Hans-Georg Bohle

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Hans-Georg Bohle (born March 3, 1948 in Hildesheim ; † September 20, 2014 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German geographer and development researcher.

From 1968 he studied at the University of Göttingen , where he was a research assistant at the Institute of Geography from 1977 to 1985, receiving his doctorate in 1979 and habilitation in 1985. From 1986 to 1995 he was Professor of Cultural Geography at the Institute for Cultural Geography at the University of Freiburg, from 1995 to 2004 Professor of Geography of South Asia at the Geographical Institute and the South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg , from 2003 until his retirement in 2013, Professor of Geographical Development Research at the Geographical Institute of the University of Bonn .

His research interests in human geography were primarily in the areas of geographic development research , resilience , vulnerability , geographic risk research and livelihoods , with a regional focus on the developing countries of South Asia.

2006/07 he was chairman of the Institute for Environment and Human Security of the United Nations University . He was on the Board of Trustees of the Munich Re Foundation . In 2001 Bohle was appointed a member of the Academia Europaea , followed in 2007 by the election of a member of the Leopoldina .

Selected publications

  • (1976): Problems of Utilization of Water Resources in the Cauvery Delta - A Case Study of Talanayar Block. In: Proceedings of the All-India Symposium on Resource Development and Planning . Madras.
  • (1981): The Green Revolution in India - Victory in the Fight Against Hunger? Paderborn: Schöningh.
  • (1993): The Geography of Vulnerable Food Systems. In: Bohle, Downing, Fields (Ed.): Coping with Vulnerability and Criticality. Case Studies on Food-Insecure People and Places. Freiburg Studies in Development Geography, Vol. 1 . Pp. 15-29.
  • with Downing, T.-E. & MJ Watts (1996): Climate Change and Food Security: Toward a Sociology and Geography of Vulnerability. In: Downing, TE (Ed.): Climate Change and Food Security . Berlin: Springer. Pp. 183-206.
  • with Mayer, M. & E. Weber (1998): Livelihood Security and Vulnerability in Nepal, India and Sri Lanka. In: IGU Bulletin 48 (1) . Pp. 5-19.
  • (2007): Geographies of Vulnerability. In: Geographische Rundschau 59 (10) . Pp. 20-25.
  • (2011): Social Vulnerability and Livelihood Security. Towards an Integrated Framework for Market Risk Assessment, In: Gertel, J. & R. Le Heron (Eds.): Economic Spaces of Pastoral Production and Commodity Systems: Markets and Livelihood . Farnham / Burlington: Ashgate Publishing. Pp. 43-51.
  • (2011): Geographical Development Research. In: Gebhardt, Glaser, Radtke & Reuber (Ed.): Geography. Physical geography and human geography . Heidelberg: Spectrum Academic Publishing House. Pp. 746-763.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christel Dell, Danny Weber, Thomas Wilde: Deceased members and honorary patrons . List of members and honorary patrons who died between July 31, 2013 and June 30, 2015. In: Jörg Hacker (Ed.): German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina . Structure and members. German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina eV, Halle (Saale) 2015, p. 345 ( leopoldina.org [PDF; accessed September 25, 2016]).
  2. ^ Homepage of the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ List of the members of the Board of Trustees of the Munich Re Foundation on their homepage.
personal data
SURNAME Bohle, Hans-Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 2014
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau