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When Vulnerability Is Mistaken for Justice: Just Readiness and the Political Grammars of Colorado's Coal Transition

open access: yesRural Sociology, Volume 91, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how “community readiness” operates within just transition governance, arguing that readiness frameworks—though intended to support locally grounded, participatory change—can also unevenly shape recognition, participation, and repair.
Michael Carolan
wiley   +1 more source

Asylum as Artifice: Race, Law and Capital as Regimes of Abstraction in the United Kingdom's Asylum Accommodation System

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Taking as its case study the category of the ‘asylum seeker’ in UK law, this paper develops on latent concerns in legal geographies with processes of abstraction. Following Bhandar and Toscano, race, law and capital are here understood as different, co‐articulating modalities of abstraction, through which the ‘asylum seeker’ is constituted and
Anna Pearce
wiley   +1 more source

Weymouth's once in a lifetime opportunity.

open access: yes, 2008
On the 6 July 2005 much changed for the towns of Weymouth and Portland, Dorset as they heard that in seven years time they would be hosting the sailing for the successful London 2012 Olympic Bid. Two years later on, and whilst the Weymouth and Portland
Sadd, Deborah
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The Life of Events: Exception and Everyday Life in Acapulco, Mexico

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT The paper focuses on the event of ‘Ingrid‐and‐Manuel’—a Hurricane and Tropical Storm that hit Acapulco, Mexico in 2013. It traces what this event was and how it remains for people in and beyond Acapulco. It does so in the context of a place where the lines between events and everyday life are often blurred, and yet the event was still named ...
Hector Becerril   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards adaptive management of mooring systems to reduce the threats of yachting tourism in marine protected areas. [graduate project].

open access: yes, 2016
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are often popular tourism destinations, and therefore, must be managed to accommodate tourism while protecting marine ecosystem health.
Reed, Monica
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Lively Transgressions at the Urban–Ocean Edge: Conflict, Coexistence and Animals on the Move

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.
Short Abstract The paper intervenes in recent debates on human–wildlife conflict and ‘Species on the Move’, drawing on cases of urban gulls in Northern Europe and sharks at Australian city beaches. The paper interrogates: representations of conflict and the interplay between media and policy; the relationship between mobility and the articulation of ...
Leah Gibbs, Helen F. Wilson
wiley   +1 more source

Governance of French Yachting Harbours : a case study [PDF]

open access: yes
There is currently an increase in the media attention given to yachting harbour management. Some of these harbours have existed since the 1960s and yet, it is only recently that problems have arisen between public and private partners.
Damien Bo
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