Abstract Submission Guidelines
Given that EUGEO is a Congress gathering the entire Geography discpline, it is necessary to link the abstract to one of the Sessions below. Once the submitting period ends, the review will be done by each session chair.
To submit an abstract, we ask for a no more than 300 words description, as well as the information regarding the Author(s).
DEADLINE IS MARCH 31st
| 1145 | Transport, tourism and climate change: The tyranny of distance travelled |
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| Organizers: Dobruszkes Frédéric (1); Suau-Sanchez Pere (2,3); Wilson Julie (3) | |
| From: (1) Brussels Free University (ULB), (2) Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, (3) Cranfield University | |
| Keywords: Transport geography, tourism geography, distrance, climate change |
IPCC (2022) estimates that the transport sector accounted for 15% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) direct emissions in 2019. The contribution of this sector to climate is progressively increasing in absolute terms due to growing traffic (more and longer trips), the predominance of the least-efficient transport modes (cars, vans, trucks and planes), as well as the slow pace of innovation.
Whilst the spotlight is generally on efficiency (e.g., emissions per passenger/kilometre), distance is a crucial geographical concept at the core of transport geography and by extension, it is a major factor influencing GHG emissions and climate footprint. All other things being equal, distance travelled directly affects energy consumption. However, during the last few years, transport environmental policy has been primarily centred on short-distance travel and urban/regional mobilities. This has significantly improved people’s lives and local air quality, but has not been enough to curb the growing GHG emissions.
Considering the context above, this special session explores the relationships among three aspects: transport, distance and climate change. All scales (from urban areas to the global), transport modes, passenger motivations (including tourism mobilities and goods may be considered for the session.
Potential topics include:
Is there a linear relationship between distance travelled and climate footprint?
Cycling and flying - personal responsibilities and contradictions inherent in balancing the climate consequences of transport mode choice for daily mobilities and leisure/tourism-based travel.
Tourism as a driver of long-haul flight emissions.
Replacement of short-haul flights with rail services as a possible means to reduce aviation’s contribution to climate change - can high-speed rail contribute to making aviation ‘greener’?
Current and future feasible alternatives to long-haul travel.
Likelihood of behavioural change in relation to long-haul travel - is price the only filter?
The environmental (in)efficiency of airport charges and specific aviation taxes against distance flown.
The relationship between social class, distance travelled and GHG emissions.
Buying local or buying global? The climate impact of global e-commerce platforms. Under the auspices of the IGU Commission on Geography of Tourism, Leisure, and Global Change and the IGU Commission on Transport & Geography.
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| 1139 | Geomatics applied to studies in Geography |
| 1140 | El voluntariado un motor para impulsar el desarrollo sostenible |
| 1141 | Incendios Forestales. Impacto, medidas de mitigación y adaptación socio-ecológica en un contexto de cambio global. |
| 1143 | Political Geography & Geopolitics - Theory, Methodology, Empirical Case Studies |
| 1144 | The reindustrialization of Europe: a nightmare, a wish or a hope? |
| 1145 | Transport, tourism and climate change: The tyranny of distance travelled |
| 1146 | Navigating environmental uncertainty through language |
| 1147 | Basic principles of spatial development in post-war reconstruction of Ukraine |
| 1149 | What Future for maritime transport in Europe? |
| 1150 | Los espacios públicos en la geografía humana. Calidad de vida y sociabilidad, conflictos e identidades |
| 1151 | Minority place-name standardization in Europe |
| 1152 | From commuter through migrant till circulator – the governance of territorial mobilities |
| 1153 | Creativity rulez! |
| 1154 | Geography Education and the challenge of the Anthropocene |
| 1155 | Mass housing, high-rise and vertical cities – What else? |
| 1156 | Emerging Ruralities |
| 1157 | Nuevas ruralidades y migración internacional / New ruralities and international migration |
| 1158 | The 15-Minute City: Can planning for urban proximity initiatives contribute to a more just and egalitarian transport system? |
| 1159 | History of Cartography |
| 1160 | The Past is the Key to the Future: Application of Past Patterns in Spatial Planning and Perspectives for the Suburban Development in Europe |
| 1161 | Demographics in times of crises. How will contemporary conditions affect the future demographic situation in Europe? |
| 1162 | Residential (im)mobility in life course perspective – facets of residential change in Central and Eastern Europe in conceptual, empirical and methodological critical reflection. |
| 1163 | Adaptación a los riesgos asociados al cambio climático en espacios turísticos del litoral mediterráneo: percepción, incentivos y barreras |
| 1164 | Rethinking tourism mobility for a better future |
| 1165 | Advances in the study of badlands and gully systems |
| 1166 | Exploring the interconnection between geography, waste and power dynamics for sustainable futures |
| 1167 | Heritage and museums as spaces for coexistence |
| 1168 | The power of participatory mapping for our common future |
| 1169 | Relació entre cartografia i bases de dades espacials |
| 1170 | Alpine borderscapes: envisioning the future of cross-border communities |
| 1171 | Integration of Artificial Intelligence into smart city initiatives |
| 1172 | A geography of "new" territorialities: challenges and scenarios for creating alternative imaginations and narratives |
| 1173 | Rivers in the Anthropocene: human pressures, fluvial landscape changes, and need for restoration in a climate-change contest |
| 1174 | Trade circulations and globalization of the poor: social and spatial transformations in African cities |
| 1175 | Global Energy – energy crisis, energy transition, energy geography |
| 1176 | Transformació social del turisme; i turisme en la transformació social? |
| 1177 | Spatial (im)mobility and local development in non-metropolitan areas |
| 1178 | Música, turismo y territorio |
| 1179 | Active aging and eco-smart cities |
| 1180 | Rethinking regional mobility: Modal interactions, social and territorial inequalities |
| 1181 | The power of fieldwork: enhancing student learning in the outdoors |
| 1182 | Current developments in GIS data, model and simulation sharing, commerce and interoperability platforms |
| 1183 | Landscape and change in marginal regions |
| 1185 | The Valuable Future of Tourism in the European Regions |
| 1186 | The effects of digitalization of cities in our common future |
| 1187 | Impacts of Cross-Border Cooperation at the EU’s External Borders |
| 1188 | Spatial differences in political behaviour |
| 1189 | Advances in Micromobility: Research, Practice, and Policy |
| 1191 | Land Degradation Challenges and Sustainability |
| 1192 | La diversidad del patrimonio geográfico como recurso para el geoturismo |
| 1193 | How to address distance and locality? – Implications of geographical features in scientific research |
| 1194 | Mapas colaborativos y participación: experiencias, críticas y propuestas |
| 1195 | Exploring urban Vitality: links between built environment and street and neighbourhood life |
| 1196 | Multilingual regions in Central Europe |
| 1197 | Regenerating fragile territories. Reflections and operational proposals to enhance, reconstruct and repopulate the abandoned and scattered places |
| 1198 | Segregación residencial y diferenciación socioespacial en las ciudades medias españolas |
| 1199 | Soft mobility planning to promote livable and inclusive cities |
| 1200 | A New Generation of Cross-Border Cooperation Structures Within the European Union? |
| 1201 | Internal Borders Within European Countries: Can They Be Considered as if They Were International Borders? |
| 1202 | Millenarism, past and present |
| 1203 | Inhabiting the uninhabitable. Decolonial urban practices for possible futures |
| 1204 | Regions and regionalisation: emerging trends and forms |
| 1205 | Lowering and abolishing fares: a step towards mobility of the future? |
| 1206 | Gender perspectives in Geography teaching in higher education: sharing reflections, practices and experiences |
| 1207 | Regions and regionalisation : evolving trends and forms |
| 1208 | La mirada geográfica y el ecocentrismo: aportaciones teóricas y metodológicas |
| 1209 | Looking beyond the causes – Understanding and managing land use conflicts |
| 1210 | The incidence of socio-environmental conflicts in land planning and landscape preservation |
| 1211 | Remote sensing of changing forest ecosystems: methods for risk assessment and adaptive management |
| 1213 | Music at Borders: A Changing Sense and Representation of Place |
| 1215 | Historical transportation GIS. |
| 1216 | Nature and Society. Building a new relationship in mountains areas |
| 1219 | Integrated Disaster Risk Management for a Resilient Future: Geographical linkages of social, spatial, and temporal dimensions |
| 1221 | La actividad comercial, la movilidad activa y la vida en las calles de los centros urbanos |
| 1222 | Waste studies and spatial impacts |
| 1225 | Visitor mobility in European urban areas. Dynamics, impacts and policies |
| 1226 | Persistencies and transformations in the private residential rental market |
| 1227 | Tourist mobilities and behaviours: redefining tourism spaces and destinations |
| 1228 | Geographic perspectives on mega events and their socio-spatial dynamics in cities and fragile territories. |
| 1229 | Geohumanities: creative geographies and artistic practices at a crossroads |
| 1230 | The rise of corporate hosts in the short-term rental market and its impact on housing and places |
| 1231 | Commodification of the environment for tourism purposes and through tourism: dispossession, resistance and alternative scenarios |
| 1234 | Sustainability as key problem our days - some approach of geographers |
| 1236 | Geographical aspects of food consumption taking in focus main problems of beginning of 21th century as sustainability, migration, ageing, food security, health |
| 1237 | Climate/Environmental change perceptions and mobility intentions |
| 1240 | Co-creative methodologies and Challenge Based Learning for sustainable urbanities in the Anthropocene |
| 1242 | Incendios forestales en el contexto del cambio ambiental global |
| 1243 | Demographic and migration challenges: new knowledge and solutions |
| 1244 | Water in the Anthropocene: social issues, policies and governance |
| 1245 | Anatomy of new rural landscapes at the time of the energy transition |
| 1246 | Sea-level rise: challenges and adaptation strategies |
| 1247 | Rural urban peripheries: slow dying or a chance for resurrection? |
| 1248 | Our heritage common future. A counter-hegemonic perspective on natural heritage landscapes. |
| 1249 | Geography education as an integral part of modern European education – Why do we need Geography? |
| 1250 | Regional centers vs. regional cohesion in Central and Eastern European Countries |
| 1251 | Educational services in the uncertain time of the COVID-19 pandemic and the future |
| 1252 | Recentrar las periferias: prácticas espaciales, discursos y modos de vida en la era de la urbanización planetaria/ Recentring peripheries: spatial practices, discourses and ways of life in the age of planetary urbanization |
| 1253 | Methods and techniques for the study of long-term environmental geohistory |
| 1254 | Territorial levels in worldwide air transport |
| 1255 | Reflecting on The Influence of Geographical Knowledge on Civil Society Actions |
| 1256 | Paisajes en transformación por conflictos extractivos: una perspectiva social y feminista |
| 1257 | Urban micro-mobility innovations for all: what do we know? |
| 1258 | Disasters and Human Health |
| 1259 | Mobile, temporary, floating populations in cities: definitions, encounters, conflicts, implications |
| 1260 | Measuring the mountain |
| 1261 | Senses of place matters for our common future |
| 1263 | La integración de la vegetación espontánea en el diseño de zonas verdes urbanos |
| 1264 | Renewable Energy Communities as key factors to implement a just renewable energy transition? Experiences from the European context |
| 1266 | Transformative urbanism under the gender lens. |
| 01267 | Rural depopulation in the context of rural shrinking: towards a multidimensional perspective |
| 01268 | The making of (un)sustainable futures through socio-technical promising |
| 1269 | Miscellaneous |