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Editors' Introduction

2019; University of North Carolina Press; Volume: 59; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/sgo.2019.0010

1549-6929

Hilda E. Kurtz, Deepak R. Mishra,

Rangeland and Wildlife Management

Editors' Introduction Hilda E. Kurtz and Deepak R. Mishra This issue is the first to go to press after the annual Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers (SEDAAG) in Johnson City, Tennessee. Our congratulations to East Tennessee State University for hosting a terrific SEDAAG 2018. We also want to congratulate Jeffrey R. Finney and Dr. Amy Potter of Armstrong State University, Savannah, Georgia for winning the Best Paper award for ""You're out of your place": Black Mobility on Tybee Island, Georgia from Civil Rights to Orange Crush", published in Southeastern Geographer 58(1). Since 1988, Tybee Island, outside of Savannah, has been the destination for students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) for a three to four-day Orange Crush event to celebrate Spring Break. However, southern hospitality remains limited, with heavy policing, and local efforts to curb Orange Crush weekend. Congratulations are due as well to Montana Eck, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, for winning 1st place in the Southeastern Geographer 2018 Photo Contest. The winning photograph is featured on this issue's cover, with an accompanying essay to open the issue. Finally, we want to congratulate the new editorial team of Dr. Selima Sultana and Dr. Paul Knapp of the University of North Carolina Greensboro. The official editorial team transition date is July 1, 2019, and we will be working together on a smooth transition in the meantime. The submission process through the ScholarOne website will remain unchanged. If you haven't updated your Southeastern Geographer profile on ScholarOne recently, please do so; it will help everyone to be working with an up-to-date database. It is especially important that you assure that your contact information is correct and that you select three to four keywords related to your research expertise. You can easily update or join Southeastern Geographer's ScholarOne database through our website using your email address. There is no cost, it increases your chances of being asked to review manuscripts (good for professional development), and we respect your privacy by not selling our database. This issue of Southeastern Geographer contains four papers and two book reviews. The first paper by Day and Howarth models the water balance in a forest watershed based upon past inputs, predicts future scenarios, and discusses current species that may be bell-weathers of changing water balance. The timing and amount of precipitation interact with temperature to determine water balance. In turn, this influences forest species composition. While forest tree species composition may be slower to change—given their longer life span and well-developed root system—understory species may be more [End Page 108] sensitive to water balance changes. Consequently, understory species may better indicate changing conditions. Loftata and Ambinakudige correlate flooding, social vulnerability, and federal flood zones following record rainfall in three parishes surrounding Baton Rouge, Louisiana using geographically weighted regression analyses. Changes in land uses since 2001 may have affected more recent flooding intensity. More importantly, they investigate whether areas more susceptible to flooding by this extreme 2016 rainfall event overlap areas with populations that are more socially vulnerable. Urban greenways are often touted as intentional urban design elements to provide environmental services—including urban flooding such as investigated by Loftata and Ambinakudige—as well as providing public recreational spaces. Chin and Kupfer develop a rubric to assess planning documents for greenways in 29 urban areas throughout the southeastern United States. Their research examines the relative weight given to ecological, environmental, and societal benefits in terms of types of functions discussed, amount of detail given to each of the functions, and if assessment metrics following greenway construction were proposed. Chin and Kupfer's research contributes to the broader discussion of the nexus between the built and natural environment. McFarland, Bowden and Bosman explore how a changing social narrative grapples with the remembrances of the past, so often embodied in the South by Confederate statues in prominent public spaces of power, such as court houses. Their case study situates the debate whether to remove a monument in Tampa, Florida within both local and national discourse on cultural remembrances as symbols of a past to be cherished or of a past rooted in...