Decolonising the curriculum with a specific focus on West Africa
Jazmin Scarlett defines geoheritage, cultural heritage and dark heritage with case studies of the Soufrière Hills Volcano, La Soufrière, Vesuvius and Laacher See
School Member Lecture, 29 September 2020
Written by Dr Joe Thorogood from Coventry University
Scientists agree the effects of climate change will be felt faster and more acutely in the Arctic
What role do superpowers play in global systems, governance and environmental protection?
Ideas on how to use Earth observation in your teaching
Showing community representation during the pandemic
This Netflix film looks at geopolitics, superpower geography, the ‘rise of China’, globalisation and deindustrialisation
An in-depth look into the repercussions of the spread of COVID-19
A selection of resources and support from the Royal Meteorological Society
Nigeria has the 27th largest economy in the world and is a Newly Emerging Economy (NEE)
School Member Lecture, 27 September 2017
How and why the world’s population will stabilise at nine to 10 billion, and the concepts of ‘developed’ and ‘undeveloped’
While for many years it has commonly been seen as the world’s most failed and dangerous state, Somalia is also a country with a strong drive for resurrection throughout the coming years.
Is enough said in the media and classrooms about the world’s worst on-going conflict?
School Member Lecture, 5 February 2020.
School Member Lecture, 25 January 2017
Why are scientists wrapping glaciers in plastic?
Investigating the aspect of the ethics of global trade – the treatment of agricultural workers at the other end of our food supply chain
How McDonald’s has learned to embrace globalisation and glocalisation
Population growth, rising affluence, energy policy and climate change – these are the “four corners” of the food crisis.
How maps of malaria help guide policymakers and illuminate debates surrounding the killer disease
Where one lives in the world can have a profound influence on the standard of one’s health and life expectancy
Urban public spaces are at their best when they are democratic, inclusive, and meet the needs of a wide range of people
Where are the major festivals located and what are the impacts they create?
Looking at the challenges expected in the area of food and farming over the next 40 years
The rise of the Irish diaspora.
A look at the new National Park designation
What connects people to places? Experience of place is shaped by the physical nature of a place and memories and histories around sites of personal and shared interest
Why do newspapers portray Britain’s teenagers as an endangered species?
The changing landscape of the Marshlands of Iraq
The Problem of Desertification in China
Are you eating, sleeping, drinking and teaching the World Cup? How does our consumption of the global game impact us and others around the world?
Can a Caribbean nation reliant on marine resources develop an economy based on coral reef ecosystems in spite of threats to those resources?
How is a giant mirror bringing light to a valley-floor settlement in the Italian Alps?
Tourists are increasingly looking beyond the standard destinations and instead are favouring more unusual holiday activities in more distant places
What are the causes and consequences of increasing deforestation in the Amazon?
Geography Professor Allan Brimicombe from the University of East London is leading an impact study on behalf of the London Organising Committee of LOCOG and the IOC
Trans-national movement of waste: are we living sustainably?
What can the Stern Review tell us about our future in the face of climate change?
The global seed vault compromised by soaring arctic temperatures.
An examination of who the superpowers are and how their power develops over time.
Some countries and international organisations are changing the methods they use to measure and compare national wealth. Might the global development map need to be re-drawn as a result?
A look at 2011, the year of the Arab Spring.
A discussion of the issues facing South Sudan one year after independence, addressing questions nationhood, oil security and development.
Investigating the global power-play of Brazil, Russia, China and India
The UNICEF 2015 State of the World’s Children Report celebrates the new forms of appropriate technology that are being tried and tested in parts of world where children are most at risk from poverty and inequality.
China and North Korea share a border. Both governed by socialist politics, they cooperate with one another politically and economically to create an important alliance in Northeast Asia.
Through Cadbury we take a look at the issues surrounding the increasingly globalised ownership of big businesses.
Why did the global credit crunch cause Iceland to lose its McDonald’s restaurants?
Investigating the interconnections and ethics of global manufacturing
More recently there has been the recognition of a complex relationship between pastoral farmers in the developing world and the size of their herds
Geopolitics is defined as the relationship between power and the spaces of the world. At London 2012 there were 204 such spaces – the nations that competed
How can 'The Box' help us in understanding the global flows of trade?
What are the geographical challenges facing the world’s newest nation?
Are the survival strategies of manufacturing firms influenced by the cultural and political environments within which they are located?
Dr Allan Watson from Staffordshire University researches the economic geographies of the creative and media industries
Since 1995, Transparency International, an international non-government organisation, has been monitoring global corporate and political corruption in international development.
What progress has been made since the first Earth Summit in 1992?
Cornwall is experiencing a technological revolution with broadband speeds in many areas among the fastest in the UK
Brazil's economy is thriving, yet real development can be more complex than economic growth
As the price of gold has soared, more people have begun to question how, and by whom, their gold is mined and procured
The recent revelation about horsemeat unknowingly making its way onto British plates has raised questions about where our food comes from and how exactly it reaches us
In a collaboration between the Nicaraguan government and Chinese industry, a new 300km canal is set to be dug linking the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
May 2008 has brought a cluster of major hazard events: a volcano in Chile, the cyclone in Burma and earthquakes in China
Vulnerability and Accountability – why is the UK helping Bangladesh adapt to climate change?
The economic impact of Iceland’s volcano on Kenya’s gourmet-veg and cut-flower industry
Intense periods of snow fall in two regions of the world caused a series of deadly avalanches in early 2015.
Four years on from Hurricane Katrina, what is happening in New Orleans?
The frequency with which dangerous avalanches occur in the Carpathian mountains is comparable with the rest of Europe and North America, yet observations of their causes in this region are relatively understudied
On 25 April 2015, Nepal experienced a magnitude 7.8 earthquake, followed by an avalanche on Mount Everest, a second, 7.4 magnitude earthquake on 12 May 2015 in eastern Nepal, and numerous landslides and aftershocks.
By 2050 1.2 million more people are expected to be put at risk of pluvial flooding due to climate change and urban population growth
Are changing rainfall patterns putting the UK at greater risk of flooding?
Public awareness of risk and effective behavioural responses are fundamental to successful risk management strategies
Storm surges to threaten London and the South East?
When Superstorm Sandy hit coast of the USA it caused disruption that would dominate the headlines for days.
Why did it get so cold in North America?
Not all hazards are natural: a red mudflow from an industrial reservoir devastated parts of Hungary recently, killing nine people.
Which natural hazards brought disaster – and to who, where and why?
In January 2014 new research revealed that Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica was much more susceptible to climate change and ocean variability than previously thought
Dunwich was once one of the largest towns in England. However, the majority of the former town is now in ruins beneath the sea due to ongoing cliff retreat.
In early January 2014, at the same time that North America was experiencing heavy snow storms and sub-zero temperatures, the UK was also facing its own package of extreme weather.
Lake Turkana is currently the world’s largest lake found within a desert region and there are fears for its future as a means of sustaining both local economies and ecology.
This research analyses glacial retreat in the Turgen Mountains, northwestern Mongolia.
Why are global media TNCs locating in cold environments?
How is the UK's coastal environment and its management changing?
At their most mysterious, sinkholes can make it seem like the earth is opening up and swallowing people and their possessions whole.
Why 59 dams may help to ease China's potential water security issues
Who are banning plastic bags - and why?
Hydroponic farming grows food crops without the use of soil and natural light, instead replacing these conditions with liquid nutrient feed and light emitting diodes in indoor farms
A quest for new gas reserves made headlines when the drilling operation triggered small earthquakes close to Blackpool in 2011
How are climate change and new ocean laws affecting global patterns of resource ownership?
How does Japan’s nuclear disaster interconnect with wider global issues of energy security and environmental sustainability?
A new large scale hydroelectric dam, the Belo Monte, is due to be completed in 2016 on the Xingu River in the state of Pará, Brazil
What will be the effects of climate change on the world's wine regions?
Investigating how a range of 21st Century pressures can threaten the conservation of Britain’s historic urban and rural landscapes
Water managers, companies and policy makers have long been concerned with how to balance water supply with water demand
Freshwater shortages are not uncommon in Male, the island capital of the Maldives
Artisanal mining (ASM) is a controversial form of small scale mining undertaken by low income communities in the global South.
The Copenhagen Conference is underway, but 2009 has already been an eventful year
How can the Quaternary Period help us relate to the present?
CO2 is being pumped into a Staffordshire forests by scientists from the University of Birmingham. Why? To explore the effects of increased greenhouse gas emissions as a result of climate change
What is the worry over carbon footprints?
Between July 2011 and July 2012, a series of extreme weather events left many people asking: is there a link with climate change? And what progress are we making in tackling climate change?
Dense layers of smog have caused chaos in major cities across China including Beijing, Shanghai and Harbin.
Cairo, the long standing capital city of Egypt is facing an uncertain future as the country’s primary city. Recent proposals have emerged of a whole new, as yet unnamed, capital city being built in the north of the country
Andhra Pradesh, India is set to get a new state capital; one which planners say will rival some of India’s most industrious and populous cities.
Introducing metacities, mega-regions, smart cities, instant cities, technoscapes and other new types of settlement growth
It has been announced that the small market town of Bicester is to be the next new garden city.
With economic opportunities gravitating towards urban centres, many rural areas have lost out.
How did Bird Flu reach Britain?
The global consumption of music.
In 2012, Docklands finally overtook the City district to become the highest-ranked employment zone for financial services in London
How are migration trends affecting UK population growth and how has the government responded?
The lives of migrants remains a topic of interest for many geographical researchers but few look closely at the new lives that are carved out by those who have been displaced by natural disasters
What is the link between youthful out-migration and Poland’s current pension crisis?
How is migration away from Poland impacting on its music scene and the nation’s economy?
Astana, the new capital in Kazakhstan, represents more than just a new start; for architects and planners it became a means of symbolising the country’s movement away from centralised Soviet control.
Around 200,000 Britons live in France. A considerable number of these live in rural areas and it is estimated that Britons own 3% of the French countryside (including vineyards, farms and forests)
In the spring of 2016 Tesco launched a line of meat and fresh produce under a series of farm names which replaced their Everyday Value 'basics' range. However the produce was found to come from manufacturers with no relation to the names on the packaging of the final product.
Can a trip to the remote wilderness of Antarctica be sustainable? Why is Antarctica such a desirable holiday location and what risks do these ventures bring?
Thirty five million of China’s wealthiest people have stated that they would like to emigrate overseas in the near future and if and when they do, they are likely to bring with them substantial investment into local economies
Is the "north-south" divide intensifying and are local scale inequalities increasing?
The 2014 World Cup provides plenty of study opportunities for geographers of all ages
On Friday 21 July 2017, an earthquake hit just off the coast of the Greek Island of Kos, and Turkish city of Bodrum in the Aegean Sea.
The Azure window, known as Tieqa tad-Dwerja on Gozo Island, collapsed into the sea during a storm in March 2017.
Big rivers can be found in all of the world’s continents and in every region, across the sub-tropics, high-latitudes and equator.
Alex Nickson talks about flood preparation and resilience in cities across the world
The negative impact human beings have had on marine life in the ocean is widespread and far reaching
The collection of our recycling is only one half of a story which is actually global in scale and represents a multibillion dollar industry worldwide
London is highly successful as a city and is twenty nine percent more productive than the UK average
The Mekong River is a biodiversity hotspot of global significance, threatened by rapid hydro-power development. We explain why preserving the Mekong's annual flooding is integral to the future of the river and its delta
The Asiatic Cheetah, also known as the Iranian Cheetah is one of the most endangered of the world’s big cats
Despite comprising over three quarters of Russia land mass, Siberia is home to only forty million people, one of the lowest population densities of any region or country in the world
As the size of the world’s population increases so too does the demand for land on which to house people, grow food and harvest resources which they increasingly demand
Professor Alun Hubbard tells us about his research in Greenland, looking specifically at glacial melt and retreat
Focus on fracking and unconventional oil and gas.
School Member Lecture, 24 June 2015
School Member Lecture, 22 September 2015.
School Member Lecture, 20 January 2016
School Member Lecture, 29 June 2016.
School Member Lecture 21 September 2016
School Member Lecture, 28 June 2017
School Member Lecture, 24 January 2018
In this article we explore the role of community gardens as place-making, home to diverse communities, and sustainable urban change
School Member Lecture, 4 July 2018
School Member Lecture, 3 October 2018
School Member Lecture, 6 February 2019
School Member Lecture, 27 June 2019
School Member Lecture 22 November 2019
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