The research activities (as well as the research-oriented curriculum in the Master programs) have a current focus on six key themes:
- Geographies of development (for example, vulnerability and risk research, environmental degradation, land use change and development theories)
- Geographical high alpine research (in particular changes and management of mountain ecosystems)
- Biogeography (for example, biodiversity, vegetation dynamics, agro ecology, ethno-botany, dendro-ecology)
- Paleo climate and climate change research (for example, reconstruction of climate records, monitoring of climate change and catastrophic climate events, mass and energy budgets of glaciers)
- Urban geography and regional development (for example, Europeanisation and metropolisation in regional development; development of rural areas, regional economic development, practical town planning and urban development concepts, (re-)imagining of cities and urban cultures)
- Political geography and social geography (in particular analyses of the (re)production of spaces and thus social orderings in urban- spatial- and environmental politics, in geopolitical concepts as well as in cartography and the geoweb; questions of migration, identity and space)
Regional competency intersects with these research themes: on the one hand, the greater Nuremberg region, at our ‘front door’; and on the other in various world regions such as the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), southern Africa, polar regions and mountain areas in Southeast Asia and Latin America. There is, furthermore, an emphasis on the continuing development of research methods in geography (such as in dendro-ecology, soil science, remote sensing, GIS, GeoWeb and geovisualisation, and discourse analysis in human geography).
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