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In recent decades, large high-severity wildfires have occurred across a diverse set of forest types and climatic settings in the western US. In forests where fire suppression has led to widespread fuel accumulation, dynamic and up to date maps of forest structure and fuel conditions could support efforts to scale fuel management activities to reduce fire severity and delay climate-driven type conversion...
Habitat or landscape fragmentation is a major challenge for biodiversity conservation, yet current understandings focus primarily on its ecological dimensions, overlooking the fact that fragmentation is equally political...
Wildfires frequently occur across the western United States, and while the fires themselves pose immediate dangers, they often trigger a cascade of subsequent hazards—including postfire debris flows, landslides, rockfall, and flooding—that threaten both lives and vital infrastructure. In this presentation...
Speakers:Dr. Sean Burns (Geography)My research goal is to improve our understanding of the meteorological factors and conditions that control the exchange of energy and gases between the surface and atmosphere in complex
Critical digital geographies scholarship has a well-developed repertoire for theorizing adverse relations between technology, media, society and space, setting up an enduring ambivalence in analysis of minor, small scale, improvisational efforts to rewrite these relations. At this impasse, I argue for an intentional turn to analytic frames rooted in methodologies of hope.
Over the last three decades, domestic amenity or “lifestyle” migration has stimulated a process of rural gentrification across the United States, shifting landscapes of production to landscapes of consumption--from Jackson Hole, Wyoming to Highlands, North Carolina.
Dr. Alex A. MoultonAssistant ProfessorGeography and Environmental ScienceHunter College, CUNYBlack, Race, and Ethnic StudiesAbstract:Within Afro-Jamaica religions, “science” is used as
In the geographic tradition of Clyde Woods, this panel underscores the knowledge holders of Colorado, making visible the everyday ways in which our speakers transform places, landscapes, and futures into spaces of life affirming possibility. This panel will discuss Native ways of knowing Colorado, accountable relations with Native nations and peoples; immigrant dignity and practices of relational liberation; disability justice and the transformation of the built environment to affirm all life. The seeds for a liberatory world are already here.
Over the last decade, a growing number of North Indian cities have been declared “waterless,” referring to the temporary stoppage of piped water delivery for days or weeks on end...
Somewhere deep in the Dzongu valley, in the shadow of Mt. Kanchendzonga, lies a secret pathway to Mayal Kyong – a hidden paradise of abundance, home to seven immortal couples revered as ancestors by the Lepchas (Mutanchi Rongkup Rumkup)...