I was recently interviewed by Time Magazine on the 2017 California wildfire season. The combination of high precipitation in the winter promoting much fine fuel growth, the long period since last significant rainfall and the high summer temperatures being experiences in Southern California have produced a dangerous situation. The main unknown in the equation isContinue reading “Time Magazine Interview on California Fires”
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AAG Presidential Column – Creating and Preserving Actionable and Policy-Relevant Geography
Creating and Preserving Actionable and Policy-Relevant Geography news.aag.org/2017/01/creating-and-preserving-actionable-and-policy-relevant-geography/ 1/29/2017 Ensconced in our academic environs, as students or as faculty, we are sometimes accused of being removed and aloof from the issues of the real world and our research regarded as being of purely scholarly interest. Indeed, there are times for many of us that thisContinue reading “AAG Presidential Column – Creating and Preserving Actionable and Policy-Relevant Geography”
AAG Presidential Column – Post-truth World
Geography in a Post-Truth World Glen M. MacDonald December 7, 2016 Geography in a Post-Truth World2016-12-08T08:29:51+00:00 Featured News, President’s Column 0 Comments This past month the Oxford Dictionary named “post-truth” as its 2016 Word-of-the-Year. The word was chosen because it has seen a “spike in frequency this year in the context of the European UnionContinue reading “AAG Presidential Column – Post-truth World”
AAG Presidential Column – Geography, Institutions and the Fate of People and Planet in the 21st Century
Geography, Institutions and the Fate of People and Planet in the 21st Century Glen M. MacDonald November 2, 2016 Geography, Institutions and the Fate of People and Planet in the 21st Century 2016-11-03T08:34:11+00:00 Let’s talks about Geographical Determinism. Got your attention? I thought so. The term, along with its cousin, Environmental Determinism, has long beenContinue reading “AAG Presidential Column – Geography, Institutions and the Fate of People and Planet in the 21st Century”
AAG Presidential Column – The World of the City
The World of the City Glen M. MacDonald September 1, 2016 The World of the City2016-10-05T15:19:29+00:00 President’s Column 0 Comments Those of us alive today are witnessing one of the most profound events in all of human history — and it is an event, which is fundamentally geographic in nature. The transformation we are experiencing isContinue reading “AAG Presidential Column – The World of the City”
AAG Presidential Column – The Long, Hot Summer
The Long, Hot Summer Glen M. MacDonald October 5, 2016 The Long, Hot Summer2016-10-05T15:29:25+00:00 Featured News, President’s Column 0 Comments It has been a long, hot summer. In July, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) released its analysis of global temperatures for the first six months of 2016. Each of these months has setContinue reading “AAG Presidential Column – The Long, Hot Summer”
AAG Presidential Column – Geographies of Bread and Water in the 21st Century
Geographies of Bread and Water in the 21st Century Glen M. MacDonald August 5, 2016 Geographies of Bread and Water in the 21st Century2016-08-15T11:14:18+00:00 Featured News, President’s Column, Recent News 0 Comments Geography is a big discipline, both in terms of its global purview and the wide spectrum of scholarly perspectives geographers bring to bear.Continue reading “AAG Presidential Column – Geographies of Bread and Water in the 21st Century”
AAG Presidential Column – The End(s) of Geography?
July 1, 2016 AAG Presidential Column – The End(s) of Geography? news.aag.org/2016/07/the-ends-of-geography/ SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON TWITTER #PresidentAAG Serving as your President is a singular honor, but also one that is more than a little daunting. My trepidation arises from three sources. First, with the honor of being elected President comes the responsibility to ablyContinue reading “AAG Presidential Column – The End(s) of Geography?”
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