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How climate change may impact future air quality

Recent work from graduate student Alison Banks and professor Gabriel Kooperman demonstrates how climate change may impact future air quality.  Biomass and fossil fuel burning impact air quality by injecting fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and its precursors into the atmosphere, which poses serious threats to human health. However, the surface concentration of PM2.5 depends not only on the magnitude of emissions, but also secondary…

Private Community Conservation Areas in the Peruvian cloud forest
Effectiveness of Communal Privately Protected Areas in Montane Cloud Forests of Northern Peru

  Two researchers in the Geography department have recently published an article, alongside their team of researchers outside of the university, on private protected areas (PPA) in the cloud forests of Peru, specifically questioning the effectiveness of community PPA.       Ellen Delgado Florian (graduate student), Professor Fausto Sarmiento, and a team of researchers studied the effectiveness of four of the most…


Successful COP Simulation on Campus

From past October 25th to November 3rd, the Honor students from GEOG 2250H: Resources, Society, and the Environment experienced the innovated flipped classroom approach when they engaged in Reacting To The Past (RTTP) to simulate the events at Copenhagen, for discussions of global climate change negotiations, held at COP15 in 2009. Coincidentally, the week of the RTTP game simulation finalized while COP26 in Glasgow had started! At the post…

Dr. Andrew Herod, Researcher co-leading the study
New research on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic upon employment and inequality in the Mediterranean EU

COVID-19 is a global pandemic but has a particular geography to it, differentially affecting people and places. Recent research, co-led by Professor Andrew Herod in the Geography department, explores the pandemic's impact upon labor markets in the Mediterranean European Union (EU) countries. The researchers' analysis is part of a collective work-in-progress monitoring the pandemic’s effects upon workers since early March 2020. First they note…

Andean Flanks: Paleoecology, Critical Biogeography and Political Ecology of the Changing Climates of Neotropical Mountain Forests
Book grapples with Andean cloud forests’ socioecological classification

Within a transdisciplinary framework, the Andean cloud forest belt was appraised and recommended into a new ecoregion of its own: the Andean Flanks. A team of Franklin College faculty in the Neotropical Montology Collaboratory has produced a book, published in Spanish, by the Institute for Sustainable Development of Cloud Forest Research (INDES_CES) and the National University Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza of Amazonas (UNTRM) in Peru. Authors…
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