2nd Conference of the ADRIATIC FORUM: Construction and Deconstruction of Nationalism
and Regionalism: A long Journey to Europe
vom 1.10. bis 2.10. 2009 in Trieste  (I)

Presentation:
European funding of crossborder cooperations – is there more than money?
(in common with Dipl. Geogr. Roswitha Ruidisch)

Deutscher Geographentag 2009. Congress for Science, School and Praxis
"Geographie für eine Welt im Wandel: Umwelt • Gesellschaft • Geokommunikation"
19.9. bis 26.9. 2009 in Vienna  (A)

Presentation:
INTERREG-III-A-Projekte im Grenzraum Österreich – Slowenien. Was bleibt danach?
(INTERREG III A Projects in the Border Region Austria - Slovenia. What remains?)
(in common with Dipl. Geogr. Roswitha Ruidisch)

4th Symposion of the Hohe Tauern National Park for Research in Protected Areas
17.9. to 19.9. 2009 in Kaprun  (A)

Poster:
Redesigning of Biosphere Reserves in the Lake Neusiedl / Fertö Region
– the view of stakeholders
(in common with Dr. Lajos Puskás)

Abstract: In the Lake Neusiedl / Fertö Region already in the late 1970s long before the Seville Strategy came up two Biosphere Reserves were established. In Austria this old biosphere reserve should be transformed in a biosphere reserve according to the Seville Strategy (1996) and the National Criteria for Biosphere Reserves in Austria (2006). In the MAB-Project “Redesigning the Biosphere Reserve Neusiedler See”, which combines an ecological perspective to natural and cultural landscape, nature conservation and protected areas and a socio-economic perspective to regional identity and regional development, fundamentals for the restructuring process of an enlarged biosphere reserve are developed. This means that information about the perceptions and ideas of regional stakeholders has to be collected and to be initiated a first participatory process. In Addition within a cross-border cooperation projects with colleagues from Hungary the conditions of the implementation of modern biosphere reserve concepts in Hungary were explored and also indepth-interviews with regional experts were conducted. The presentation will show some results of these qualitative interviews in Austria and Hungary, compare the position of different interest groups and point out some conclusions for the redesigning process of the biosphere reserves. 

European IALE Conference 2009 “European Landscapes in Transformation: Challenges for Landscape Ecology and Management”
12.7. to 16.7.2009 in Salzburg  (A)

Poster:
Landscape perception and functions in the Austro-Hungarian area
of the Lake Neusiedl/Fertő
(in common with Dr. habil. Éva Konkoly-Gyuró, Ass.Prof. Doz. DI Dr. Christiane Brandenburg, Ágnes Tirászi, Dr. Lajos Puskás)



ISSRM 2009
15th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management
Meet old and new worlds in Research, Planning and Management 
5.7. to 8.7.2009 in Vienna  (A)

Presentation:
Tourists´ preferences and landscape perceptions 
(in common with Ass.Prof. Doz. DI Dr. Christiane Brandenburg)



Second meeting of the LdV partnership project “Analysis of involvement into the mobility projects in organizations size types S1 and S2”
22.1. to 24.1.2009 in Klagenfurt  (A)

Presentation:
Economic Cross-border Cooperation in the Alps Adriatic Region – Actors, Motives and Experiences



The first Conference of Geographers of the Upper Adriatic – Common Management of a borderless Area
27.11. to 28.11.2008 in Koper  (SI)

Presentation:
Approaches of integration – Findings of Cross-border Research and First Ideas for Further Projects 
(in common with Dr. Friedrich Palencsar and Dipl.-Geogr. Roswitha Ruidisch)



The Fourth International Conference on Monitoring and Management of Visitor Flows in
Recreational and Protected Areas 
14.10. to 19.10.2008 in Montecatini Terme  (IT)

Presentation:
Formal Concept Analysis – a method for exploring complex responses of tourist surveys

Abstract: The Formal concept analysis goes back to the 1940s and is advanced by Rudolf Wille in the eighties. Based on the algebraic lattice theory so-called concept lattices will be used for visualisation of hierarchical structures in a line diagram. The methods needs as input a context (matrix) consisting of sets of objects and attributes and a binary relation between these objects and attributes. In a concept lattice quantitative and qualitative data can be combined and relations between the objects as well as between the attributes can be analysed. Therefore concept lattices are suitable for analysing the results of surveys. The respondents and their answer patterns constitute the context. Precondition is a hierarchical structure of the answers (e.g. ordinal ordered data). In this presentation will be demonstrated how to use the line graph of the concept lattice for analysing complex questions of tourist surveys. As an example the main activities of about 600 tourists and daily visitors in the Neusiedler See region are analysed. With the procedure of Formal concept analysis the different answer patterns of respondents are arranged as nodes in a line diagram. The size of the nodes shows the number of persons with the same activity pattern. Going along the lines to the top of the graph the attributes of such a node can be read. The interpretation of the line graph will start at the biggest nodes, consider the whole structure of the graph and explore the possibilities for creating types of tourists. Besides, additional attributes will be included in this line diagram in order to describe the socio-demographic structure, means of travel or interests of the tourist groups.

International Conference „Multilingualism, Transculturality and Education“ 
8.10. to 10.10.2008 in Klagenfurt  (A)

Presentation:
Motive und Erfolge grenzüberschreitender Wirtschaftskooperationen in der Alpen-Adria-Region – die Bedeutung von Sprache, Kultur und Mentalität
(Motives and succes of cross-border economic cooperation in the Alps Adriatic Region
- the importance of language, culture and mentality)
(in common with Mag. Dr. Petra Hössl)