Beate Ratter

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Beate MW Ratter (born October 19, 1962 in Heidenheim an der Brenz ) is a German geographer and professor of geography at the University of Hamburg .

Life

Beate Ratter studied geography from 1981 to 1987 at the Universities of Tübingen and, as a student of Gerhard Sandner , Hamburg . In 1991 she was at the Institute of Geography in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Hamburg with the work in-between world economy and regional culture - The Caribbean islands of San Andrés y Providencia and Cayman Islands in the tension between integration and autonomy doctorate ; 1999 habilitation them there. The topic of her habilitation thesis was Nature, Culture and Complexity - On The Theory of Adaptive Management of Environmental Resources Using the Example of the Niagara Escarpment, Ontario, Canada .

In 1999/2000, Beate Ratter was visiting professor at the Institute for Geography and Applied Geoinformatics at the University of Salzburg , and in 2001 she was visiting professor at the Universidad Nacional Sede San Andrés in Colombia . In 2002, Beate Ratter became a university professor at the Geography Institute at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . Since October 2007 she has been University Professor at the Institute for Geography at the University of Hamburg and Head of the Department of Socioeconomics of the Coastal Region at the Institute for Coastal Research at the Helmholtz Center Geesthacht.

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Individual evidence

  1. Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar . 22nd edition (2009). Vol. 3, p. 3262.
  2. uni-hamburg.de: Biography ( Memento from May 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 28, 2012.