Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: Museumszimmer
Main Building of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2nd floor, Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Wien
Date: Monday, 08/Sept/2025
2:00pm
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3:30pm
192: Which literary geographies for a changing Europe?
Location: Museumszimmer
Chair: Prof. Giacomo Zanolin
Chair: Dr. Lucrezia Lopez
 

The “Waiting Territories” in a changing Europe. A geographical reading of the book "O Retorno [The Return]”, by Dulce Maria Cardoso .

Fátima Velez de Castro

University of Coimbra / CEIS20 /RISCOS, Portugal



ON A JOURNEY WITH GIANNI RODARI: WHEN LITERATURE BECOMES "CREATIVE GEOGRAPHY"

Stefania Cerutti1, Pino Boero2, Alberto Poletti3

1: Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy; 2: Fondazione PARCO; 3: Parco della Fantasia Gianni Rodari



Senses and Emotions. European Caminoscapes through Literary Geo-Representations

Lucrezia Lopez

University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain



The Sinophone gaze on Europe: Geo-literary perspectives

Giacomo Zanolin, Epifania Grippo, Carlo Giunchi

Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy

4:00pm
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5:30pm
194: Human Dimensions of Mediterranean Marine Biodiversity. A Geographical approach
Location: Museumszimmer
Chair: Prof. Stefano Malatesta
Additional Session Chairs: Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg, Enrico Squarcina, Maria Paradiso, Clara Di Fazio, Arturo Gallia
 

Advancing marine citizen science throught participatory practices and critical ocean studies

Chiara Certoma'

Sapienza University of Rome, Italy



Sustainable marine biodiversity management practices and climate change. The case of the Sea Turtle Rescue Centre of the Salento Museum of Natural History

Sara Nocco, Luigi Potenza

University of Salento, Italy



Human-Sea Interactions in the Mediterranean: A Systematic Literature Review

Gabriel Araújo Njaim1, Hilmar Hinz1, Ana Ruiz-Frau2

1: Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados (IMEDEA;CSIC-UIB), Spain; 2: Centro Oceanográfico Baleares, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Spain



MEDiverSEAty: Integrating Human Dimensions in the Conservation and Restoration of Mediterranean Marine Biodiversity.

Gabriel Rivas-Mena1, Antonija Avdalović1, Aloïs Aguettant2, Vincenzo de Cancellis3, Justin Whittle3, Ludovica Montecchio2,4, Gabriel Araújo Njaim5, Inès Vincent6, Victoria Campón-Linares7, Carlotta La Penna7

1: Institut za biologiju mora, Montenegro; 2: University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy; 3: University of Malta, Malta; 4: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), Spain; 5: Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados (IMEDEA; CSIC-UIB), Spain; 6: University of the Aegean, Greece; 7: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales - Institut Jean Nicod, France

Date: Tuesday, 09/Sept/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
145: Decolonise political ecology? New epistemologies facing socio-ecological crises
Location: Museumszimmer
Chair: Prof. Salvo Torre
Additional Session Chairs: Isabella Giunta, Valerio Bini
 

Decolonizing political ecologies of developmentalism from the peripheries of Europe: Revisiting environmental movements in Türkiye

Ethemcan Turhan1, Cem İskender Aydin2

1: University of Groningen, the Netherlands; 2: Boğaziçi University, Türkiye



Political ecology and decolonising research practices: an imperative and a chimera

Alberto Diantini1, Andrea Rizzi2

1: University of Ferrara, Italy; 2: University of Bologna, Italy



TRANSFORMING HERITAGE-SCAPES AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN CENTRAL ASIA: COULD WE ADOPT A POLITICAL ECOLOGY APPROACH?

Andrea Zinzani

University of Bologna, Italy



RE-IMAGINING COSMOPOLITANISM IN THE CAPITALOCENE: DECOLONIAL OPTIONS FOR FUTURE PROSPECTS

Nicolò Matteucci

Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

11:00am
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12:30pm
148: Water in the Anthropocene (II): Urban Rivers: greening or renaturalization?
Location: Museumszimmer
Chair: Dr. Joaquim Farguell
2nd Session Chair: Albert Santasusagna Riu
 

Assessment of nitrogen and phosphorus pollution based on multi-source data and the InVEST model in the Henan section of Yellow River Basin, China

Xu Yang

Institute of Geographical Sciences, Henan Academy of Sciences, China, People's Republic of



Pharmaceutically active compounds in rivers and streams of the Budapest metropolitan area: adsorption in sediments and efficiency of the riverbank filtration

Zoltán Szalai1,2, Gergely Jakab1, Lili Szabó1, Gábor Maász3, Péter Dobosy4, Ferincz Árpád5, Tibor Filep1, László Bauer1,2, Bruna Silva6, Attila Kondor1

1: HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Budapest, Hungary; 2: ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary; 3: University of Pannonia, Soós Ernő KFK, Nagykaninzsa, Hungary; 4: HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, Budapest, Hungary; 5: MATE Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gödöllő, Hungary; 6: Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal



DANube SEdiment Restoration (DANSER): Towards deployment and upscaling of sustainable sediment management across the Danube River basin (The Upper Danube case)

Ronald Pöppl1, Michael Wagreich2, Thomas Hein3, Andreas Lang4, Severin Hohensinner1, Diana Hatzenbühler2, Johannes Kowal1, Sonia Recinos2, Ulrich Schwarz5, Julia Sandberger6, Stefan Schneeweihs7, Gerhard Klasz8

1: University of Vienna, Austria; 2: Department of Geology, University of Vienna, Austria; 3: BOKU University, Vienna, Austria; 4: Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria; 5: FLUVIUS, Floodplain Ecology and River Basin Management, Vienna, Austria; 6: via donau, Vienna, Austria; 7: Donau-Auen National Park, Vienna, Austria; 8: Ingenieurbüro Klasz, Vienna, Austria



(Dis-)connectivity in urban rivers: the case of Genova (NW Italy)

Andrea Mandarino1, Pierluigi Brandolini1, Martino Terrone2, Francesco Faccini1

1: University of Genova, Department of Earth, Environment and Life Sciences, Genova, Italy; 2: Information System - Technology Office, Genova Municipality, Genova, Italy

2:00pm
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3:30pm
112: Geographies of energy transition in a changing Europe
Location: Museumszimmer
Chair: Prof. Justyna M. Chodkowska-Miszczuk
Additional Session Chairs: Agata Lewandowska, Dominik Zieliński
 

Local Collective Action Initiatives for a Sustainable Transition: Non-institutional participation in the province of Granada, Spain

Marina Frolova, Belén Pérez-Pérez, Francisco Javier Rodríguez-Segura, Juan Carlos Osorio-Aravena

University of Granada, Spain



Spatial redevelopment trajectories of nuclear sites in Europe

Belinda Ravaz

HEIG-VD, Switzerland



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

Joseph Smithard1, Bauer David2

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



Energy injustice and constraints of energy transition in marginalised rural areas in Hungary

Lea Kőszeghy

HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Hungary

4:00pm
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5:30pm
137: Geographies of Precarious Housing and Homelessness: Navigating Commodified Housing Markets in Times of Crisis
Location: Museumszimmer
Chair: Judith Schnelzer
Chair: Dr. Philipp Schnell
 

Everyday politics of older women experiencing homelessness in Czech Republic

Petra Tamasova

Masaryk University, Czech Republic



Regional aspects of the healthcare system for people experiencing homelessness in Hungary

Noémi Annamária Vajdovich

Eötvös Loránd University - Doctoral School of Earth Sciences (Budapest, Hungary); Metropolitan Research Institute - Városkutatás Kft. (Budapest, Hungary)



Pathways from Homelessness to Secure Housing. The Case of Vienna.

Judith Schnelzer, Philipp Schnell

Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria

Date: Wednesday, 10/Sept/2025
9:00am
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10:30am
119: The relationship between people, technology and space in the AI era
Location: Museumszimmer
Chair: Runlin Yang
2nd Session Chair: Shan Yang
 

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

11:00am
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12:30pm
179: Local Strategies of Empowering Rural Communities
Location: Museumszimmer
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

2:00pm
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3:30pm
147: Geopolitics of Early Modern Age: Conflicts, Authors, Maps and Perspectives of a Global World
Location: Museumszimmer
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

4:00pm
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5:30pm
155: Future proofing geography education: towards ethical and inclusive fieldwork
Location: Museumszimmer
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

Date: Thursday, 11/Sept/2025
11:00am
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12:30pm
165 (I): Collaborating on Changing Cities: Citizen Science as an Urban Planning Ally (I)
Location: Museumszimmer
Chair: Dr. Venere Stefania Sanna
Chair: Prof. Cristina Capineri
Chair: Dr. Michela Teobaldi
Chair: Prof. Giacomo-Maria Salerno
Chair: Dr. Francesco Di Grazia
Chair: Dr. GOZDE YILDIZ
 

On Smart Engagement: Questions about Techno-Social Praxis on Inclusive Place-Based Smart City Planning Process for Climate Resilient City

Jin-Kyu Jung

University of Washington, United States of America



Bi-directional connection between citizens and public authorities through citizen science

Tom Paul E Goosse

UGent, Belgium



‘We Will Be Protagonists’: Perspectives from the Global South on Citizen-Generated Data (CGD)

Tainã Farias1, Lalita Kraus1, Tomás Donadio1, Gilberto Viera2

1: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 2: The Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná



University societal outreach and citizen science: open challenges

Carolina Pacchi

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

4:00pm
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5:30pm
165 (II): Collaborating on Changing Cities: Citizen Science as an Urban Planning Ally (II)
Location: Museumszimmer
Chair: Dr. Venere Stefania Sanna
Chair: Prof. Cristina Capineri
Chair: Dr. Michela Teobaldi
Chair: Prof. Giacomo-Maria Salerno
Chair: Dr. Francesco Di Grazia
Chair: Dr. GOZDE YILDIZ
 

Urban gaps in small cities in the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Upper Middle Rhine Valley" – How to address urban vacancies with Citizen Science?!

Jonas Birke, Bernhard Köppen

University of Koblenz, Germany



From Local Challenges to Regional Impact: Engaging Teenagers in Citizen Science in Emilia-Romagna

Catia Prandi1, Michela De Biasio2

1: University of Bologna, Italy; 2: Agenda Digitale, Emilia Romagna Region, Italy



Integrating citizens into Digital Climate Health Technologies: A case study of air quality monitoring platforms

Razieh Rezabeigisani, Sören Becker

Philipps Universität Marburg, Germany



Critical reflections on the potential of citizen science in urban water quality investigations

Adwoa Serwaa Ofori1, Jeremy Auerbach1, Suzanne Linnane2, Reza Tavangar2

1: University College Dublin, Ireland; 2: Dundalk Institute of Technology