Agnieszka Wypych, Guillaume Fortin, Francisco de Assis Mendonça
{"title":"Climate Change and the Geographical Imperative for Systemic Transformation","authors":"Agnieszka Wypych, Guillaume Fortin, Francisco de Assis Mendonça","doi":"10.1111/geoj.70102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.70102","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Climate change has become one of the most urgent challenges of the twenty-first century, reshaping environmental conditions, socio-economic systems and everyday lives across the globe. Its impacts intensify from altered atmospheric circulation and rising temperatures to disrupted agricultural systems and heightened socio-ecological vulnerability. The compound and interacting nature of climate risks means that consequences rarely occur in isolation: drought is accompanied by food insecurity, floods by disease outbreaks and heatwaves by cascading energy and health crises. This Special Section brings together five empirical studies that illustrate the value of spatially attuned, interdisciplinary approaches to climate research. Collectively, they demonstrate that climate change is not a singular environmental problem, but a complex, multi-scalar phenomenon shaped by land-use transitions, atmospheric processes, local livelihoods and emerging governance debates. It highlights the accelerating pace of climate extremes, the compounding nature of risks and the deeply uneven geographies of vulnerability. Emphasising the complexity of Earth system processes and their interactions with social and ecological structures, the papers argue for integrating climatological analysis with geographical perspectives to understand and address these layered challenges. Ultimately, it calls for systemic change grounded in equity, political legitimacy and ‘critical hope’, proposing that only interdisciplinary, justice-focused approaches can enable effective and ethical climate futures.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vegetal Infrastructure: Rwanda's Eucalyptus Boom and the Material Politics of Tree Planting as a ‘Nature-Based Solution’","authors":"Nathan Clay","doi":"10.1111/geoj.70080","DOIUrl":"10.1111/geoj.70080","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Planting trees has become a global obsession. Forest restoration and afforestation have been rebranded as ‘nature-based solutions’ to climate change. Nations, corporations and non-profits together aim to plant trillions of trees, roughly equivalent to a new Amazon. This article considers the local implications of this terrestrial transformation. It reports on empirical findings from Rwanda, where over fifty million trees—mostly eucalyptus species—have been planted during the past fifteen years. Based on fieldwork with four rural communities, I demonstrate how the material properties of eucalyptus intersect with state and market rationales to make tree planting profitable, scalable and legible. Building from geographic thinking on infrastructure and human-plant relations, I develop the concept of <i>vegetal infrastructure</i> to analyse how trees are enrolled in political projects, producing durable inequalities that become a palpable fixture on the landscape. The article emphasises the urgent need to diversify global reforestation mandates and offers vegetal infrastructure as a lens to assess their local implications.</p>","PeriodicalId":48023,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Journal","volume":"192 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/geoj.70080","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147668283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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