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‘God sent Hurricane Katrina’ – culture, faith and disasters

Category: Institute of Geography, Research 24. November 2014

What role does culture play in people’s reaction to disasters? Why do people choose to live near an active volcano? Why do those affected by floods and earthquakes return to the risk areas so soon? Why are international disaster prevention measures unsuccessful or met with a lack of understanding a...

Road to progress in the Alps?

Category: Institute of Geography, Research 11. September 2012

FAU researchers examine spatial development in Southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland Will progress come to a region if roads are simply wide enough? Dr. Frieder Voll has studied common political conceptions on accessibility and spatial development in the Alpine region. The researcher from the I...

Arabic world-views in focus

Category: Institute of Geography 2. November 2011

FAU cultural geographer receives award for dissertation Dr. Shadia Husseini de Araújo from the Institute of Cultural Geography at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) was awarded with the dissertation prize for German-speaking research on the Middle East at the “German Middle Eas...

The networked tree

Category: Institute of Geography, Research 5. September 2011

An oak in the Botanic Gardens of FAU brings together science, technology and nature A 150-year-old oak tree in Erlangen has been given a “voice”. It has been equipped with cutting-edge measuring equipment to report on its existence – whilst supplying data for the “Bäume in Klimawandel” [Trees under...