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*Call for Papers for RGS-IBG session (July 3rd - 5th).
Transport and energy: a roadblock to sustainability*

Due to the depletion of easily accessible fossil fuels and associated
environmental change, energy has become a major research focus in
Geography and beyond. Although transport consumes roughly 1/3 of
commercial energy supplies worldwide the sector has received relatively
little attention from an energy perspective. Geographical explorations
of energy are often focused on issues such as solar panels and domestic
demand, despite the inherently geographical nature of transport and its
dependence on the most rapidly depleting of our energy resources: oil.
The energy that flows through transport systems is vital to connecting
distant phenomena, yet remains invisible and poorly understood in most
research. This session will provide a forum for discussion of transport
and energy from a range of perspectives: from assessments of /how much/
energy is currently used for different transport phenomena, through
scenarios of /future change/ as oil runs out, to /interventions/ to
increase resilience and reduce environmental impact. We envisage papers
covering a range of scales (from household to national) and modes of
analysis (economic, social and cultural). The session will thus
illuminate the invisible energy flows powering our transport systems.

Please send abstracts to Robin Lovelace ([log in to unmask]) or
Stewart Barr ([log in to unmask]) by February 10th at the latest.



Eligible author presenters are encouraged to submit a paper for the Postgraduate Paper Prize, which is will be sponsored by Emerald Publishing in 2013. There is a first prize of £100, and a runner-up prize of a book chosen from the Emerald transport titles.

To enter for the prize, a full paper of not more than 6000 words should be submitted to the Secretary of the TGRG (Kate Pangbourne, [log in to unmask]) no later than 5pm on the Friday of the week prior to the conference.

Eligibility for Postgraduate Prize:
Eligibility is restricted to post-graduate students (or those who have had their viva within six months of the date of the conference) presenting their own work. There is a presumption that the papers ought to be sole authored.

Dr Kate Pangbourne
Tel: 01224 272348
Research Fellow - Centre for Transport Research, Geography & Environment, University of Aberdeen
Secretary - Transport Geographers Research Group, Royal Geographic Society (with IBG)


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