Marine Coastal Cultures
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Marine Coastal Cultures is a space designed to foster conceptual and methodological pluralism that crosscuts range disciplines grappling with bridging the ubiquitous marine-terrestrial divide, including human geography, social and cultural anthropology.
Marine Coastal Cultures
3y ago
by Azadeh Arjomand Kermani
Europe’s energy transition is driven by political agendas that work out in different ways on a regional level.This drive has proved to have a great impact on our relationship with our living environment and its heritage values. How can heritage discourse and studies shed light to these challenges? And what role can heritage and landscape values play in global challenges?
Tinos: View of the Cardiani settlement in Tinos island. Locals and heritage experts warn against the planned installation of wind power infrastructure in this small-scale, layered landscape. Credit ..read more
Marine Coastal Cultures
3y ago
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Marine Coastal Cultures
4y ago
Special Issue of Planning Practice and Research
Guest Editors: Franziska Sielker1, Glen Smith2 & Cormac Walsh3
1Cambridge University, UK, 2University College Cork, Ireland, 3Hamburg University, Germany
**Submission deadlines: Abstracts must be submitted by April 30th 2020. Full papers are required by October 30th 2020**
image source: European Commission
Background to the theme issue
In the last decade marine spatial planning (MSP) has picked up pace. The EU’s Integrated Maritime Policy was developed in 2007 to promote coherent planning across maritime sectors. This was followed by the ..read more
Marine Coastal Cultures
4y ago
by Epifania Akosua Amoo-Adare
Canoe boats in Elmina, photo taken by E. Amoo-Adare
“The future is not good at all” – Papa Panyin
I want to share a little of what has been proving to be rather troubled reflections on the contemporary making of ‘modern’ Ghana. Now, what I wish to share here is mostly based on a bunch of hunches rather than some reliable evidence that can be validated and/or replicated through method. In fact, it is really about a series of questions, which have come to plague my conscience of late; namely one, which is: Who rules the waves?
By this, I first wish to use the ter ..read more
Marine Coastal Cultures
4y ago
by Cormac Walsh
In ‘The Frayed Atlantic Edge’ (William Collins, July 2019) historian and experienced sea-kayaker David Gange recounts his journey along the Atlantic coasts of Britain and Ireland, from Shetland to the Channel. In travelling by kayak, Gange immersed himself in the rhythms of the sea and coast and sought to gain new perspectives on the history and geographies of Britain and Ireland, from the perspective of the sea. Drawing on archival and literary sources, he weaves together an account of these Atlantic coasts which challenges head-on dominant narratives of the peripherality and ..read more
Marine Coastal Cultures
4y ago
by Sarah Schönbauer & Sven Bergmann
Although there is more and more data about plastic particles in the environment, the impact of microplastic particles on the ecosystem, wildlife and the human body is still unexplored. However, the potential effect of such particles has become a core concern in our contemporary societies, tangible in the far-reaching media coverage or in scientific conferences specifically devoted to engage with microplastics.
In one of such conferences, the Micro2018 in Lanzarote (1) Richard Thompson, professor of biological and marine sciences at the University of Plym ..read more
Marine Coastal Cultures
4y ago
CALL FOR PAPERS
Spatial Strategies at the Land-Sea Interface: Rethinking Maritime Spatial Planning
11-13th September 2019, University of Hamburg, Institute for Geography
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15th July 2019
Under the EU Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) Directive adopted in 2014, Member States are tasked with the preparation of maritime spatial plans by 2021. These plans are required to ‘take into account land-sea interactions’ and ‘should aim to integrate the maritime dimension of some coastal uses or activities and their impacts’ (EU 2014, 138). Accordingly, inshore territorial waters must b ..read more
Marine Coastal Cultures
4y ago
University of Hamburg: 11-13th September 2019
Under the EU Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) Directive, Member States are tasked with the preparation of maritime spatial plans by 2021. These plans are required to take account of land-sea interactions. Experience to date, however, indicates that MSP occupies a different institutional and policy space to land-based terrestrial spatial planning. At the same time as MSP is becoming established as a formal policy instrument applied in a coordinated manner across Europe, European spatial planning has reached an impasse, with a discernible shift away f ..read more
Marine Coastal Cultures
4y ago
by Cormac Walsh & Martin Döring
Sunrise on Schiermonnikoog, Dutch Wadden Sea. (Photo C. Walsh)
Proposed Panel Title: Beyond Nature and Culture: Relational perspectives on the Wadden Sea landscape
Panel Convenors: Dr. Cormac Walsh & Dr. Martin Döring (University of Hamburg)
The Wadden Sea constitutes a dynamic intertidal coastal landscape, reaching from Den Helder in the Netherlands, along the German North Sea coast to Blavands Huk in southwestern Denmark. This coastal landscape has been shaped over a period of a thousand years or more by dyke-building, land reclamation and drainage p ..read more
Marine Coastal Cultures
4y ago
by Cormac Walsh
On 19th October 2009, an interdisciplinary conference on dyke history and dyke research took place in Stade, a small town in the Elbe marshlands, to the northwest of Hamburg. The conference was organised by the landscape association of the former duchies of Bremen and Werden (Landschaftsverband der ehemaligen Herzogtümer Bremen und Verden e.V.). Over a period of eighteen years the landscape association had commissioned a detailed historical study of the dykes of the Elbe and Weser river landscapes which has been published between 2003 an 2008 in the eight volumes by historians ..read more