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Call for Papers American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, April 5-9, 2017, Boston, USA. Session title: Framing urban sustainability: Smart, efficient, green, or just? Session organizers: Heather Sander (University of Iowa, USA), Peleg Kremer (Villanova University, USA), Dagmar Haase (Humboldt Universität Berlin; Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany), Annegret Haase (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany) Urban areas pose numerous environmental and social challenges and the notion of urban sustainability developed, in part, as a means for addressing these challenges. Since its inception, urban sustainability has been conceptualized in a variety of both disparate and similar ways that are reflected in the numerous interdisciplinary approaches to it. These approaches include smart growth frameworks that focus on compact, multi-use urban structure and design; zero-impact approaches centered on achieving resource efficiency via technological means; green infrastructure and nature-based approaches that focus on ecosystem services, mimicry of nature, and human wellbeing; as well as approaches centered around the production of environmentally-just cities, the distribution of environmental benefits and costs and meaningfully integrating underrepresented groups in decision making. These sessions will bring experts from a variety of urban sustainability frameworks together to present research and discuss different perspectives and approaches to urban sustainability. We anticipate paper presentations and panel discussions centering on approaches and challenges to urban sustainability. We seek participants from a variety of disciplines and approaches to urban sustainability and from around the globe to present and discuss their own work in urban sustainability and to participate in panel discussions. Interested participants should send an abstract of 250 words or less and their personal identification number (obtained following abstract submission) by October 15, 2016 to Heather Sander (heather-a-san...@uiowa.edu), Peleg Kremer (peleg.kre...@gmail.com), Dagmar Haase (dagmar.ha...@ufz.de), and Annegret Haase (annegret.ha...@ufz.de). -- Peleg Kremer, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Geography and the Environment Villanova University G67-I Mendel Science Center 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, Pennsylvania 19085 610.519.4549 (office) peleg.kre...@villanova.edu -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
