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Exploring New Landscapes of Energies: Collection of Extended Abstracts Of Papers From the 8th International Geographical Conference & Workshop Congeo ’2011, August 1– 5, 2011, Brno, Czech Republic
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| Description | The conference CONGEO 2011 on “Exploring New Landscapes of Energies” was the 8th presentation of the geographical conferences organized by the Department of Environmental Geography at the Institute of Geonics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, which continues the tradition of biennial international meetings of geographers and other social scientists dealing with contemporary regional problems. This year’s conference is organized in the context of a recently initiated research project: “Energy Landscapes: Innovation, Development and Internationalization of Research”, which is aimed at accelerating international collaboration in research in the field of energy/landscape interrelationships. It was the aim of the conference to cover a wide spectrum of concerning issues: (-) New energy geographies: conceptual and methodological challenges; (-) Social–political acceptance of renewable energy innovation; (-) Energy development, landscape character and landscape aesthetics; (-) New energies for multifunctional agriculture; (-) Energy production, local identity and land-use conflicts; (-) Power, environmental (in)justice and politics of land-use; (-) GIS in landscape planning and energy development; etc. |