Research
Recent Projects
IERA - Himal:
Integrated Earthquake Risk Assessment for the Himalayan Region
- Heidelberg Karlsruhe Research Partnership (HEiKA), 12-28
Himalayan Glaciers:
Endangered and Dangerous Cryoscapes of Knowledge
- Excellence Cluster "Waterscapes in Transcultural Perspective", Subproject MC9
Landslide Hazard and Vulnerability:
Unsafe Conditions in the Middle Hills of Nepal
- German Research Foundation (DFG), NU102 / 12-1
Changing Strategies of Resource Use:
The 'Bhotiyas' in the High Mountain Border Region of Uttarakhand, India
- German Research Foundation (DFG), NU102 / 10-1 and 10-2
Large Dams and ‘Clean Development’:
Transcultural Narratives about Global Environmental Change and their Asymmetric Impacts
- Excellence Cluster "Asia and Europe", C8
Large Dams:
Contested Environments Between Hydro-Power and Resistance
- Excellence Cluster "Asia and Europe", C2
Semi-Arid Areas in Transition:
Livelihood Security, Socio-Ecological Variability and the Role of Development Interventions in East Africa
- Volkswagen Foundation
Food Security in Ladakh:
Subsistence-Oriented Resource Utilisation and Socioeconomic Transformation
- German Research Foundation (DFG), NU102 / 7-1 and 7-2
Completed Projects
Landslides in Azad Kashmir:
Strengthening of Disaster Risk Reduction at Community and District Levels in Hazard-Prone Areas of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan
- Federal Foreign Office Germany, Malteser International, PN2197
Resource Utilization, Land Degradation and External Interventions in the Peripheral Mountains of Lesotho, Southern Africa
- Volkswagen Foundation and Habilitation Fellowship German Research Foundation (DFG)
Human-Ecological Dynamics of Land-Use in Chitral, Eastern Hindu Kush, Pakistan
- German Research Foundation (DFG), Priority Programme "Culture Area Karakorum" (CAK)