{"title":"Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality","authors":"Farhana Sultana","doi":"10.1002/geo2.70029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.70029","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Climate change intensifies existing inequities, disproportionately impacting marginalised populations, particularly in the Global South and Indigenous communities. This is maintained through inequitable global climate governance, policies and solutions. The paper argues that climate coloniality, the complex entanglements of colonial legacies with contemporary climate and ecological changes, operates through systemic knowledge-based marginalisation or epistemic injustice, serving as a key mechanism in the uneven production and distribution of climate harms. Beyond the more commonly discussed material dimensions of loss and damage, epistemic injustices arise from silencing critical voices and devaluing knowledge systems. The paper extends the scope of loss and damage debates by drawing attention to epistemic losses: the erasure of worldviews, ontologies and practices that are vital for just and sustainable climate futures. It critically examines the intersections of power, pedagogy and praxis in (re)producing epistemic injustices, while simultaneously revealing counter-narratives of refusal, resurgence and relationality. By engaging Indigenous and Global South scholarship, the paper underscores the need to decolonise knowledge systems that reproduce dominant climate narratives and heed the epistemological alternatives offered by land- and kinship-based knowledge systems. Advancing climate justice depends on confronting epistemic injustice as both a form of loss and a condition of possibility: centring Global South and Indigenous perspectives is essential for cultivating pluriversal, decolonial and just climate frameworks and futures.</p>","PeriodicalId":44089,"journal":{"name":"Geo-Geography and Environment","volume":"12 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/geo2.70029","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145406911","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":"Safewashing in the conspicuous commodification of the hazardous aesthetic","authors":"Geoff Main, Janet Speake","doi":"10.1002/geo2.70034","DOIUrl":"10.1002/geo2.70034","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, we introduce the concept of safewashing within the context of the hazardous aesthetic and the attractive view as a new lens through which to research issues relating to widespread, continuing urban property development in unsafe, hazard-prone locations. Recognising that many aesthetically attractive views can be simultaneously hazardous, we suggest that in the process of property development and marketing, unsafe locations may be masked through ‘washing out’ (i.e. overlooking or covering up) actual and/or potential risk in favour of driving urban growth, capital investment and profit. Underpinned by the concept of aesthetic common sense, we explore the commodification of the aesthetically appealing view and the safewashing of the reality of hazard and potential disaster. Questions are raised about how the practice of safewashing within the context of increasing human impacts and the financial costs of disasters may be challenged and addressed.</p>","PeriodicalId":44089,"journal":{"name":"Geo-Geography and Environment","volume":"12 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/geo2.70034","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145406910","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}
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{"title":"Glocalisation of environmental challenges: The impact of the war in Ukraine on smog and heating practices in Polish local communities","authors":"Piotr Żuk, Paweł Żuk","doi":"10.1002/geo2.70031","DOIUrl":"10.1002/geo2.70031","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article analyses the impact of the war in Ukraine on air quality and heating practices in Polish cities. In this case, it does not focus on the direct impact of military activities, but on various social and political decisions, as well as changes in social behaviour undertaken under the influence of the energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine. The authors defend the thesis that it is worth analysing air quality and heating practices in local communities not only in the context of local and national policies but also by referring to global and transnational factors. Based on focus group interviews with the residents of Wrocław, they prove that global events may have an impact on local air quality and apartment heating methods and be a catalyst for processes in various spheres of local and national public life: legal–political, economic, environmental–spatial, health and socio-practical. The article proposes a glocalisation perspective as an approach that can integrate local social and environmental conditions with global ecological challenges, while also highlighting the impact of global factors—economic, political, energy-related and military—on local trends, behaviours and policies in the context of environmental protection.</p>","PeriodicalId":44089,"journal":{"name":"Geo-Geography and Environment","volume":"12 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/geo2.70031","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145366992","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":"Unravelling the growth of small cities with entrepreneurial urbanism in transition China: A case study of Zouping","authors":"Zhe Cheng, Shuo Yan, Jialin He, Xinfa Zhou","doi":"10.1002/geo2.70030","DOIUrl":"10.1002/geo2.70030","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Small cities are the critical arena for urbanisation and economic growth around the world. The tailored and variegated approach is key to facilitating the development of small cities. Based on the theory of entrepreneurial urbanism, this study constructs a conceptual framework of ‘subject-economy-policy-culture-space’ and takes Zouping as a typical case to explore the potential path of development for small cities. This study finds that the development of Zouping is an unintentional approach of entrepreneurial urbanism; emphasising industrial development, urban marketing and technological innovation to drive economic transformation; shaping the regional cultural atmosphere of mercantilism; and reconstructing the urban space with industrial parks as a leading spatial driver. Further research shows that a multi-subject cooperative network between the local government, enterprises and society is the foundation, and the establishment of an entrepreneurial urban cultural atmosphere is a necessary condition for the development of small cities. The entrepreneurial actions of local governments are the decisive conditions for the development of small cities. This study provides a reference value for the development of small cities both in China and the Global South and contributes to enriching the theoretical system of global entrepreneurial urbanism through Chinese cases.</p>","PeriodicalId":44089,"journal":{"name":"Geo-Geography and Environment","volume":"12 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/geo2.70030","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145366389","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}
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Caleb Scoville, Razvan Amironesei, Lily Xu, Melissa Chapman, Nicholas R. Record, Carl Boettiger
{"title":"From maps to models: Participation and contestability in the dynamic management of natural resources","authors":"Caleb Scoville, Razvan Amironesei, Lily Xu, Melissa Chapman, Nicholas R. Record, Carl Boettiger","doi":"10.1002/geo2.70028","DOIUrl":"10.1002/geo2.70028","url":null,"abstract":"<p>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.</p>","PeriodicalId":44089,"journal":{"name":"Geo-Geography and Environment","volume":"12 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/geo2.70028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145146721","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}
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