Christian Zeller (geographer)

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Christian Zeller (born August 30, 1962 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian geographer .

Life

Zeller studied economics at the University of Basel from 1983 to 1984 . This was followed by a degree in geography there until 1990 . He finished his studies in April 1990 with a diploma thesis on transport planning in the city of Basel . In November 2000, Zeller received his doctorate with a dissertation on the development of the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis into a global company. Zeller completed his habilitation in April 2008.

After working as an assistant at the Institute for Geography at the University of Basel from 1993 to 1996, Zeller worked from 1997 to 2000 as an assistant at the Hamburg University in the Department of Economic Geography in a DFG project . From 2002 to 2008 he worked as an assistant at the University of Bern . Zeller then took over the professorship for economic geography at the University of Salzburg .

Zeller is involved in the political movement Aufbruch for an eco-socialist alternative that was founded in Austria in spring 2016.

Publications (selection)

  • Mobility for everyone! Outlines of a traffic turnaround towards a car-free Basel. Birkhäuser, Basel 1992, ISBN 9783764327309 .
  • Globalization Strategies - The Novartis Way. (At the same time dissertation University of Basel). Springer, Berlin / New York 2001, ISBN 978-3-642-56668-4 .
  • The global expropriation economy. Ed., Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster 2004, ISBN 978-3-89691-549-8 .
  • together with Verena Kreilinger: Corona pandemic - a historic turning point. Departure, Salzburg 2020 PDF file
  • Revolution for the climate. Why we need an eco-socialist alternative. Oekom, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-96238-188-2 .

Quote

“This catastrophe heralds a turning point on an historic scale. ... The societies are currently going through an immeasurable breach of all previous certainties. "

- Christian Zeller and Verena Kreilinger : Corona pandemic - a historic turning point. Aufbruch, Salzburg 2020, p. 10, PDF file

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Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Zeller, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg