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Noe starts the most interesting dissertation of Eigo Tateishi and his thesis The Post-Urbanization of Tokyo: Its Spatiotemporal Geography and Governance.

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Mexico: Urban Drinking Water at Risk? A study by the Institute of Geography (IGg) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico UNAM examines the challenges of providing drinking water in cities such as Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey. https://lnkd.in/enNC2bMD

Mexico: Urban Drinking Water at Risk? A study by the Institute of Geography (IGg) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico UNAM examines the challenges of providing drinking water in cities such as Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey. https://lnkd.in/ejC3y-Y9

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'Political Geography in Practice' is an innovative textbook on the theories, approaches and methodologies that inform political geography is brought together by past and present editors of the journal of the same name. Read more here: https://bit.ly/3VuXRit. Filippo Menga Caroline Nagel

A great read but a glossed over mechanism in geopolitical risk studies is the ripple effect. ———————————— TLDR: BRI’s flagship failure due to Pakistan’s governance instability = Intensification of US-China conflict over Taiwan ———————————— In some ways, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was a way for China to circumvent the two island chains that geographically and economically (and many argue militarily) contain it. Most of China’s manufactured exports and oil-imports are sensitive to blockades in the two island chains. It is a security issue for Beijing. BRI’s flagship failure in the form of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and the lack of alternative routes through the Central Asian Stans on its western border, means Beijing might refocus on weakening the American-allied island chains on its eastern coast. If the US is still following a Cold-War era domino theory, it might see Taiwan as the first domino that might take the two-island chains down with it- hence worth defending at immense cost, just like Vietnam and South Korea. Over here we see a ripple effect, Pakistan’s domestic governance instability, and the ensuing failure of CPEC, leads to a lack of alternatives for breaking out for China, and an accelerated re-focus on the two island chains- arguably one that might have happened perhaps a decade late were China successful in Pakistan and less irritated by its eastern containment.

The talk would focus on how centralised models of energy provision are maintained, and chart their impacts in terms of energy geography, social stratification, and socio-ecological appropriation in three different parts of the world i.e. India, Germany and Australia. Gopal Sarangi

Publication Alert! A new paper from CETOC researchers Reid Ewing and Guang Tian in collaboration with Torrey Lyons of the Idaho National Laboratory seeks to shed new light on the age old question- when it comes to transit ridership, which is more impactful- temporal frequency or spatial coverage? Read the full paper now in the Journal of Transport Geography at https://lnkd.in/et3Z26nf

Wonderful research! Congratulations to the scientists. It would be nice if the findings could be supplemented with evidence for the southern hemisphere also, and then integrated to derive global estimates. This research is near and dear to my heart as I did my post-doctoral work at Carnegie/Stanford 25 years ago on this topic. I have fond memories of my interactions with the late Stephen Schneider (RIP), who was such an effective advocate and communicator of the global warming threat. The exact temperature increase estimates and CIs don't matter any more as many important global ecological thresholds have already been crossed. Time for action is well behind us, policy and lifestyle/behavioral changes are urgently needed, and we all need to change our individual consumption behaviours. For the near future, we should expect more severe global-warming events such as more frequent and severe storms/hurricanes/drought/flood. We have to learn to adapt, and elect law-makers and executives who will support and fight for necessary policies and legislation to counter the global warming threat. Adaptation will be slower for plants and animal life, and many will suffer and die, and more species will become extinct. How did we get here? Scientists have been warning us of the urgent threat of global warming for well over five decades...the MIT publication from the '70s, "Limits to Growth" has a permanent slot on my bookshelf. Please do your part.