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Sea level rise, claims-making and managed retreat in Fairbourne, North Wales Open
Climate change and sea level rise mean that managed retreat of populations away from coastal areas will be increasingly necessary in coming decades. However, decisions involving managed retreat are often a source of conflict between local …
How Does Small-Scale Mining Stabilize Rural Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa? The Case of Mozambique Open
This paper examines the linkages between subsistence farming and artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) – lowtech, labor-intensive mineral extraction and processing – in sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on the case of Mozambique. While the bod…
Managed and unmanaged realignment as a nature-based solution to saltmarsh habitat loss: A sedimentary perspective Open
Managed realignment is the deliberate inundation of the coastal hinterland as a nature-based solution to saltmarsh habitat loss. Managed realignment sites are often designed and landscaped to encourage the development of a mosaic of target…
Encountering the Anthropocene: Reconfiguring human-nature relations on the North Norfolk Coast, UK Open
The Anthropocene, proposed as a new era in human-nonhuman relations, is potentially both profound and far-reaching. However, it has also been critiqued as a universalising concept detached from the realities of people’s day-to-day lives. T…
Climate change and security research: Conflict, securitisation and human agency Open
Climate change has increasingly been understood as a security problem by researchers, policymakers and media commentators. This paper reviews two strands of work that have been central to the development of this understanding–namely 1) the…
View article: Disaster mobilities, temporalities, and recovery: experiences of the tsunami in the Maldives
Disaster mobilities, temporalities, and recovery: experiences of the tsunami in the Maldives Open
Large‐scale disasters are frequently portrayed as temporally bounded, linear events after which survivors are encouraged to ‘move on’ as quickly as possible. In this paper, we explore how understandings of disaster mobilities and temporali…
Where land meets sea: Islands, erosion and the thing-power of hard coastal protection structures Open
In the last few decades, hard coastal protection structures, such as seawalls and groynes, have become increasingly commonplace around the world. Conventionally, the effects of such structures have been considered within a modernist framew…
Developing a Functional Food Systems Literacy for Interdisciplinary Dynamic Learning Networks Open
The impact of human activity on the planet cannot be overstated. Food systems are at the centre of a tangled web of interactions affecting all life. They are a complex nexus that directly and indirectly affects, and is affected by, a diver…
View article: Spatial and temporal ways of knowing sea level rise: Bringing together multiple perspectives
Spatial and temporal ways of knowing sea level rise: Bringing together multiple perspectives Open
Sea level rise presents risks to ecosystems, populations, and infrastructure in low‐lying areas. This article considers diverse ways of knowing, understanding, and experiencing these risks. It explores differences and connections between k…
View article: Becoming an island: Making connections and places through waste mobilities
Becoming an island: Making connections and places through waste mobilities Open
Islands, long portrayed in the Western imaginary as remote, static, and bounded entities, have increasingly come to be viewed as places constantly in the making: as connected sites formed by complex and shifting relations and assemblages o…
Climate and culture: taking stock and moving forward Open
How does culture interact with the way societies understand, live with and act in relation to climate change? While the importance of the exchanges between culture, society and climate in the context of global environmental change is incre…
View article: Raising Awareness of Environmental Change in the Maldives
Raising Awareness of Environmental Change in the Maldives Open
Island communities in the Maldives are experiencing environmental change on a daily basis due to coastal erosion, the accumulation of waste at sea and on beaches, and the rapid expansion of the built environment. Researchers from the Unive…
View article: Everyday life and environmental change
Everyday life and environmental change Open
This paper explores how daily changes in the physical environment intersect and connect with people's everyday lives, routines and practices in the Maldives. Day‐to‐day life is often regarded as mundane and ordinary, and therefore not part…
Resettlement as climate change adaptation: what can be learned from state-led relocation in rural Africa and Asia? Open
There is growing interest in helping people in developing countries cope with climate change by reframing population relocation as an adaptation strategy. However, there is also ongoing uncertainly surrounding what the advantages and disad…
View article: Training Future Actors in the Food System: A new collaborative cross-institutional, interdisciplinary training programme for students
Training Future Actors in the Food System: A new collaborative cross-institutional, interdisciplinary training programme for students Open
There is an urgent need to train a cohort of professionals who can address and resolve the increasing number of fundamental failings in the global food system. The solutions to these systemic failings go far beyond the production of food, …
View article: Contestation over an island imaginary landscape: The management and maintenance of touristic nature
Contestation over an island imaginary landscape: The management and maintenance of touristic nature Open
This article demonstrates how maintaining high-end tourism in luxury resorts requires recreating a tourist imaginary of pristine, isolated and unpeopled island landscapes, thus necessitating the ceaseless manipulation and management of spa…