European field trips

EM  01 - Natural and Anthropogenic Drivers of Land Degradation and Landscape Change within a Changing Environment: From the Alps to the lower Rhine

(Organised on behalf of the IGU Commission COMLAND)   

The focus of the five day field trip includes comparison of natural with anthropogenic rates of sediment redistribution, soil erosion, land degradation styles, late Quaternary landscape evolution, and the design of effective management strategies within a changing environment. These topics are examined along a continuum of settings from the Alps to the lower Rhine within a “source-to-sink” framework. The field trip provides an overview of the impact of historic land degradation processes on soil quality, stratigraphy, and compares sediment fluxes in natural and coupled human-natural systems. The field trip occurs before the IGU Congress, with transportation to Cologne on 25th August, the day prior to the start of the Congress. Costs to include travel from Benediktbeuern to Cologne and accommodation in local hotels with regional cuisine.

  • Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Benediktbeuern; Lainbach catchment: Quantitative dimensions of geomorphic activity in an alpine setting; flash flooding, sediment budget, and geomorphic work in the geomorphologically most active German catchment.
  • Black Forest Mts., Odenwald Mts.: Pedostratigraphic impact of historic timber harvesting and agriculture in mountainous settings; gullying; sediment budgets of anthropogenic sediment flux
  • Muenzenberg (Wetterau loess basin): Sediment redistribution in long-cultivated basinal loess landscapes; sediment budget and geomorphic work for a period of 7000 years of cultivation, evolution of a anthropogenic soilscape pattern; implications for long term perspectives on soil erosion problems.
  • Lower River Rhine floodplain, Rhine delta, The Netherlands: Holocene evolution of the Rhine delta; Holocene sediment fluxes and sedimentation along the lower River Rhine, response to anthropogenetically increased sediment loads.
  • Rhine delta; transfer to Cologne: Late Holocene delta evolution and sediment budgets; integrated floodplain management for global environmental change scenarios.


Organisers: Dr. Paul Hudson (University of Texas at Austin) and Dr. Peter Houben (University of Frankfurt); Co-organisers: Dr. Michael Krautblatter (Univ. of Bonn), Dr. Hans Middelkoop (Utrecht Univ.), Dr. Gilles Erkens (Deltares and Utrecht Univ.)
Email: pfh@austin.utexas.edu, houbenp@uni-koeln.de
Phone: +31 (0)20 525 5913 (Paul Hudson)
See also COMLAND website: https://webspace.utexas.edu/

21st August – 25th August 2012
Start: 21st August, 9 am (Benediktbeuern)
End: 25th August, 7 pm (Cologne)
Number of participants: 20-23
Fee: "early bird" (before  1st Feb 2012) = 820 €, regular (before 15th April 2012) =  880 €

Note: The fee is calculated on the basis of single rooms. Costs based on double room occupancy might be about 100€ lower.

 

EM 03 - Metropolisation, gentrification and social housing in the old Belgian historical cities   

  • Brussels: Walking and public transport tour through Brussels : the structure of the city, the CBD and the European district, social dualisation and gentrification and their relations with the urban renewal
  • Gent: Urban renewal and policies in an old historical city
  • Antwerp: Urban policies in Antwerp. Stroom aan de Stad.
  • Along the route from Antwerp to Liège: diffused urbanisation in relation with the former coal-mining and the Fordist industrialisation in Limburg.
  • Liège – Cologne: Urban problematics in an old heavy-manufacturing area.


Organiser: Prof. Christian Vandermotten (Université libre de Bruxelles)
Email: cvdmotte@ulb.ac.be 
Phone: 0032-26505078
   
22nd August – 25th August 2012
Start: 22nd August 2012 (Brussels)
End: 25th August 2012 (Cologne)   
Number of participants: 15-40   
Fee: 481€ (Double/twin room occupancy)

Note: The fee is based on double room occupancy. Single rooms will incur a surcharge of 70€.
 

EM 04 - Experiencing Dutch Geographies  

In this 3-day post-conference excursion you will experience Dutch Geography life and in doing so you will also notice how ‘Space’ and ‘Place’ are central in the development of the Netherlands and in the role the Netherlands play in an international context and how Geography makes a difference.

  • Enschede: Mapping the World (ITC)
  • Groningen: the Energy Outlet of the Netherlands; the Geography of Energy (RUG)
  • Amsterdam: Urban Development in Amsterdam (UvA, UU)
  • Wageningen/Nijmegen: Political and Cultural Geography of Borders (RU, WUR)
   
Organiser: Prof. Huib Ernste (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Email: h.ernste@fm.ru.nl  
Phone: +31-(0)24-361 19 25
   

31st August – 2nd September 2012
Start: 31st August, 7:00h (Departure by coach from Cologne)
End: 2nd September,  ca. 18:00h (arrival in Cologne by coach)   
Number of participants: 15-45
Fee: 425€

Note: The stated price is based on the minimum number of participants and might be slightly reduced depending on the final number of participants.
For further information click here to download a field trip summary.


EM 05 - Dijon et la vallée du Rhône: patrimoines industriels, vignobles et  mobilités  urbaines

(Proposed by French Geographical National Committee and endorsed by the IGU Transport Commission)   

  • Nancy et environs (Michel Deshaies, Univ. Nancy 2 + Simon Edelblutte, Anne Hecker, Mark Bailoni ) : centre de Nancy, place Stanislas, tramway de Nancy, friches industrielles et requalification
  • Dijon, Beaune (Yves Boquet  + Thomas Thévenin,  + Jean-Pierre Chabin + Jocelyne Pérard, Univ. de Bourgogne et chaire Unesco “Vin et Culture” ?)
  • Dijon : visite de l’institut Icovil, le secteur sauvegardé et la piétonnisation du centre, la tour Elithis, la politique de développement durable du Grand Dijon (visite des locaux du Grand Dijon, quartier Junot), la mise en place du tramway dijonnais (Maison du Tram avec M. André Gervais, adjoint au maire de Dijon, chargé de mission tram), le plan de circulation du campus (Y. Thévenin),
  • réception à l’université de Bourgogne
  • côte viticole et Beaune  : Clos-de-Vougeot, Vosne-Romanée, visite de cave, hospices de Beaune, impacts du changement climatique sur l’évolution de la viticulture (J.P. Chabin)
  • Le Creusot-Montceau-les-Mines : sites Schneider, requalification de site industriel, Ecomusée du Creusot, gare TGV du Creusot (Valérie Facchinetti-Mannone, Univ. de Bourgogne ?)
  • éventuellement un arrêt à Tournus (abbaye St Philibert)
  • Lyon : visite de ville autour du thème des transports (Christian Montès, Univ. Lyon 2), pôle Perrache, projet Lyon-Confluence


Organiser: Prof. Yves Boquet (Université de Bourgogne)
Email : yves.boquet@u-bourgogne.fr
Phone : +33-0380 395730   

31st August - 5th September 2012
Start: Cologne, 31st August, 8:00am (Departure from Cologne by coach)
End: Lyon, 5th September, 10:00am (return to Cologne not included)
Number of participants: 35-45
Fee: 750€

Note: The fee is based on double room occupancy. Single rooms will incur a surcharge of 100€. The transfer from Cologne to Nancy, accommodation for five nights and all dinners are included in the fee. As the fee is based on the minimum number of participants, costs might be reduced and a reimbursement paid to participants depending on the number of registered participants.