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Critical geography

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People in the neo-liberal city. Urban policies and the transformation of the urban social fabric.

Session organisers: Guy Baeten and Anders Lund Hansen, Dept Social and Economic Geography, Univ.of Lund

Session I : producing neo-liberal cities

• Producing the neo-liberal city: Hyllievång, Malmö. Guy Baeten, Lund Univ.
• Neoliberal production of space and the nature of planning, in King’s Cross, London. Ståle Holgersen, Dept of Geography, Univ. Bergen
• Constructing contemporary urbanity – the traditional city and the “new urbanism”. Moa Tunström, Örebro Univ.
• The price of urban exclusion – residential segregation in the neo-liberal city. Irene Molina, Univ. Uppsala

Session II: governing neo-liberal cities

• -Space wars and the new urban imperialism: the case of Christiania. Anders Lund Hansen, Lund Univ
• Urban development corporations as instruments of neo-liberalism in the city. Tuna Tasan-Kok & Barbara Van Dyc, Catholic Univ. Leuven, Belgium
• Comparison of housing policies in the Nordic and the Baltic states; is ‘path dependency’ relevant in analysing policy developments in the last 20 years? Arild Holt-Jensen, Dept Geography, Univ. Bergen, and Anna Julegina, Tallinn

Session III: segregation and racism in the neo-liberal city

• -Fighting racism within the frame of neo-liberal governance. Lessons from the failed bottom-up approach of Room for every one’06 – Sweden. Juan Velasquez, Stockholm Univ.
• -Environmental justice and residential segregation in the Czech Republic: the case of Roma resettlement in town of Vsetín. Roman Matoušek & Luděk Sýkora, Charles Univ. in Prague
• The Swedish compulsory school – an arena for integration? Anders Eklundh, Örebro Univ.
• liberal city. Urban policies and the transformation of the urban social fabric.
• -Revanchist urbanism and contested spaces in Taipei. Sue-Ching Jou (National Taiwan Univ.) and Eric Clark (Lund Univ.)

Political geographies of Nordism and the European project – regional development and citizenship

Session organisers: J.O. Bærenholdt, Roskilde Univ. / Luiza Bialasiewicz, Royal Holloway

• DEFINITIONS OF REGIONALISM. Josefina Syssner, Linkoping Univ.
• MOTIVES FOR REGIONAL POLICY IN THE COMPETITION STATE. Tea Remahl, Univ. Oulu
• THE AMBIVALENCES OF NORDICITY. Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt, Roskilde Univ.
• The comeback of the welfare state? Analysing the re-organisation of public space in Sweden. Erik Westholm Högskolan Dalarna and Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm

Exploring the mobilities in the interface of everyday life and policy/planning

Session organisers: Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Anne Jensen, Lise Drewes Nielsen and Tim Richardson, RUC

Session I. Chair: Anne Jensen

• Mobile work without control: the everyday life of work related train travellers. Angela Poppitz
• The exclusiveness of long-distance corporeal mobility: Differences in transnational travel behaviour between groups of young Swedes. Lotta Frändberg
• Voices of mobility in the everyday life of bus drivers. Lise Drewes Nielsen & Katrine Hartmann-Petersen
• The transport facilities of the residents in the suburban region of Tallinn. Mari Nuga

Session II. Chair: Malene Freudendal-Pedersen

• Paradigms of transport planning – the rise (and fall?) of the “rational transport user”. Martin Schiefelbusch
• Mobilities in and for ‘peripheral areas’ in the EU: conflicts and consistencies in stories of policy/planning and everyday life? Nina Gribat
• New region, new story: making mobile subjects in transnational space. Tim Richardson & Anne Jensen

Session III. Chair: Katrine Hartmann-Petersen

• Building passages between home and school – the mobilities and immobilities of the school journey. Kim Kullman
• Structures of Connectivity and Unequal Practices of Spatial Mobility. Katharina Manderscheid, Institut für Soziologie, Universität Basel
• The practise of automobility as a “spatializing routine”: The case of Icelandic novice driver. Virgile Collin-Lange
• Mobility, Motility and Freedom. Malene Freudendal-Pedersen

Thresholds

• Session organisers: Paolo Giaccaria (Univ. Torino) and Claudio Minca (Royal Holloway, Univ. London)
  
  Thresholds 1. Paolo Giaccaria, Univ. Torino and Claudio Minca, Royal Holloway, Univ. London.
• Thresholds for the negotiation of the borderline between different spaces. Gunnar Sandin, Dept Architecture and Built Environment, Lund Univ..
• Urbanscaping colonial memories. Annarita Lamberti, Univ. Napoli “L’Orientale”.
• Thresholds 2. Claudio Minca, Royal Holloway, Univ. London and Paolo Giaccaria, Univ. Torino.

Decolonized Methodologies - Participatory Research on "Women in the Margins"

Session organisers: Juan Velasquez, Stockholm Univ. & Carina Listerborn, Lund Univ.

• Who speaks? And who listens? Creating a platform for women’s participation in local politics. Carina Listerborn, Dept Social and Economic Geography, Lund Univ
• Gender differences in space-time movements in the case of people living in the new residential areas in the suburbs of Tallinn. Siiri Silm, Rein Ahas, Institute of geography, Univ. Tartu
• In search of a meeting place. On intimacy and affect as a key aspect beyond intersectionality and transversal politics – evidence from Swedish suburban feminism. Juan Velasquez, Dept Ethnology, Stockholm Univ.
• Globalisation and restructuring in Icelandic fisheries. Anna Karlsdóttir, Human Geography and Tourism Studies, Univ. Iceland

Geographies of practice

Session organisers: Lawrence Berg and Kirsten Simonsen

Session I:  Geographies of practice – General discussions

• Practice, embodiment, affectivity and spatiality. Outline of a geography of practice. Kirsten Simonsen, Roskilde Univ.
• Habitus in Human Geography. Gunhild Setten, Norwegian Univ. Science and Technology, Trondheim
• The absence of practice. Paul Harrison, Univ. Durham

Session II: Practice and identities

• Practicing Whiteness: Nature, race and geographies of exclusion in Vernon, Canada, 1890-1925. Lawrence D. Berg, Univ. British Columbia, CA
• Banal nationalism in practice - Everyday nationalist stories from a small town in Denmark. Lasse Koefoed, Roskilde Univ.
• Women’s Bodies as Symbols in Public Spaces. Carina Listerborn, Lund Univ.

Session III: Geographies of practice – Research and methodologies

• Practicing Arctic science: power, games and bodies. Richard Powell, Univ. Liverpool
• Performing digital tourist photography. Jonas Larsen, Roskilde Univ.
• Replicability, Falsifiability, and Peer Review: Lessons for Geography from the Eva Lundgren Affair. Bo Malmberg, Univ. Stockholm

The Past, Present and Future of Critical Geography. Panel debate. Organizer: Anders Lund Hansen & Lawrence D. Berg

• Anssi Paasi
• Claudio Minca
• Eric Clark
• Kirsten Simonsen
• Lawrence D. Berg
• Linda McDowell
• Luiza Bialasiewicz

Economic Geography

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The spatial dynamics of Foreign Direct Investment in developing countries: power, regional change and poverty.

Session organisers: Arnt Fløysand, Dept Geography, Univ. Bergen and Jonathan Barton, Instituto de Estudios Urbanos y Territoriales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago

• Spatial Embeddedness of Foreign Direct Investment, Regional Development and Poverty Reduction: the dynamics of the fish farm industry in Chile. Arnt Fløysand, Dept Geography, Univ. Bergen and Jonathan Barton, Instituto de Estudios Urbanos y Territoriales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago
• Transnational companies as a source of skill upgrading: The electronics industry in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Ingeborg Vind,  Dept Geography and Geology, Univ. Copenhagen
• Petroleum related FDI and local economic and social development. The Macaé region of Brazil. Mai Cecilie Stabell, Dept Economics and International Development, Univ. Bath, UK
• Transforming the state: the IMF discourse on foreign direct investment to Bolivia. Håvard Haarstad, Dept Geography, Univ. Bergen
• Doors Wide Open, Eyes Wide Shut: Foreign Direct Investments in Retail in Namibia. Sylvi Endresen, Dept Sociology and Human Geography, Univ. Oslo

Regional industrial development and the local-global geography of knowledge flows.

Session organisers: Heidi Wiig Aslesen, NIFU STEP, Arne Isaksen, Agder Univ. College, Ove Langeland, NIBR and Knut Onsager, NIBR

Session I

• Local and global knowledge broker roles. Preliminary findings on Finnish biotechnology cluster in Tampere. Nina Mustikkamäki, Univ. Tampere
• Exploring the role of location, social network and proximity in developing capabilities. Eirik Vatne, Norwegian School of Economics
• Lean versus learning: Strategies for upgrading in global production networks. Arne Isaksen and Bo Terje Kalsaas, Agder Univ. College

Session II

• Proximities and knowledge flows: a micro-level biographical approach. Anders Larsson, Dept Human and Economic Geography, Göteborg Univ.
• Knowledge and multicultural ‘Ba’ in workplace. The case of the Univ. Oulu, Finland. Johanna Hautala, Dept Geography, Univ. Oulu
• City-regions, knowledge bases and regional advantages. Knut Onsager (NIBR), Heidi Wiig Aslesen (NIFU-Step), Arne Isaksen  (HiA ) and Ove Langeland (NIBR)

Local and global strategies within production systems. Session organisers: Asbjørn Karlsen, Dept Geography, NTNU

Session I

• Different modes of qualities in development of speciality food. Egil Petter Stræte, Centre for Rural Research, Trondheim
• Geographical persistence amidst technological and organizational change: An institutional perspective on the evolution of the Swedish furniture industry. Pernilla S. Rafiqui, Dept Economics, Stockholm School of Economics
• Local entrepreneurial initiatives, meta-networks and the politics of natural gas. Anders Underthun, Dept. of Geography, NTNU, Marit Reitan, Dept. of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU, Sjur Kasa, CICERO, Center for Climate Research Univ. Oslo.
• Mistrust and lack of market innovation – a case study of loss of competitiveness in a seafood industry. Knut Bjørn Lindkvist, Dept Geography, Univ.of Bergen
• Challenges of research and development networking in transnational corporations (TNCs). Ingvill Stensheim, Department of Geography. NTNU, Trondheim.
  
  

Session II

• Renegotiating peripheralities through revitalization. M.S. Stabell & K.B. Lindkvist, Bergen
• Food-regions in Inner Scandinavia. Bjørnar Sæther, Univ. Oslo, Dept Sociology and Human Geography and Eastern Norway Research Institute, Hamar.
• Building competitive capabilities in a region: Development of skills and rutines in and between groups and communities. Søren Kerndrup, Geography, Aalborg Univ.
• Competitiveness in a local maritime cluster. The case of economic and regional restructuring of international competing maritime industries at the North West Coast of Norway. Grethe Mattland Olsen, Volda Univ. College  and Dept Geography, Univ. Bergen
• The formation of a national knowledge base within an international industrial sector. Asbjørn Karlsen, Dept Geography, NTNU, Norway

The globalisation of services - a second global shift.
Session organisers: Grete Rusten, SNF/School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Univ. Birmingham

A special edtion of the Journal Growth and Change is planned on the basis of presentations at this session.

Session I

• Host-state labour regulation and the international sourcing of seafarers for European ferry services. Paul Bennett, Institute of Geography, Univ. Edinburgh
• The retail sector in the Czech Republic – 17 years of “becoming international”. Jana Spilková, Dept Social Geography and Regional Development, Charles Univ. in Prague
• New insights into the internationalization of producer services: exploring the role of ‘iconic individuals’ and ‘brand leaders’ in global headhunting firms. Sarah Hall (Dept Geography, Loughborough Univ.); Andrew Hewitson (Dept Geography, Loughborough Univ.); Jon Beaverstock (Dept Geography, Loughborough Univ.), James Faulconbridge (Dept Geography, Lancaster Univ.)

Session II

• Services to the petroleum activity in a global perspective. Peter Sjøholt, Dept Economics, NHH, Bergen
• From Here to There and Back Again: Delivering Educational and Consumer Services from Afar. John Bryson, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Univ. Birmingham
• Offshoring Production and Sales in Low Cost Countries. Arild Aspelund, NTNU and Vitali Butsko, ABB

Urban Geography and Planning

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City regions and economic geographies. Session organiser: Brita Hermelin, Dept Human Geography, Stockholm Univ.

• Fast regional enlargement in Sweden - a phenomenon missing an explanation. Jan Amcoff, Institute for futures studies, Stockholm.
• Swedish cities in ‘the space of flows’: National, European and Global Networks. Brita Hermelin, Dept Human Geography, Stockholm Univ.
• Good news for cities?  The economic impacts of an aging population. Peter Kresl, Dept Economics, Bucknell Univ., Lewisburg, PA  17837 (USA)
• Mobiles all around: Changes in everyday practice of urban youth. Eva Thulin and Bertil Vilhelmson, Dept Human and Economic Geography, School of Business, Economics and Law,  Göteborg Univ.
• Office development in Dublin: Out to the edge and back …? Sunnhild Bertz, Dept Geography, National Univ. Ireland

Reassembling the urban. Creating and destroying contemporary city landscapes.

Session organisers: Mauro Cannone, Royal Holloway Univ. London, and Sara Fregonese, Newcastle Univ.

• ALL THAT IS SOLID DOES NOT MELT INTO AIR: SOCIAL CAPITAL, POWER, AND TRUST IN VENICE’S URBAN DEVELOPMENT. Mauro Cannone, Royal Holloway Univ. London / Sara Fregonese, Newcastle Univ.
• Rebuilding a Troubled Past. The political geography of urban redevelopment in Germany. Jan Henrik Nilsson, Dept Service Management, Lund Univ..
• Infrastructural violence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip: the politics of creative destruction. Omar Jabary Salamanca
• Urban planning and the banality of morality. Jonas R Bylund, Dept Human Geography, Stockholm Univ.
• Urban planning, image construction and toponymic landscaping: the case of Vuosaari, eastern Helsinki. Jani Vuolteenaho, Dept Geography, Univ. Helsinki

Processes of place reinvention in regional towns.
Session organisers: Karl Benediktsson and Magnfrí∂ur Júlíusdóttir, Dept Geology and Geography, Univ. Iceland

• Modernities and materialities: Place reinvention in East Iceland. Karl Benediktsson, Dept Geography and Tourism, Univ. Iceland
• Wild nature, global art and gendered images in place-marketing ─ the new ‘reindeerland’ in East Iceland. Magnfrí∂ur Júlíusdóttir, Dept Geography and Tourism, Univ. Iceland
• The audience of place-marketing images: encounters with Trieste – a ‘real’ ‘multicultural’ city. Annalisa Colombino, Dept Geography, Open Univ., UK
• Constructing a new image for an old town. Liv Mari Nesje and Jens Kristian Fosse, Agder Research
• Image and Identity in Times of Structural Change – A Telecom City on a Naval Base. Mareile Walter, Blekinge Institute of Technology / Lund Univ.

Local Sustainability.

Session organisers: Huei-Min Tsai (Taiwan), Chun-Chieh Chi (Taiwan), Eric Clark (Lund)

Session I

• Local sustainability indicators: from global issues to local concerns. Huei-Min Tsai (National Taiwan Normal Univ.)
• A future for Baltic Sea islands? EU maritime policy meets local concerns for sustainable development. Peter Billing (Centre for Regional & Tourism Research, Bornholm, Denmark)
• Tourism development as a means toward local sustainability in a globalizing world – a case study of Hualien Coastal Valley, Taiwan. Chun-Chieh Chi (National Dong-Hwa Univ.  Taiwan)
• Local Sustainability Map. Jehng-Jung Kao (National Chiao Tung Univ. Taiwan)

Session II

• Glocalized sustainability in a cultural context: a case of island and urban Taiwan. Chin-Shou Juju Wang ( National Tsing Hua Univ. Taiwan)
• Island studies of ecosystem – social system coevolution for local sustainable development. Eric Clark ( Lund Univ.) and Huei-Min Tsai (National Taiwan Normal Univ.)

Model based development planning.

Session organisers: Birgit Kopainsky, Dept Geography, Univ. Bergen

• Simulation for development planning: how system dynamics models can help make better strategic decisions for long-term development. Matteo Pedercini, Millennium Institute, Arlington, US and Birgit Kopainsky, Dept Geography, Univ. Bergen
• From political independence to economic dependence: evolution and dynamics of indebtedness in Ghana. John Pastor Kobina Ansah, Univ, Bergen
• Modelling Public Expenditure and Human Development in Pakistan. Muhammad Azeem Qureshi, System Dynamics Group, Dept Geography, Univ. Bergen
• Planning Modell. David Wheat, Dept. Geography, Univ. Bergen

Culture, Economy and Tourism

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Geographies of Cultural Industries and Tourism.

Session organisers: Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt (Roskilde) & Dominic Power (Uppsala)

Session I: Cultural industries and tourism - Consumption and performance

• Performing Cultural Attractions. J. O. Bærenholdt, M. Haldrup & J. Larsen, Roskilde Univ.
• Tourism and culture in the Eyjafjörður region, N. Iceland. The emerging cultural traveller. Edward H. Huijbens, Icelandic Tourism Research Centre

Session II: Cultural industries and tourism - Sites of enactment

• Tourism research and the platform approach – an economic geographic perspective. Tone Haraldsen, Lillehammer Univ. College
• Mine as a resource for regional development: mining and cultural tourism institutions and landscapes in Falun and Kiruna. Albina Pashkevich & Susanna Heldt-Cassel, Univ. Dalarna,
• Temporary Places: Festivals as sites of economic development. Nicola Frost & Kate Oakley, City Univ., London

Session III: Cultural industries and tourism - Promoting and branding places

• Cultural Industry and Place Promotion in the Region of Bergslagen. Max Jakobsson, Örebro Univ.
• The power over tourist information – on the selection of tourist sites in guidebooks. Malin Zillinger, Umeå Univ.
• Sticky Experiencetrails: Biopolitics of Tourism Mobilities in the Metropolitan Region. Richard Ek & Johan Hultman, Lund Univ., Dept Service Management, Helsingborg Campus

Culture and regional development.

Session organisers: Inger Birkeland, Dept geography, Univ. Bergen and Arne Isaksen, Univ. College Agder

Session I. The cultural industries as a factor of change in economic growth, innovation and regional development

• A seamless industry? The economic geography of Swedish fashion. Atle Hauge, Uppsala University, Uppsala
• People climate, city structure and city types: Analysing the importance of quality of place for the creative class. Kristina Vaarst Andersen, Copenhagen Business School; Markus Bugge, NIFU STEP,  Høgni Kalsø Hansen, Lunds University; Arne Isaksen, Agder University College and Mika Raunio, University of Tampere
• Cultural Institutions’ Significance for Regional Development: Cultural Capital and Development Dynamics. Sidsel Kvist Jensen, Copenhagen Univ.
• Rock band Metallica, Concert in Tallinn 13.06.2006: Visitor flows in mobile positioning prism. Rein Ahas, Anto Aasa & Margus Tiru, Institute of Geography, Univ. Tartu

Session II. Cultural life and cultural activities as a factor of change in urban and regional planning

• Events as lived and as discourse in urban planning. Anne Marie Berg, Copenhagen Univ.
• Cultural policy and urban planning on the edge – institutional and cultural challenges facing the foundation “Cultiva”. Hans Kjetil Lysgård, Agder University College
• Cultural creativity: Revisiting Rjukan’s industrial culture. Inger Birkeland, Dept Geography, Univ. Bergen
• Politics of culture in urban suburbia – the urbanization of suburbia through culture. Per Gunnar Røe, Univ. Oslo

Rural Geography

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Regional politics and the transformation of the rural.

Session organisers: Winfried Ellingsen, Knut Hidle, Jørn Cruickshank (Agderforskning)

Session I

• Fostering Development: Local Response to Structural Change in a Marginalised Swedish Municipality. Lars Larsson, Högskolan Dalarna
• The importance of regional differences in immigation-, integration- and ethnic diversity policies in Norway. Helene Harris-Christensen, Dept Geography, Univ. Bergen
• Regionalisation and rurality. Regionalisation from above and discourses in opposition in Norway. Jørn Cruickshank, Agder Research and Knut Hidle, Agder Research.

Session II

• Rural development and institutions in Latin America: a critical territorial approach. María Andrea Nardi, Dept Social and Economic Geography, Lund Univ.
• Southern Irish Protestants: Perceptions and Experiences in Ireland since 1920. David J. Butler, UCC, Cork, Ireland
• Differentiated integration of the European Union: explaining tentions in current public opinion across twenty-five member states. Petr Dostál, Dept. Social Geography and Regional Development, Charles Univ. in Prague
• Squeezing in scallops: Pioneering a new industry, contesting policies on development in Western Norway. Charlotte Meering, Dept. Geography, Univ Bergen
• Constitutional Safeguards and National Policy for Tribes in India. Lokesh Shrivastava, Dept. Of Tribal Studies, Rani Durgavati, Univ., Jabalpur (M.P.) India.

Rural Others, Other Rurals, Rural Mobilities/Migration.

Session organisers: Eli Janette Fosso, Gro Marit Grimsrud, Nina Gunnerud Berg, Univ. Bergen/Trondheim

Session I

• Gendered discourses of rural space and practises. Gunnel Forsberg, Dept Human Geography, Stockholm Univ., and Susanne Stenbacka, Dept Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala Univ.
• Changing place to change pace? Women’s migration to Rural Norway. Gro Marit Grimsrud, Dept Geography, Univ. Bergen
• Constitutions of new identities in the Lofoten Islands. Karin Marie Antonsen, Dept Geography, NTNU
• Rurality and Otherness – the Multicultural in Norwegian Rural Space. Monica Stoknes, Opus Bergen, and Eli Janette Fosso, Dept Geography, Univ.Bergen

Session II

• Work life experience and role models in female entrepreneurship in small industrial towns. Mona Hedfeldt, Dept Social and Political Sciences, Örebro Univ.
• Young gay and lesbians and their experiences of the rural and the urban. Hanne Thuen, Dept Geography, Univ. Bergen
• Rural identities and migration – how migration processes create rural places in Norway. Eli Janette Fosso, Dept Geography, Univ. Bergen
• Rural migration and rural 'others': Experiences of the 'new' agricultural labour force from Eastern Europe. Johan Fredrik Rye, Centre for Rural Research, Trondheim

Session III

• Who is marginalized? Nature and rural otherness. Inger Birkeland, Dept Geography, Univ. Bergen
• Ambigious and contested rural attachment. Gender, social differences and social mobility. Agnete Wiborg, Nordlandsforskning
• Entering work life and family life – the different geographies of young men and women. Mats Lundmark, Dept Social and Political Sciences, Örebro Univ.
• Place Identity in the Rural-Urban Fringe. Britt Dale, Dept Geography, NTNU
• Settlement Size and Fertility in the Nordic Countries. Hill Kulu (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany), Andres Vikat (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Population Activities Unit, Geneva) and Gunnar Andersson (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany).

Landscape Geography

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Landscape geography.

Session organisers: Michael Jones and Gunhild Setten, Trondheim Univ.

Session I. Historical landscape studies I

• Bishops, maps and landscapes of religion in the Danish-Norwegian realm, late 16th and early 17th centuries. Michael Jones, Dept Geography, NTNU
• Forest Finn claim of landscape in Sweden during the 17th century. Maud Wedin, Dept Geography, NTNU
• Resource, symbol and dream: The Swedish croft in the past and the present. Maja Lagerqvist, Dept Human Geography, Stockholm Univ

Sesssion II. Landscape management

• Performing expertise: Landscape, governmentality and conservation planning in Iceland. Edda Ruth Hlín Waage, Univ. Iceland
• To preserve or develop? Attitudes among local residents, planners and preservation agencies about the landscape in Norra Åsarp, Sweden. Madeleine A. Bonow, Dept Geography, School of Life Sciences, Södertörn Univ. College
• Landscape as a diversity of values: Recommendations for a qualitative approach to management units, based on a case study from the Norwegian mountains. Sebastian Eiter, Dept Geography, Univ.of Bergen
• A conceptual framework of ecostrategies and some cases of proposed protected areas in the high mountain region of Sweden. Klas Sandell, Dept Human Geography and Tourism, Karlstad Univ

Session III. Historical landscape studies II

• Stuorragieddi – a focus on a Coastal Sami settlement and its combination economy in the 19th century, in a perspective of physical traces. Dikka Storm, Dept Sami Ethnography, Tromsø Univ. Museum
• ‘Improving knowledge about own landscapes’: Following up the European Landscape Convention by a comparative historical analysis of forces of landscape change in the Sjodalen and Stølsheimen mountain areas, Norway. Sebastian Eiter & Kerstin Potthoff, Dept Geography, Univ. Bergen
• Path dependency and landscape nature: Comparative analysis of landscape biographies in Latgale (SE Latvia). A. Zarina, Dept Geography, Univ. Latvia
• “Culture climate”. Marianne Nitter, Archeological Museum Stavanger.

Session IV. Roads in the landscape

• The view from the road: Experts', locals' and tourists' viewpoints of roadside landscapes. Hans Antonson, Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, Jens Kr. Steen Jacobsen, Inst. of Transport Economics, Norway, and Univ. Stavanger
• Diversity of the roads network in the different landscape units of Lithuania. Birute Petkeviciene (Vilnius Pedagogical Univ.), Kazys Petkevicius (Vilnius Gediminas Technical Univ.), Algimantas Cesnulevicius (Dept Geography and Land Management, Vilnius Univ)
• Studying forest road landscapes and practices. Antti Rehunen, Dept Geography, Univ.of Helsinki

Session V. Modern urban landscapes

• Dealing with the past: Spatial considerations in contested Tallinn town centre, Estonia. Helen Sooväli, Tallinn Univ., Andres Kurg, Estonian Academy of Arts
• At home in Tallinn. Tiina Peil, Centre for Landscape and Culture, Estonian Institute of Humanities
• Production of Post-Soviet urban fringe landscapes: The case of Riga region. Laila Kule, Faculty of Geography and Earth Sciences, Univ. Latvia
• Aesthetic narratives, senses of belonging and landscape in the inner city and the housing estate. Hilde Nymoen, Dept Geography, NTNU

Geography of Eastern Europe

Abstracts

Transition/post-transition: rural change; migration and displacement.

• Talking about Cooperation: Studies on Ideas and Change in a Slovak Village. Sofie Joosse, Swedish Univ. Agricultural Sciences, Dept Urban and Rural Studies, Uppsala
• Sub-theme: Post-Soviet fallout -- migration and displacement along Russia’s southern rim ten years later. Session organiser: Örjan Sjöberg, Stockholm School of Economics
• The geopolitics of growth and labour migration in Tajikistan. Jarmo Eronen, Helsinki School of Economics, and Örjan Sjöberg, Stockholm School of Economics
• Internally displaced persons in post-Soviet Georgia: an urban geography. Michael Gentile, Stockholm School of Economics.
• The emergence of informal and formal networks among Moldovan migrants in Europe. Erika Sigvardsdotter, Dept Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala Univ.

Development Geography

Abstracts

Community conservation in the North and the South: a critical investigation.

Session organisers: Annika Dahlberg (Stockholm), Tor A. Benjaminsen (Ås), Mats Widgren (Stockholm).

Session I

• Conservation versus land reform in Namaqualand, South Africa. Tor A. Benjaminsen
• To co-operate or not to co-operate? A study of Collaborative Management Planning in Mount Elgon National Park, Uganda. Marte Sletten, Paul Vedeld (Noragric), Erling Krogh and John Kabbogoza
• Trade-offs and buy-offs? Conservation and development efforts in the Mkuze Wetlands, South Africa. Catie Burlando, Natural Resources Institute, Univ. Manitoba, Annika Dahlberg, Dept Human Geography, Stockholm Univ.
• Transfrontier conservation in Southern Africa- and Scandinavia? Haakon Lein, Dept Geography, NTNU and Jørund Aasetre,Trøndelag R & D Institute
• Science, rural development and aesthetics: the contradictions inherent in rural community conservation initiatives in Northwest Scotland. Rick Rohde, Centre of African Studies, Univ. Edinburgh.

Session II

• CONTESTED FOREST – Why and How to Protect Forest in a Rural Community in the North Peruvian Andes. Siren Sælemyr, Dept Geography, Univ. Bergen
• The Struggle to Survive in the Tourism-Related Informal Sector: The Case of the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park, South Africa. Dianne Scott, Univ. KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
• Biodiversity Conservation, Development and participation claims in Eastern Burkina Faso: a critical analysis. David Ouoba, Univ. East Anglia
• General discussion

Migration and the understanding of place in a globalising world.

Session organisers: Ragnhild Overå & Tor H. Aase, Dept Geography, Univ. Bergen

• Migration and frontier settlement – the role of the family. Michael Helt Knudsen, Dept. Geography, Univ. Copenhagen
• Contributing to development? - Transnational activities among members of the Tamil diaspora in Norway. Marta Bivand Erdal, PRIO (International Peace Research Institute, Oslo)
• The Quest for Social Recognition in the City:  Himalayan diaspora in Kathmandu. Tor Halfdan Aase, Dept Geography, Univ. Bergen
• West African cosmopolitans: fisheries migrants’ transnational livelihoods and institutional development in Ghana. Ragnhild Overå, Dept Geography, Univ. Bergen

Environment and Ecology

Abstracts

Mountain Ecosystem Response to Global Change.

Session organisers: Jörg Löffler, Dept Geography, Bonn Univ.

• Growth-ring variations of dwarf shrubs reflect regional climate signals in alpine environments rather than microclimatic differences. Annette Bär, Dept Geography, Univ. Bonn, Germany
• Thresholds of Utilisation, Natural Self-Regulation, Degradation, and Regeneration in the Arctic. Dirk Wundram, Roland Pape & Jörg Löffler, Dept Geography, Univ. Bonn
• Fragile as granite - myth and reality in Himalayan environmental degradation. Peter Andersen, Dept Geography, Univ. Bergen
• Wood autonomy, response to ENSO events and dendrochronology of Juglans neotropicana from highland areas of Northern Piura, Peru. Tone Marie Ektvedt, Dept. Geography, Univ. Bergen.

Environmental geography and sustainable development.

Session organisers: Marie Stenseke, Bertil Vilhelmson and Stefan Anderberg, Dept Human and Economic Geography, Göteborg Univ.

Session I

• Geography in sustainability research – Challenges and possible contributions. Stefan Anderberg, Dept Geography and Geology, Univ. Copenhagen
• Social Movement and environmental activism in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria: A critical appraisal of MOSOP & IYC. Victor Ojakorotu, School of Politics, Univ. Kwazulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
• How to manage messy society-nature interactions when investigating collective action? Fred Saunders, Human Geography, School of Life Sciences, Södertörn Univ. College, and Jonas R Bylund, Dept Human Geography, Stockholm Univ.
• MAGICAL MINDSCAPE – Among Sacred Springs, Magic Plants and Enchanted Hills in the North Peruvian Andes. Siren Sælemyr, Dept Geography, Univ. Bergen
• Environmental geography and sustainable development
• Session organisers: Marie Stenseke, Bertil Vilhelmson and Stefan Anderberg, Dept Human and Economic Geography, Göteborg Univ.

Session II

• Structuring sustainable mobility – a critical issue for environmental geography. Lotta Frändberg and Bertil Vilhelmson, Dept Human and Economic Geography, Göteborg Univ.
• Climate networking – challenging geographical scale and level? Eva Gustavsson, Örebro Univ.
• Structuring sustainability issues: the case of the Swedish sugar system. Barry Ness, Lund Univ., and Stefan Anderberg, Univ. Copenhagen
• Framing environmental geography – key concepts and perspectives. Marie Stenseke, Dept Human and Economic Geography, Göteborg Univ.

Health Geography

Abstracts

Geography of Health

Session organisers: Erik R. Sund and Asbjørn Aase, Dept Geography, NTNU

• Health as a factor in regional economic development. Bo Malmberg & Eva Andersson, Dept human geography, Stockholm Univ. and Institute for futures studies, Stockholm
• Working children’s perspectives of well-being in urban Ethiopia. Tatek Abebe, Dept Geography/Norwegian Centre for Child Research, NTNU
• A cohort study of Chernobyl cleanup workers from Estonia. Mati and Kaja Rahu, National Institute of Health Development, Tallinn, Estonia
• The influence of social capital on self-rated health and depression - The Nord-Trøndelag health study (HUNT). Erik R. Sund et al., Dept Geography, NTNU
• Geographical diffusion and chronic diseases. Asbjørn Aase, Dept Geography, NTNU

Physical Geography

Abstracts

Palaeoclimatic reconstructions from lake sediments – results and methods.

Session organisers: Jostein Bakke, Dept Geography/Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Univ. Bergen

Session I

• Un-mixing lake sediment parameters. Identifying processes and sources. Øyvind Paasche, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Univ. Bergen
• Reconstruction of glacial and climatic variations at Møsevassbreen, Folgefonna, Western Norway during the Holocene and the Neoglacial time period. Eva Bjønnes
• The Late-Glacial vegetation and climate at Vassnestjern and Løkjingsmyra, western South-Norway. Linn Cecilie Karlsen
• The Holocene “Thermal Maximum” – The pollen view. Anne Elisabeth Bjune
• Magnetic Identification of Early Holocene Sediments from Lake Fjellandsbøvatnet, Uskedalen, W-Norway. Reidar Løvlie.  

Session II

• Birch present prior to the Younger Dryas? A plant macrofossil study from Andøya, North-Norway. Ingelinn Aarnes
• Decomposing multi-process lake sediments to produce records of Late Holocene mass movements, floods and glacier variations in eastern Jotunheimen, central southern Norway. Eivind Nagel Støren
• Titanium concentration in lake sediments as a measure for glacier activity during the Younger Dryas in South Western Norway. Jostein Bakke
• Fluctuations of the small cirque glacier Skriufonnen in Rondane, south-eastern Norway; reconstructed by geomorphologic mapping and multi-proxy analysis of lake sediments. Bjørn Christian Kvisvik
• Reconstructed vegetation, periodical glacial activity and climate changes during mid- and late Holocene in Memurudalen, south eastern Jotunheimen, Norway. Kristine Fjordheim, Dept Biology, Univ. Bergen.

Education Geography

Abstracts

Geography and Education

Session organisers: Lene Møller Madsen (Centre for Science Education, Univ. Copenhagen) and Per Jarle Sætre (Sogn og Fjordane Univ. College)

• Living and Learning in Border Regions. Ronald Nolet, Østfold Univ. College
• Geographical Knowledge and Awareness: What do pupils know about Geography when starting Upper Secondary School? Olav Fjær, Dept Geography, NTNU/Malvik Upper Secondary School
• Geography Textbooks. Per Jarle Sætre, Sogn og Fjordane Univ. College
• Field studies. Odd-Inge Steen, Dept Geography, Univ. Bergen

GIS

Abstracts

Geographical information everywhere: GIS in research and applications

Session organisers: Roger Bivand, Norwegian School of Economics

• Seismic Hazard Analysis of Iasi City using Geographical Information Systems. Florin Leon, Dept Computer Science and Engineering “Gh Asachi” Technical Univ. (Romania) and Gabriela M. Atanasiu, Dept Civil Engineering “Gh Asachi” Technical Univ. (Romania)
• Analysing housing areas in the Netherlands with the Kohonen Map and GIS. Tom Kauko, Dept Geography, NTNU; and OTB, Delft Univ. Technology and Roland Goetgeluk, OTB, Delft Univ. Technology.