University of Klagenfurt went to the European Geoscience Union Conference in Vienna 2024 by Assoc. Prof. Glenda Garcia-Santos

Poster presentation by Assoc. Prof. Glenda Garcia-Santos and Manjana Puff

The European Geoscience Union Conference takes place these days from 14.4. until 19.4. in Vienna. Geoscientists from all over the world are present and talk about their studies and results of different research fields. Also, the Geography Department of Klagenfurt was there and presented two posters. One poster is about perception of soil compaction in grasslands: what can be learnt to foster sustainability and policy intervention and was presented by the master student Manjana Puff in collaboration with Dr. Andreas Bohner and Assoc. Prof. Glenda Garcia-Santos. The second poster is about the influence of soil moisture content on water repellency after a forest burnt and will be presented on the 18.4. by Assoc. Prof. Glenda Garcia-Santos in collaboration with Manjana Puff, Christian Kogler, Angel Fernandez and Eileen Eckmeier. Thanks to these presentations, we made important connections for further collaborations. We hope that other students are encouraged to participate next year!

Tag der offenen Tür, März 2024

Anlässlich des Tags der offenen Tür am 15. März 2024 hieß die Universität Klagenfurt wieder alle interessierten Besucherinnen und Besucher willkommen und stellte ihr vielfältiges Studienangebot vor.

Auch das Team des Instituts für Geographie und Regionalforschung war vor Ort und informierte gerne über die vielfältigen Studienmöglichkeiten.

Call for Papers: The Future of Tourism in the Alpine-Adriatic region – International symposium, 22nd-24th October 2024

International Symposium in Hermagor, Carinthia, Austria

In memory of Zlatko Pepeonik, 1934-2004.

Symposium Theme:

The future of tourism in the Alpine-Adriatic region in the sense of the coastal areas of the northern Adriatic and their partly mountainous hinterlands faces serious challenges, first and foremost by climate change and global warming. Will in the mountains skiing and other winter sports be sustainable under the conditions of a lack of natural snow and ice? Will in the coastlands seaside tourism remain attractive in growingly hot summers, when further to the North summer temperatures are much milder and better endurable? A second challenge will be climate protection and restrictions in energy consumption. Will tourism in these areas, so far in its vast majority based on private car traffic and dependent on it, be able to survive, when the price of fuels continues to grow, and restrictions make approaching them by car less and less attractive?

All this is said on the background that tourism in the Alpine-Adriatic region is all but homogenous but composed of divergent tourism segments ranging from seaside bathing tourism to Alpine skiing, from health to urban and cultural tourism, from recreational to conference tourism and boasts a huge variety of regional and local specifics. Thus, not only studies on tourism in general and the Alpine-Adriatic region in total would be welcome, but also in-depth investigations into individual market segments and studies with a very local focus.

Call for papers_Future of Tourism in the Alpine-Adriatic Region

The call is open from 15th March to 30th April 2024.

Zlatko Pepeonik, born 1934 in Varaždin, professor at the Department of Geography, Faculty of Science of the University of Zagreb, was an eminent Croatian geographer and tourism researcher. He taught also at the Portland State University, Oregon, and the University of Texas, Austin, as well as at the University of Mostar, Bosnia and Hercegovina. He was an associate member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Commission for Tourism and Recreation of the International Geographical Union (IGU).

Weitere Informationen zum Symposium finden Sie auf der Website der Südosteuropa Gesellschaft.