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Dr. Christoph Bergmann

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Research focus

Human-Environment Research
Participatory Approaches
Local (aka. traditional or indigenous) Knowledge
Development Studies
Border Studies
Livelihoods
Pastoralism and Trans-Himalayan Trade
Ethnicity
Regional: South Asia (particularly Northern India and Himalaya), Sub-Saharan Africa (particularly Rural Kenya)

Research projects

A Multi-Perspective Evaluation of Land Degradation in a Dryland Environment (Central Pokot, Kenya) (German counterpart to PI from Africa: Dr. Paul Roden; funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, 2015-2018)

Changing Strategies of Resource Use: The "Bhotiyas" in the High Mountain Region of Uttarakhand, India (DFG-project NU 102/10-2)

Promotionsstipendium im Rahmen der Landesgraduiertenförderung (2008-2010)

Publications and oral presentations

Teaching (German only)

Former Teaching