bridge material innovation with social change by integrating socio-cultural and ecological systems. Yet despite its promise, the concept remains diffuse and open to varied interpretation in practice. This paper applies an Urban Political Ecology (UPE) lens to examine how the material–social integration central to regenerativity thinking is co-produced, negotiated and constrained in practice. Drawing on three years of transdisciplinary research across Bhutan, Indonesia and South Africa, we analyse how regenerative transitions in the built environment are shaped by ecological histories, institutional arrangements and power relations. Our findings show that integrating material and social dimensions is an inherently political process, mediated by these dynamics in ways that both enable and constrain transformative change. Rather than proposing a fixed framework, we conceptualise regenerativity as a situated and contested praxis that takes shape differently across diverse geographies. Its potential lies not in universality but in its capacity to be translated through place-specific struggles, cultural meanings and political conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":44089,"journal":{"name":"Geo-Geography and Environment","volume":"13 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/geo2.70099","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148994080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Paradox of Coal in Contemporary Climate Transitions: Emerging Geographic Insights","authors":"Cille Kaiser","doi":"10.1002/geo2.70105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.70105","url":null,"abstract":"<p>That coal phase-out does not preclude investment in new coal became clear when the UK government, which co-founded the Powering Past Coal Alliance, approved plans for a new coalmine in 2022. In doing so, the United Kingdom joined other (industrialised) states that, despite ambitious phase-out targets and regulations, continue to invest in coal in some form. In this commentary, I draw on the case of the proposed coalmine in Whitehaven (UK) and other geographic insights into the insistence of coal (e.g., Canada and the United States) to show how these (new) geographies of coal trouble the logic of climate ‘leaders’ and ‘laggards’. Instead, and through exploration of the various spatial, material and temporal dimensions of coal, I show how coal's insistence can be a pervasive feature of phase-outs, often on the peripheries of otherwise ‘leading’ economies. This draws attention to other forms of unevenness that we might miss when we focus on the (comparative) political economies of national phase-outs alone.</p>","PeriodicalId":44089,"journal":{"name":"Geo-Geography and Environment","volume":"13 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/geo2.70105","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148942105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Socio-Biophysical Flood Vulnerability Analysis in Urban Informal Settlements in Kenya","authors":"Maria M. Mugeni,&nbsp;Ida Nadia S. Djenontin,&nbsp;Helen Greatrex","doi":"10.1002/geo2.70103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.70103","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Flooding in urban informal settlements (UIS) is often analysed through physical hazard exposure, yet risk extends beyond location. Social differentiation and political marginalisation also shape who is most affected, how impacts are experienced and ultimately how vulnerability is understood in UIS. Drawing on fieldwork conducted between May and August 2025 in Mukuru kwa Reuben, an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, this study examines how biophysical, socio-economic, institutional and political factors interact to shape vulnerability to floods, situating the analysis within critical debates on urban informality and climate justice. Grounded in urban political ecology enhanced with gendered perspectives, the study uses a sequential mixed-methods approach that integrates GIS-based flood mapping, participatory mapping, focus group discussions, household surveys (<i>N</i> = 220) and policy analysis to capture both spatial patterns and differentiated lived experiences of vulnerability. The findings reveal that whereas low-lying topography and poor drainage drive exposure, vulnerability is intensified by insecure tenure, precarious livelihoods, gendered care burdens and overlapped and fragmented governance. Hybrid mapping uncovers localised ‘risk microenvironments’ often invisible to formal models, showing the benefit of plural methodology to capture complex and situated realities. The study advances flood vulnerability in UIS as a governance–exposure assemblage, showing how biophysical exposure becomes socially consequential through tenure insecurity, fragmented service provision, selective enforcement, unequal resource access, precarious livelihoods and uneven recognition of informal settlements in urban planning. Insights from Mukuru carry wider relevance for rapidly urbanising cities across Africa, showing that reducing flood vulnerability requires addressing not only hydrological exposure, but also infrastructural deficits, tenure insecurity, governance failures and entrenched inequalities.</p>","PeriodicalId":44089,"journal":{"name":"Geo-Geography and Environment","volume":"13 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2026-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/geo2.70103","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148784161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"We Now Walk Into the Wild: A Rewilding Dialogue","authors":"Sarah Hunter,&nbsp;Mia Arundel","doi":"10.1002/geo2.70102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.70102","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper presents a dialogue on the meaning and uses of rewilding, with a focus on Britain, from the perspectives of an ecologist and human geographer. Inspired by Barry and Maslin's (2016) dialogue on geoscientific and political conceptions of the Anthropocene, this dialogue does not seek a universal definition, but to deliberate on interdisciplinary approaches to ecology and wilderness. In the context of rising land use tensions in Britain, the dialogue traverses the concepts of historical baselines, experimental conservation, resilience, cultural understandings and autonomy. Amongst the differences in approach and research interests, the discussion on environmental discourse emphasises the imperative for interdisciplinary collaboration in approaching the question of rewilding.</p>","PeriodicalId":44089,"journal":{"name":"Geo-Geography and Environment","volume":"13 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2026-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/geo2.70102","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148784162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"School Gardens in Vanuatu—Promoting Local Traditional Knowledge and Agricultural Resilience","authors":"Matthias Kowasch,&nbsp;Pierre Metsan,&nbsp;Adeline Mweleul,&nbsp;Helena Tischler","doi":"10.1002/geo2.70095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.70095","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper asks how and to what extent school gardening can contribute to the re-valorisation of local knowledge and practices to decolonise the educational system in the Pacific Island country of Vanuatu. Drawing from an empirical study in five secondary schools on the Islands of Efate and Tanna, in addition to a curriculum analysis and participatory observation, our data show that a large majority of the students work regularly in school gardens and grow manioc/cassava, taro, tomatoes, cabbage and other tubers and vegetables, in mixed cropping and with fallow land. They are very familiar with the seasonal calendar of yam, which may have been learned in their home environment. While sustainability topics are mentioned in school curricula, discussion of traditional worldviews and spiritual relations to nature is lacking. School gardening enhances agricultural resilience, connection to land and <i>kastom</i> and food sovereignty in a country shaped by cultural diversity and exposed to natural hazards. We therefore recommend a stronger inclusion of local knowledge in schooling, the promotion of field trips to foster the connection to the environment and a collaboration with <i>kastom</i> schools, in order to radically reform the educational system.</p>","PeriodicalId":44089,"journal":{"name":"Geo-Geography and Environment","volume":"13 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/geo2.70095","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148616752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}