Hans-Georg Bohle#
Sadly, this member passed away. | |
Membership Number: | 2077 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
Elected: | 2001 |
Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Hans-Georg Bohle passed away September 20, 2014.
Positions Held
- Professor Emeritus
- 2004 - 2013 Professor and Chair for Cultural Geography and Development Geography at the Geography Department, University of Bonn
- 1995 - 2004 Professor and Chair for Geography of South Asia at the University of Heidelberg
- 1991 - 1992 Visiting Professor, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley, USA
- 1989 - 1995 Full Professor (C4), Director of Institute for Cultural Geography, University of Freiburg
- 1986 - 1989 Associate Professor (C2), Institute for Cultural Geography, University of Freiburg
Fields of Scholarship
- Geographic development research
- Cultural geography
- Political geography
- Empirical social research
- South Asia
Honours and Awards
- 2002 Member, Academia Europaea
- 2006 Foundation Chairholder ‘Social Vulnerability’ Munich Re Foundation at United Na-tions University, Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) at Bonn
- 2007 Elected Member of the “Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina”
- 2007 Awarded the Graf-von-Linden-Medaille of the “Gesellschaft für Erd- und Völkerkunde zu Stuttgart e.V.” in recognition of his merits in the field of Human Geography