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Nytt nummer av Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

1. Making sense of the green economy (pages 195–200)

Federico Caprotti and Ian Bailey

2. The green economy, sustainability transitions and transition regions: a case study of Boston (pages 201–216)

David Gibbs and Kirstie O’Neill

3. ‘It’s all a question of business’: investment identities, networks and decision-making in the cleantech economy (pages 217–229)

Lucien Georgeson, Federico Caprotti and Ian Bailey

4. Practicing the cultural green economy: where now for environmental social science? (pages 231–243)

Stewart Barr

5. Green growth or ecological commodification: debating the green economy in the global south (pages 245–259)

Ed Brown, Jonathan Cloke, Danielle Gent, Paul H. Johnson and Chloe Hill

6. Technocratic norms, political culture and climate change governance (pages 261–276)

Janelle Knox-Hayes and Jarrod Hayes

The green economy and post-growth regimes: opportunities and challenges for economic geography (pages 277–291)

Christian Schulz and Ian Bailey

Review: On language and cartography: further reflections on the contribution of Gunnar Olsson to geographical thought-and-action a book review essay (pages 293–297)

Volume 96, Issue 3, September 2014

Geografiska Annaler B – Human Geography

SSAG:s årsmöte hålls 18 november

Svenska Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi kallar härmed sina medlemmar till årsmöte tisdagen den 18 november kl. 17.30 i Nordenskiöldssalen, Geovetenskapens hus, Svante Arrhenius väg 12, Stockholm.

Därpå följer en presentation av den senaste årsboken Ymer ”Antropologi och Tid” efterföljt av mingel och tilltugg.

Kallelse med dagordning

Seminarium med professor Gudrun Gisladottir 11 november 2014

gudrun_gisladottir_2Professor Gudrun Gisladottir, naturgeograf från Islands Universitet emottog Wahlbergs medalj i guld för hennes bidrag till vår förståelse av markförstörelse och ökenspridning på en ceremoni på Stockholms slott den 14 april.

Professor Gisladottir kommer att hålla ett seminarium baserad på sin forskning tillsammans men andra inbjudna talare den 11 november i Nordenskiöldsalen, Geovetenskapens hus vid Stockholms universitet kl. 13.15–17.00.

Program:

SSAG seminar 11 November 2014

In honour of Wahlberg medallist professor Gudrun Gísladottir, Reykjavik

Environmental change: spatial and temporal aspects of the interactions between humans and nature

The theme is focused around the interaction between humans and nature over the last millennium; how nature provide habitat for humans and how humans and natural processes have impacted on the physical environment/natural recourses.

Setting the scene: Gudrun Gísladottir will in her talk discuss research conducted in Iceland focusing on importance of healthy physical environment especially vegetation and soils and its ecosystem services and the natural and human impacts thereon. She will discuss the impact of climate change, land use, and natural hazards mainly volcanism on soils and terrestrial resources, and discuss how land use change may improve soils and terrestrial resources and the role of the time factor thereon. Spatial and temporal (centennial, decadal, annual) factors are of importance here, and physical, societal data and historical documents.

Given that volcanic activities may impact on human livelihood, especially farmers who depend on soils and vegetation, she will discuss how important it is to take into consideration the impacts of volcanism on terrestrial resources and the resident’s perception of volcanic eruption, when constructing disaster management, in order to limit the impacts of volcanism on farmer’s livelihood. This theme will be further elaborated by her collaborator and former student, Egill Erlendsson.

Carole Crumley will stress the theory and method in an overall approach of the importance of integrating humans and nature, natural and social sciences in environmental research and in understanding our cultural landscape and history, as a way to find a sustainable future. She will exemplify this with her research in Burgund, France.

Mats Olsson will focus on the importance of soils, such as their connection with land-use, their importance for ecosystem functions and climate, and about the potential threats we expose our living by thoughtless land-use.

13.15–13.30: SSAG President, Professor Sten Hagberg: Welcome and Introduction

13.30–14.30: Professor Guðrún Gísladóttir, University of Iceland, Department of Geography and Tourism, and Earth Science Institute, SSAG:s Wahlbergs recipient.
How has the interaction between humans and nature formed the terrestrial resources in Iceland: spatial and temporal aspects

14.30–15.00: Dr. Egill Erlendsson, University of Iceland, Department of Geography and Tourism
The impact of climate change, land use and volcanism on vegetation change in Iceland since the 9th century.

15:00–15.30: Coffee

15.30–16.00: Professor Carol Crumley, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, visiting professor ,SLU and Uppsala University
A Conceptual Template for Integrative Human-Environment Research- examples from the Burgundian landscapes, France.

16.00-16.30 Professor Mats Olsson, Department for soil and environment, SLU, Ultuna.
The importance of soils –the potential and threats for the interaction with land-use, ecosystem functions and climate.

16.30-17.00 Panel discussions, moderator Professor em Margareta Ihse. Stockholm University:

Ymer skickas från Gotland

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SSAG:s årsbok Ymer distribueras numera av eddy.se, ett förlag som främst arbetar med humanistisk-samhällsvetenskaplig forskning och är beläget på gotländska landsbygden. Här ses vd Stephan Carlsson vid hyllan med Ymer. Vill du beställa Ymer, klicka här: ymer.bokorder.se.

Yaya’s story kommer i höst

2013 årspristagare av Retzius medlaj i guld, Professor Paul Stoller, kommer i höst med sin nya bok ”Yaya’s Story: The Quest for Wellbeing in the World”. Detta var också titeln på professor Stollers föreläsning vid VEGA-symposiet Anthropology and Well-being.

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