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24NOV 2014
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‘God sent Hurricane Katrina’ – culture, faith and disasters
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 and even rejection among those affected? […]
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11SEP 2012
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Road to progress in the Alps?
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 Institute for Geography of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) has now been awarded […]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 Institute for Geography of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) has now been awarded […]
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02NOV 2011
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Arabic world-views in focus
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 East Studies Association” (DAVO) annual conference in Berlin. In her dissertation the researcher examines the world-views […]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 East Studies Association” (DAVO) annual conference in Berlin. In her dissertation the researcher examines the world-views […]
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05SEP 2011
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The networked tree
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 climate change] research project. The “Talking […]
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