Crossing Borders, Blending Perspectives: Trilateral Wadden Sea Explorations
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The Wadden Sea Region represents many of the tensions and contradictions of contemporary society, e.g. climate change, tourism, and sustainable development, placed in sharp relief by the presence of the UNESCO Wadden Sea World Heritage. Crossing borders, blending perspectives is the first edited work to explore transboundary landscapes through multi- and transdisciplinary perspectives by researchers and students jointly moving across national borders. Listening to and engaging with diverse stakeholders, practitioners and decision-makers, 10 students and 10 researchers engaged in interactive learning whilst walking and biking a total of 600 km to explore and make sense of contradictions, interrelations and transformations in the past, present and future.
The book contains contributions from researchers, student experiences, and practitioners’ voices from the region that highlight contrasts, links, and interrelationships between society and ecology, cultural and natural heritage, teaching and learning. It charts a course for multiband transdisciplinary research and suggests advances in higher education.
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Prof. Dr. Ingo Mose holds a Ph.D. in geography and is professor and head of the Applied Geography and Environmental Planning Working Group at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany. He is holder of the Jean Monnet Chair Europeanization and Sustainable Spatial Development and functions as speaker of the German Rural Geographers Working Group, German Association of Geographers.
Prof. Dr. Dr. Janne Liburd is Professor of Tourism and Director of the Centre for Tourism, Innovation and Culture at sdu. Janne was Chairman of the Board, the Wadden Sea National Park in Denmark (2015-2023). She has developed the field of tourism co-design, and is an expert in sustainability, collaboration, protected areas, and tourism higher education.
Dr. Cormac Walsh is a geographer and spatial planning researcher at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. He is also affiliated with the Marine Governance Group at the Helmholtz Centre for Functional Marine
Biodiversity in Oldenburg. He has published extensively on nature-culture relations, coastal management and nature conservation at the Wadden Sea. In addition to his research work at the University of Oldenburg, he is
actively engaged in applied research and consultancy in the environmental planning and policy field.
Dr. Elen-Maarja Trell is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on resilient and sustainable communities and place-making zooming in on the
role and relevance of collective action (citizen initiatives, participatory governance but also protest movements/dissent). She has long-standing experience working with qualitative, creative research methods and with groups and areas which tend to be overlooked or marginalised in policy-making and (academic) discourse, such as young people and the rural context.
Dr. Frans J. Sijtsma is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Sijtsma holds a Ph.D. in economics and leads the research program ‘Nature and Spatial Change’. He publishes and teaches in economic geography, valuation of nature and landscape, and evaluation of spatial plans and projects. Sijtsma is the director of the Rudolf Agricola School for Sustainable Development at the University of Groningen, where over 200 scholars engage in interdisciplinary research and education for sustainable development.
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