Session: Sustainable transformation through the lens of rural-urban divide and synergies

Nordic Geographers Meeting 2022, 7-10 February Joensuu, Finland.

Dear all, 
For those of you who study different aspects of sustainable transformation through the lens of rural-urban divide and synergies, please find below our invitation to session 14 of the conference Nordic Geographers Meeting 2022, scheduled to take place 7th  -10th of February in Joensuu, Finland. The deadline for abstract submission is 29th of October.
Please find out more about registration and abstract submission via this link: https://vvv.ngm2022.fi
We would also kindly remind you that the conference is planned as a physical, face-to-face
one; please consider your possibility to attend the meeting before you send an abstract.

Session: Sustainable transformation through the lens of rural-urban divide and synergies
This session invites papers on sustainable transformation that integrates this topic with discussions on rural-urban divide, rural-urban relations, and/or rural-urban synergies. We welcome researchers from different disciplinary and cross-disciplinary specialisations and hope to gather papers with different approaches and focus. Papers may be related to how models for collaborative governance or networked governance combine local and extra-local relations and to how aspects of multi-locality of population, agency and organisations impact rural-urban synergies for sustainable transformation.
Papers may address the ways in which discourses of sustainable development are urban or rural biased and become unevenly relevant for those environments. This refers to varying concepts and models for sustainable development such as foundational economy, smart specialisation, food production and food systems, societal risks and resilience.
We invite papers that expand on the discussions about methods for knowledge development – for instance transdisciplinary knowledge production and  innovative  methods for planning – for instance living labs, with relevance for the topic of rural-urban divide and synergies.
Organisers: Brita Hermelin, Linköping University, Daniel Keech, University of Gloucestershire & Margareta Dahlström, Karlstad University.
Chair: Brita Hermelin, Linköping University