4th INTERNATIONAL
CEGOT MEETING
Geography in the Construction of Sustainable Territories
25 - 28 OCTOBER 2022
PORTO
Geography in the Construction of Sustainable Territories
The concept of sustainability is key to the conception, planning and implementation of new development processes and actions.
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In the current climate change scenario, solving the environmental imbalances can be an opportunity to build a renewed perspective of society’s progress and welfare, having as a starting point the conciliation of economic, social, and environmental interests.
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In this sense, the 4th International Conference of CEGOT has a significant objective to debate the role of Geography in the Construction of Sustainable Territories.
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Geography integrates natural and social components. Therefore, this discipline has advantages and increased responsibilities in the construction of sustainability proposals. With its’ 4th International Meeting, CEGOT intends to promote the reflection on the contribution of geographic knowledge in the construction of sustainability and the conceptual and methodological challenges that geographers face in the study and construction of more sustainable territories.
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In an important moment of the History of Humanity, Geography has an excellent opportunity to reaffirm itself as Science.
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In this context, CEGOT invites submissions of studies and reflections from Geography researchers and related scientific areas, involving the dimensions of territory, nature, and/or society.
Keynote Speakers
Benno
Werlen
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Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
María García Hernandez
Complutense University of Madrid
Saskia Keesstra
Wageningen University & Research
Jesus González
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Universitat de les Illes Balears
Jorge
Gaspar
Universidade
de Lisboa
Jorge Manuel Barbosa Gaspar, geographer, is an Emeritus Full Professor of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon. He is a personality of national and international prestige, with more than 200 titles published on topics such as Urban and Regional Studies, Prospective; Society and Territory; Electoral Studies, among others. He coordinated and participated in various national and international research projects. He also coordinated the 2007 National Programme for Spatial Planning Policy. He is an Officer of the Order of Infante D. Henrique and has won the University of Lisbon Award and the Geocrítica International Award. He is Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universities of León, Genève and Évora.
Jesús Manuel González-Pérez holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Santiago de Compostela and is a Full Professor at the University of the Balearic Islands. He is President of the Spanish Association of Geography (AGE). He has participated as an author or co-author in more than 150 scientific publications on topics such as urbanization processes, urban inequality, gentrification, urban regeneration of tourist destinations and historical centres.
Saskia Keesstra is Senior researcher at Soil, Water and Land Use Team at Wageningen University and Research. She has 17 years of experience in Sustainable Land Use research (170 ISI research and opinion papers). Since 2019 part of the highly cited list of Clarivate (top 0.1% of citations in the field).
Her main aim is to find scientific solutions for societal issues; process knowledge for sustainable development. Her research focuses on understanding the processes that determine sustainable land and water use and the processes related to pre- and post-fire management. In addition, she focuses on interaction with stakeholders, from farmers to policymakers, which is essential to come to usable, acceptable tools for sustainable land management and achieving Sustainable Development Goals.
Maria Garcia Hernandez is a Professor of Human Geography at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), where she directs the research group "Tourism, Heritage and Development" and coordinates the Interuniversity PhD in Tourism.
The themes that have marked his research and on which he has published in recent years have been: the study of the affluence and profile of tourists; the development of indicators of tourist carrying capacity; the management of visitor flows in the destination; the design and creation of tourism observatories; issues of tourism-urban planning and management and research on tourism modalities (cultural tourism - urban tourism) and typologies of heritage destinations, with special attention to the role that heritage plays in different tourism contexts.
She has participated in several national and international research projects and has been a visiting professor at several foreign universities.
Prof. Benno Werlen holds the UNESCO Chair on Global Understanding for Sustainability, at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. He is a fellow of the World Academy of Art & Sciences and the Max Weber Center for Cultural and Social Studies, a member of the Academia Europaea, chair of the IGU Commission on Global Understanding (since 2016), is the initiator and chair of The Jena Declaration on the Cultural and Regional Dimension of Global Sustainability' endorsed by many of the leading organizations in the field, like The Club of Rome and many others, the founder and executive director of the International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) including more than 30 Regional Actions Centers, approved by the UNESCO General Conference, proclaimed by the three major science councils of the Human, Social and Natural sciences.
In 2016 he was awarded the Laureat d'honneur of the International Geographical Union, the highest scientific honorary prize awarded by the IGU. He has published 16 books and more than 200 papers in scientific journals and books, has given over 200 keynote presentations at universities across five continents in the fields of geography, sociology, economics, political sciences, philosophy, history, cultural anthropology, and linguistics, and organized more than 60 scientific conferences and conference sessions on all continents. He edited the ICSU-sponsored volume' Global Sustainability' (2015, Springer) and counted as one of the 'Key Thinkers of Space and Place' (Sage Publisher).