Society & Environment

Please find a list of all sessions under this key topic below. Click here to download a list of all session abstracts.

Sessions

Session: Applied environmental economic geography and sustainable development and planning (Panel Session)
Chair: C. Patrick Heidkamp & Christian Schulz

Session: Analysis of linked social-ecological systems
Chairs: Tillmann Buttschardt & Lisa Oberkircher

Session: Border Water Scarcity
Chairs: Matthias Moeller & Hermann Klug

Session: Can we manage human-nature interactions?
Chairs: Kirsten v. Elverfeldt & Beate M. W. Ratter

Session: Capturing imagined invisibility: How to analyze social representations of climate change?
Chairs: Lutz Meyer-Ohlendorf & Diana Reckien

Session: Climate change - indications, dynamics and regional perspectives
Chairs: Heiko Paeth & Dieter Anhuf

Session: Climate reconstruction and climate interpretation in its cultural context for the last Millennium
Chairs: Steffen Vogt & Rüdiger Glaser

Sessen: Contextualising gender and climate change
Chairs: Kim Philip Schumacher & Astrid Ulloa
 
Session: Cross-sectoral and geospatial dimensions of renewable energy production and reduced carbon emissions
Chairs: Jan-Peter Mund & Ari Talkkari

Session: Crossing boundaries in human-environment-system research: Exploring transdisciplinary approaches
Chairs: Ulli Vilsmaier & Daniel Lang

Session: Expertise and the politics of the environment (Session canceled)
Chairs: Olivier Ejderyan & Joris van Wezemael

Session: Exploring the social-environmental nexus in a resource development context: a Sustainable Livelihoods Framework approach
Chairs: Vigya Sharma & John Owen

Session: Geographic Information Systems, society and education
Chairs: Francis Harvey & Thomas Jekel

Session: Geomorphic systems under pressure - anthropogenic forces in a changing environment
Chairs: Thomas Glade & Gary Brierley

Session: Global challenges & local responses: The mitigation of climate change by travel behaviour change
Chairs: Joachim Scheiner & Martin Lanzendorf

Session: Globalisation of trade and production and (ecological) sustainability
Chairs: Amelie Bernzen & Peter Dannenberg

Session: Green economies: a business, society and policy approach
Chairs: Brita Hermelin &Grete Rusten

Session: Impact of cryospheric changes on climate and sustainable development in Central-South Asia
Chairs: Christoph Schneider & Ramesh P. Singh

Session: Integrated water resource management and land use change in South America
Chairs: Carsten Lorz & Rene Hoefer

Session: Integrative approaches to water resource management in times of global change
Chair: Flurina Schneider & Olivier Graefe

Session: Localising climate change in a development context: Adaptation to what?
Chairs: Chinwe Ifejika Speranza & Detlef Müller-Mahn

Session: Man and environmental change: progress in geoarchaeological applications
Chairs: Helmut Brückner & Kosmas Pavlopoulos

Session: Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction along the corridors of modern human dispersal from Africa to Europe
Chairs: Frank Schäbitz &Henry Lamb

Session: Plants, play and place: Green Environments as a contribution to children´s healthy development
Chairs: Silvia D. Schäffer & Christina R. Ergler

Session: Protected areas and tourism planning – preparing for global challenges
Chairs: Susanne Becken & Hubert Job

Session: Relationships between climate change and socio-economic processes in the Arctic
Chairs: Tatiana Vlasova & Susan A. Crate

Session: Senses of identity and belonging in coastal regions in transition
Chairs: Tialda Haartsen &Beate Ratter

Session: Societal perception and relevance of river and floodplain restoration measures
Chairs: Bernd Cyffka & Hans-Martin Welp

Session: Soil erosion and terrestrial carbon cycling
Chairs: Verena Dlugoss & Nikolaus J. Kuhn

Session: Sustaining ecosystem services in cultural landscapes: Analysis and management options
Chairs: Tobias Plieninger & Dan van der Horst

Session: Technological and environmental Change in the South
Chairs: Raquib Ahmed & Boris Braun

Session: The social construction of cultural landscapes: New concepts of “landscape” in social sciences, cultural studies and geography
Chairs: Winfried Schenk & Johannes Renes

Session: The third pillar as an interface between the two geographies? Chances and challenges of an integrative approach towards global change
Chairs: Kirsten v. Elverfeldt & Peter Weichhart

Session: Tibetan Plateau ecology – Research on the past and present role of the Tibetan Plateau for the monsoonal climate of Asia
Chairs: Volker Hochschild & Frank Lehmkuhl

Session: Transition of energy systems and green industry development
Chairs: Britta Klagge & Harald Rohracher

Session: Urban landscape and nature
Chairs: Sascha Henninger & Olaf Kühne