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Karl Benediktsson - Professor

Karl Benediktsson

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School of Engineering and Natural Sciences

Karl Benediktsson

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/

Published works

2022

Earth, wind and fire: island energy landscapes of the AnthropoceneFennia - International Journal of Geography

2021

Conflicting imaginaries in the energy transition? Nature and renewable energy in IcelandMoravian Geographical Reports
Conflicting imaginaries in the energy transition? Nature and renewable energy in IcelandMoravian Geographical Reports
Earth, wind and fire: island energy landscapes of the AnthropoceneFennia

2020

Power without politics? Nature, landscape and renewable energy in IcelandAnnales de géographie
„Nytsömust íslenzkra anda“. Æðarfuglinn, friðun hans og aðdragandi fyrstu fuglafriðunarlagannaRitið

2019

Spatial transgressions: Of feral sheep and humansFeral Attraction: The Museum of Ghost Ruminants
Himnesk rödd en helvískur andi? Um friðun álftar á Íslandi og nýlega árekstra álfta og kornbændaRitið
Effects of renewable energy on landscape in Europe: Comparison of hydro, wind, solar, bio-, geothermal and infrastructure energy landscapesHungarian Geographical Bulletin
Yfir mærin: Af útigangsfé og fólkiÓmur óbyggðanna: Draugasafn jórturdýranna

2018

IcelandRenewable Energy and Landscape Quality
Introduction of RE types and their impact on landscapeRenewable Energy and Landscape Quality
Geothermal energyRenewable Energy and Landscape Quality
Mapping the geographical consolidation of fishing activities in Iceland during the maturation of the ITQ fisheries management systemApplied Geography
Mapping the geographical consolidation of fishing activities in Iceland during the maturation of the ITQ fisheries management systemApplied Geography
Prosper or perish? The development of Icelandic fishing villages after the privatisation of fishing rightsMaritime Studies
Contested Energy Spaces: Disassembling Energyscapes of the Canadian NorthNorsk Geografisk Tidsskrift
Where have all the people gone? The limits of resilience in coastal communitiesNorsk Geografisk Tidsskrift
Prosper or perish? The development of Icelandic fishing villages after the privatisation of fishing rightsMaritime Studies

2017

Emotional mapping and its participatory potential: Opinions about cycling conditions in Reykjavik, IcelandCities
Emotional mapping and its participatory potential: Opinions about cycling conditions in Reykjavík, IcelandCities
COST-RELY Training School about policy and planning for renewable energyJournal of Landscape Ecology
The importance of on-site evaluation for placing renewable energy in the landscape: A case study of the Búrfell wind farm (Iceland)Moravian Geographical Reports
The importance of on-site evaluation for placing renewable energy in the landscape: A case study of the Burfell wind farm (Iceland)Moravian Geographical Reports

2015

Pangaea's return: Towards an ontology of invasive lifeGeografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography
Time Zone Politics and Challenges of GlobalisationTijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
FLORAL HAZARDS: NOOTKA LUPIN IN ICELAND AND THE COMPLEX POLITICS OF INVASIVE LIFEGeografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography
PANGAEA'S RETURN: TOWARDS AN ONTOLOGY OF INVASIVE LIFEGeografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography
Time Zone Politics and Challenges of GlobalisationTijdschrift Voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
Improving or overturning the ITQ system? Views of stakeholders in Icelandic fisheriesMaritime Studies
Automobile Authorship of Landscapes A Biographical Vignette of Iceland's InteriorLandscape Biographies: Geographical, Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Production and Transmission of Landscapes
Taskscapes at SeaEnvironment, Space, Place
Improving or overturning the ITQ system? Views of stakeholders in Icelandic fisheriesMaritime Studies
Automobile authorship of landscapesLandscape Biographies: Geographical, Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Production and Transmission of Landscapes
Floral hazards: Nootka lupin in Iceland and the Complex politics of invasive lifeGeografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography

2014

Nature in the 'neoliberal laboratory'Dialogues in Human Geography
Wanted and Unwanted Nature: Invasive Plants and the Alien-Native DichotomyNorsk Geografisk Tidsskrift

2013

An Evaluation of the Short-Term Progress of Restoration Combining Ecological Assessment and Public PerceptionRestoration Ecology
An Evaluation of the Short-Term Progress of Restoration Combining Ecological Assessment and Public PerceptionRestoration Ecology
Inspiring the visitor? Landscapes and horizons of hospitalityTourist Studies

2012

The industrial imperative and second (hand) modernityPlace Reinvention: Northern Perspectives
Moving places: The emotional politics of natureMobility and Place: Enacting Northern European Peripheries

2011

Entering the regime of automobility: car ownership and use by novice drivers in IcelandJournal of Transport Geography
Inhabiting a risky Earth The Eyjafjallajokull eruption in 2010 and its impactsAnthropology Today
Inhabiting a risky earth: The Eyjafjallajökull eruption in 2010 and its impactsAnthropology Today
Entering the regime of automobility: car ownership and use by novice drivers in IcelandJournal of Transport Geography
Inspired by eruptions? eyjafjallajökull and icelandic tourismMobilities
Iceland: Crisis and regional development - Thanks for all the fish?European Urban and Regional Studies

2010

Introduction: Starting a conversation with landscapeConversations With Landscape
Performing expertise: Landscape, governmentality and conservation planning in IcelandJournal of Environmental Policy and Planning
Conversations with landscapeConversations With Landscape
A stroll through landscapes of sheep and humansConversations With Landscape
PrefaceConversations With Landscape

2009

The industrial imperative and second (hand) modernityPlace Reinvention: Northern Perspectives

2008

Moving places: The emotional politics of natureMobility and Place: Enacting Northern European Peripheries
The good, the bad and the scenicGeografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography
THE good, the bad and the scenicGeografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography

2007

"Scenophobia", geography and the aesthetic politics of landscapeGeografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography
Practising highland heterotopias: Automobility in the interior of IcelandMobilities
"Scenophobia", geography and the aesthetic politics of landscapeGeografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography

2003

Coping with social capital? The cultural economy of tourism in the NorthSociologia Ruralis

1998

Food markets in the Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea: Actors, power and rural development geographyGeografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography

Keywords for Specialisation:

Renewable energy

Environmental politics

Cultural geography

Human geography

Cultures of nature

Human-animal relations

Environmental geography

Development studies