German Association for Applied Geography
German Association for Applied Geography V. (DVAG) |
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purpose | professional association |
Chair: | Luisa Linek-Schmidt |
Establishment date: | 1950 |
Number of members: | approx. 1300 |
Seat : | Cologne |
Website: | www.geographie-dvag.de |
The German Association for Applied Geography (DVAG) was founded in 1950 by Paul Gauss , Walter Christaller and Emil Meynen as the Association of German Professional Geographers . The DVAG is a professional representation of geographers who are not active in teaching and research, but primarily in business and political advice .
structure
The association consists of various regional forums and thematically oriented working groups that regularly organize and hold events. The following forums and working groups currently exist: (see DVAG website)
Name of the forum | state | Seat |
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Aachen / border triangle | North Rhine-Westphalia | Aachen |
Berlin / Brandenburg | Berlin, Brandenburg | Berlin |
Bonn / Rhine-Sieg / Ahr | North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate | Bonn |
Dresden / East Saxony | Saxony | Dresden |
Düsseldorf / Lower Rhine | North Rhine-Westphalia | Dusseldorf |
Halle / Leipzig | Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt | Halle (Saale) |
Erlangen-Nuremberg | Bavaria | gain |
Hamburg | Hamburg, Lower Saxony | Hamburg |
Electoral Palatinate | Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate | Heidelberg |
Cologne | North Rhine-Westphalia | Cologne |
Magdeburg region | Saxony-Anhalt | Magdeburg |
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | Rostock |
Central Hesse | Hesse | Marburg |
Munich region | Bavaria | Munich |
Münsterland | North Rhine-Westphalia | Muenster |
Rhine-Main | Hessen, Rhineland-Palatinate | Frankfurt am Main |
Ruhr area | North Rhine-Westphalia | Bochum |
Saar / Moselle / Palatinate | Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland | trier |
Schleswig-Holstein | Schleswig-Holstein | Kiel |
Swabia | Bavaria | augsburg |
Southern Lower Saxony | Lower Saxony | Goettingen |
Weser-Ems | Bremen, Lower Saxony | Bremen |
Württemberg | Baden-Württemberg | Stuttgart |
Working groups of the DVAG are:
- retail trade
- property
- environment
- Development cooperation
- Urban development
- Leisure and Tourism
- traffic
- Business promotion
- GIS
One of the main concerns of the DVAG is to give geography a corresponding public profile and to network geographers in Germany. For this reason, the DVAG is active in almost all areas of geography through specialist conferences, workshops, working groups (AK), regional forums and further training events.
Applied Geography Prize
Since 1996, the DVAG has been awarding the Applied Geography Prize for outstanding theses in the field of applied geography every two years . Due to Walter Christaller's troubled past , the 2016 prize was renamed from 'Walter Christaller Prize' to 'Prize for Applied Geography'.
magazine
DVAG are four times a year in the Springer-Verlag science journal in location out.
Web links
- Official website of the German Association for Applied Geography
- Literature from and about the German Association for Applied Geography in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Current events. Retrieved April 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Website of the magazine “Lage”