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Don't miss our webinar, "It’s All Connected: Aligning Social Studies Courses" next week on April 11th at 3pm PDT! During this webinar, we'll explore the significance of alignment within social studies, particularly the influence of geography on human activities throughout history. Register here: https://buff.ly/3vvaikt

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.

A scientific research article on the topic of regeneration and a look at the BID approach. Published in the journal Geography and Territorial Spatial Arrangement. The link to access the article is as follows: https://lnkd.in/dQMexWFd

New NCERT Class 6 social science textbook shrinks content, rolling three books of history, geography, civics into one

Our assessments are designed to help you evaluate children's learning progress through low-stake quizzes in various subjects like Science, Geography, and History. To purchase these assessments individually, click here: https://buff.ly/3WnguV6.

We proudly present the Oceans in Depth series, exploring the ocean's profound impact on human history and contemporary global interactions. This series integrates various disciplines, including history, geography, and environmental studies, to offer a comprehensive narrative on the ocean's role. Discover more about this insightful series: https://buff.ly/3yeu2ds #Evolution2024

My new published paper 'Using easy read formats in geography' is now live on Fennia, and is available under an open-access publishing agreement! In this easy-read format reflection piece, I discuss how using #easy-read formats in #geography #research might question who we consider to be 'welcome' within these #academic spaces. As far as we know, this is the first ever academic paper published exclusively in an easy-read format - hopefully it will offer some food for thought in terms of working towards an #inclusive #university... #HigherEducation #AccessibleAcademia #DEI #EDI https://lnkd.in/eR5YH4wT 

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.

New addition! KS2 Geography - study of a region of the UK St. Kilda & the Outer Hebrides Why not use this class novel as a way of introducing your class to life in the Outer Hebrides? Our unit plan provides chapter by chapter questions and activities to support you with teaching geography through reading this exciting book.

'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