10 years ago the final conference of the EU FP6 research project PLUREL – Peri-urban land use relationships, took place in Copenhagen. Although a bit worn out, the tote bag from back then still does good service.
PLUREL was a four year European research project with over 30 partners and a 10 million Euro budget, running from 2007 to 2011. My former boss at University of Copenhagen, Kjell Nilsson, and colleague Thomas Sick Nielsen led the project. I was a PhD student at the time, learning a lot on research collaboration. The project’s homepage has been offline for a while. The URL was overtaken by a predatory US domain host in 2017, using “our” traffic for pseudo-scientific posts, adds and commercials… but this is a different story. In the project, lots of research was done, reports and papers published. You can find some of it on researchgate. The main written joint products were
- Summary paper: Nilsson, K. S. B., Nielsen, T. A. S., Aalbers, C., Bell, S., Boitier, B., Chery, J. P., Fertner, C., Groschowski, M., Haase, D., Loibl, W., Pauleit, S., Pintar, M., Piorr, A., Ravetz, J., Ristimäki, M., Rounsevell, M., Tosics, I., Westerink, J., & Zasada, I. (2014). Strategies for Sustainable Urban Development and Urban-Rural Linkages. European Journal of Spatial Development, 1–26.
- Edited book: Nilsson, K. S. B., Pauleit, S., Bell, S., Aalbers, C. & Nielsen T. A. S. (Eds.) (2013). Peri-urban futures: Scenarios and models for land use change in Europe. Springer.
- Synthesis report: Piorr, A., Ravetz, J., & Tosics, I. (2011). Peri-urbanisation in Europe: Towards a European Policy to Sustain Urban-Rural Futures. A Synthesis Report. University of Copenhagen, Academic Books Life Sciences.
If you are interested in a printed version of the book or the synthesis report, contact me, we still have some in stock.