General schedule
Detailed schedule
Case Studies and Landscape Research Groups
Contents
Information sources
Further readings
General schedule
Girona University from Monday 12th April to Friday 23th April 2010
| | Girona University (1st week) |
Sunday 11th April | Arrival |
Monday 12th April | Lectures at the University of Girona |
Tuesday14th April | Field work excursion (I): Coastal landscape dynamics |
Wednesday14th April | Field work excursion (II): Pre-coastal landscape dynamics |
Thursday15th April | Field work excursion (III): Mountain landscape dynamics |
Friday16th April | Lectures at the University of Girona and constitution of multinational Research Groups |
Saturday17th April | Free time |
Sunday18th April | Free Time |
| Girona University (2nd week) |
Monday 19th April | Research Group work |
Tuesday 20st April | Research Group work |
Wednesday 21st April | Research Group work |
Thursday 22st April | Research Group work |
Friday23st April | Research Group presentations and discussion |
Saturday 24 st April | Departure |
Detailed schedule
Monday 12th April (SALA DE GRAUS FACULTY OF ARTS): LECTURES & walk in Girona.
10:00h. Welcome and opening of the course.
10:30h. Physical geography of Catalonia. Josep Vila. Geography Department (UdG).
11:15h. Break
11:45 Human geography of Catalonia. Rafel LLussà. Geography Department (UdG).
12:30h. Lunch.
14:15h. Land planning of Catalonia. Joan Vicente. Geography Department (UdG).
15:00h. The Landscape Observatory of Catalonia and the landscape catalogs. Joan Nogué. Head of the Landscape Observatory of Catalonia.
15:45h. Walking in Girona: a visit to the city.
Tuesday 13th April - FIELD WORK EXCURSION (I): Coastal landscape dynamics.
9:00 Departure: Bus Station of Girona. Girona – L’Escala – Empuriabrava – Roses- Mas Ventós (Serra de Roda) – Cadaqués – Cap de Creus.
18:00 Arrival to Girona.
Wednesday 14th April - FIELD WORK EXCURSION (II): Pre-coastal landscape dynamics.
9:00 Departure: Bus Station of Girona. Girona – Aeroport Girona - Costa Brava – Girona – Figueres – La Jonquera - Girona.
17:00 Arrival to Girona
Thursday 15th April - FIELD WORK EXCURSION (III): Mountain landscape dynamics.
9:00 Departure: Bus Station of Girona. Girona – Besalú – Olot – Camprodon – Setcases – Vall Ter 2000 – Refugi d’Ull de Ter – Girona.
18:00 Arrival to Girona
Friday 16th April (ROOM A.1 – FACULTY OF ARTS): LECTURES (II)
9:15h. Landscape theory and methods: an ecological approach. Josep Vila (UdG).
10:15h. Break.
10:45h. GIS and landscapes. Diego Varga (UdG)
11:45h. Presentation of the cases of study and constitution of the multinantional research groups.
12:30h. Lunch.
AFTERNOON: Research groups work in the same room (A.1 – Faculty of Arts)
Monday 19th April
Research Group work1: 11:00h – 13:00h Tutorial Class (optional)
Tuesday 20th April
Research Group work: 11:00h – 13:00h Tutorial Class (optional)
Wednesday 21srt April
Research Group work: 11:00h – 13:00h Tutorial Class (optional)
Thursday 22nd April
Research Group work: 11:00h – 13:00h Tutorial Class (optional)
Friday 23th April (ROOM A.1 – FACULTY OF ARTS): PRESENTATION & DISCUSSION OF THE CASES STUDIES
9:00h. Case Study I
9:30h. Case Study II
10:00. Case Study III
10:30h. Break.
11:00h. Case Study IV
11:30h. Case Study V
12:00h. Conclusions
12:30h. Closing session
13:00h. Lunch
1IMPORTANT: For Research Group Work you have at your disposal two rooms with computers in the LIBRARY BULDING (Faculty of Arts):
• ANNA MIR ROOM: 19 & 20 April from 9 am to 5 pm. 21 & 22 April from 9 am to 9 pm.
• LABORATORI DOCENT: 19, 20, 21 & 22 April from 9 am to 9 pm.
Case Studies and Landscape Research Groups
The students will work in five multinational research groups of 5-6 students each.
COASTAL LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS
Castelló d’Empúries
- Hernandez, Andreu
- Juselius, Maarit
- Knutová Monika
- Müllerová Patrícia
- Tuovinen, Jouko
Sant Feliu de Guíxols
- Anttila, Sara
- Hrabčák, Tomáš
- Makkonen, Sanna
- Ikävalko, Anna
- Padullés Cubino, Josep
- Polačok, René
- Pöllänen, Mikko
PRE-COASTAL LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS
Banyoles
- Adamčík Michal
- Domenech, Jordi
- Kuba Adrian
- Kylliäinen, Jenni
- Seppä, Elli
MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS
Sant Llorenç de la Muga
- Ballus, Ignasi
- Gorej Milan
- Jorasmaa, Riina
- Kormaníková Jana
- Luostarinen, Matias
Tavartet
- Fabiánová Martina
- Horváthová Mirka
- Kovanen, Sunna
- Pääkkönen, Jarno
- Tenas, Jordi
Contents
- TITLE: Landscape permanence and change in Catalonia. The case of ...
- OBJECTIVES: Description, analysis and interpretation of the landscape permanences and changes in a Catalan municipality.
- POTENTIAL CASES OF STUDY:
- The coastal landscape dynamics: Cadaqués, Castelló d’Empuries, L’Escala, Palafruguell, Sant Feliu de Guixols...
- The Precoastal landscape dynamics: Sils, Maçanet de la Selva, Vilobí, Salt, Sant Julia de Ramis...
- The Mountain landscape dynamics: Albanyà, Sant Llorenç de la Muga, Montagut i Oix, Maçanet de Cabrenys, Camprodon or Setcases...
- STRUCTURE:
- Title
- Objectives
- Methodology
- Physical geography
- Human geography
- Evolution of the physical and territorial management
- Fifty years of landscape evolution: natural and cultural components
- Seventy years of landscape evolution: natural and cultural components, permanences and changes
- Present landscape characterization: natural and cultural components, permanences and changes
- The driving forces of changes and permanences
- Conclusions
Information sources
Further readings
- Antrop, M (2004). “Landscape change and the urbanization process in Europe”. Landscape and Urban Planning, 67, 9 – 26.
- Antrop, M (2005). “Why landscapes of the past are important for the future”. Landscape and Urban Planning, 70, 21-34.
- Antrop, M (2006). “Sustainable landscapes: contradiction, fiction or utopia?”. Landscape and Urban Planning, 75, 187 – 197.
- Henderson, G. (2003). “What (else) we talk about when we talk about landscape: for a return to the social imagination”. In Wilson, C. & P. Groth (eds.): Everyday America: cultural landscape studies after J.B. Jackson, 178-198. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.
- Mitchell, Don (2002). “Cultural landscapes: a dialectical landscape – recent landscape research in human geography”. Progress in Human Geography 26:3, 381-389.
- Mitchell, Don (2003). “Cultural landscapes: just landscapes or landscapes of justice?” Progress in Human Geography 27:6, 787-796.
- Olwig, Kenneth R. (2002). Landscape, nature and the body politic: from Britain’s renaissance to America’s new world. University of Wisconsin Press.
- Olwig, Kenneth R. (2005). “Representation and alienation in the political land-scape”. Cultural geographies 12:19-40.
- THE PERMANENT EUROPEAN CONFERENCE FOR THE STUDY OF THE RURAL LANDSCAPE, http://www.pecsrl.org/
- 23rd Session of PECSRL - The Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape “LANDSCAPES, IDENTITIES AND DEVELOPMENT”