Our fat future?
Model sizes: 'normal' - 'overweight' - 'obese' By William Hasty The world’s heaviest human being lives in the UK – Ipswich to be more specific. He weighs 70 stone and, as of this week, requires highly...
View ArticleGeographies of Disability – India
by Michelle Brooks Recent headlines in India about a disabled boy who was refused entry to a temple have raised questions around the wider problem of social stigma concerning disability in India....
View ArticleRGS-IBG New Content Alert: Early View Articles (25th May 2012)
The following Early View articles are now available on Wiley Online Library. Original Articles Soil hydrodynamics and controls in prairie potholes of central Canada T S Gala, R J Trueman and S Carlyle...
View ArticleFood, Glorious Food… What Next is the Question?
By Jen Dickie This week, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation are hosting the ‘Committee on World Food Security’ in Rome. This follows an announcement last Wednesday from the National Farmers’...
View ArticleSpatial Planning shows how UK governments are already learning from each other
by Ben Clifford and Janice Morphet Photo by Callum Black, CC 2.0 license, source: Geograph Project A recent article on The Guardian’s website asked ‘Are UK governments missing chances to learn from...
View ArticleMultiple stressors and ecological surprises
The expanding global human population, now about 7.5 billion, is increasing the pressure that we as a species put on the environment. 2016 was the warmest year ever recorded, and temperature records...
View ArticleOut of the ashes, the phoenix of the parish rises again
By Jane Wills, University of Exeter, UK The arrival of the coronavirus has brutally revealed the importance of having good government. Our lives now depend upon the readiness, capacity, and leadership...
View ArticleA patchwork of vulnerabilities to the Covid-19 crisis around England
By Alex Davenport (Institute for Fiscal Studies), Christine Farquharson (Institute for Fiscal Studies) and Imran Rasul (Institute for Fiscal Studies/UCL) The current crisis is unlike any the UK has...
View ArticleChanges to UK planning system threaten communities’ rights – local democracy...
By Andy Yuille, Lancaster University This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The UK government is set to make radical changes to...
View ArticleParticipatory research at the science and policy interface
By Thea Wingfield, University of Liverpool, Laura Sobral, Instituto Universitario de Lisboa, & Bruna Montuori, Royal College of Art The 2030 Sustainable Development Goals signal an international...
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