Christophe Neff

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Christophe Neff (born June 10, 1964 in Tübingen ) is a German-French geographer with a focus on landscape and fire ecology .

Life

Neff is one of three children of the politician Evelyne Marie France Neff . He spent childhood and youth in Schramberg and the Schramberg area in the Black Forest. After high school and military service , he began studying geography at the University of Mannheim . Neff completed his studies in geography and biogeography at the University of Mannheim and the Université Paul Valery in Montpellier in 1993 with a thesis on forest fire risks in southern France. In 1999 he received his doctorate at the University of Mannheim under Peter Frankenberg with a thesis on the modeling of vegetation and fire dynamics in the Mediterranean region. He then did research as a postdoc (still at the University of Mannheim) on the relationship between vegetation, landscape and fire dynamics and climate change in the Mediterranean region.

Neff has been working at the Institute for Geography and Geoecology at the University of Karlsruhe since autumn 2006, where she is responsible for landscape and fire ecology research. Due to the media interest in forest fires in the Mediterranean region and the connections with global climate change, Neff appeared on various occasions as an expert in radio and television programs; He also published on his subject in popular science publications and gave interviews in international daily newspapers.

Neff is an active reserve officer . He trained as a reserve officer in Airborne Brigade 25 in the 1980s. He is currently a lieutenant colonel of the reserve in a brigade headquarters in southern Germany ordered mob .

Neff lives in Grünstadt and Leucate in the south of France .

Blog paysages

From May 2009 to April 2019 Neff published a German-French blog called paysages (dt. = Landscapes) on the blog platform les Blogs leMonde.fr. On April 23, 2019, he published a bilingual (German-French) blog post in paysages on which he announced the end of the blog paysage on LeMonde.fr, as LeMonde.fr would close its subscriber blogs on June 5, 2019. In the same blog post, he also stated that, in his opinion, the cultural divide that separates Germany and France is currently bigger than it has been for a long time.

Fonts

  • Forest fire risks in the Garrigues de Nîmes (southern France): a geographical analysis . Geographical Institute of the University of Mannheim, Mannheim 1995, ISBN 3-923750-50-1 .
  • Sebastian Lentz, Christophe Neff, Rainer Lukhaup, Thomas Ott, Frank Swiaczny (eds.): Commemorative publication for Rainer Joha Bender . Geographical Institute of the University of Mannheim, Mannheim 1996, ISBN 3-923750-66-8 ( Mannheimer geographical works. H. 44).
  • Medgrow: Vegetation dynamics and cultural landscape change in the Mediterranean region . Geographical Institute of the University of Mannheim, Mannheim 2000, ISBN 3-923750-80-3 ( Mannheimer geographical works . H. 52).
  • Alexander Scheid, Christophe Neff, Christoph Jentsch (eds.): Area extension in the Central Black Forest. Results and discussion of the geographical and landscape fire-ecological investigations carried out in the Schramberg area . Geographical Institute of the University of Mannheim, Mannheim 2004, ISBN 3-923750-92-7 ( materials on geography . 34).
  • Marco Conedera, Christophe Neff, Marco Moretti: Ecological consequences of forest fires in southern Switzerland ; in: Geographische Rundschau, issue 4/2009.
  • Christophe Neff: Experience with the use of controlled fire in nature conservation and landscape management - examples from the French Pyrenees and the Black Forest ; in: Landscapes as living space (conference volume with abstracts of the contributions to the 2nd annual conference of the IALE region Germany from September 13-15, 2001; PDF; 1.7 MB); Oldenburg 2001.

literature

  • Andreas Dittmann u. a. (Ed.): Who is where? Geographers at universities, colleges and research institutions in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Federal office of the Association of Geographers at German Universities (VGDH), Bonn 2006, ISBN 3-00-016764-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. pensées personnelles franco-allemandes sur le cinquantième anniversaire du Traité de l'Elysée In: Paysagesblog. Queryed on January 26, 2013
  2. / Source = Schramberger Away - Scientist Christophe Neff Fire and flame for forest fires In: Stadtwerker Schramberg 06.10.2017 Query on February 24, 2018
  3. Can forest fires be avoided? On: scinexx.de from September 20, 2005 (queried April 29, 2019)
  4. Firefighting: Forest management can reduce the risk. On: tagesspiegel.de from August 27, 2007 (accessed on April 29, 2019)
  5. Source = Ottmar Schreiner - Social Democrat, Paratrooper Officer and Catholic In: Paysagesblog. Queryed on May 2, 2014
  6. The fin du blog paysages sur les blogs LeMonde.fr - The end of the blog «paysages» on the blogs of Le Monde.fr In: Paysagesblog. Queryed on April 29, 2019
  7. The fin annoncée des blogs subscriptions du Monde.fr, the fin du blog paysages sur les blogs leMonde.fr In: Paysagesblog. Queryed on April 29, 2019
  8. la-fin-du-blog-paysages-sur-les-blogs-lemonde-fr-the-end-of-the-blog-paysages-auf-den-blogs-von-le-monde-fr / La fin du blog paysages sur les blogs LeMonde.fr - The end of the blog «paysages» on the blogs of Le Monde.fr In: Paysagesblog. Queryed on April 29, 2019