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Karl Benediktsson - Professor
–
School of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Karl Benediktsson
Íslenska
Professor
Professor of Human Geography
Location
Askja / N-340
Phone
525 - 4286
Email
kben [at] hi.is
Unit
Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Website
http://uni.hi.is/kben/
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5383-9254
Research portal – Karl Benediktsson
Courses 2024 - 2025
LAN221G - Environmental Geography
LAN118F - Geographical Perspectives
Education
1997
,
Ph.D.
,
Australian National University
,
1990
,
MA
,
University of Auckland
,
1987
,
BS
,
University of Iceland
,
Published works
2024
Planning for Sustainable Agri-Food Production
Sustainability (Switzerland)
2023
Geospatial technologies in hazard research and response–a case study of Paper2GIS in an international field course
Journal of Geography in Higher Education
2022
Earth, wind and fire: island energy landscapes of the Anthropocene
Fennia
2021
Conflicting imaginaries in the energy transition? Nature and renewable energy in Iceland
Moravian Geographical Reports
2020
Le pouvoir sans politique? Nature, paysage et énergies renouvelables en islande
Annales de Geographie
"Nytsömust íslenzkra anda“. Æðarfuglinn, friðun hans og aðdragandi fyrstu fuglafriðunarlaganna
Ritið
2019
Effects of renewable energy on landscape in Europe
Hungarian Geographical Bulletin
Himnesk rödd en helvískur andi? Um friðun álftar á Íslandi og nýlega árekstra álfta og kornbænda.
Ritið
Spatial transgressions: of feral sheep and humans / Yfir mærin: Af útigangsfé og fólki.
2018
Contested Energy Spaces
Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift
Glossary on renewable energy and landscape quality
Journal of Landscape Ecology
Prosper or perish? The development of Icelandic fishing villages after the privatisation of fishing rights
Maritime Studies
Mapping the geographical consolidation of fishing activities in Iceland during the maturation of the ITQ fisheries management system
Applied Geography
Introduction of RE types and their impacts on landscape
Iceland
Introduction of RE types and their impact on landscape
Geothermal energy
Where have all the people gone? The limits of resilience in coastal communities
Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift
2017
The importance of on-site evaluation for placing renewable energy in the landscape
Moravian Geographical Reports
Emotional mapping and its participatory potential
Cities
COST-RELY Training School about policy and planning for renewable energy
Journal of Landscape Ecology
2016
The Industrial Imperative and Second (hand) Modernity
A stroll through landscapes of sheep and humans
Introduction
Conversations with landscape
Preface and acknowledgements
2015
Improving or overturning the ITQ system? Views of stakeholders in Icelandic fisheries
Maritime Studies
Time Zone Politics and Challenges of Globalisation
Tijdschrift Voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
Pangaea's return
Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography
Floral hazards
Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography
Taskscapes at sea
Environment, Space, Place
Automobile authorship of landscapes
2014
Wanted and Unwanted Nature
Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift
Nature in the 'neoliberal laboratory'
Dialogues in Human Geography
2013
An Evaluation of the Short-Term Progress of Restoration Combining Ecological Assessment and Public Perception
Restoration Ecology
Inspiring the visitor? Landscapes and horizons of hospitality
Tourist Studies
2012
The industrial imperative and second (hand) modernity
Moving places
2011
Inspired by eruptions? eyjafjallajökull and icelandic tourism
Mobilities
Entering the regime of automobility
Journal of Transport Geography
Inhabiting a risky earth
Anthropology Today
Iceland
European Urban and Regional Studies
2010
The impact of the Eyjafjallajökull eruption on international tourists in Iceland
A stroll through landscapes of sheep and humans
Introduction
Performing expertise
Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning
Conversations with landscape
Preface
2009
The industrial imperative and second (hand) modernity
Geared for the Sublime:
2008
THE good, the bad and the scenic
Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography
Litróf landbúnaðarsamfélagsins
Moving places
2007
"Scenophobia", geography and the aesthetic politics of landscape
Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography
Practising highland heterotopias
Mobilities
Hundalíf í borg:
Landabréfið
Concrete messages – Material expressions of place reinvention
Industrious cultures? The uneasy relationship between an industrial order and a ‘second modernity’
2005
Frozen opportunities? Local communities and the establishment of Vatnajökull national park, Iceland
Viðhorf bændasamfélagsins til náttúruverndar og ferðaþjónustu
Producing scenery:
2003
Coping with social capital? The cultural economy of tourism in the North
Sociologia Ruralis
2002
Harvesting Development:
Vatnajökulsþjóðgarður
Landabréfið
2001
Beyond productivism:
2000
Borðhald og búseta:
Recreating rural spaces
1998
Food markets in the Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography
1995
The place of small-scale fishing in the Icelandic settlement pattern
1989
Labour Processes and Hill Country Farms
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