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{"title":"Belief Network Assessment of Fire Management in East African Savannas Under Socioeconomic and Climate Change","authors":"A. R. Croker,&nbsp;R. Stafford,&nbsp;Y. Kountouris","doi":"10.1002/geo2.70063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.70063","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Fire regimes across East Africa's savanna conservation landscapes increasingly reflect interconnected ecological and biocultural breakdown, reinforcing systemic vulnerabilities. Yet colonially inherited fire suppression and exclusionary tenure arrangements continue to overlook the ecological value of pyrodiversity and the stewardship roles of Indigenous and local actors. This study presents a novel probabilistic systems model for evaluating seven predictive, exploratory, and normative fire management approaches across best-, intermediate-, and worst-case socioeconomic–climate futures. The SAV Belief Network (SAV BN) advances BN modelling by explicitly incorporating system complexity and future uncertainty through systemic feedbacks, bidirectional interactions, and high node complexity, supporting rigorous scenario analysis in data-limited contexts. Grounded in empirical data from the Tsavo Conservation Area, the model reflects relational epistemologies that emphasise human–nature interdependencies and place-based knowledge. No approach proved capable of simultaneously achieving wildfire mitigation, ecological integrity, and livelihood resilience. Most reduced wildfire risk and, under best-case trajectories, improved livelihoods; however, even highly normative approaches only slowed, rather than halted or reversed, ecological degradation. Fire suppression and carbon-oriented strategies focused on above-ground biomass accounting intensified ecological decline, particularly under inequitable futures, while locally conceptualised bottom-up strategies failed to confront entrenched colonial legacies and reproduced exclusionary power structures and degradation narratives. These findings highlight the need to reimagine fire regimes as products of multi-scalar, path-dependent dynamics shaped by institutional erosion, political–economic preferences, and contested land claims. Addressing this complexity requires moving beyond ‘integrated’ or ‘community-based’ framings towards historical institutional and environmental justice approaches that centre representation and equity.</p>","PeriodicalId":44089,"journal":{"name":"Geo-Geography and Environment","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/geo2.70063","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147269032","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":"Engaging With Multi-Level Climate Governance: A Place-Based Exploration of Public Perceptions of a Local Climate Change Strategy","authors":"Ami Crowther,&nbsp;Tom Hambley,&nbsp;Stefano Magariello,&nbsp;Kate Baker","doi":"10.1002/geo2.70059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.70059","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The achievement of the UK government's national climate targets is dependent on sub-national activity. The distribution of responsibility across governance actors at multiple scales has resulted in the development of different climate change strategies. Increasingly, these strategies draw upon a place-based approach, as this supports the development of strategies that better capture local contexts. Yet, when developing place-based strategies, there is the need for early, meaningful and ongoing engagement with a diverse and extensive range of publics to fully capture local contexts. Drawing upon insights obtained through workshops conducted with local publics in Cambridge, UK, this paper unpacks tensions between publics and governance actors in relation to Cambridge City Council's 2021–2026 Climate Change Strategy. Utilising a relational place-based framing, the paper discusses: (1) the misalignment between the strategy and the priorities of publics; (2) the perceived disjuncture in how the strategy is being implemented; and (3) approaches for addressing the tensions identified. The paper closes with empirically informed recommendations for developing local climate strategies, which are of relevance for any context whereby (local) strategies are being developed and implemented.</p>","PeriodicalId":44089,"journal":{"name":"Geo-Geography and Environment","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/geo2.70059","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147288248","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":"Mental Oil Spills: Visualising Petroleumscapes to Uncover Petro-Hegemony in Stavanger, Norway","authors":"Bjørk Tørnqvist,&nbsp;Bregje van Veelen","doi":"10.1002/geo2.70056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.70056","url":null,"abstract":"<p>With the urgent need to address climate change, it is critical to confront fossil fuel dependency, particularly in the Global North. This requires confronting the spatio-cultural dimensions of fossil fuels, including how they have become embedded in those locations most closely tied to the fossil fuel industry. This article integrates insights from energy geographies with Hein's concept of petroleumscape to unpack how oil is embedded in Stavanger, Norway's oil capital. This article argues that attention must be paid to local petroleumscapes in order to better unpack how fossil fuel dependency becomes spatially embedded in locally differentiated ways, while simultaneously reinforcing a global petroleumscape. Through qualitative participatory mapping, the article visualises perceived spatialities of petroleum by Stavanger's citizens. Empirically, the article finds that although petroleum is seen as at once hyper-visible and obscured, the city is characterised by a petro-omnipresence. Furthermore, the article finds that petroleum produces a particular social space through the funding of public goods, while also producing social inequalities that are experienced spatially through unequal housing patterns and leisure activities. These insights contribute to uncovering the obscured, yet all-encompassing influences of petroleum on social–ecological spaces in a highly oil-dependent and oil-producing region.</p>","PeriodicalId":44089,"journal":{"name":"Geo-Geography and Environment","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/geo2.70056","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147268883","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":"Climate Change Responses in the Pacific: Just Transformation or Transforming Justice?","authors":"Ilan Kelman,&nbsp;Simon Hollis","doi":"10.1002/geo2.70058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.70058","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Pacific Islanders are being affected by climate change and are often advised from outside the Pacific to respond through justice and transformation. This paper aims to step back from such rhetoric in order to examine its implications. Through considering four types of ‘fatigue’, it asks whether or not transformation and justice approaches for climate change responses account for on-the-ground circumstances of Pacific Islands and Islanders. Possible consequences of the language of transformation and justice are then explored. Critique can lead to responses which suggest how identified difficulties could be overcome through the Pacific approach of <i>talanoa</i>. Conclusions indicate how <i>talanoa</i> can assist in avoiding external impositions without bypassing what non-Pacific approaches offer the Pacific—and especially vice versa.</p>","PeriodicalId":44089,"journal":{"name":"Geo-Geography and Environment","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/geo2.70058","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146154589","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":"Copenhagen not Copacabana? Practices and Perspectives for Fieldwork Without Flying","authors":"E. Cotterill,&nbsp;I. Jon,&nbsp;H. Pitt","doi":"10.1002/geo2.70053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.70053","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Climate emergency compels higher education institutions to reduce their emissions footprint, prompting geographic educators to reconsider carbon-intensive field course education. Retaining international experiences far from home might remain possible via overland rail. To test long-distance train travel with students we piloted a field study visit from the UK to Copenhagen. Responding to calls for critical reflection on how to collectively advance geographic fieldwork education by reconnecting values and practice, we provide insights to the practicality, ethics and accessibility of low-carbon travel for educational activity, and offer experience-based recommendations for how staff and students can make any substantial overland journey more comfortable. We contribute to literature on fieldwork pedagogy by focusing on journey more than destination, from staff and student perspectives. Findings centre on three themes: students' assessment of the costs and benefits of international trains as an alternative to flying; staff and student experiences of overland rail mobilities; and the ethical dynamics of reducing university aeromobility. These indicate multiple disadvantages of lengthy overland travel, not least impacts on workload, staff and student wellbeing, plus potential disadvantaging of less internationally mobile students. It is not clear that these are outweighed by the advantages of switching to lower-carbon travel modes, particularly from students' perspective. Designing inclusive fieldwork goes beyond shaping accessible learning opportunities, to consider the justice of inequitable distribution of opportunities for overseas experiences. We conclude that staff and students should explore together how to navigate competing demands on field course design as part of learning to be globally responsible geographers at a time of climate emergency.</p>","PeriodicalId":44089,"journal":{"name":"Geo-Geography and Environment","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/geo2.70053","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146162850","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":"Playful Mapping for Climate Adaptation: Two Case Studies From Jakarta's Coast","authors":"Annika Kühn,&nbsp;Teresa Erbach,&nbsp;Hilke Marit Berger,&nbsp;Haratua Zosran","doi":"10.1002/geo2.70057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.70057","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While playful methods are increasingly used in participatory mapping processes, their strategic value, particularly in relation to climate adaptation, remains underexamined. This paper explores the potential and limitations of playful mapping approaches in climate adaptation, focusing on two qualitative case studies in Jakarta's flood-prone Kampung Akuarium: memory mapping with children and speculative gameplay with residents and government officials. Both approaches are examined in terms of their methodological strengths and weaknesses as well as their impact and scalability. The findings show that playful and participatory mapping tools open spaces for storytelling, imagination and collective reflection. They make visible immaterial cultural heritage and emotional aspects often excluded from technocratic planning, allowing participants to articulate the cultural dimensions of urban transformation. Yet, these insights often remain symbolic without pathways for institutional uptake. The paper argues that the context-specific potentials and the downsides of playful methods need to be evaluated carefully. Where their contribution to adaptation processes outweighs their resource-intensiveness, they should be treated not only as experiential formats but as strategic instruments embedded in long-term, co-creative research infrastructures.</p>","PeriodicalId":44089,"journal":{"name":"Geo-Geography and Environment","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/geo2.70057","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146176494","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":"Navigating the Path to Sustainable Rurbanity: The Assemblage of Livelihood Pursuits in E-Waste Hubs of Urban Accra","authors":"Khiddir Iddris,&nbsp;Andreas Buerkert,&nbsp;Ellen Hoffmann,&nbsp;Katharina Hemmler,&nbsp;Martin Oteng-Ababio","doi":"10.1002/geo2.70055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.70055","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Little is known about the complex power and governance dynamics within e-waste hubs in the Global South. Taking the example of Sodom-Agbogbloshie, Mortuary-road, Ashaiman and Ashaiman New Town in Ghana's capital Accra, we explore their role as catalysts for sustainable rurbanity—a concept that blends urban and rural characteristics within an informal economy. Ghana, home to some of Africa's largest informal e-waste dumpsites, presents a typical case where e-waste processing, traditional herding and related economic activities converge, creating a vibrant yet challenging landscape for urban informal actors. Our research utilises the assemblage theory to analyse the interconnectedness and interdependencies of various economic practices, social networks and environmental factors. Employing a mixed methods approach, data were collected through stratified random sampling, resulting in a total of 420 respondents across the four locations. Non-parametric statistical tests, including Kruskal–Wallis, Dunn's post hoc tests, Wilcoxon signed-rank tests and chi-squared tests, were used to assess the economic, social and environmental dynamics of the four e-waste hubs. Key findings highlight diverse demographics, the adaptability of economic activities, site-specific resilience to economic outcomes and the motivations driving engagement in the informal sector. We also identify major challenges, including health risks, environmental footprints, and socio-economic instability, and outline pathways to sustainable rurbanity. The pathways comprise integrating local endowments, improving connectivity, promoting diverse livelihoods, and establishing supportive institutions. Leveraging the unique rurban characteristics, this study provides a blueprint for transforming informal economies into more resilient and thriving communities, capable of withstanding urbanisation pressures while preserving their local identity and socio-economic fabric.</p>","PeriodicalId":44089,"journal":{"name":"Geo-Geography and Environment","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/geo2.70055","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146002548","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":"Cultural Heritage in Motion: Adaptive Mobile Cultures of (Semi)nomadic Indigenous People in Changing Climates","authors":"Nuhu Adeiza Ismail,&nbsp;Ingrid Boas,&nbsp;Simon Alexander Bunchuay-Peth,&nbsp;Annah Zhu,&nbsp;Kwanchit Sasiwongsaroj,&nbsp;Lukas Husa,&nbsp;Magdalena Berger,&nbsp;Adane Kebede Gebeyehu,&nbsp;Aliou Sall,&nbsp;Somrak Chaisingkananont,&nbsp;Amadou Ndiaye","doi":"10.1002/geo2.70054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.70054","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Studies that explore the interconnection of cultural heritage, climate (im)mobilities and Indigenous ways of knowing in changing climates are rare. This article calls for reimagining and reframing this intersection in global climate governance. What existing studies have shown, and what we advocate exploring further, is that the mobile livelihoods or mobility practices of Indigenous mobile groups are more than an adaptation strategy or a fix for climate change. They embody meaning, rituals, ancestral guidance and ways of knowing nature, land, seas and the universe, connecting intangible and tangible dimensions of culture in relational ways. This paper conceptualises mobility not merely as a response to environmental changes and climatic stress but as a living heritage of Indigenous ways of knowing. To elaborate on the dynamics of the adaptive and mobile-oriented cultural expressions of Indigenous mobile groups in changing climates, we draw on four case studies of (semi)nomadic communities in Ethiopia, Senegal and Thailand to illustrate how the mobility practices of many Indigenous groups constitute mobile systems of observation, forecasting and ecological adaptation that embody centuries of empirical climate knowledge. Our case studies also illustrate how sedentary-focused sustainability projects that overlook adaptive mobile cultures can impinge on not only the mobility rights of historically mobile groups but also on their adaptive cultural practices. Hence, we demonstrate the need for integrating the peculiarities of mobile-oriented cultures in climate mitigation, adaptation and loss and damage policies to avoid maladaptive outcomes that threaten both livelihoods and cultural identity.</p>","PeriodicalId":44089,"journal":{"name":"Geo-Geography and Environment","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/geo2.70054","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146016277","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":"Modelling the Effects of Urban Growth on Land Surface Temperature and Carbon Emissions Through Geospatial and Machine Learning Techniques in Gazipur, Bangladesh","authors":"Md. Naimur Rahman,&nbsp;Md. Mushfiqus Saleheen,&nbsp;Md. Rakib Hasan Rony,&nbsp;Biddut Kumar Ghosh,&nbsp;Md. Abdur Rouf Sarkar,&nbsp;Kevin Lo","doi":"10.1002/geo2.70051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.70051","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The rapid expansion of urban areas and their significant effects on carbon emissions and the urban heat landscape have become major research subjects in Bangladesh. The primary aim of this study was to analyse the changes in land use and land cover (LULC) and land surface temperature (LST) from 2003 to 2023 and project them to 2043 for Gazipur, Bangladesh. Additionally, spatiotemporal variations in carbon emissions during summer and winter and their relationships with the LST were explored. A support vector machine (SVM) was used to evaluate changes in LULC. Furthermore, Cellular Automata-Artificial Neural Network (CA-ANN) models were utilised to investigate the future dynamics of LST and LULC. The findings of the study include urban expansion from 3% in 2003 to 18% in 2023, and its projected value indicates an expansion of 315 km² in 2043 from 52 km² in 2003. Therefore, the projected LST results indicate a notable increase of 10°C for the winter season in 2043. The correlation between LST and carbon emissions showed strong <i>R</i>² values for both summer and winter. Specifically, the <i>R</i>² values were 0.93 and 0.97 for summer and 0.91 and 0.94 for winter in 2013 and 2019, respectively. This investigation has the potential to offer novel insights into prospective urban development, effective management of thermal environments and strategies for mitigating carbon emissions.</p>","PeriodicalId":44089,"journal":{"name":"Geo-Geography and Environment","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/geo2.70051","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145987178","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":"Adding Lines Along Pixels: Remote Sensing, Traditional Knowledge and Human–Fire Interactions in Ethiopia and India","authors":"Kapil Yadav,&nbsp;Henry Thompson","doi":"10.1002/geo2.70050","DOIUrl":"10.1002/geo2.70050","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study critically examines the limitations of satellite remote sensing (SRS) in capturing the complexities of human–fire interactions. It proposes a relational approach grounded in the embodied, place-based knowledge of communities living with fire. Conventional SRS reduces fire to pixels, providing a synoptic yet partial view of fire regimes. Fire governance shaped by these representations often marginalises local practices, knowledge, and priorities. Drawing on relational theory and critical remote sensing scholarship, we introduce ‘adding lines along pixels’, an approach that reworks the use of SRS through a situated, community-centred perspective. Here, lines denote the dynamic relations among fire, people, landscapes, and institutions, which pixel-based methods overlook. Our case studies in Ethiopia and India used satellite data alongside ethnographic and participatory approaches to explore not only where and when fires occur, but also why they emerge and how they are embedded in seasonal rhythms, livelihood practices and local governance. This approach challenges the prevailing narratives that marginalise local fire use and underscores the need to engage with diverse knowledge systems for more inclusive and effective fire management. As fire governance is reshaped by climate change and digital technologies, such critical engagements are essential for co-producing sustainable fire futures.</p>","PeriodicalId":44089,"journal":{"name":"Geo-Geography and Environment","volume":"12 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/geo2.70050","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145824954","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}