Christoph Stadel

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Christoph Stadel (born June 6, 1938 in Donaueschingen ) is an Austrian - Canadian geographer . From 1992 to 2004 he was a full professor and has since been a professor emeritus at the University of Salzburg .

Life

Christoph Stadel studied geography, history and political science from 1957 to 1962, among others with Friedrich Metz and Arnold Bergstraesser , at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau. During this time he took the summer semester 1958 with Wilhelm Lauer at the University of Kiel with the subjects geography and geology. He continued his studies at the University of Friborg , Switzerland, on to graduate in 1962 on the social structure of Palmyra (Syria) and was there with Jean-Luc Piveteau 1964 Dr. phil. with a comparative urban geography dissertation on Beirut, Damascus and Aleppo .

From 1964 to 1967 he was a teacher at the International College Le Rosey in Rolle / Gstaad , Switzerland and from 1967 to 1968 at Hillfield Strathallan College , Hamilton, Ontario , Canada. In 1968 he became a Lecturer, then Assistant and Associate Professor at the Department of Geography at the University of Brandon (Manitoba) , Canada, and there in 1982 Full Professor. Guest professorships took him to Bern and repeatedly to Salzburg, where he took over the chair of the Kinzl student Helmut Heuberger from 1992 and from 1998–1999 also headed the institute. From 2000 Stadel was a member of the scientific editorial board of the journal Mountain Research and Development of the International Mountain Society . Since 2004 he has been working scientifically as Professor Emeritus.

Research topics

His scientific focus is on rural areas, agricultural geography and mountain research . From a regional point of view, Stadel mainly deals with the mountain areas of the New World , especially in the tropical Andean countries of Ecuador , Peru and Bolivia , as well as in Canada.

Memberships

  • Austrian Geographical Society (ÖGG)
  • International Mountain Society, Founding Member (IMS)
  • International Geographical Union , Commission on Mountain Geoecology and Sustainable Development (Corresponding Member)
  • Sociedad de Ciencias Geográficas de Ecuador (Corresponding Member and Canadian Representative)
  • Society for Canada Studies (GKS)
  • Canadian Association of Geographers
  • Mountain Protected Areas Network of the IUCN (Corresponding Member)
  • Asociación Andina

Fonts (selection)

Articles in magazines or books

  • The Structure of Squatter Settlements in Medellín, Colombia, Area , 7 (4), 1975, 249-254.
  • Del Valle al Monte: Altitudinal Patterns of Agricultural Activities in the Patate-Pelileo Area of ​​Ecuador, Mountain Research and Development , 6 (1), 1986, 53-62.
  • Altitudinal Belts in the Tropical Andes: Their Ecology and Human Utilization, Yearbook of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers , 17/18, 1992, 45-60.
  • Ciudades medianas y aspectos de la sustentabilidad urbana en la región Andina, Revista Geográfica , 129, 2001, 5–20.
  • Development perspectives in the rural Andean region, Geographische Rundschau 58 (10), 2006, 64–72.
  • Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptation: Rural Development in the Tropical Andes, Pirineos 163, 2008, 15-36.
  • Agrarian Diversity, Resilience and Adaptation of Andean Agriculture and Rural Communities, Colloquium Geographicum , 31, 2008, 73-88.
  • with OO Kambona and S. Eslamian: Perceptions of tourists on trail use and management implications for Kakamega Forest, Western Kenya, Journal of Geography and Regional Planning 4 (4) 2011: 243–250.

Monographs or editorships

  • with NJR Allan and GW Knapp: Human Impact on Mountains . Totowa : Rowman and Littlefield. 1988.
  • with J. Welsted and JC Everitt: The Geography of Manitoba. Its land and its people . Winnipeg : The University of Manitoba Press. 1996.
  • with A. Borsdorf : Ecuador in profiles. Regional studies on a geographic excursion in 1996 , Inngeo 3, Innsbruck. 1997.
  • Themes and issues of Canadian Geography III , Salzburger Geographische Arbeit 34, Salzburg. 1999.
  • with A. Borsdorf: Peru in profile. Landscape studies on a geographical excursion , 2000, Inngeo 10, Innsbruck . 2001.
  • with JL Luzon and C. Borges: Transformaciones regionales y urbanas en Europa y America Latina . Barcelona : Publicacions de la Universitat de Barcelona. 2003.
  • with A. Borsdorf: The Andes. A geographical portrait . Heidelberg : Springer Spectrum . 2013.

literature

  • Axel Borsdorf (Ed.): Research in the Mountains - Investigating the Mountains - Investigando las Montañas. Christoph Stadel on his 75th birthday (= IGF research reports. Vol. 5). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-7001-7461-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curriculum vitae
personal data
SURNAME Stadel, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Canadian geographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Donaueschingen