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Dear colleagues,
I am seeking panellists for a proposed session titled “Contested
recreation: diverging interests and resource conflicts between the city
and its hinterlands” for the European Society for Environmental History
(ESEH) conference in Munich (Germany) in August 2013.
After work and on weekends, an ever-increasing flow of leisure-seekers
circulates between the city and its hinterlands. City-dwellers looking for
relaxation in the surrounding areas of urban agglomerations not only pose
serious challenges for the recreation and transport infrastructures of
rural and suburban areas. Tensions between stakeholders also create major
interaction problems between different areas of interest, e.g., between
leisure activities, tourism, agriculture, forestry, or nature
conservation. To adjust these sometimes conflicting demands on the
resources and landscapes in these areas, municipalities and state
administrations often aim at mitigating conflicts by establishing diverse
sets of planning strategies and other policy instruments, such as the
creation of nature parks or the introduction of specific programs for
leisure and recreation.
This session aims to investigate the relation between cities and their
environs with regards to recreation and leisure activities during the 19th
and 20th centuries by addressing three crucial perspectives:
- The extent and functioning of material and human flows
- Resource conflicts and conflicts of interests between recreation and
other ways of utilising nature
- Recreational planning as an attempt for solving these interaction
problems between different areas of interest
We welcome contributions that may address one or more of the following
questions: How did the relation between the city and its hinterland change
over time with regards to recreation? Which activities were being pursued,
how and by whom? What kinds of recreational and/or transport
infrastructures were created and how did these in turn influence the
quality and quantity of recreation? Which resources were utilised, how and
by whom? How were conflicts of use and interaction problems between
different areas of interest resolved? What kind of negotiations took place
and who were the key actors? Were there attempts for comprehensive
recreational planning and how successful were these? By answering these
questions, this session seeks to open up new and interesting perspectives
on the development of the urban leisure society in different societal
settings, the history of environmental and recreational planning, as well
as on the social and material metabolism of the city and its hinterlands.
If you are interested in participating, please send an email to
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abstract (200-400 words) by 5 October 2012.
For more details about the conference, see http://www.eseh2013.org/.
Very much looking forward to your contributions.
Best regards,
Ute
Dr. Ute Hasenöhrl
Leibniz-Institute for Regional Development und Structural Planning (IRS)
Department for Historical Research
Flakenstraße 28-31
15537 Erkner
Germany
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www.irs-net.de
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