LRG Event: Conservation and Multispecies Relations in Contemporary European Tourism Environments

To celebrate the publication of Conservation and Multispecies Relations in Contemporary European Tourism Environments (Volume 49, Issue 7 Landscape Research) LRG & LR hosted a special online Zoom event on Thursday 13th February at 1pm GMT.

This Special Issue of Landscape Research builds on recent developments in landscape studies and multispecies research to explore how the human and non-human constitute one another in the context of nature tourism. The research is concerned with an interest in what happens when environmental and conservation projects meet tourism pursued as a strategy for regional development. Within that context, you will hear how landscapes appear as a physical presence, repositories of different kinds of histories and as collective concerns that provoke and inspire ever-new interpretations and discoveries.

This event is led by the Special Issue Editors, during which each researcher gives a short presentation on their fascinating work, followed by time for reflections at the end.

Featured Presentations:

• Carolin Maertens & Eeva Berglund (SI Editors) Conservation and multispecies relations in the making of contemporary European tourism environments.
• Carolin Maertens What’s in a landscape? Nature, memory, and tourism in Bitterfeld-Wolfen’s post-mining landscape, East Germany
• Eeva Berglund – Dwelling in unsustainability: tourism landscapes and modern roads in a remote part of Finland 
• Julia Lajus – The road along the coast: infrastructure, nature tourism and cultural heritage on the White Sea
• Joonas Plaan – Nature-based winter sports and their ephemeral tracks: interspecies (non-)encounters in snow
• Alessandro Rippa – Where tourism fails: the (un)making of a post-working landscape in the Italian Alps
• Lidia Rakhmanova – Intertwined narratives: nature tourism in the context of forced settlers’ history in Western Siberia

Please note that the video and audio may be slightly out of sync at the start but this improves after a few minutes.