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Giovanni Bettini @giobettini.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

'From Space to Village: How Climate Services Colonised Agrarian Futures' in @geoopenaccess.bsky.social. With Giovanna Gioli, we trace how #ClimateServices (satellite data, apps, AI) make smallholder farmers legible to #ClimateFinance, turning #ClimateAdaptation into a market doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) are looking for papers‼️ On the theme 'Climate Apartheid: meanings, contexts, politics, legitimacy' for their 1-4 September conference entitled 'Geographies of Inequalities: Toward Just Places' 🌍 All info attached on the PDF's below - submit now! 🌟

Conference flyer detailing the RGS/IBG Annual Conference on climate justice and inequalities in London, September 2026. Looking for abstracts in the theme of Climate Apartheid: meanings, contexts, politics, legitimacy.

What they are looking for: In-depth written content on climate apartheid, addressing its socio-political context, environmental impacts, and academic submission guidelines.

Information about how to submit: please submit abstracts (max 250 words) including full details for all authors (names, titles, institutional affiliations, emails, presenting/not presenting) by 20 February 2026 to Charlotte Lemanski (cll52@cam.ac.uk) and Andrew Baldwin (w.a.baldwin@durham.ac.uk)
This CFP will be submitted for Research Group Sponsorship (either Climate Change RG or Political Geography RG). We anticipate that this will be an in-person paper session, but please indicate if you intend to attend the RGS online and we can request a hybrid session and/or would prefer a different presentation format.

Scholarly references and URLs on climate apartheid and justice narratives in a research paper format.

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Giovanni Bettini @giobettini.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Just published: "Smart adaptation or data colonialism? Interrogating the role of digital technologies in climate adaptation", with Giovanna Gioli, #Openaccess doi.org/10.1177/2514... in Environment & Planning E @natureandspace.bsky.social Linked to @digitalclimate.bsky.social

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 21/11/2025

Lancaster University UCU members have beaten back compulsory redundancies. After weeks of pressure management has agreed to halt all forced job cuts until July 2026. This is a victory for jobs and every branch fighting cuts across the sector. We are the university. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Strikes suspended in Lancaster University staff job cuts row - BBC News

The university is trying to save £30m amid rising costs and a fall in international student numbers.

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IOPP Environment and Energy @iopp-environment.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

🌱✨ New in Environmental Research Letters: “Climate-induced redistribution of people is not inevitable” 🌍🧭 📖This Perspective offers 5 recommendations for habitability research, grounded in self-determination and human dignity as foundations for climate justice. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

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Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

❓ What is security in an age of catastrophic climate change? 📖 Our special issue "Critical Climate Security" in Geoforum provides new concepts, approaches, and methodologies for rethinking the climate-security nexus from a critical perspective. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

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Geoforum | Critical Climate Security | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier

What is security in an age of catastrophic climate change? What conceptual, and critical, tools do we need to come to terms with the unequal geographies of climate insecurity in their temporal, spatia...

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Lancaster UCU @lancasterucu.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Our local ballot is open ✉️ Vote Yes and Yes! A successful ballot is our most important tool to push the employer to negotiate. LUCU reps are organising departmental meetings with officers. Join in to ask questions and raise concerns. #WeAreTheUniversity #StopTheCuts

An open envelope with a piece of paper coming out of it where it says "Vote yes and yes. Lancaster ballot open now!"

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Lancaster UCU @lancasterucu.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

www.change.org/p/stop-mass-... Over 3500 signatures on petition! Thanks to those who have already signed. Please keep circulating and sign if you have not signed it yet. ✊

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Sign the Petition

Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

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Digital Climate Futures @digitalclimate.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

If you are at RGS-IBG on Friday 30th, come and join us for the session "De- or re-colonising climate adaptation? Indigenous and local knowledge in the climate adaptation machine" - 4:50pm, venue: ICL — Sir Alexander Fleming Room 119 www.digitalclimatefutures.org.uk/index.php/rg...

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🍉 جووانعہ جولئ | जोवन्ना जोली @gioli.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

📣 Call for papers! (And brand new account for our project Digital Climate Futures)

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