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Abstract Submission
Abstracts of papers (250-300 words) are invited for contribution to the parallel thematic sessions. The deadline for submission is 20 February 2007. For the Nature Strikes Back theme abstracts of posters can also be submitted. Abstracts will be reviewed by the convenors of the thematic streams. Requests for pre-organized sessions should be addressed to the convener of the relevant stream via the conference email: info@eugeo2007.org. However, all presentation proposals will be reviewed.
Papers and posters will not be formally and finally accepted for the programme until payment of the registration fee by one of the authors is received.
Abstract submissions:
- All abstracts should be submitted online using this form.
- All author and abstract information has to be inserted in forms.
- Abstracts should be 250-300 words in length and a maximum of two images that fit on one A4 page (jpg format) can be added. The images can be graphs, maps, etc. At the end of the abstract text, three key references should be listed. Use the Harvard Referencing System
- Speaker’s guidelines will be available from the website (from 1 March 2007)
Abstracts of accepted presentations will be published in the Conference Proceedings (on CD-ROM and the website). Keynote addresses and selected high quality contributions will be invited to write full papers for the refereed conference books.
Submit your abstract
Priority subthemes
‘Standort Europa’ at Risk
- The location qualities of ‘Standort Europe.
- Transport and infrastructure in Europe.
- The European knowledge economy.
- The ‘demography of firms’ in European regions.
- International real estate developments.
- The qualities of European labour markets.
- Population mobility and the EU.
- Europe as a place for mass and culture tourism.
Towards revitalized and cohesive cities
- The effects of regional, sub-regional and local economic developments on urban social issues, such as social cohesion, social exclusion, social integration and socio-spatial segregation.
- The effect of the welfare state on urban social issues.
- The effects of urban social developments and attributes on urban economic developments.
- The economic and social effects of different kinds of urban restructuring and urban regeneration policies.
The Changing Face of Rural Europe
- Changing landscape and nature in Rural Europe.
- Changing governance and policy in Rural Europe.
- The changing role of agriculture.
- Changing societal relationships in Rural Europe.
- Regional change in Rural Europe.
Genuine European: Culture, Identity, and Diversity
- The making of Europe.
- The changing religious landscape of Europe.
- Heritage and regional identity in a globalising world.
- Transnational identities in Europe.
- Teaching the (cultural) geography of Europe.
- What makes Europe different? The limits and outer borders of Europe.
- Gender, minorities and Europe’s geography of difference.
- Participation and governance in multi-cultural cities.
- Shifting territorial identities and European identity policies.
- The European economy after the cultural turn.
- Theory of spatial identification.
Nature Strikes Back
- Flooding.
- Landslides, earthquakes and volcanic processes.
- Coastal degradation.
- Landscape ecological degradation and desertification.
Balanced multilevel governance
- Geographical and planning questions (e.g. in fields like migration and transportation networks, urban and rural policy) within local, regional, national and EU administrative and political systems and preferably questions that address connections across those levels.
- Issues of EU borders and frontiers particularly with an eye to clarifying the preferred geographical shape of the EU (e.g. with an eye to the imposition of borders, the perceptions of borders, the actual consequences of borders and the management of borders and frontiers).
- Global politics and geopolitics and the way EU, member-states and other policy actors (e.g. those Europeans represented in World Economic Forum and World Social Forum) have contributed to policy-making (e.g. in trade, development aid, human rights and security, environmental issues).
IMPORTANT DEADLINES
- Abstract submissions due 20 February 2007
- Notification of acceptances 15 March 2007
- Early bird registration opens 1 January 2007
- Early bird registration closes 15 April 2007
- Announcement of programme 1 May 2007
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