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Energy can be seen as an important mediator of relations between humans and natural environments. This chapter focuses on the spatialities of shifting oil shale-dependent energy regimes that bring together territorialisation dynamics and anticipated landscapes in rescaling processes. This study analyses the encounters and narratives within the two...
Geopolitical and techno-social disturbances shape territory and livelihoods by modifying (possible) life spheres. Waste of consumption-driven societies (in this case, nuclear waste) constitutes perhaps the most abundant and enduring trace of “the human” for epochs to come, one that is bequeathing a particularly perilous futurity to humanity. The ch...
This paper explores deep insights into sustainability transition tensions and pathways in terms of place-based conflict and potential for synergies between offshore wind energy (OWE) development and justice for humans and nonhuman nature. Specifically, we build a capability and recognition-based multispecies blue justice framework that at once cent...
The recent Covid‐19 pandemic highlighted rural–urban interactions, in particular the fact that cities are dependent on the accessibility of non‐metropolitan and rural spaces and vice versa. This article seeks to understand how these interactions contributed to emergent relational spaces of rurality during the Covid‐19 crisis. The article analyses p...
This article approaches complex relationships between disturbance-based ecologies and processes of urbanisation by focusing on urban fringes and valuation of life-forms within landscapes. The thematic discussion is inspired by changes of the Paljassaare Peninsula in Tallinn, which motivated the author to analytically assemble historical layers, eco...
Waterfronts in cities have become contested spaces often involving negotiated dimensions of environmental justice. On one hand, urbanisation expands to coastal areas which provide aesthetic and recreational places enjoyed by humans (often mirrored in high real-estate value). On the other hand, coastal areas provide valuable ecologies for more-than-...
While the term ‘landscape’ consistently appears in the argumentation of planetary urbanization, it remains an under-conceptualized signifier in this theory. This is a missed opportunity. Written by scholars who study landscape, this paper scrutinizes the planetary urbanization approach by adding the ‘landscape perspective’. The article offers an an...
The interactions between land and sea are fundamental to human wellbeing – coastal areas provide people with a variety of food sources, livelihoods, and economic opportunities, as well as a space for communities to engage in traditional cultural and spiritual practices. At the same time these interactions involve natural processes such as coastal a...
The interactions between land and sea are fundamental to human wellbeing – coastal areas provide people with a variety of food sources, livelihoods, and economic opportunities, as well as a space for communities to engage in traditional cultural and spiritual practices. At the same time these interactions involve natural processes such as coastal a...
Spatial planning face s challenges in addressing interactions between land and sea. This paper elaborates on land-sea interfaces, which can integrate certain socio-cultural values and related tensions into maritime spatial planning (MSP). In this article, three regional case studies from Estonia, Latvia, and Poland analysed important intersections...
Artikkel keskendub ruumiliste ja sotsiaalsete protsesside rollile arhitektuuripärandi kujunemisel. Kirjutise keskmes on kollektiivmajandite arhitektuur, mis tekitab sageli vastakaid ja laetud arutelusid erinevate ühiskonna gruppide vahel. Analüüsides võimusuhteid, minevikukäsitlusi ning ruumilise korrastamise printsiipe, näitab artikkel, millistel...
People make cities to fit for living by assembling urban character with meaningful entities of nature. This means that people rework their emotions as a result of mobility and shifting perspectives. Thus, emotions can be approached in terms of movement or motion as kinds of trajectories of force. These lines form a meshwork become essential compone...
The Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) Directive was ratified (2014/89/EU) along the Strategy of the European Union (EU) on the Blue Economy to contribute to the effective management of maritime activities and resources and incorporate the principal elements of Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) (2002/413/EC) into planning at the land-sea inter...
What does it mean to call something unnatural? And what does it do? This chapter illustrates how the unnatural is an immensely powerful, if inherently ambiguous, concept with critical implications for the formation of social categories, the morality of classifications, the terms of urban govern-ance and the directions of environmental conflicts. Wh...
This article examines the processes of urban commoning and its co‐produced features of urbanity, making the claim that, through these processes, informality becomes translated into institutionalized city planning. Commoning is analysed through a comparative study that utilizes contingent features of urbanity and three modalities accommodating the i...
Artikkel mõtestab kogemuspõhiste lugude kaudu kahaneva linna olemust, mida sageli määratletakse eelkõige majanduspoliitiliste katkestuste ja kahaneva rahvaarvu kaudu. Kahte autobiograafilist jutustust kõrvutav temaatiline sisuanalüüs toob esile Detroiti ja Narvaga seonduvad linnalisuse-kogemused, mis ilmestavad postindustriaalseid muutusi. Struktuu...
The cultural sustainability of coastal landscapes relies heavily on the community’s self-organisation in fish foodways. The theoretical framework concentrates on cultural sustainability, foodways, land–sea interactions, and community of practice. The data presented in this article were part of the SustainBaltic Integrated Coastal Zone Management pl...
Borderlands are often presented as political landscapes characterized by fixed infra-structures that help to regulate who comes in or out of a country. In this brief essay, however, we put the focus on the triangle of (geo)politics, nature, and infrastructure by exploring what kind of socio-biological entanglements are generated along three newly e...
In this article, we study the largest existing fare-free public transport (FFPT) programme, launched in 2013 in Tallinn, Estonia. Instead of focusing solely on the rationale and impact of fare-free public transport in terms of finances and travel patterns, we propose to analyse FFPT from the perspective of urban political geography, and to inquire...
SustainBaltic project report; Interreg program
The longer verion of the report is written in Estonian language: http://pk.emu.ee/et/struktuur/keskkonnakaitsejamaastikukorraldus/projektid/sustainbaltic/ ; https://www.utu.fi/SustainBaltic
When increasing numbers of people are obliged to spend increasing amounts of time in transit then nodes and hubs alongside major traffic corridors – where traffic comes to halt and exchange between actors en route happens – represent new forms of urbanity and public space, sites where both individuals’ routes, routines, and rituals and political tr...
This article studies how illegally dumped matter becomes collectively identified waste associated with broader environmental, social, economic and political issues. Spaces of visualization, embodiment and circulation play a key role in these processes. Besides theoretical discussion on the emergence of waste, this article focuses on the collective...
Post-industrial imagery and the functions of ruins can evoke novel dimensions of spatial structures and organization. This article discusses the question of how interactions between urbanity and nature are articulated and enacted within the redesign of industrial ruins. The socio-ecological configurations produced in this process include multiple r...
Collectives bring people and their concerns together. In the twenty-first century, this assembly happens across different material and virtual spaces that, together, establish connective layers of society. A kind of politics has emerged that seeks new forms of communication and expression and proposes new modes of (co)existence. Riots in the suburb...
Considering water networks as a socionature means that one does not separate human activities (society) and environment (nature). This perspective gives new insights into the commodification of water resources, including hybrid human and non-human entities. Without water, there is no Narva–Ivangorod. Water also marks the current division between Na...
Different forms of regional politics and network-type coordination are present within European cross-border initiatives. The purpose of the article is to study the changing organizational configurations of interregional governance in the context of the Helsinki—Tallinn Euregio (HTE), and how these new forms of coordination influence cross-border in...
Various infrastructure links, flows of people and goods and development initiatives connect cities and towns in Europe. This study analyses and interprets changes in cross-border urban networks. The dissertation focuses on how transformation of networks takes place through cooperation practices and sociotechnical infrastructure. The research includ...
The aim of this paper will be to discuss possibilities to shift from a central-place theory towards to a network paradigm in local and regional planning practices. According to the first hypothesis, planning and development of social infrastructure (schools, sports halls, etc.) has remained rather central place oriented in Estonia. Even despite hig...
There are various projects to encourage international knowledge dissemination in entrepreneurship and a creative economy. Temporary clusters are one organisational form to support this process. This paper analyses the spatiotemporal dynamics of the cross-border initiative between the Helsinki and Tallinn regions, and asks how organisational practis...
