Last week, a lecture and discussion on the book Eco-communities: Surviving Well Together by environmental geographer Jenny Pickerill took place.

Jan Malý Blažek from the Faculty of Architecture also attended the annual conference of the Royal Geographical Society in Birmingham, where the lecture in the “Authors-meet-critics” format took place. He contributed a chapter to the book entitled Community economies in eco-communities: spaces of collaboration, opportunities and dilemmas, in which the author presents the results of many years of research on European eco-communities.

Eco-communities. Surviving well together, Bloomsbury, 2025, 352 p.

Ella Hubbard, University of Sheffield

Associate Professor Vasna Ramasar, Lund University

Professor Tariq Jazeel, University College London

Professor Vanesa Castan Broto, University of Sheffield

Jenny Pickerill is Professor of Environmental Geography at the School of Geography and Planning, University of Sheffield. She is the author of Eco-homes: People, Place and Politics or Low Impact Development: The Future in Our Hands.