The next four years: Geographical reflections on the second Trump administration.
In this introductory essay, we reflect on the significance of the re‐election of Donald Trump to the presidency in the United States, and we provide some context for interpreting Trump's second term. Two of Trump's early policy moves—the release of billions of gallons of water from reservoirs in Cal...
| Published in: | Geographical Journal Vol. 191; no. 4; pp. 1 - 8 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2025
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