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{"title":"The Geographers Royal: a summary and partial history","authors":"C. Withers","doi":"10.1080/14702541.2022.2112273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2022.2112273","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The paper presents a summary biographical history of those persons who have held the title Geographer Royal or a variant since its inception in 1682. The distinction can be made between individuals who held the title because of their personal standing and geographical accomplishments, and those, principally map makers and geographical publishers, who held the title as a reflection of excellence in the commercial production of maps and atlases. The honorific Geographer Royal or equivalent illustrates the importance of royal patronage and the public recognition of geography’s commercial outputs. Neither topic is addressed in existing histories of geography.","PeriodicalId":46022,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Geographical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48467755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The spatial variable: Professor Ron Johnston’s inaugural lecture (University of Sheffield, 1975)","authors":"R. Johnston, Richard D. F. Harris","doi":"10.1080/14702541.2022.2089722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2022.2089722","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper presents a recently transcribed copy of Ron Johnston’s inaugural lecture that he gave in 1975 following his appointment as Professor of Geography at the University of Sheffield. Entitled ‘The Spatial Variable’, it is published for the first time, with a foreword by one of Ron’s subsequent colleagues at the University of Bristol, highlighting the lecture’s continuing relevance to contemporary geographical praxis – especially quantitative geography – as well as Ron’s own interest in studying the histories of geographical thought. The lecture is offered as an intellectual tour de force that reverberates with Ron’s deep knowledge of and passion for the discipline of geography, and is infused with a belief in its social and academic validity; a validity that the lecture showcases with a wide range of examples, many in topics that Ron would continue to study throughout his career. Underpinning the lecture is recognition of the challenges but importance of geographical explanation to understand the (re-)production of socio-spatial inequalities. The lecture richly demonstrates Ron’s fascination with ‘the spatial variable’, the study of which would be a life-long pursuit and, in his pioneering approaches to its understanding, cement Ron’s recognition as one of Geography’s most prolific and respected practitioners.","PeriodicalId":46022,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Geographical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42289252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Anthropocene and the geography of everything: can we learn how to think and act well in the ‘age of humans’?","authors":"N. Castree","doi":"10.1080/14702541.2022.2100923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2022.2100923","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Geoscientists claim that we live in a new geological epoch, such is the magnitude, scale and scope of the human impact on the Earth. Yet the Anthropocene cannot speak for itself: it requires spokespeople to analyse and evaluate its character and meaning. The Anthroposcene necessarily mediates our understanding of the Anthropocene. This review essay assesses one of the latest editions to ‘the scene’, the book Altered Earth (2022) edited by Julia Adeney Thomas. Aimed at those with little prior knowledge, Altered Earth raises questions about how best to represent the fast-expanding Anthroposcene so that neophytes can grasp the key questions, issues and debates. Like it or not, the Anthropocene presents truly formidable challenges to thought and action. The richness of the Anthroposcene needs to be parsed in ways that allow those outside it to comprehend the principal analytical, moral-ethical, aesthetic and practical problems, perspectives and opportunities.","PeriodicalId":46022,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Geographical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41749445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘In the critical department’: refreshing the Scottish Geographical Journal","authors":"C. Philo, Martin D. Hurst, E. Laurie, Rhian Thomas","doi":"10.1080/14702541.2022.2082515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2022.2082515","url":null,"abstract":"Following the latest hand-over in the ‘slow-motion geographical relay race’ (Clayton & Warren, 2016, p. 183) that is the editorship of the Scottish Geographical Journal, the ‘baton’ has now been passed from St Andrews – specifically from Dan Clayton and Charles Warren – to a new Editorial Team based in Glasgow (in the School of Geographical and Earth Sciences). This new team spans four of us, combining expertise across human geography (Emma Laurie, Chris Philo) and physical geography (Martin Hurst, Rhian Thomas), and with a variety of cross-disciplinary linkages across to the earth sciences, geospatial sciences, social sciences and humanities. Our capacities will be extended by reaching out to a revivified Editorial Board, currently being updated with renewed responsibilities, and of course by seeking the generous assistance of reviewers spread globally and across (and beyond) academia. We wish to acknowledge the tremendous efforts of our predecessors, Dan and Charles (St Andrews: 2016–2021 [Clayton & Warren, 2016]), and before them Tim Mighall and Lorna Philip (Aberdeen: 2009–2016 [Philip & Mighall, 2009]), Jim Hansom and Joanne Sharp (Glasgow: 2005–2008 [Hansom et al., 2006]), and Alison McCleery (Napier: 1999–2004 [McCleery, 1999]). These have been the editors during the period when the Scottish Geographical Magazine (SGM) became renamed as the Scottish Geographical Journal (SGJ), although it is interesting that even in the SGM’s founding year of 1885 – as in the epigraph above – it was already on occasion being termed a ‘Journal’. The deeper implications of the epigraph will be inspected below, in the context of briefly inspecting the journal’s history and drawing out certain ‘lessons’ for us, going forward, as the new editors. More importantly perhaps, we will conclude this editorial with a statement of how we intend to ‘refresh’ the journal, including various initiatives for introducing greater flexibility into the normal expectations of what and how an academic journal will publish. That said, we know that we are building on the accomplishments and indeed visions of our predecessors from 1885 onwards, thereby sitting ‘on the shoulders of giants’, and we are fully aware that in some instances we are reworking ideas and innovations that have been attempted previously.","PeriodicalId":46022,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Geographical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45549335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Geographer Royal for Scotland 2022–28: an agenda","authors":"J. Sharp","doi":"10.1080/14702541.2022.2110275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2022.2110275","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This brief contribution aims to outline what I hope to achieve in my six years’ tenure as Geographer Royal in Scotland.","PeriodicalId":46022,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Geographical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49102873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A bounded land: Reflections on settler colonialism in Canada","authors":"Michael Simpson","doi":"10.1080/14702541.2022.2070658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2022.2070658","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46022,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Geographical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48222884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Intense rainfall and debris flows in the Lomond Hills, Fife, 11–12 August 2020","authors":"M. Kirkbride, A. Black, V. Brazier, B. Pickering","doi":"10.1080/14702541.2021.2012585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2021.2012585","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Over the night of 11–12th August 2020, unusually intense convective rainfall triggered several debris flows along the Lomond Hills escarpment. Rainfall intensities locally exceeded an estimated 0.33% annual exceedance probability. Each debris flow had a different magnitude and physical character depending on the availability of water and sediment and the effectiveness of the vegetation buffer, such that similar-looking micro-catchments responded in different ways. The largest debris flow far exceeded the others in magnitude, extending over 1 km with a descent of 246 m and an estimated volume of c. 1500–3000 m3, causing damage to a forestry road. Debris was entrained from a gullied relict talus, including fallen trees and incision of Lateglacial glaciofluvial sand. Deposit sedimentology and morphology demonstrate an initial debris-flow surge probably happened early in the storm coinciding with the greatest runoff generation, followed by later fluvial incision and sediment reworking. This appears to be the largest such event in the Lomond Hills for more than 90 years and may be characteristic of the landscape response to projected increases in convective rainfall intensities in twenty-first century summers.","PeriodicalId":46022,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Geographical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60185445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The dilemma of upland footpaths – understanding private landowner engagement in the provision of a public good","authors":"Ross Mackay, K. Prager","doi":"10.1080/14702541.2021.1994150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2021.1994150","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT With a right to responsible access across almost all land in Scotland, millions of recreationists make free use of an extensive upland path network. These paths provide easy access to some of the most spectacular, but most fragile habitats in the country. This path network is expected to come under increasing pressure from both use and climate. With many hundreds of kilometres already in poor condition, a new strategy to sustainably manage this important resource is required. As key stakeholders in the management of upland paths, understanding landowner engagement is key. Based on semi-structured qualitative interviews with land management representatives we found a diverging sense of responsibility for path management along the private/non-private landownership divide, but a positive attitude towards public access across the board. This resulted in a generally positive intention to engage in upland path management. Principal factors influencing engagement are; landowner awareness of the complex and nuanced issues associated with path degradation, the perceived benefits of path works, and the availability of and access to appropriate funding. From this, a typology of behaviours was developed. More than one behaviour type was identified on most properties, with engagement increasing in-line with severity of path degradation.","PeriodicalId":46022,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Geographical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47575735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Radiocarbon dating of historic mudflat sediments at Airth in the inner Forth estuary and the impact on the estuary of nineteenth century agricultural improvements","authors":"R. Tipping, G. Bailey, Joshua Birks, Ellie Graham, Lucy Haseldine, J. Jordan, John Reid, David Smith","doi":"10.1080/14702541.2021.1995621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2021.1995621","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The results of sediment-stratigraphic, diatom and pollen analyses, and AMS 14C dating of salt marsh sediments at Higgin’s Neuk, Airth in the inner Forth estuary in central Scotland are reported. Engineering borehole records of abundant peat within mudflat sediments encouraged work to establish rates of mudflat accretion over the last several centuries. However, six 14C assays on peat closely associated with buried archaeological structures of likely eighteenth century age record later prehistoric and early historic age-estimates. The assays are thought to be correct. The peat is not in situ. It probably originated from the well-documented, extensive late eighteenth and early nineteenth century clearance of raised mosses in the River Forth for agriculture. The sediment-stratigraphic evidence is important because it confirms the scale of the impacts of peat clearance on the inner estuary derived from contemporary documents. The peat may act as a marker horizon in mudflat and salt marsh sediments from which rates of post-eighteenth century mudflat accretion can be derived. At Higgin’s Neuk these were probably very high, given uncertainties in dating controls, around 0.8 cm/yr (1.2 yrs/cm) for the last ca. 150 years, a finding which accords with other studies around the North Sea.","PeriodicalId":46022,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Geographical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48336723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An investigation of an Aberdeenshire ritual landscape: a site of human sacrifice associated with Venus","authors":"D. Nance","doi":"10.1080/14702541.2021.2013521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2021.2013521","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A group of intervisible prehistoric monuments delineate a ritual landscape of 102 kilometres near Hatton of Fintray, Aberdeenshire. They act as back and foresights on solar and lunar horizon rising and setting extremes when viewed one from another. The identities of the local deities, syncretised as parish saints, an ethnographic analogy with pre-Christian Irish chieftains and an oral tradition that one of the monuments, the Gouk Stone (Old English for ‘cuckoo’), marks the location where a ‘general’ of that name was slain, support the hypothesis that local chieftains, titled after the bird and ‘married’ to the local goddess of sovereignty that personified Venus, were tied to the stone and ritually sacrificed. This occurred on the culturally significant day of Samhain at eight-year intervals from the Bronze Age until the late Iron Age. The interval coincided with the extreme evening setting of Venus at Samhain. In support of this hypothesis the stone acted as a horizon foresight for Venus setting extremes which occurred within a few days of Samhain and as a back sight with sunset behind a stone circle on Samhain. Place-names indicate the location remained an assembly/judicial site until the Medieval Period.","PeriodicalId":46022,"journal":{"name":"Scottish Geographical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48352362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}