Le réseau national inter- et transdisciplinaire promeut la connaissance et le discours sur le paysage et les processus de changement de paysage. Il s'est engagé dans des concepts de conception, de développement et de protection durables. Les Alpes, les parcs et les espaces protégés sont au cœur de ce forum.en plus

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Call for the 12th ESEH Conference 2023 - Mountains and Plains: Past, present and future environmental and climatic entanglements

12th Biennial European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) Conference

The Institute of History and the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research are proud to host to the 12th Conference of the ESEH on 22.-26. August 2023 with the theme «Mountains and Plains: Past, present and future environmental and climatic entanglements». The conference is being held on behalf of the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH). Proposals for sessions, individual papers, roundtables and posters can be submitted until 31 October 2022.

12th ESEH Conference Mountains and Plains, UniBe 22-26.08.2023

Since prehistoric times, mountain ranges all over the world have been a protective barrier and a place to be overcome. Transit deeply influenced the socio-economic structure of mountainous societies and enabled knowledge transfer. Mountains are «water castles» of the surrounding plains, and they play an important role for macro- and micro-scale weather conditions. The Alps were the first transnational mountain range that scholars examined in detail; and since the eighteenth century, they had been one of the most important places for tourism in Europe.

Numerous environmental challenges of the present and the future are also connected to mountains: the melting of glaciers; the availability of natural resources; increases in the number and magnitude of natural hazards; traffic and tourism; losses of cultural landscape ecosystems through rural depopulation; structural economic problems due to low income in agriculture and forestry; losses in biodiversity as a consequence of the maladaptation of state subsidies; losses of cultural and natural heritage. The great variety of topics at the conference will thus show the relevance of environmental history approaches (in a wider sense) for societies of the present and the future.

Call for Papers

The ESEH invites proposals for sessions, individual papers, roundtables, posters, and other – more experimental – forms of communicating scholarship for its 2023 biennial conference. The conference theme has been chosen in connection to Bern’s closeness to the Alps and it points to a much broader set of historiographical issues. The deadline for submissions is 31 October 2022.

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  • Alpes