Preserving and Constructing Place Attachment in Europe

Oana-Ramona Ilovan is Associate Professor of Geography at Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Territorial Identity and Development (since 2016) and Director of Territorial Identities and Development Research Centre (ITDRC) (since 2020). Her main research interests are Regional Geography, territorial identities, place attachment, qualitative methodology, cultural landscapes, participatory processes, and urban development.

Iwona Markuszewska is University Professor of Earth and Exact Sciences at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. She is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Territorial Identities and Development Research Centre (ITDRC) (since 2020). Her main research interests are emotional landscape, place attachment, socio-environmental conflicts, multifunctional rural development, land fragmentation and consolidation, and sustainability in fashion.