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Session Overview
Date: Wednesday, 10/Sept/2025
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106: The relevance of diverse information collection in research on transition of rural areas
Chair: Prof. Ewa Karolina Korcelli-Olejniczak
2nd Session Chair: Jerzy Bański
 

Combining Data and Stakeholder Engagement to Support Rural Transitions: Lessons from Small Rural Businesses in the Nockregion-Oberkärnten Living Lab (Austria)

Karin Schroll, Daria Ernst, Ingrid Machold

Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics, Rural and Mountain Research, Austria



Supporting Social Entrepreneurship and Food Redistribution: A Modelling Approach

Matic Soklič, Emil Erjavec, Ilona Rac

University of Ljubljana, Slovenia



A living lab approach: a challenge or a solution for gathering information on a Functional Rural Area (FRA). The case of the Radomski subregion in Poland.

Marcin Mazur, Ewa Korcelli-Olejniczak

Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization PAS, Poland



Developing an Inclusive Short Food Supply Chain to Meet the Tourism Demand – example of LL Zaječar District

Natalija Bogdanov, Saša Todorović

University of Belgrade - Faculty of Agriculture, Serbia

113 (I): Green and blue infrastructure and urban health (I)
Chair: Chiara-Charlotte Iodice
Chair: Dr. Anna Kajosaari
3rd Session Chair: Noriko Otsuka
 

Co-developing nature-based solutions to counter heat in the city: A matter of (in)justice. Insights from the EU-Horizon project ARCADIA.

Alexis Sancho Reinoso1, Misagh Mottaghi2, Kes McCormick3

1: Office of the Lower Austrian Government, Austria; 2: Swedish Agricultural University (SLU); 3: Swedish Agricultural University (SLU)



Understanding community dynamics in co-developing nature-based solutions in two neighbourhoods of Turku, Finland

Ulrika Elina Stevens, Salla Eilola, Nora Fagerholm

University of Turku, Finland



Viennese urban water features: institutionalist and environmental justice perspectives on planning processes

Maeve Hofer, Alois Humer, Anna Kajosaari

Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Austria



Stakeholders view on landscape characteristics supporting nature-based interventions for human mental health and well-being

Anna Åshage1, Anna María Pálsdóttir2, Renata Giedych4, Sarah Knight5, Charlotte Roscoe6, Petra Ellora Cau Wetterholm3, Halina Sienkiewicz-Jarosz7, Beata Gawryszewska4, Agnieszka Borowiec7, Silvio Caputo8, Virginia Cioncoloni9, Helen Cole10, Michele D’Ostuni9, Paula de Prado-Bert10, Carola Domènech Panicello11, Moritz Gutjahr12, Michael Hardman5, Michelle Howarth13, Chiara Iodice12, Justyna Klingemann14, Yael Koren15, Rebecca Lanford6, Gabriela Maksymiuk4, Lizzy Moonga12, Agnieszka Olszewska-Guizzo16, Noriko Otsuka12, Giuseppina Pennisi9, Kathrin Specht12, Zuzanna Syczewska7, Margarita Triguero-Mas11, Marcus Hedblom1

1: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Ultuna, Sweden; 2: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden; 3: Shinrin-Yoku Sweden, Sweden; 4: Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland; 5: University of Salford, UK; 6: OHSU-PSU SPH, Portland, Oregon, USA; 7: Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland; 8: University of Kent, UK; 9: University of Bologna, Italy; 10: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain; 11: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona, Spain; 12: ILS Research gGmbH, Germany; 13: Edge Hill University, UK; 14: Military Medical Institute - National Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland; 15: Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Harvard University, Boston, USA; 16: NeuroLandscape, Poland

117 (I): Transborder and Cross-border Transportation: Connectivity, Accessibility, and Mobility (I)
Chair: Dr. Chia-Lin Chen
Chair: Prof. Jie Huang
3rd Session Chair: Jiaoe Wang
 

Border effects in European air passenger transport

Jakub Daněk1,2, Frédéric Dobruszkes2

1: Masaryk University (MUNI), Faculty of Economics and Administration, Department of Economics, Lipová 41a, 602 00 Brno-Pisárky, Czech Republic; 2: Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Faculty of Sciences, DGES-IGEAT, Av. Franklin Roosevelt 50, 1050 Brussels, Belgium



The Impact of Cross-Border Railway Development on Eurasian Accessibility: A Simulation of Central Asia’s Railway Connectivity

Yongling Li1, Jiaoe Wang2,3

1: School of Architecture and Fine Art, Dalian University of Technology, China; 2: Key Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; 3: College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China



Competitiveness and complementarity in cross-border shipping

Yongshun Xie1, Jie Huang2

1: Fujian Normal University, China, People's Republic of; 2: Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China



Quantifying border effects in Trans-European Transport Network: A simulation approach

Jie Huang, Jiaye Cai, Chia-Lin Chen, Jiaoe Wang

Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, China, People's Republic of

119: The relationship between people, technology and space in the AI era
Chair: Runlin Yang
2nd Session Chair: Shan Yang
 

Territorial practices and policies for the sustainable attraction of digital nomads & remote workers

Livia Jessica Hammana-Dell'Anna

Università del Salento, Spain



Measurements of distance in international trade of goods

Łukasz Gręda

University of Warsaw, Poland



Digitalization in health care regarding the Covid-19 pandemic – A case study from Hungary

Annamaria Uzzoli

HUN-REN CSFK, Hungary



Impacts of Remote Work on Human Mobility and Heat Exposure Patterns under Climate Change: An Environmental Justice Perspective

Jiren Wang

NANJING UNIVERSITY, China, People's Republic of

128: Political graffiti and public expressions in the symbolic urban landscapes of a changing Europe
Chair: Dr. David Hána
 

Tagging political territories: A geographical perspective on political graffiti in Linz, Austria

David Hána

Faculty of Science, Charles University, Czechia



Wall-Written Dissensus in a Neoliberal City

Sandi Abram

Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, Slovenia



Emotional and political heritage landscapes through the lens of street art in the city of Porto, Portugal

Ana Rita Albuquerque

University of Montpellier Paul-Valéry (UMPV)



From Graffiti to Memes and Vice Versa: Visual Communication in Election Campaigns Across Digital and Physical Spaces

Miriam Haselbacher, Ursula Reeger

Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria

129: Europe in the Making - The Changing Religious Landscapes
Chair: Prof. Gianfranco Battisti
 

Religion as a marker of national identity - the changing pattern of Europe

Peter Jordan

Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria



Investigating the Regional Aspects of Declining Ecclesiastical Religiosity in Hungary

Antal Tóth, Csaba Patkós

Eszterházy Károly Catholic University, Hungary



From the French laïcité of the early 20th century to the global emergency of the 21st. The transformation of religious buildings in an Italian diocese on the French border.

Lorenzo Bagnoli

University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy



Muslim places of worship in Florence: spatial perceptions and religious practices of Florentine Muslim communities

MARTINO HAVER LONGO

University of Florence, Italy

150: Urban Spaces for Well-Being and Care in a Changing Europe
Chair: Dr. Maria Lindmäe
Chair: Dr. Mizan Rambhoros
 

Building Child-Friendly Cities: Lessons from the International Child-Friendly Cities Initiative and its implementation in Europe

Sara Mellinato

Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy



Urban Spaces of Caring Communities and new Urban Cultures of Care in Austria, Hungary, and the Netherlands

Dóra Gábriel1, Valentin Fröhlich2, Florian Pimminger2

1: HUN-REN Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungary; 2: Johannes Kepler University, Linz



Psychiatric Care in the City – Human Scale and Social Condensers

Manuel Singer

Vienna University of Technology, Austria



What Do Children Need? The Role of Informal Open Spaces in Planning Practices to foster Children's Well-Being in Suburbia

Tilmann Teske, Sarah Friedel, Angela Million

Technical University Berlin, Germany

161: Extractive landscapes: bridging different disciplinary perspectives through the history of European marginal territories
Chair: Dr. Mosè Cometta
2nd Session Chair: Johannes Herburger
 

Conditioned urban growth & hidden geographies of coal extraction, storage and usage. Bulk landscape and the case of Coronel sacrifice zone, Chile.

Miguel Angel Delso Páez, Karolina Krośnicka

Gdansk University of Technology, Poland



Transformation of a European extractive landscape – The case of the Austrian Styrian Iron Route

Jörn Harfst, Wolfgang Fischer

University Graz, Department of Geography and Regional Science, Austria



Extractive Hinterlands and Territorial Governance: The Scottish Highlands and Islands as an Operational Landscape

Bilgesu Sever

Bilkent University, Turkiye



Digging and filling for the metropolis: the trajectories of quarry territories in the Seine Valley (France) in the light of legal and market regulation

Solène Rey-Coquais

UPEC - lab'urba, France

166-173 (I): New trends in the electoral geography in Europe
Chair: Prof. Christian Vandermotten
2nd Session Chair: Gilles Van Hamme
 

The spatialisation of new electoral cleavages in Europe since the beginning of the 21st century

Christian Vandermotten

Société royale belge de géographie, Belgium



Local and Transnational: The Political Geography of European Parliament Elections

François Hublet

Groupe d'études géopolitiques, Paris, France



Between rural and urban. Specificity of political behaviour in small towns of Poland

Michał Konopski

Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland



Geographical aspects of the 2024 redistricting of Hungarian parliamentary constituencies

Tamás Kovalcsik

HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Hungary

200: Private Developers and World Heritage City: Tensions, Negotiations and Arrangements
Chair: Dr. Sandra Guinand
Chair: Dr. Gábor Oláh
Additional Session Chairs: Etienne Berthold, Maryse Boivin, Maria Gravari-Barbas, Laura Brown
 

When Memory Meets the Market: Investor-led urbicide and heritage sites

Maja Jović

University of Westminster, United Kingdom



URBAN TENSIONS AROUND WORLD HERITAGE: THE LANDSCAPE OF LIGHT IN THE HISTORIC CENTER OF MADRID

María García-Hernández1, Manuel de la Calle Vaquero2, Héctor Aliaga de Miguel3, Beatriz Martínez Parra4

1: Complutense University of Madrid, Spain; 2: Complutense University of Madrid, Spain; 3: Complutense University of Madrid, Spain; 4: Complutense University of Madrid, Spain



'Time Matters: Chrononomies of UNESCO World Heritage Governance.'

James White

University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom



Negotiating World Heritage: The Trials of Edinburgh’s Old and New Towns

Ruxandra-Iulia Stoica

The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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113 (II): Green and blue infrastructure and urban health (II)
Chair: Chiara-Charlotte Iodice
Chair: Dr. Anna Kajosaari
3rd Session Chair: Noriko Otsuka
 

Research on parks and green spaces policies through health promotion in Japan's SDGs future cities in the Kansai Metropolitan Region

Tomoko Miyagawa1, Noriko Otsuka2,3, Hirokazu Abe3

1: Wakayama University, Japan; 2: ILS Research gGmbH, Germany; 3: Osaka University, Japan



Citizen Engagement and Just Adaptation to Flooding in Amsterdam

Michele Castrezzati

University of Vienna, University of Amsterdam



Activity space exposure to greenness and physical activity: A longitudinal GPS and accelerometer study before and after retirement

Arpa Aishwarya1, Jooa Norha2, Carlos Gonzales Inca1, Kamyar Hasanzadeh3, Sanna Pasanen4,5, Jaana Pentti4,5,6, Jussi Vahtera4,5, Sari Stenholm4,5,7, Nora Fagerholm1

1: Department of Geography and Geology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland; 2: Turku PET Centre, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland; 3: Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; 4: Department of Public Health, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland; 5: Centre for Population Health Research, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland; 6: Clinicum, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; 7: Research Services, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland



Impact of Proximity to Urban Green Spaces on Adolescent Use and Well-being in Spanish Cities

Alicia González-Marín, Marco Garrido-Cumbrera, José Correa-Fernández

Health and Territory Research (HTR), University of Seville, Spain

117 (II): Transborder and Cross-border Transportation: Connectivity, Accessibility, and Mobility (II)
Chair: Dr. Chia-Lin Chen
Chair: Prof. Jie Huang
3rd Session Chair: Jiaoe Wang
 

Beyond borders: the role of Trieste in territorial development

Francesca Sinatra, Giuseppe Borruso

University of Trieste, Italy



Evaluating the Causal Impacts on Spatial Satisfaction Sentiment of Shenzhen-Hong Kong Regional Integration Policies: An Interrupted Time Series Study Leveraging Large Language Models

Luyao Niu1, Yurun Wang1, Wenjia Zhang2

1: Peking University, China; 2: Tongji University, China



One country, different borders: The motivation factors for cross-border mobility

Vilem Paril, Michaela Neumannova, Lucie Herbockova, Martin Vrana

Masaryk University, Czech Republic



The influence of HSR on the duration of an international one-day business trip: The perspective of Czechia

Martin Vrána

Masaryk University, Czech Republic

122: Sacrifice Zones: Configurations, Representations, Practices, and Reterritorialization Projects in Europe
Chair: Dr. Federica Epifani
Chair: Gustavo D'Aversa
3rd Session Chair: Patrizia Domenica Miggiano
 

Rethinking marginality through the geographies of children living neighborhoods “of exception”. A comparison between Borgo Marina, Rimini, and Al Hussein Camp, Amman.

Veronica Cucci

La Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy



Spaces of Resistance and “Sacrifice Zones”: Comics as a Tool for Socio-Ecological Mobilization in Southern Italy

Fanny Bortone, Antonella Rinella

Università del Salento, Italy



Toward a European Definition of “Sacrifice Zone”: Configurations, Representations, and Pathways to Spatial Justice

Gustavo D'Aversa1, Patrizia Domenica Miggiano2, Federica Epifani1

1: Università del Salento, Italy; 2: Pegaso University, Italy

153: Migrant transnationalism
Chair: Dr. Adam Nemeth
2nd Session Chair: Prof. Yuri Kazepov
 

An integration–transnationalism matrix analysis of Hungarian migrants: evidence from an online survey

Csilla Zsigmond, Eszter Kovács

HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Minority Studies, Hungary



The Digital Inclusion of Transnational Migrants and Transnational Households

Dušan Drbohlav1, Eva Janská1, Jiří Hasman1, Zdeněk Čermák1, Adrian Bailey2

1: Charles University, Faculty of Science, Czech Republic; 2: Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University, United International College, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China



Multiple place attachment, identification with and loyalty to place

Barbora Gulisova

University of Girona, Spain



Is it worth it? Spatial mobility, overqualification and subjective well-being among Hungarian transnational migrants and cross-border commuters in Austria

Adam Nemeth

Austrian Academy of Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria

163: The Changing European Rural Landscape: Land Concentration, Monocultures, and Biodiversity Loss
Chair: Prof. Pierluigi De Felice
Chair: Dr. Marilena Labianca
Additional Session Chairs: Maria Gemma Grillotti Di Giacomo, Silvia Siniscalchi, Luisa Spagnoli, Teresa Amodio
 

The rural landscape as an interpretative paradigm of sustainable agriculture

Maria Gemma Grillotti Di Giacomo1, Pierluigi De Felice2, Marilena Labianca3

1: Association Inter-University Research Group GECOAGRI LANDITALY; 2: University of Salerno; 3: University of Foggia



Land concentration, monocultures, social transformation in rural Hungary

Imre Kovách, Ágnes Győri

Centre for Social Sciences, Hungary



Advancing sustainable land management: A case study on soil health and biodiversity in mainland Portugal

Eduardo Gomes1, Luís Valença Pinto2, Miguel Inácio2, Paulo Pereira2, Cláudia Viana1

1: Centre of Geographical Studies (CEG), Associate Laboratory TERRA, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT), Universidade de Lisboa; 2: Environmental Management Laboratory, Mykolas Romeris University, Ateities s. 20, Vilnius, Lithuania



Current trends in mountain farming between intensification and new crops. Findings from some case studies in Italian Eastern Alps

Viviana Ferrario1, Lucia Piani2, Nadia Carestiato2, Giovanni Agostoni1, Marta Siragna1, Marianna Fabbrizioli1, Micol Rossetti1, Andrea De Coi1

1: Università Iuav di Venezia, Italy; 2: Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy

166-173 (II): Spatial aspects of political behaviour: elections, referendums, protest events
Chair: Balázs Szabó
Chair: Dr. Tamás Kovalcsik
 

Exploring Spatial Dynamics of Voter Turnout: A Multiscale Analysis of Croatia's 2024 Parliamentary Elections

Mislav Stjepan Čagalj

University of Zadar, Croatia



Local activity of Poznań residents in light of the results of the elections to district councils in 2024

Emilia Bogacka, Katarzyna Kulczyńska, Roman Matykowski

Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland



Exploring the Electoral Geography of Right-Wing Populism: The Role of Left-Behind Regions

Andreas Klärner1, Martin Refisch1, Josef Bernard2

1: Thünen Institute of Rural Studies, Germany; 2: The Czech Academy of Sciences



Difficulties to access services & equipments and the impact on electoral behaviour

François LUCIARDI

Free University of Brussels, Belgium

175: Physical geography toponyms: a friendly tool for a better comprehension of the geomorphological landscape
Chair: Prof. Francesco Faccini
Additional Session Chairs: Andrea Ferrando, Paola Coratza
 

Landscape terminology and everyday language

Hannes Palang, Mari Uusküla

Tallinn University, Estonia



The Lost Names: The Disappearance of Glacier Names in the Austrian Alps

Regina Falkensteiner

BEV, Austria



Examples of evidence of mismatch between toponyms and landforms in Campania Region cartography

MICHELE SISTO, PAOLO MAGLIULO, FILIPPO RUSSO, ALESSIO VALENTE

UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO, Benevento, ITALY



Identification and classification of physical and human geography toponyms in the Antola Natural Park (Ligurian Apennines)

Francesco Faccini1, Andrea Ferrando1, Lara Fiorentini2, Federico Marenco3,2, Enrica Mescoli3, Sergio Pedemonte4, Pietro Piana1

1: University of Genoa, Italy; 2: Regione Liguria, Genoa, Italy; 3: Ente Parco Antola, Torriglia (Genoa), Italy; 4: Geologist, Isola del Cantone (Genoa), Italy

179: Local Strategies of Empowering Rural Communities
Chair: Prof. Andreas Koch
 

When bottom-up isn’t enough. Local rural perspective between culture wars and false consciousness

Mosè Cometta

Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland



Local stakeholders’ involvement in co-participatory multi-hazard risk management along the Prut Valley

Aliona Botnari1, Andreea-Daniela Fedor2, Elena-Oana Chelariu2, Tatiana Bunduc1, Mihai Niculita2, Ioana Chiriac1, Andra-Cosmina Albulescu2, Iurie Bejan1, Mihai Ciprian Margarint2

1: Institute of Ecology and Geography, Moldova State University, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova; 2: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Department of Geography, Iasi, Romania



Scarce Water Resources between Communal Ownership and National Centralization Efforts

Dennis Wilke1, Philipp Gorris1,2, Roger Madrigal Ballestero3, Claudia Pahl-Wostl1

1: Institute of Geography, Osnabrück University, Germany; 2: Stockholm Resilience Center, Stockholm University, Sweden; 3: Centro Agronomico Tropical de Investigacion y Ensenanza (CATIE), Turrialba, Costa Rica



Geographical Indications: Examining the Role of PDO and PGI Schemes in Producer Cooperation in Slovenia

Erik Logar

Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia

180: Agronomic Production and Water Resources: Strategies, Innovations, and Practices for Climate Change Resilience
Chair: Dr. Lucia Grazia Varasano
Chair: Dr. Luisa Spagnoli
 

How is agriculture adapting to climate change?

Csaba Vaszkó1, András Huszár1, Róbert Barna2, Éva Pudleiner3

1: Green Policy Center, Hungary; 2: Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences; 3: PÉva Művek



Possibilities for Profound Land-use Change in a Drying Area

Boldizsár Gergely Megyesi1,3, Alexandra Czeglédi1, Péter Kajner2, András Király2, György Pataki1

1: Environmental Social Sciences Research Group Nonprofit Ltd., Hungary; 2: WWF Hungary; 3: Centre for Social Sciences



Water Resources and Agronomic Strategies in North Africa: Adapting to Climate Change Challenges

Aleksandar Valjarević

University of Belgrade, Serbia



Valorisation of Natural and Cultural Heritage of rural areas in a Climate Change context

Giulia Lussana, Giulio Senes, Sara Fortusini

University of Milan, Italy

198: Transformative worldvisions from the Global East? (Post)socialist inspirations for resilience and good life
Chair: Dr. Lucie Sovová
Chair: jana gebauer
Chair: Anja Decker
Additional Session Chairs: Lilian Pungas, Markus Sattler, Sunna Kovanen
 

Common Pool Resources, Collaborative Action, and Local Knowledge in High Asia

Andrei Dörre

Freie Universität Berlin, Germany



QUIET COMMONING OR, THE DISTRIBUTED AND INFORMAL MANAGEMENT OF COMMON GOODS IN THE URBAN, PUBLIC ORCHARDS OF CZECHIA’S CAPITAL CITY

Tobias Herman Hendrik Feltham

Charles University, Czech Republic



Quiet Right to the City: Contributing to Urban Sustainability by Converging Allotment and Community Gardens

Michaela Pixová1,2, Christina Plank1

1: BOKU, Austria; 2: FF UK, Czechia



On Babushkas and Postcapitalism: Theorising Diverse Economies from the Global East

Lucie Sovová1, Ottavia Cima2, Petr Jehlička3, Lilian Pungas4, Markus Sattler5, Thomas SJ Smith6, Nadia Johanisova7, Sunna Kovanen8, Peter North9

1: Rural Sociology Group, Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands; 2: Institute of Geography & CRED, University of Bern, Switzerland; 3: Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Sociology, Czechia; 4: Institute of Sociology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany; 5: Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany; 6: Department of Geography, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany; 7: Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia; 8: Brandenburg University of Technology, Chair of Regional Planning, Cottbus, Germany; 9: Department of Geography and Planning, School for Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

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115 (I): The changing and contrasting geographies of railways in Europe (I)
Chair: Prof. Simon Blainey
Chair: Dr. Amparo Moyano
 

The Potential for Using Regional Rail in Intra-Urban Commuting in Central and Eastern Europe

Wojciech Jurkowski

University of Wroclaw, Poland



The Decline of Conventional Rail Services in Low-Populated Areas Amid High-Speed Rail Expansion

Zacarias Grande Andrade, Daniela Henríquez Flores

Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain



The impact of the construction of the Central Communication Hub (CPK) and new high-speed railway line on the accessibility and range of outreach of airports in Poland

Radoslaw Bul

Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Poland



The effects of teleworking on high-speed rail commuting patterns in Spain: a changing scenario

Amparo Moyano, Laura Moreno-Trujillo

Department of Civil Engineering, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (UCLM), Spain

123 (I): The healing city in times of climate change (I)
Chair: Prof. Susann Schäfer
Chair: Prof. Soeren Becker
3rd Session Chair: Emanuele Garda
 

Urban Green Areas for Health in the Context of Climate Change

Marta Rodeschini, Emanuele Garda, Alessandro Filomeno, Marco Tononi

University of Bergamo, Italy



Geospatial Prioritization of Terrains for “Greening” Urban Infrastructure

Bilyana Borisova, Lidiya Semerdzieva, Stelian Dimitrov, Stoyan Valchev, Martin Iliev, Kristian Georgiev

Sofia University St.Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria



Visual preferences for greenery in cities through the eyes of young people in Czechia

Jiri Preis1, Jan Kopp1, Jiri Jezek1, Jiri Panek2

1: University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czechia; 2: Palacky University Olomouc, Czechia



Individual risk awareness profiles in the context of green and blue infrastructure

Carolin Klonner, Nora Fagerholm

Department of Geography and Geology, University of Turku, Finland

127: Navigating Demographic and Migration Challanges: Data-Informed Solutions for a Changing World
Chair: Prof. Elina Apsite Berina
Chair: Dr. Zaiga Krišjāne
Chair: Dr. Maris Berzins
 

The impact of contemporary migration patterns in Croatia on age and family structures

Vera Graovac Matassi

University of Zadar, Croatia



Understanding demographic and migratory patterns in left-behind places of Latvia

Maris Berzins, Elina Apsite-Berina, Niks Stafeckis, Janis Krumins

University of Latvia, Latvia



Population Ageing in Croatia: Will Older People Be Left Alone and Unprotected?

Sanja Klempić Bogadi1, Sonja Podgorelec1, Dubravka Spevec2, Margareta Gregurović1

1: Department for Migration and Demographic Research, Institute for Migration Research, Croatia; 2: Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb



The Role of International Students in Addressing Demographic Shifts: A Resource for Demographic Resilience in Latvia

Elina Apsite Berina1, Sindija Balode1, Ieva Jegermane1, Eero Loonurm2

1: University of Latvia, Latvia; 2: Estonian Education and Youth Board, Estonia

135 (I): Arts-based research in urban geography: Re-imagining urban lifeworlds (I)
Chair: Dr. Miriam Haselbacher
Chair: Dr. Philipp Schnell
Chair: Dr. Wiebke Sievers
 

Sex workers’ experiences and utopias of self-representation in city space in Finland

Laura Horsmanheimo

University of Helsinki, Finland



Participative multimodal research across micro-urbanities in an inner-periphery

Piotr Goldstein1, Iepke Marie Rijcken2, Magdalena Nowicka1, Olga Łojewska1, Maksymilian Awuah1, Kyoko Shinozaki2

1: German Centre for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM), Berlin, Germany; 2: Paris Lodron University Salzburg



Urban Crossings: Post-Migration Spaces and Artistic Encounters in Istanbul

Gulay Ugur Goksel

Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkiye

136 (I): Urban in the Countryside: Flows, Knowledge, and Transformation in Rural Europe (I)
Chair: Dr. Kyra Tomay
Chair: Gusztav Nemes
 

Investigating the Transformation of Urban Fringe Areas – Land Use Changes and Segregation in the Peripheries of Central-Eastern European Cities

Ádám Szalai, József Lennert, Gábor Vasárus, András Donát Kovács

HUN-REN CERS IRS, Hungary



Urban to rural migration, rural gentrification, and the “new urbanity” in coastal towns of Turkey: The Cases of Seferihisar and Datça

Dilek Memişoğlu-Gökbınar, Neslihan Demirtaş-Milz, Derya Aktaş, Pınar Ebe-Güzgü

İzmir Katip Çelebi University, Turkiye



Urban newcomers as candidates in rural municipal elections. Explorations in the political dimension of lifestyle migration.

Anja Decker

Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic



Urban newcomers and rural development: the role of entrepreneurship in rural development

Kyra Tomay

Department of Sociology, University of Pécs, Hungary

142: Geopolitics of Migration and Security in a Changing Europe
Chair: Prof. Maria Paola Pagnini
2nd Session Chair: Giuseppe Terranova
 

Geopolitics of immigration in a disordered world: the case of the European Union

Maria Paola Pagnini, Giuseppe Terranova

Unicusano, Italy



Women as Geopolitical Subjects and Objects in the Context of Migration and Security

Sonia Malvica1, Carmelo Maria Porto2

1: University of Sassari, Italy; 2: University of Messina, Italy



Migration routes and ‘Fortress Europe’. Cultural geography considerations on the migratory journey

Giovanni Messina1, Enrico Nicosia2

1: University of Messina, Italy; 2: University of Messina, Italy



Global supply chains, uncertainty and geopolitics in a changing Europe

Marco Mazzarino

University Iuav of Venice, Italy

147: Geopolitics of Early Modern Age: Conflicts, Authors, Maps and Perspectives of a Global World
Chair: Prof. Alessandro Ricci
 

On the political use of geography. The case of Gabriel Chappuys

Davide Suin

Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy



Geostrategic Rhetoric of the Map: Decorative Elements on Early Modern Cartographic Representations of the Adriatic Sea

Lena Mirošević1, Dubravka Mlinarić2

1: Department of Geography, University of Zadar, Croatia; 2: Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb, Croatia



The Heritage of Mural Cycles. The Symbolism of Power from the Modern Age to Contemporaneity: the Case of the Cartographic Cycle of the Palazzo Aeronautica in Rome

Carlotta Bilardi

Università La Sapienza di Roma, Italy



Global Lines and Geopolitics of Early Modern: Maps for a Global World

Alessandro Ricci

Università di Bergamo, Italy

154: Going beyond the city borders – Culture’s role in regional development, with a special focus on European Capital of Culture
Chair: Dr. Judit Sulyok
Chair: Dr. Katalin Lorincz
Chair: Dr. Eszter Madarász
 

From Miners to Students to Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurs? On the (Sociocultural) Complexities of Establishing Entrepreneurship in Post-Industrial Regional Development

Lukas Robert Zaghow

Technical University of Berlin, Germany



Celebrating culture without borders: The twin town Gorizia-Nova Gorica as European Capital of Culture 2025

Julia Dittel, Florian Weber

Saarland University, Germany



Culture for All? Access to Culture from the Perspective of the European Capital of Culture (ECoC) Programme

Katalin Lorincz, Eszter Madarasz, Judit Sulyok

University of Pannonia, Hungary



The Role of Culture in Tourism: A Generational Study in Hungary

Zsuzsanna Behringer1,3, Noémi Kulcsár1, Titanilla Tevely2

1: Metropolitan University of Budapest (METU), Hungary; 2: Faculty of Economics of Alexander Lámfalussy Sopron University; 3: Doctoral School of the Neumann János University

182 (I): Islands and Their Geographies in a Transforming Europe (I)
Chair: Prof. Anica Čuka
Chair: Dr. Mucahid Mustafa Bayrak
Chair: Prof. Macia Blazquez-Salom
Additional Session Chairs: Sun-Kee Hong, Patsy Lewis
 

Reactivation of the profit rate via upgrading mass tourism destinations

Macia Blazquez-Salom, Marc Fuster-Uguet, Nora Müllere

Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain



Addressing island depopulation: the complex links between tourism and new residents

Carolin Funck

Hiroshima University, Japan



Turning the Faroes Into One City. Demographic and Spatial Impacts of 60 Years of Transport Infrastructure Expansion.

Alexis Sancho Reinoso1, Timothy Heleniak2

1: Office of the Lower Austrian Government, Dept. of Environment and Energy Affairs; 2: Nordregio



Islandness and Beyond: Exploring Islanders' and Non-Islanders' Perspectives on Identity, Branding, and Sustainability

Angeliki Mitropoulou

University of the Aegean, Greece

 
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115 (II): The changing and contrasting geographies of railways in Europe (II)
Chair: Prof. Simon Blainey
Chair: Dr. Amparo Moyano
 

Geographical Analysis of the Evolution of Overnight Train Services in Central and Western Europe since 1989

Simon Blainey1, Marcin Król2, Jakub Taczanowski3

1: University of Birmingham, United Kingdom; 2: SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland; 3: Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland



Night trains in Europe – sustainable alternative or niche market?

Zdeněk Tomeš, Vilem Pařil

Masaryk University, Czech Republic



Geographical Variations in Post-Covid Rail Demand Patterns in the UK: A Comparative Analysis with Pre-Covid Trends

Gamze Aydin, Prof. Simon Blainey

University of Southampton, United Kingdom

123 (II): The healing city in times of climate change (II)
Chair: Prof. Susann Schäfer
Chair: Prof. Soeren Becker
3rd Session Chair: Emanuele Garda
 

Green spaces are good for health, but who looks after the health of green spaces?

Julian Dobson1, Nicola Dempsey2

1: Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom; 2: University of Sheffield, United Kingdom



Challenging environment and healing communities - climate change and sustainability in a changing urban neighbourhood in Budapest

Szabina Kerényi, Bernadett Csurgó

Centre for Social Sciences, Hungary



Enhancing Children's Well-being and Biodiversity in Urban Schoolyards: Insights from the Oasis Program in Paris

Nelly Faget

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France



The Multiple Values of Gardening at Home in Urban Care ——Case study of the gardening for residents in Beijing

Huidi Ma

Chinese National Academy of Arts, China, People's Republic of

135 (II): Arts-based research in urban geography: Re-imagining urban lifeworlds (II)
Chair: Dr. Miriam Haselbacher
Chair: Dr. Philipp Schnell
Chair: Dr. Wiebke Sievers
 

Bottom-up literary production on the margins of the city. Confluences of political and literary participatory practices in Barcelona

Núria Codina

KU Leuven, Belgium



Urban green between top-down affective atmospheres and intimacy: an artistic-geographic research project to foster subjective relations with Le Cascine park in Florence

Matteo Puttilli, Cecilia Pasini, Panos Bourlessas

University of Florence, Italy



Layering Perspectives: Printmaking as a Method to Explore Urban Lifeworlds

Helena Segarra, Julien Segarra, Miriam Haselbacher

Austrian Academy of Science, Austria

136 (II): Urban in the Countryside: Flows, Knowledge, and Transformation in Rural Europe (II)
Chair: Dr. Kyra Tomay
Chair: Gusztav Nemes
 

The Social Economy of Knowledge and Rural Transformation: Insights from the Cold Mountain Shelter

Gusztav Nemes

HUN-REN KRTK, Hungary



‘Demographic Winter’ in Italian Inner Areas: Central Apennines as a Case Study

Laura Augello, Fabrizio Ferrari

"G. d'Annunzio" University - Chieti-Pescara, Italy



Counterurbanization dynamics in Poland in a long-term perspective

Karol Krzysztof Korczyński

University of Wrocław, Poland

140: Socio-Spatial Cleavages and Urban Rehabilitation Policies in European Cities
Chair: Andrea Visioli
Chair: Mar Esteve-Güell
3rd Session Chair: Oriol Nel·lo i Colom
 

Changing socio-spatial differences in Budapest before and after the 2008 financial crisis

Balázs Szabó1, Zoltan Kovács2

1: Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungary; 2: Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Geographical Institute



FROM FLUX TO CAPITAL: Distinguishing patterns of income and wealth segregation

Javier San Millán, Clémentine Cottineau-Mugadza, Maarten van Ham

TU Delft, Spain



EVOLUTION OF THE RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION IN THE METROPOLITAN ARC OF BARCELONA (2001-2021)

Mar Esteve-Güell, Andrea Visioli, Oriol Nel·lo i Colom

Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain



Beyond the pathological. Rethinking urban regeneration through the ethics of care in Palermo's Southeast Coast

Caterina Di Lucchio

Politecnico di Torino, Italy

155: Future proofing geography education: towards ethical and inclusive fieldwork
Chair: Dr. Bouke van Gorp
Chair: Prof. Dan Swanton
Additional Session Chairs: Sara Brouwer, Veronique Schutjens, Charlotte Miller
 

A manifesto for fieldwork: co-creating visions for the future for fieldwork

Dan Swanton1, Derek France2, Lesley Batty3

1: University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 2: University of Chester, United Kingdom; 3: University of Birmingham, United Kingdom



Student experiences of inclusivity in fieldwork

Charlotte Miller, Bouke van Gorp, Veronique Schutjens, Karin van Look

Utrecht University, The Netherlands



The Ethics Conversation Tool. Designing inclusive, effective and coherent fieldwork activities

Inge van der Welle

UvA, Netherlands, The



Our journey to more inclusive fieldwork

Charlotte Miller, Bouke van Gorp, Veronique Schutjens, Bianca Szytniewski

Utrecht University, The Netherlands

156: Social Movements in Times of Commodification of Housing and the Anthropocene
Chair: Dr. Cornelia Dlabaja
2nd Session Chair: Antje Daniel
 

Urban activism to improve the environmental quality of Polish cities in the times of the Anthropocene

Katarzyna Gorczyca1, Daria Zozulia1,2

1: Faculty of Geography and Geology, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland; 2: Doctoral School in the Social Sciences, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland



Rethinking Protest Camp: Improvisation and Autonomy in Japan’s Hida-Takayama Mountanious Area

Kyoko Tominaga

Ritsumeikan University, Japan



Social Movements and Commons as Alternatives to Housing Commodification in Groningen

Bart Filip Popken

University of Groningen, Netherlands, The



Heritage from Below: Urban Grassroot Activism and the Politics of Socialist Modernist Heritage

Jovana Janinovic

University of Montenegro, Montenegro

158: Renewable Energy on the Move: Spatial Patterns and Institutional Barriers to a Low-Carbon Future
Chair: Prof. Federico Martellozzo
Additional Session Chairs: Marco Grasso, Stefano Clò, Filippo Randelli, Matteo Dalle Vaglie
 

Discursive context and conflicts of energy transition and built heritage protection in a metropolitan locality

Gergely Horzsa

HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Hungary



All scales considered: A multi-site mapping methodology for understanding energy transitions

Joseph Smithard1, David Bauer2

1: Anhalt University of Applied Science; 2: Technical University of Berlin



Mapping Solar Energy Potential: A Machine Learning Approach to Sustainable Land-Use Planning in Italy

Matteo Dalle Vaglie, Federico Martellozzo

University of Florence, Italy



Beyond the Top Down/Bottom Up Dualism in the Conformation of Renewable Energy Communities (RECs): Italian Case Studies

GIULIA CHIARA CERESA

University of Florence, Italy

182 (II): Islands and Their Geographies in a Transforming Europe (II)
Chair: Prof. Anica Čuka
Chair: Dr. Mucahid Mustafa Bayrak
Chair: Prof. Macia Blazquez-Salom
Additional Session Chairs: Sun-Kee Hong, Patsy Lewis
 

Geographic and Social Marginalization: Healthcare Disparities and Challenges on Croatian Islands

Anica Čuka, Julijan Sutlović, Josip Faričić

University of Zadar, Croatia, Croatia



Benefits and contradictions of development and spatial relationality: trade dependency, food security and sovereignty in Cabo Verde

Karl Kraehmer, Arianna Falco

Università di Torino, Italy



Islands Next Gen future, sense of place, and heritage narratives: the “Islands 4 Future” project and the virtual #OurCommonIslandFuture archipelago

Pietro Agnoletto1, Antonia De Michele2, Arturo Gallia2, Stefano Malatesta1, Nicoletta Tomei3

1: University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy; 2: Roma Tre University, Italy; 3: European University of Rome, Italy



Who Cares? Thinking with Islands to Rethink Geographies of Care

Sissal Tokadottir Dahl

University of Groningen, Netherlands, The

201: Exploring the Links between Rural Smartification and Digitalization: Regional Inequalities and Socio-spatial Exclusion
Chair: Dr. Bianka Plüschke-Altof
Chair: Dr. Ingmar Pastak
Chair: Dr. Bradley Loewen
4th Session Chair: Kadri Leetmaa
 

Rural transformation through digitalisation?: Understanding the digital in the context of rural change

Adwoa Serwaa Ofori, Karen Keaveney, Ainhoa Gonzalez Del Campo, Dominic Robinson

University College Dublin, Ireland



How telemedicine fits to the rural – Potentials and hurdles from a doctors’ perspective

Tobias Mettenberger

Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute, Germany



Digital transformations in an e-country: Alternative meanings of “smart development” at the rural margins

Bianka Plüschke-Altof1,2, Mariia Bochkova1, Ingmar Pastak1, Kadri Leetmaa1

1: University of Tartu, Estonia; 2: Tallinn University, Estonia



Smart(er) rural areas – Framing ‘smart villages’ for conceptual development and policy in the EU

Bradley Loewen1, Thomas Streifeneder2

1: Norwegian University of Science and Technology; 2: Eurac Research

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