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{"title":"Contrasting demographic trajectories in Northern New South Wales populations","authors":"Neil Argent,&nbsp;Tom Wilson","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.70045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.70045","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the contemporary academic literature, rural population decline has generally been regarded as a long-running and almost natural phenomenon. This paper examines the complex temporal, spatial, and cultural dynamics of the population of an inland, largely agriculturally dependent rural region, the New South Wales New England and North West region (SA4 level) from the late 1990s to the 2021 Census. It investigates the key demographic processes that have driven the region’s spatially and temporally uneven experiences of population change—including decline—over this tumultuous period, using these as portents of the regional population’s likely future trajectories. Drawing on custom-created population estimates for the Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations of this expansive region, the paper explores these processes and trajectories for the population as a whole, then for the non-Indigenous and Indigenous segments. The analysis identifies that a profound ageing process is underway across the entire region, is becoming more severe over time, and is leading to natural decrease for some Shires. However, the region’s Indigenous population presents a striking contrast to the non-Indigenous one, growing rapidly, and increasing its share of the population.</p>","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145987143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Conservation in the Anthropocene: Reshaping Interaction with Nature Fred Van Dyke, Routledge, 2025, 265 pp., ISBN 978-1-032-51915-9 (hbk)","authors":"Theresa Ashford","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.70052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.70052","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146016252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Media trends and public interest in wildfires in Tuscany, Italy","authors":"Silvia Calvani,&nbsp;Cristiano Foderi,&nbsp;Riccardo Paoloni,&nbsp;Niccolò Frassinelli,&nbsp;Francesco Neri,&nbsp;Enrico Marchi","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.70040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.70040","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Wildfires have increased in intensity and frequency since the beginning of the 20th century, primarily driven by climatic and socio-economic changes. This shift makes fire suppression an inefficient approach, warranting further investigation into the human component of forest fire prevention. The analysis of social and environmental factors could be useful in assessing wildfire risks. In this study, we assess communication trends by analysing media news and posts about wildfires in Italy, with a specific focus on the Tuscany region. The paper investigates the relationship between wildfires and media habits in specific areas. The communication analysis results reveal that the year 2017 marked the highest peak of fire news in Italy on Twitter [current name: X] (450). Compared with others, Tuscany is the Italian region with the highest number of reports in the studied period (233 over 10 years). Wildfire-related news spread throughout the year, peaking in the dry season (between May and October, and especially from June to August). Statistical analyses, including single-variable, combination, and interaction models, indicate the strongest correlation between newspapers’ chronic articles and the number of wildfire events. The wildfire vs. communication index facilitates the comparison of ecological and social parameters, determining critical areas (CA) in Tuscany. This study highlights the link between media habits and wildfire occurrence as a novel lens for understanding risk perception. Though based in Tuscany, the findings and the index approach offer a transferable method for identifying awareness gaps in fire-prone areas, especially Mediterranean-type regions.</p>","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.70040","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145983899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assemblage, archive, and ancestor: Developing more-than-human historical geography with salmon","authors":"Austin Read","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.70044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.70044","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article develops concepts and methods for a more-than-human historical geography. It does so in response to the concept of the more-than-human archive that has begun to emerge in cultural–historical geography and the environmental humanities. Cultural–historical geographers interested in the more-than-human archive have argued that animals, plants, rocks, and other ecological phenomena have important agencies that are overlooked by culturally dominant anthropocentrism. I argue, however, that this literature has often relied upon ungeographic theories and methods of history that downplay the role of spatial politics in shaping the temporal rhythms of the more-than-human world. The ungeographic ontologies, epistemologies, and methodologies informing more-than-human archive literatures have resulted in the archive, a Eurocentric construction with a violent genealogy, being incorrectly taken as an unproblematic metaphor for narrating historical geography. To develop a more critical spatial–historical reading of the more-than-human, I turn to my own research on Atlantic salmon. I propose three conceptual figures of more-than-human historical geography based on my encounters in the salmon rivers of southwest Britain: the assemblage, the archive, and the ancestor. This tripartite conceptualisation of more-than-human historical geography evidences the difference a more-than-archival, spatial–historical approach makes to the way we understand ecological politics.</p>","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.70044","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145983463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fire regime change in western Tasmania between 1830 and 2025","authors":"David M J S Bowman,&nbsp;Ian Terry,&nbsp;Greg Lehman,&nbsp;Grant J Williamson","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.70046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.70046","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Journal records of explorers’ routes can illuminate colonial vegetation patterns and fire regimes at regional scales. Using geographic information systems and current vegetation and fire history mapping, we analyse the 1830 and 1833 expeditions to make contact with the Toogee nation of western Tasmania made by George Augustus Robinson with the assistance of Tasmanian Aboriginal guides. We found that Robinson’s routes were concentrated on treeless vegetation (72%), and daily journal entries that reported traversing forest and treeless vegetation concurred with our analyses of contemporary vegetation maps. We estimate that 41% of the flammable vegetation (forest and treeless combined) that Robinson traversed has not been burned in the last 50 years, with 32% of the treeless moorland and scrub vegetation currently in a long-unburned state. We conclude that Tasmanian Aboriginal people targeted treeless areas for travel taking advantage of open ecosystems that they had managed over millennia using frequent burning. This historical knowledge contributes to the fire management of the region, supporting calls for restoring cultural burning programmes.</p>","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.70046","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145969717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Geographic thought: A critical introduction. Second edition Tim Cresswell, Wiley-Blackwell, 2024, vii + 322 pp, ISBN 9781119602828 (paperback)","authors":"Roy Jones","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.70047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.70047","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146007796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From displacement to displaceability: State-led gentrification in China’s urban villages","authors":"Xinrui Gao,&nbsp;Weijie Hu","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.70039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.70039","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper explores the nuanced dynamics of displacement under state-led gentrification through the concept of <i>displaceability</i>, using Shenzhen’s urban villages as empirical cases. Whereas earlier gentrification involved large-scale demolition and immediate physical eviction, current urban renewal strategies employ incremental, policy-driven redevelopment aimed at formalising informal settlements into quasi-public housing. Through detailed analyses of Dachong, Shuiwei and Yuanfen villages, we demonstrate how state interventions, despite appearing inclusive, systematically marginalise low-income migrants. We find that talent-oriented redevelopment highlights subtle exclusionary displacement through selective eligibility criteria and rent policies, while centralised leasing schemes institutionalise prolonged vulnerability and persistent uncertainty for original tenants, intensifying socio-psychological stress. By foregrounding these empirical insights, the paper refines understandings of displacement, emphasising temporal and socio-institutional dimensions. Crucially, the paper expands geographic scholarship by demonstrating how state-driven urban strategies actively generate conditions of chronic precarity, embedding socio-economic exclusion within seemingly progressive urban renewal policies. We argue that recognising displaceability is essential for developing more inclusive housing policies globally, particularly in rapidly urbanising contexts of the Global South, where similar state-driven redevelopment practices increasingly prevail.</p>","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145983976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Navigating higher education reforms and reinventing the discipline across sectors","authors":"Elaine Stratford","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.70033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.70033","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Geography is undergoing significant change in response to widespread higher education reforms. In this commentary, I reflect on how the discipline’s visibility and geographers’ security and sense of purpose are being reshaped by the likes of programme closures, organisational restructures, or pressures to mould academic priorities to others’ imperatives. These dynamics constitute a background condition that invites deep reflection about where and how geography might be reimagined—and for what ends. I argue that geographers must more actively position the discipline beyond academia by boldly asserting its relevance across public, private, and non-government sectors. I highlight the discipline’s distinctive capacities and consequence—not least among them spatial reasoning, relational thinking, civic engagement, and ethical responsiveness. These qualities make geography crucial for any who seek to deal with complex social, environmental, and political challenges. Ultimately, I call for a (geo)politics of care and radical collegiality among geographers as we navigate uncertain terrains, and stress that we have the ability and responsibility to shape those same terrains. Reinvention is challenging, energising, and purposeful, and this moment offers the possibility to safeguard geography’s enduring civic and intellectual values.</p>","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"63 3","pages":"305-310"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.70033","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144888206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Conferencing and care","authors":"Sara Fuller","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.70035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.70035","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Conferences provide an important opportunity to demonstrate care, both for colleagues and for the discipline of geography. As a PhD student attending my first geography conference at the RGS-IBG in London, I gratefully received advice from more senior colleagues. This covered tips for effective presentations, guidance about how to break up my PhD research into manageable sections for the audience, and wise words about how to make the most of my overall conference experience.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One of these phrases has stuck in my head more than others: when a senior professor declared that postgraduate presentations are often “where it’s at” in terms of cutting-edge research that pushes the boundaries of the discipline. I found this assertion hard to believe, as, like my fellow students at the time, I was grappling with theoretical frameworks and unwieldy empirical data. However, as my career has progressed and I have had the privilege of occupying more senior roles in the discipline, the truth of this statement has stayed with me.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I recently had the pleasure of attending the 2025 IAG conference in Newcastle, a wonderful annual gathering of geographical colleagues which included presentations from across the full spectrum of geography. I was struck not only by the innovative work that postgraduate students and early career researchers are engaged with—much of which is truly novel in the discipline—but also the care by which colleagues gave thoughtful and considerate feedback. I hope that &lt;i&gt;Geographical Research&lt;/i&gt; echoes this careful approach, by supporting authors at all career stages to engage with constructive critique from reviewers and ultimately publish manuscripts of international significance within the discipline.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We would also like to encourage proposals for special sections in the journal. We have a number of topical special sections in the pipeline, and our publication model will increasingly allow contemporary original research to be brought into dialogue with more established papers. We look forward to hearing your proposals, either arising from IAG conference sessions or from further afield.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;More information about our prize-winning papers can be found on our LinkedIn page, which continues to grow. We can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/company/geographical-research, and we encourage you to follow us there for news and regular updates.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This issue of &lt;i&gt;Geographical Research&lt;/i&gt; reflects the full breath and diversity of geography, with a variety of stimulating papers from across the discipline. The issue comprises a commentary, the 2024 Wiley Lecture, six further original papers, two book reviews, and an obituary.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Elaine Stratford (&lt;span&gt;2025&lt;/span&gt;), our Senior Associate Editor, reflects on current higher education reforms and their implications for the discipline of geography. The commentary considers how the discipline’s visibility and geographers’ security and sense of purpose are being reshaped by wide","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"63 3","pages":"302-304"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.70035","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144888207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Everyday geographies of uneven water infrastructures and practices in China","authors":"Dongyang Mi,&nbsp;Alison L Browne,&nbsp;Deljana Iossifova,&nbsp;Saska Petrova","doi":"10.1111/1745-5871.70028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.70028","url":null,"abstract":"<p>China has committed to providing equitable, available, improved, and safe water in its cities, and has worked to achieve ecological civilisation and the Sustainable Development Goals. Geographical research about water governance in China has largely focused on the state, market, and large-scale water infrastructure projects. There is still a limited pool of empirical evidence and theorising about how everyday infrastructures and practices shape uneven urban waterscapes in urban China. To address this gap, this paper mobilises the theoretical and empirical potential of everydayness as a lens to bridge urban political ecology (UPE) and social practice theory (SPT). Specifically, we interrogate urban water provision in Chinese cities and regions and draw on in-depth qualitative fieldwork in Changsha, China. We examine how centralised water provision crystallises and exacerbates uneven water distributions and insecurity challenges at the material, discursive, institutional, and practical levels. We explain how heterogeneous configurations of water infrastructures and practices fill the gaps of everyday water demand, but can amplify unequal allocations of water resources at the community and domestic levels. Finally, we explore how these water arrangements are closely intertwined with socio-spatial differences and co-produce dynamics of power and authority in urban waterscapes. These uneven hydrosocial relationships are internalised and normalised by excluding the urban poor and marginalised groups, pointing to the need to deepen understandings of the everydayness of hydrosocial geographies in China.</p>","PeriodicalId":47233,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Research","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-5871.70028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146007449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}