A5041179647- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Coastal and Marine Management
- French Urban and Social Studies
- Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
- Regional Development and Policy
- Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
- Forest Management and Policy
- Religion, Ecology, and Ethics
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Marine and fisheries research
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
University of Iceland
2014-2024
Leiden University
2014
Delft University of Technology
2014
Erasmus University Rotterdam
2014
University of Akureyri
2014
Icelandic Tourism Research Centre
2014
In this commentary, the crisis that hit Iceland in late 2008 and involved collapse of country’s entire banking system is discussed briefly its impact on regional employment levels outlined. Currently, unemployment highest south-west Iceland, including Reykjavík. Fisheries-dependent communities have performed better, but fisheries management yet again a major issue political arena. We trace origins Individual Transferable Quota (ITQ) speculate about role series events eventually led to...
This article engages critically with recent social theorising about local development, illustrative examples from Icelandic peripheral settings. People in resource–based localities have attempted to cope the transformations of late modernity various ways. Such coping strategies consist reflexive practices which simultaneously produce and make use capital. A view capital as embedded practice is advanced: instead considering it being a quantitatively measurable property individuals,...
.Recent critiques of the nature–culture dualism, influenced by diverse theoretical stances, have effectively destabilized "naturalness" nature and highlighted its pervasive intricate sociality. Yet practical, ethical political effects this turn are open to question. In particular, emphasis on sociality has not led reinvigorated environmental or landscape politics. Meanwhile, need for such politics if anything increased, as evident when ongoing and, arguably, accelerating transformations...
Abstract The paper deals with the complex meaning of risk for tourism mobilities. impact Eyjafjallajökull eruption on in Iceland is outlined, as well response Icelandic tourist authorities. A survey June and July 2010 among international tourists country revealed that many had added considerable depth to their travel experiences. sense affects relation between mobile travellers destination. also analyses how events such can facilitate new paths towards being sensitive natural world.
Landscape quality has become a fundamental issue in the development of renewable energy (henceforth abbreviated RE) projects. Rapid technological advances RE production and distribution, coupled with changing policy frameworks, bring specific challenges during planning order to avoid degradation landscape quality. The current work provides comprehensive review on landscapes impacts systems for most European countries. It is based by an interdisciplinary international team experts empirical...
Ecological restoration centers on the reestablishment of ecological processes and integrity degraded ecosystems, but its success also depends public acceptance support. In this study, we evaluated short‐term effects different treatments in Iceland. Furthermore, tested perception aesthetic recreational values these revegetated areas. Predefined soil vegetation indicators were measured, a survey, based questionnaire photographs areas, was used for gauging perception. Our results indicate that...
Icelandic fish stocks underwent privatisation in 1990, when existing fishing quotas were made fully transferable. The country's system of individual transferable has since been held up as a paragon virtue for sustainable fisheries. This might be valid ecological and most economic concerns, but truly fisheries management the question social impacts to addressed well. paper evaluates performance from spatial point view. theoretical framing stems concepts resilience vulnerability. Through...
The paper describes the history and current enactments of automobility in highland interior Iceland interprets this phenomenon through notion spatial history. We elucidate how currently widespread practices automotive travel highlands are mediated technological assemblage ‘jeep’ its user. argue that travelling is done a double sense; an ‘inner’ space vehicle ‘outer’ terrain. A heterotopic emerges, which offers detailed insights into specific form automobility. In final part paper,...
The eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland 2010 caused havoc to global air traffic. This article examines that event by looking at theories risk and culture. We demonstrate the fragility today's mobilities, which depend on unpredictable nature as well complex technological systems. A new type was revealed eruption, has since become a feature cultural portfolios contemporary society.
Abstract An improved understanding of the geographical unevenness global energy transition is important. The concept ‘sociotechnical imaginaries’ has been used extensively for how desired technology futures are envisioned and differentially articulated in various contexts. Supplementing this, ‘nature proposed this article, to specifically address collective moral visions human/nature relations that underwrite discourses actions by actors. Nature plays an active role both types imaginaries....
In this paper a qualitative case study is presented, addressing the Icelandic Nature Conservation Strategy 2004–2008. The objective to investigate subjectification of landscape methodologies designed for biodiversity conservation. For that purpose, we analyse role expertise in formulation strategy and interpret with help two central analytical concepts: performance governmentality. Landscape has received increased attention Iceland, reason being partly public awareness importance landscapes...
This article will discuss the ways in which landscapes have been conceptualised current literature building on notions of escape to and well-being with nature, how tourist has placed that context. Drawing among other things Gadamer’s understanding concept horizon, as well Deleuzian understandings relationality, we argue landscape is simultaneously an effect gathering deep-seated emotions experiences open-ended forever unfinished story. Due irreducibility its terms, a something can be shared....
Prompted by observations Weller and O’Neill (2014) of the particularities neoliberalism in resource-based economies such as Australia’s, this commentary looks into partial uneven introduction neoliberal ideas practices to natural resource management Iceland. Some sectors have been profoundly impacted neoliberalism, whereas others marked an uneasy blend developmental governance. The example strengthens case for a careful contextual analysis ideologies, processes outcomes.
The concept of resilience has been used to assess community development and its prospects in natural resource-based localities. objectives the article are evaluate two Icelandic coastal communities, reflect on possible shortcomings for providing policy guidance. Mixed qualitative methods were used, with several weeks fieldwork each location. results showed that case communities have had adjust a radical change fisheries management, loss resource entitlements. Additionally, substantial...
Invasive life has received much attention in recent years, being a prime example of the complex socio‐natural entanglements characterizing present condition world. In this article we argue for an ontology invasive life, consisting three aspects. First, does indeed exist; second, it is deeply entangled with political action; and third, capacity to produce new assemblages phenomena. A recognition these ontological premises opens up analyses that go beyond discussions scientific moral...
Abstract Using a case study of the Búrfell wind farm project, large proposed in Central Highlands Iceland, authors attempt to provide new insights into factors shaping subjective landscape perceptions and attitudes renewable energy developments, alternative methods that may be used for their assessment. The research was based on an on-site visit actual experience place, investigated using combination mental mapping, technique semantic differential questionnaire survey. results show...
Once established in new spaces, exotic plants not only impact the "native" biota, but also affect environmental politics often complex ways. This article looks into one instance of such politics: that Nootka lupin (Lupinus nootkatensis), a leguminous plant North American origin. Imported to Iceland 1945 stem soil degradation and recover vegetation, it soon became firmly Icelandic landscapes. Its spreading was actively assisted by human actors as part fulfilling moral duty heal land scarred...
The concept of sustainability has been widely recognized as a pivotal objective for future growth. Therefore, it is imperative to incorporate the principles into policies and plans, particularly in land use agri-food production, sectors often associated with negative environmental impacts. Addressing all three pillars sustainability—environmental, economic, social—is essential, within contexts production use. Consequently, sustainable rural development also critical. This study utilizes...