Research
Recent Projects
HiMViD - High Mountain Visual Database: Repeat PhotographyLongterm project. Various funding sources
Exploring Aufeis: Relevance of Icing and Ice Reservoirs for Climate Change Adaptation in the Trans-Himalaya of Ladakh, India
German Research Foundation (DFG), NU 102/15-1
Producing Charcoal in the Sub-Saharan Drylands: The Contested Fuelscape of Central Pokot, Kenya
German Research Foundation (DFG), NU 102/14-1
Completed Projects
Semi-Arid Areas in Transition:Livelihood Security, Socio-Ecological Variability and the Role of Development Interventions in East Africa (SAAT II / extension)
Volkswagen Foundation
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
Food Security in Ladakh:
Subsistence-Oriented Resource Utilisation and Socioeconomic Transformation
German Research Foundation (DFG), NU102 / 7-1 and 7-2
IERA - Himal:
Integrated Earthquake Risk Assessment for the Himalayan Region
Heidelberg Karlsruhe Research Partnership (HEiKA), 12-28
Large Dams and ‘Clean Development’:
Transcultural Narratives about Global Environmental Change and their Asymmetric Impacts
Excellence Cluster "Asia and Europe", C8
Semi-Arid Areas in Transition:
Livelihood Security, Socio-Ecological Variability and the Role of Development Interventions in East Africa (SAAT I)
Volkswagen Foundation
Large Dams:
Contested Environments Between Hydro-Power and Resistance
Excellence Cluster "Asia and Europe", C2
Landslides in Pakistan administered Kashmir:
Strengthening of Disaster Risk Reduction at Community and District Levels in Hazard-Prone Areas of 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)