Environmental Sustainability and Security in the Intersection of the Czech/Polish/German Sudetes
Alois Hynek, Technical University    Liberec
Nikola Hynek, University of Plymouth

  microregion Frydlant (FRY)
 a part of the Liberec Region
 Powiat Zgorzelec  (POZ)
 a part of the Wojewodztwo     Dolnoslaskie  (Poland)
 Landkreis Löbau-Zittau (LLZ)
 a part  the Oberlausitz/Niederschlesien (Germany).

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new human geographies providing deeper understanding of problems
* sustainability and security
* marginality, periphery/semiperiphery
* communities’ agency
* entrepreneurship
* life/environment quality
* spatiality and governmentality
* contingencies of human-nature interactions after Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.

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FRY/CZ+POZ/PL+LLZ/G
* a joint environmental survey
* portraying physical and cultural landscapes
*  environmental sustainability and security
*  within the frame of regional development

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FRY field research during the forthcoming summer
nmapping patterns of spatial dominance
nand oppression in:
necology
neconomy
nsociety
npolitics
nculture
nand technologies

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special focus on environmental performativity
nthe issues of social construction, discourse among:
*  decision-makers
*  shareholders
*  stakeholders
*  placeholders
*  and non-state actors

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The social dimension of:
*  high rate of unemployment
*  low business activity
* how to cooperate with the neighbours in Poland and Germany
* prevailing problems in environmental sustainability and security
* natural hazards and risks
* in the era of global warming in particular

the process of hybridization/coproductions
* the dissolution of artificial boundaries and linear arrangements
* a prerequisite for comprehending processes through and purposes for which hybrids are constituted
* the simultaneous production of knowledge and social order (S. Jasanoff)
* power/knowledge nexus (M.Foucault)

Bruno Latour (1993) :
* emergence of “quasi-objects” on the interface between nature and society
* ecological facts and discourses require for their existence political practices pertaining to
environment and vice versa
* they are mutually embedded
* in the terms of reflexive sociology, mutually constituted.

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