Geographisches Institut der Universität Bern
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| Adresse | Geographisches Institut der Universität Bern Hallerstrasse 12 CH-3012 Bern |
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| Telefon | +41 (0)31 631 88 75 |
| Fax | +41 (0)31 631 85 11 |
| Homepage | www.giub.unibe.ch |
STUDIENGANG GEOGRAPHIE
Eine Zusammenstellung der Studienziele und des Lehrprogramms
für den Bachelor und den Master
finden Sie hier (pdf-Datei).
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Portrait (in Englisch)
Main fields of research and scholarly activity
Sustainable land use in mountain regions: complex environmental dynamics, economic and social disparities.
Physical geography:
- Geoecology, landscape development and paleoclimate: Austria, Switzerland and South America (Chile, Argentina, Bolivia) (Heinz Veit)
- Observation, measurement, analysis and assessment of natural hazards (mountain torrent systems and periglacial environments) (Hans Kienholz)
- Regional hydrology: regional hydrological analyses; scientific, editorial and cartographic preparation of a "Hydrological Atlas of Switzerland"; analyses of micro-scale processes: test areas in Spissibach and Leissigen (Rolf Weingartner)
- Reception and storage of weather satellite data; use of aerial photography and satellite data for environmental monitoring (Stefan Wunderle)
- Climatology and meteorology (CLIMET): Climate dynamics, mesoscale meteorology and air pollution, mountain meteorology (Heinz Wanner)
- Phenology (François Jeanneret)
Soil science:
- Water flow in soils; soil formation; soil protection (Peter Germann)
Human geography:
- Structure and dynamics of regional systems of production and innovation (located on Switzerland's Central Plateau); regional actor networks and ecologically-related structural change in the Swiss economy; new directions in regional policy in Switzerland and Europe (Paul Messerli)
- Local and regional actors in a changing social and political world (Doris Wastl-Walter)
- Spatial structures and processes relating to settlement and traffic in rural areas; man-environment interactions in the Alps; research on pedestrian traffic; inventory of historical trade routes in Switzerland (Hans-Rudolf Egli, Heinz J. Zumbühl)
- General geographical education (Martin Hasler)
- Feminist geography (Elisabeth Bäschlin)
Integral Projects Development and environment:
- Research and conceptual development concerned with
- sustainable management of soil and water;
- regional planning and development;
- methodological tools;
- education and communication, with a focus in tropical countries (Hans Hurni, Andreas Kläy, Thomas Kohler, Urs Wiesmann)
Stand: 2003-09-28, 21:00.