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Rivers as borders? Navigating in-between the tensions of water-state-society geographies 河流作为边界？在水-国家-社会地理的紧张关系之间导航

IF 1.6 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2025-03-19 DOI: 10.1111/area.70001

Rebekka Kanesu, Vanessa Lamb, Eva McGrath

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Past, present, future: The RGS-IBG political geography research group within British political geography 过去、现在、未来：英国政治地理学中的RGS-IBG政治地理学研究小组

IF 1.6 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2025-03-16 DOI: 10.1111/area.70004

Daniel Hammett

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A whole island approach to scoping renewable energy sites and yields 一个全岛的方法来确定可再生能源的地点和产量

IF 1.6 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.1111/area.70003

Ben Watt, Robert L. Wilby

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Deliberative approaches to the climate crisis: Adapting Climathons for rural communities 气候危机的协商方法：调整气候模型以适应农村社区

IF 1.6 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2025-01-30 DOI: 10.1111/area.12994

Philippa Simmonds, Damian Maye, Julie Ingram, Abigail Gardner, Sofia Raseta

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Ethnographic fingerprints: Examining co-participation, positionality, and interpersonal relationships in diary method 民族志指纹：以日记法检视共同参与、位置性与人际关系

IF 1.6 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2025-01-30 DOI: 10.1111/area.12995

Julius Baker

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Visualising an undergraduate geography field class using generative AI: Intent, expectations and surprises about the racial depiction of students 使用生成式人工智能可视化本科地理课程：学生种族描述的意图、期望和惊喜

IF 1.6 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2025-01-30 DOI: 10.1111/area.12996

Terence Day, James Esson

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Claim-making in hydrosocial spaces: The temporality of displacement around Kenya's Masinga Dam reservoir 水社会空间中的索赔：肯尼亚马辛加大坝水库周围流离失所的暂时性

IF 1.6 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2025-01-19 DOI: 10.1111/area.12993

Arne Rieber, Benson Nyaga

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Place, institutional spatiality, and the localisation of financial calculative practices 地点，机构的空间性，和金融计算实践的本地化

IF 1.6 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2025-01-17 DOI: 10.1111/area.12992

Leqian Yu

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On undevelopment and de-development: A geographical critique on perpetual growth and resource-based accumulation 论不发展与去发展：对永续增长与资源积累的地理批判

IF 1.6 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2024-12-13 DOI: 10.1111/area.12988

Gertjan Wijburg

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Demanding ownership: Energy democracy and environmental labour geographies 要求所有权：能源民主和环境劳动地理

IF 1.6 2区社会学

Area Pub Date : 2024-12-05 DOI: 10.1111/area.12987

Franziska Christina Paul

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