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Background
In our online publication, NOW, we explore how geographers are addressing the big issues we face in the UK today and how a geographical perspective improves our understanding of the world, developing policy solutions, and improving lives.
Latest June 2011: latest NOW article added (#24) | |
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Introduction
NOW offers a glimpse of work by UK geographers who are making positive impacts on policy - bringing benefits to the wider world. Dr Rita Gardner, Director RGS-IBG
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For further information on this series, including if you are interested in having your work featured in future editions or would like to put someone else's work forward, please contact the RGS-IBG Policy and Public Affairs team at policy@rgs.org or 020 7591-3008
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Article 24: Mapping the value of nature
A geographer has worked in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme to develop Co$ting Nature, a policy support tool which is able to map globally the relative value provided to humanity by protected areas and other ecosystems.
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Article 23: Health and the local physical environment
Health practitioners and decision makers are benefiting from the work of geographers who, for the first time, have developed a way of assessing the extent to which the physical environment of a local area may impact on the health of local residents.
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(published 03.11) | |
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Article 22: Forestry and climate change
International politicians and decision makers have a clearer recognition of the ways in which forests are important to tackling climate change thanks to research on the extent to which they ‘store’ carbon.
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(published 11.10) | |
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Geography Policy News
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Previous articles (14-21)
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Archive edition (1-13)
NOW 1 (2008: articles 1-13) (PDF), covering the following topics:
Flood hazards; climate change; arsenic pollution; social exclusion; migration; planning; the census; poverty; meteorology; boundary disputes; coastal erosion; healthy communities; and urban rivers. | |