European Conference on Energy Landscapes am IÖR Dresden

The Landscape Research Group organises a European conference on Energy Landscapes: Perception, Planning, Participation and Power. The conference is hosted by the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development and will take place on September 16-18, 2015, in Dresden, Germany.
Key questions to be discussed are:

• Perception – How is the character, perception, assessment and social construction of landscapes influenced by present and past uses of energy?
• Planning – Which types of landscape-related planning and governance regimes exist and how are they linked to landscape planning, spatial planning and energy policy?
• Participation – In the face of energy transitions, to what extent are landscape policies inclusive and participatory? Which actors are involved and who is constituted as an actor in this regard?
• Power – Which power relations shape the interplay of energies and landscapes? How can the workings of power be conceptualised and critically reflected?

Please note: Contributions which take up issues of perception, planning, participation or power in relation to other landscape transformations, but without explicitly referring to energy, will also be welcome. Please follow these web links:

• Call for papers
• Online submission tool
• Conference home

The deadline for submitting abstracts is February 28, 2015.