Johannes Herburger’s Post

📣 Call for proposals – Which urban human-nature partnerships do you aim for? 🌍 🌳 🤝🏻 The Leibniz-Junior Research Group "URBNANCE – Urban human-nature resonance for sustainability transformation", together with Markus Egermann and Jessica Böhme, is seeking abstracts for chapters to be considered for inclusion in the book project 📗 Urban human-nature partnerships – From the Anthropocene to the Ecocene   The book aims to re-discover, re-think, and re-sense the soulfulness, intelligence, and relational value of nonhuman nature in cities, its peri-urban borders and urban land teleconnections.   The editorial team welcomes a range of theoretical, empirical and practical studies from all parts of the world (co-)authored by people with diverse backgrounds. Therefore, apart from academic contributions it explicitly invites innovative formats that explore human-nature partnerships beyond intellectual textual explorations, such as artistic, poetic, or performative. 📗🔓 The book will be published open access by Edward Elgar Publishing.   ⏳ Submission deadline: 1 September 2024 More information (PDF-file) 👉 https://lnkd.in/egPqjC4S Online form for the submission of brief chapter proposal 👉🏻 https://lnkd.in/erTFZPjR   #HumanNatureResonance #LivableFuture #SustainabilityTransition  

❗❗❗ Reminder and new opportunity for idlers and proponents of de-acceleration Martina Artmann and the other colleagues in the editorial team of the book project 📗 "Urban human-nature partnerships – From the Anthropocene to the Ecocene" let you know: 🗨 We are deeply touched by the positive resonance to our book project on urban human-nature partnerships. Already now, we got so many inspiring contributions. Big thanks to all of you submitting your ideas and spreading our call. 🙏 🐌 Since human-nature partnerships are nourished by idleness, de-acceleration and intuition, we decided to extend the deadline for submission by ➡ 30th September ⬅ . 🦋 Besides your academic contributions, we are looking forward to further submissions from non-academics sharing, for instance, arts, spiritual or embodied practices nourishing our material and immaterial entanglement with life in cities and beyond. 🗨 So seize the opportunity and submit your proposal! ⌛ New and final submission deadline: 30 September 2024 #HumanNatureResonance #LivableFuture #SustainabilityTransition More information 👇🏻

❓ How are #SettlementSystems represented in #MountainResearch? Together with Dominik Bertram and Tobias Chilla we present a #ScopingReview of settlement systems in mountain regions. Our results show that the #ScientificDiscourse has been a rather Eurocentric debate of modest intensity for several decades, but has become more intense recently. We conclude that a significant #ResearchGap is comparative perspectives on settlement systems in mountain regions. The paper is published in the #MountainAgenda section of the journal Mountain Research and Development. 📍 Find the #publication online: https://lnkd.in/dTjPkR2Z 📍 More #research info: https://lnkd.in/df6p8z_B #Urbanization #ResearchAgenda #MountainGeographies #Montology

Happy to share the latest paper on "Cities as innovation poles in the digital transition. The Italian case" realized with Ginevra Balletto, published with AIMS - Geosciences. The paper focuses on the role of innovative Italian cities in tackling the current issues of the 'demographic winter' in the urban life cycle. A special thanks to the editors prof. Stefano de Falco, Giulia Fiorentino and Chiara Certomà. https://lnkd.in/g8Wyh6ii

Together with Giuseppe Borruso, we explored the evolving of main Italian cities. While some face demographic challenges, innovative cities, especially mid-sized ones, demonstrate resilience and growth. This research analyzes Italian urban dynamics, focusing on population change, income, and innovation, revealing the rise of urban champions capable of attracting people and expertise. 🔓 https://lnkd.in/d5R4AfRa

Just published! (open access) https://lnkd.in/eWBTeUzZ Dirty research: a call towards decolonial urban knowledge production The conventional view of research emphasizes the systematic investigation to produce knowledge with an objective undertone, often emanating a sense of purity of the research process/methods. However, this piece calls for a reexamination of urban knowledge production, particularly its processual aspects and the implications of conducting it in relation to urban communities, where I suggest this purity is fictitious. The enquiry here arises from a decolonial critique of tokenistic engagement in urban research and an ontological critique of knowledge production as a good in itself. Instead, the concept of Dirty research presented here positions knowledge production as an embedded process within the creation of new worlds through entwining theory and action. I argue that the ways we conduct research—and the actions (or inactions) of researchers—are intricately connected to structural injustices, epistemic violence, and the perpetuation of coloniality. The proposed framework illustrates how urban research can be approached differently by adopting an ethos of reciprocity that 1) ensures parity in the knowledge produced, 2) fosters the co-production of research inquiries, and 3) cultivates empathetic allyship. By focusing on these interlinked processes, Dirty research conceptually challenges extractivist paradigms in urban knowledge production and charts pathways towards decolonial urban futures.

The paper I co-authored with Jacques Thisse on spatial agglomeration has now been published (open-source) in the *Annual Review of Economics*. It highlights how economic activities are concentrated on a surprisingly small portion of land, approximately 3% of the total land surface. In this review, we argue that this agglomeration results from a trade-off between increasing returns and transportation costs, which gets capitalized into land rents. The bidding for land plays a crucial role, as it leads to spatial sorting — a consequence of numerous individual decisions made by agents acting in their own self-interest. We've aimed to cover what we believe are significant contributions to spatial and urban economics in recent decades. But, of course, given the constraints on space, we had to omit many great papers.

📢 Our first paper, co-authored with my supervisors Georgios Tsilimigkas and Thanasis Kizos, is now published in the Planning Practice & Research Journal! This collaborative work emerged from the Individual #Research #Training last year at the Department of Geography University of the Aegean and University of Groningen - Faculty of Spatial Sciences under ISLANDS MSc program. 🏝 🌇 Our research focuses on #island #urban #sprawl, revealing intriguing patterns: 1. Larger-sized islands serve as provincial capital or hosting regional activity centres (PKW), and are governed by multidistrict jurisdictions tend to be more sprawl; 2. Smaller-sized islands with relatively well-developed economies, hosting national activity centres (PKN), and governed by a single municipal unit tend to be denser, more diverse (mixed-use) and compact; 3. We advocate for "#island #planning" to be repositioned not just as an intermediary between national and provincial levels, but as a vital middle-tier planning and governance level to better manage sprawl across the island. Special thanks to Editor-in-Chief Vincent Nadin and the anonymous reviewers for their invaluable feedback and guidance throughout the process. Additionally, gratitude to the #Open #Access Team at the University of Groningen Library for their support in making our findings accessible to a broader audience. You can access the paper through this link: https://lnkd.in/dHpXT5Xu

„Housing in and beyond Switzerland“ – that was the topic of a symposium at the Swiss Geosciences Meeting last Saturday in Basel. The symposium was organized by our (relatively) new working group on housing within the ASG (Verband Geographie Schweiz) and expertly hosted by Jessica Verheij and Josje Bouwmeester. All of the sessions were well received and showed the quality and variety of housing research conducted in Switzerland (and Universität Liechtenstein 😉). I had the great pleasure to present some preliminary results of my research on the developments in post-industrial neighborhoods in the trinational Alpenrheintal as well as moderating a round table with four experts in Swiss housing research and policies: Miriam Meuth, Hanna Hilbrandt, Luisa Gehriger and Ivo Balmer. In the round table, the questions of land ownership, housing ideologies and discourses as well as data production and data ownership were especially prevalent. Who owns land and who owns the data to influence housing policies? These are some of the crucial questions for the future. For a productive and progressive housing policies a transdisciplinary endeavor between politics, academia, social organizations and of course the housing production sector is mandatory. Affordable and adequate housing is a basic human need!

Important topic that Franziska Görmar and I explored in a joint article on Industrial forever? Narratives, place identity, and the development path of the city of Zeitz, Germany. Read #openaccess https://lnkd.in/dyRT3rUf