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+++ sorry for crosspostings +++ Call for Papers, RGS-IBG Annual Conference, Edinburgh, 3rd-5th July 2012 ‘Uncertain Futures: Transport, Mobility and Energy’ Jointly sponsored by the Energy Geographies Working Group and the Transport Geography Research Group Convenors: Stewart Barr (University of Exeter) and Jan Prillwitz (Utrecht University) Global environmental and economic crises such as human-induced climate change and the potential threat of ‘Peak Oil’ raise significant concerns about the ways in which different forms of mobility will have to develop in the future. Although considerable research attention within transport and mobilities studies has focused on the ways in which mitigation can be used as a strategy for reducing the impact of these issues, attention is now shifting towards adaptive strategies that recognize the inter-relatedness of economic and environmental crises through the lens of energy. This session will explore the ways in which the geographies of transport and energy can be brought together to understand the complexities of mobility in an age of climate change and potential resource scarcity. The session aims to examine a wide spectrum of research both in terms of themes and approaches, but examples of contributions could include the following: - Theorising sustainable transport and mobilities within the context of climate change and ‘Peak Oil’; - The roles of efficiency, technology and / or reduced mobility as policy responses; - New energy sources and technologies for transport and mobility; - Visualising and measuring energy for transport and mobility; - Mobilities of goods and strategies for de-globalising trade networks; - ‘Upstream’ and ‘downstream’ policy drivers for sustainable transport and mobility; - The role of regulatory and non-regulatory responses to driving an energy-efficient transport system; - Commodity networks and the de-globalisation of trade; - Travel practices, behavioural change and sustainable mobility; - Interactions between lifestyles, different forms of mobilities and overall energy consumption; - Resilient mobilities within and between communities. Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Stewart Barr ([log in to unmask]) or Jan Prillwitz ([log in to unmask]) by the 15th of January 2012. ---------- Dr. Jan Prillwitz Department of Human Geography and Planning Faculty of Geosciences Utrecht University P.O. Box 80115 3508 TC Utrecht The Netherlands Tel.: +31 30 253 2620 Fax: +31 30 253 2037 Email: [log in to unmask] Web: http://www.geo.uu.nl/phpscripts/staffpages/personal/personal.php?id=Prill101