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View article: Utilizing Arctic infrastructure data for ecological restoration, just transitions, and protection of cultural heritage
Utilizing Arctic infrastructure data for ecological restoration, just transitions, and protection of cultural heritage Open
Climate change is leading to much greater access in the Arctic, creating both challenges and opportunities for infrastructure planning. Research on existing and abandoned Arctic infrastructure, its legacy contamination, and its vulnerabili…
View article: Orbital debris requires prevention and mitigation across the satellite life cycle
Orbital debris requires prevention and mitigation across the satellite life cycle Open
Satellites are crowding orbital space, particularly Low Earth Orbit, exacerbating the risk of orbital debris. Here, measures across the satellite life cycle are recommended to promote space sustainability including stronger regulations, fi…
View article: Satellite data, information, or knowledge? Critiquing how Arctic environmental NGOs derive meaning and power from imagery
Satellite data, information, or knowledge? Critiquing how Arctic environmental NGOs derive meaning and power from imagery Open
Through interviews and correspondence carried out with six Arctic environmental NGOs (ENGOs) in 2024, this article identifies how they derive meaning and power from satellite imagery. It applies the distinctions between data, information, …
View article: The crowded and empty Arctic
The crowded and empty Arctic Open
We, as four foreign researchers with research commitments in Kiruna, Sweden, reflexively examine the imaginaries of Kiruna as either empty or crowded while problematizing the Arctic as a homogenous region. While our scholarly interests (mi…
View article: Bringing satellites down to Earth: Six steps to more ethical remote sensing
Bringing satellites down to Earth: Six steps to more ethical remote sensing Open
To shed light on the politics of remote sensing, a technique often regarded as objective and neutral, the subfield of critical remote sensing has emerged in the social sciences. This perspective translates its key ideas into an actionable …
View article: The Dark Arctic
The Dark Arctic Open
The snow-white Arctic is darkening physically and economically. Climate change is turning frozen seas into open water and blackening snow and ice as soot spreads and algae propagates. At the same time, the region’s shadow economy is expand…
View article: Over Fences and Into Yards: Privacy Threats and Concerns of Commercial Satellites
Over Fences and Into Yards: Privacy Threats and Concerns of Commercial Satellites Open
Commercial satellite imaging is used for diverse applications in a wide range of sectors, from agriculture to the military. As satellite images continue to become more widely available and detailed in resolution, the potential for individu…
View article: Earthly volumes, voluminous materialities: working with apprehension
Earthly volumes, voluminous materialities: working with apprehension Open
This editorial introduces the special issue 'Earthly Volumes, Voluminous Materialities: Working with Apprehension'. Situated within the volumetric turn while adopting voluminous approaches that critique how social and natural relations sha…
View article: Chinese sociotechnical imaginaries of Earth observation: From sight to foresight
Chinese sociotechnical imaginaries of Earth observation: From sight to foresight Open
Although Earth observation (EO) is considered a universal scientific technique with a hegemonic gaze, national sociotechnical imaginaries shape its practice. Historically established and organized by national governments, EO, which is comm…
View article: Improving Satellite Monitoring of Armed Conflicts
Improving Satellite Monitoring of Armed Conflicts Open
Very‐high resolution (VHR) satellite imagery is increasingly used to visualize the effects of armed conflicts in near‐real time. Yet these data, typically commercial, are generally released selectively or for a fee, impeding scientific and…
View article: Arctic roads and railways: social and environmental consequences of transport infrastructure in the circumpolar North
Arctic roads and railways: social and environmental consequences of transport infrastructure in the circumpolar North Open
Land-based transport corridors and related infrastructure are increasingly extending into and across the Arctic in support of resource development and population growth, causing large-scale cumulative changes to northern socio-ecological s…
View article: Bunker Mentalities: The Shifting Imaginaries of Albania’s Fortified Landscape
Bunker Mentalities: The Shifting Imaginaries of Albania’s Fortified Landscape Open
Between 1967 and 1986, the Albanian government built an estimated 750,000 small and medium-sized military bunkers for defense purposes. These concrete constructions were spread across the country’s territory, with many concentrated along b…
View article: Which states will lead a just transition for the Arctic? A DeePeR analysis of global data on Arctic states and formal observer states
Which states will lead a just transition for the Arctic? A DeePeR analysis of global data on Arctic states and formal observer states Open
A fair and equitable low carbon future depends on a just transition which, in turn, requires leadership. Where the Arctic is concerned, this leadership is currently lacking. To gauge which states are most likely to provide leadership in th…
View article: Individual perceptions of climate anomalies and collective action: Evidence from an artefactual field experiment in Malaysian Borneo
Individual perceptions of climate anomalies and collective action: Evidence from an artefactual field experiment in Malaysian Borneo Open
We explore the effect of individual perceptions of climate anomalies on collective action within a context of environmental complexity and uncertainty. To do so, we construct two competing propositions that are theoretically robust but wit…
View article: Northeast Asia in regional perspective
Northeast Asia in regional perspective Open
Northeast Asia is a regional imaginary of limited capture among both academics and the general public. As a result, ongoing tensions relating to island claims, sea rights, borderlands, population mobilities, and resource access are too rar…
View article: High-resolution satellite-derived river network map reveals small Arctic river hydrography
High-resolution satellite-derived river network map reveals small Arctic river hydrography Open
Small rivers (width 80% of total river length and surface area of the Colville river network and drain >90% of the catchment area; (2) including numerous small rivers increases the peak of hillslope-channel travel time distribution (TTD) b…
View article: Uneven Frontiers: Exposing the Geopolitics of Myanmar’s Borderlands with Critical Remote Sensing
Uneven Frontiers: Exposing the Geopolitics of Myanmar’s Borderlands with Critical Remote Sensing Open
A critical remote sensing approach illuminates the geopolitics of development within Myanmar and across its ethnic minority borderlands. By integrating nighttime light (NTL) data from 1992–2020, long-term ethnographic fieldwork, and a revi…
View article: Ge/Si and Ge Isotope Fractionation During Glacial and Non-glacial Weathering: Field and Experimental Data From West Greenland
Ge/Si and Ge Isotope Fractionation During Glacial and Non-glacial Weathering: Field and Experimental Data From West Greenland Open
Glacial environments offer the opportunity to study the incipient stages of chemical weathering due to the high availability of finely ground sediments, low water temperatures, and typically short rock-water interaction times. In this stud…
View article: Changes to anthropogenic pressures on reach-scale rivers in South and Southeast Asia from 1990 to 2014
Changes to anthropogenic pressures on reach-scale rivers in South and Southeast Asia from 1990 to 2014 Open
Rivers are essential to human livelihoods and agricultural production, yet human usage and irrigation are jeopardizing river sustainability. It is thus crucial to investigate the fine-scaled spatiotemporal dynamics of anthropogenic pressur…
View article: Changes to anthropogenic pressures on reach-scale rivers in South and Southeast Asia from 1990 to 2014
Changes to anthropogenic pressures on reach-scale rivers in South and Southeast Asia from 1990 to 2014 Open
The data documented the spatiotemporal anthropogenic pressures on reach-scale rivers across South and Southeast Asia from 1990-2014. The data used to produce the results reported in the manuscript "Changes to anthropogenic pressures on rea…
View article: Changes to anthropogenic pressures on reach-scale rivers in South and Southeast Asia from 1990 to 2014
Changes to anthropogenic pressures on reach-scale rivers in South and Southeast Asia from 1990 to 2014 Open
The data documented the spatiotemporal anthropogenic pressures on reach-scale rivers across South and Southeast Asia from 1990-2014. The data used to produce the results reported in the manuscript "Changes to anthropogenic pressures on rea…