Other Microlectures

Call for new journal editors

New co-editors are being sought for three of the Society’s journals: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Area, and Geo: Geography and Environment.

Coastal sand: the natural resource so valuable, countries are trading it illegally

China consumed more sand between 2011 and 2013 than America did in the whole of the 20th century. Now new research, presented today at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual International Conference, reveals that Cambodia has been exporting unprecedented amounts of sand to Singapore illegally.

All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) Inquiry on Africa and its diaspora in the UK School Curricula

Our response stresses that geography makes a distinctive and important contribution to learning about Africa and its diaspora in relation to teaching pupils about their contemporary and geographically diverse nature.