Eckart Ehlers (geographer)

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Eckart Ehlers (born March 1, 1938 in Duisburg ) is a German geographer with research interests in cultural geography , economic and social geography and the Islamic Orient .

job

Eckart Ehlers received his doctorate in 1965 at the University of Tübingen with the thesis "The Northern Peace River Country, Alberta, Canada: Genesis and Structure of a Pioneering Area in the Boreal Forest of North America", his habilitation thesis in 1970, also in Tübingen, dealt with the topic "South Caspian Lowlands ( Northern Iran) and Caspian Sea ".

From 1970 to 1972 he was a professor at the Geographical Institute of the University of Gießen , from 1972 to 1986 at the University of Marburg , and from 1986 until his retirement in March 2004 at the Institute for Economic Geography at the University of Bonn . From 1992 to 1997 he was Vice Rector at the University of Bonn, from 1992 to 2000 General Secretary of the International Geographical Union (IGU) , and from 1996 to 1999 a member of the Chair Scientific Committee at the International Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Program.

Ehlers has been a member of the International Foundation for Science in Stockholm since 2004 , as well as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn. He has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 1990 . In his capacity as Secretary General of the IGU, the Royal Scottish Geographical Society awarded him the Scottish Geographical Medal in 1997 .

Works

  • The northern Peace River Country, Alberta, Canada: Genesis and structure of a pioneering space in the boreal woodlands of North America. Tübingen 1965
  • The Chalus valley and its terraces: studies of the landscape structure and landscape history of central Elbrus (Northern Iran). Bonn 1969
  • South Caspian Lowlands (Northern Iran) and Caspian Sea. Tubingen 1970
  • South Caspian Lowlands (Northern Iran) and Caspian Sea: Contributions to their evolutionary history in the Young and Post Pleistocene. Dissertation Tübingen 1971
  • Cultivation systems in the high altitude regions of central Elbrus / Iran. Wiesbaden 1973
  • Contributions to the physical geography of Iran. Marburg 1974
  • Traditional and modern forms of agriculture in Iran: settlement, economy and agrarian social structure in northern Khuzistan since the end of the 19th century. Marburg 1975 (with Grace E Goodell)
  • Contributions to the cultural geography of the Islamic Orient. Marburg 1979
  • Food and society Population growth - the earth's agricultural carrying capacity. Stuttgart 1983 (with Franz Böckle)
  • The agrarian settlement borders of the earth: Thoughts on their genesis and typology using the example of the Canadian woodland. Wiesbaden 1984
  • Population growth, food space, settlement limits of the earth. Frankfurt 1984
  • Modeling the city: cross cultural perspectives. Bonn 1992
  • Geography today - for tomorrow's world. Gotha 2002 (with Hartmut Leser)
  • The Anthropocene. The earth in the age of man. Darmstadt 2008

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Antropocene. The earth in the age of man. review
  2. ↑ Eckart Ehlers
  3. ^ Scottish Geographical Medal

literature

  • Bernd Busch (Ed.): Now the landscape is a catalog full of words. Contributions to the language of ecology. 2007

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personal data
SURNAME Ehlers, Eckart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer with research interests in cultural geography
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg