Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Bohle
Professor and Head of Research Group of Development Geography
Chairman of the Earth Sciences Subject Group
Postal address:
Department of Geography
University of Bonn
Meckenheimer Allee 166
53115 Bonn
Room: 123
Consultation hours:
Thursday 9:00 - 11:00
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Tel. (+49) 228 73-7232
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Research interests and areas of supervision
Academic Service and Memberships in International Committees
Experience in Post Graduate Education
Doctoral Dissertations (ongoing)
Doctoral Dissertations (completed)
Organization of International Conferences and Workshops
Research interests and areas of supervision
- Social vulnerability
- Food systems in South Asia and North Africa
- Conflict and violence in Sri Lanka
- Megacities in South Asia
- Environment and Health in India
Teaching in summer term 2012
- Aktuelle Themen der Megacity-Forschung in der Geographischen Entwicklungsforschung
- Große Exkursion: Fidschi-Inseln und Begleitseminar
- Diplomandenkolloquium
More teaching courses of the research group
Professional Career
- Since 4/2004
Professor and Chair for Cultural Geography and Development Geography at the Geography Department, University of Bonn.
- 12/2005-11/2009
Munich Re Foundation Chairholder “Social Vulnerability” at United Nations University, Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) at Bonn (part time/rotational).
- 4/1995-3/2004
Professor and Chair for Geography of South Asia, Head of Geography Department, South-Asia-Institute, University of Heidelberg.
- 8/1991-4/1992
Visiting Professor, Geography Department, University of California, Berkeley.
- 4/1989-3/1995
Professor and Chair for Cultural Geography, Director, Department for Cultural Geography, University of Freiburg.
- 10/1986-3/1989
Professor, Department for Cultural Geography, University of Freiburg.
- 2/1985-9/1986
Assistant Professor, Geography Department, University of Göttingen
- 4/1977-1/1985
Senior Lecturer, Geography Department, University of Göttingen
Academic Honours
- Since 2007
Elected Member of the "Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina"; awarded the Graf-von-Linden-Medaille of the "Gesellschaft für Erd- und Völkerkunde zu Stuttgart e.V." in recognition of his merits in the field of Human Geography.
- Since 2007
Awarded the Graf-von-Linden-Medaille of the “Gesellschaft für Erd- und Völkerkunde zu Stuttgart e.V.” in recognition of this merits in the field of Human Geography - Since 2002
Elected Member of the European Academy of Science, London. - 2005 -2009
Appointed Foundation Chairholder on "Social Vulnerability" by the Munich Re Foundation at United Nations University, Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) at Bonn for the period of 2005-2010. - 1986
Awarded Heisenberg Stipendium of DFG.
Selected Research Projects
- Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems in Kenya (2010-2013)
- Multiple Modernities in the Megacity of Dhaka/Bangladesh (2010-2013)
- Globalized Industrialization in Peri-Urban Chennai/India (2010-2013)
- The Megaurban Food System of Dhaka/Bangladesh (2007-2010)
- Water and Health in the Megacity of Chennai/India (2006-2010)
- Geographies of Violence in Eastern Sri Lanka
- Livelihoods and the Impact of Droughts in Orissa/India (2001-2008)
- Geography of Health in Colombo/Sri Lanka (2004-2006)
- Visualized Spaces: Waterscapes in Varanasi/India (2001-2004)
- Visualized Spaces: Cultural Networks of the Washermen in Varanasi/India (200-2003)
- Coping with food insecurity in Nepal (1997-2000)
Further Research Experience
- 1976-1985
Rural transformation, food security, food marketing, slum clearance (South India)
- 1985-1986
Drought and famine disasters, disaster management, food security, vulnerability (Tchad, Sudan)
- 1989-1992
Decentralization policies in Northern Ghana (Ghana)
- 1991-1994
Metropolitan food system of Cairo, vulnerability (Egypt)
- 1991-1994
Food systems, agrarian innovations, vulnerability in the Karakorum (Pakistan)
- 1995-1998
Food security, livelihoods, community-based coping of mountain farmers (Nepal)
Academic Service and Memberships in International Committees
- Since 2008
Board Member, Munich Re Foundation
- Since 2007
Member of IHDP Taskforce on "Global Environmental Change and Human Health" (GEC+HH)
- Since 2006
Scientific Advisory Board, "Global Environmental Change and Food Systems (GECAFS), Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP) Core Program, Oxford
- Since 2003
Advisory Board Member appointed by German Government for Indo-German Cooperation (Indo-German Consultative Group)
- 2003-2010
Steering Committee "Global Environmental Change and Human Security" (GECHS), Core Program of IHDP, Oslo - Since 2002
Scientific Advisory Board, Deutsches Komitee für Katastrophenvorsorge (DKKV) - 2002-2005
International Scientific Board, Swiss National Centre für Competence in Research "NCCR North-South", Bern/Switzerland - 1996-2000
Elected Member, IGU Task Force on Vulnerability - 2000-2003
Elected Member, Committee on Disaster Research, International Council of Sciences - 1999
Team Leader "Disaster Diagnosis South Asia" for European Commission Humanitarian Organization (ECHO) - 1998-2000
Elected Member, Executive Committee, International Social Science Council - 1996
Founding Member, Committee on Sciences for Food Security, International Council of Sciences (ISCU) - 1996-2002
Member of the Scientific Review Committee, Bavarian Research Network - 1992-2001
Member of the UN International Decade on Natural Disaster Reduction, ICSU - Drought Hazard Assessment Group - 1992-1996
Chairman, IGU Commission on Vulnerable Food Systems (1992-1996) - 1988-1992
Chairman, IGU Study Group on Vulnerable Food Systems (1988-1992)
Experience in Post Graduate Education
Regular experience in post graduate education since 1977 at the following Universities:
- University of Bonn (since 2004)
- University of Basel/Switzerland (since 2003)
- University of Batticaloa/Sri Lanka (2000-2003)
- University of Colombo/Sri Lanka (2000-2001)
- University of Heidelberg (1995-2004)
- University of Freiburg (1986-1995)
- University of Madras/India (1976-1983)
- University of Göttingen (1977-1986)
Doctoral Dissertations (ongoing)
- Etzold, Benjamin: “The Role of Street Food for the Megaurban Food System of Dhaka/Bangladesh” (DFG)
- Jülich, Sebastian: “Instruments of Risk Analysis as the Basis for the Disaster Risk Management of Drought” (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung)
- Keck, Markus: “Markets, Space and Institutions. The Vulnerability of Food Networks in Dhaka/Bangladesh” (DFG)
- Homm, Sebastian: “Globalized Industrialization in Peri-Urban Chennai/India” (DFG)
- Eichholz, Michael: “Peri-urban water governance in Latin America under social and ecological change” (Arbeitstitel)
- Kramm, Johanna: “Dürre und Überschwemmung: Anpassungskapazitäten von Kleinbauern” (Arbeitstitel)
- Hombrecher, Una: “Gender Roles in Conflict Transformation in Eastern Sri Lanka”
- Lemcke, Steffen: „Visualisierte Räume: Wasserkarten von Benares“ (DFG)
Doctoral Dissertations (completed)
- Zimmer, Anna: „Everyday governance of the waste waterscapes. A
Foucauldian analysis in Delhi’s informal settlements” (Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung), completed in 2011
- Sakdapolrak, Patrick: „Orte und Räume der Health Vulnerability. Bourdieus Theorie der Praxis für die Analyse von Krankheit und Gesundheit in megaurbanen Slums von Chennai, Südindien“ (DFG), completed in 2010
- Chang Seng, Denis: “Disaster Risk Preparedness. The Role of Risk Governance, Multi-Institutional Arrangements and Polycentric Frameworks for a Resilient Tsunami Early Warning System in Indonesia” (UNU/EHS), completed in 2010
- Nishara, F.: “Assessment of Tsunami Vulnerability in the City of Galle, Sri Lanka” (DAAD, with UNU/EHS), completed in 2010
- Hauck, Jennifer: „Managing Social-Ecological Systems for Resilience: Fisheries in the Small Reservoirs of Northern Ghana” (ZEF); completed in 2010
- Oft, Philine: Mit Überschwemmungen und Dürren leben – ein theoretischer und operativer Aktionsrahmen für die Entwicklung von Widerstandsfähigkeit und Katastrophenresistenz von Institutionen und Gemeinden in Peru (UNU-EHS und ZEF); completed in 2009
- Fünfgeld, Hartmut: „Politische Ökologie und Konflikttransformation am Beispiel der Lagunenfischerei in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka“; completed in 2006
- Noe, Christiane: „Gesundheitsrisiken und Soziales Kapital: Verwundbarkeit und Lebenssicherung in Marginalsiedlungen von Colombo/Sri Lanka“; completed in 2006
- Van Dillen, Susanne: “Different Choices: Assessing Vulnerability in a South Indian Village”; completed in 2004
- Halim, Ujjaini: “Political Ecology of Shrimp Aquaculture in India: A Case Study in Orissa”; completed in 2003
- Köberlein, Michael: “Living from Waste. Livelihoods of the Actors Involved in Delhi’s Informal Waster Recycling Economy”; completed in 2003
- Schütte, Stefan: „Soziale Netzwerke als räumliche Orientierungssysteme“. Konstruktionen von Raum und Lokalität der Wäscher von Banāras“; completed in 2003
- Mayer, Markus: „Jugendkonflikte und Entwicklungsplanung. Eine sozialgeographische Analyse der Lebenschancen Jugendlicher und der Potentiale dezentraler Planung in Sri Lanka“; completed in 2002
- Büttner, Hannah: „Wassermanagement und Ressourcenkonflikte. Eine empirische Untersuchung zu Wasserkrise und Water Harvesting in Indien aus der Perspektive sozialwissenschaftlicher Umweltforschung“; completed in 2001
- Raithelhuber, Martin: „Land-Stadt-Beziehung in Nepal. Eine institutionenorientierte Analyse von Verwundbarkeit und Existenzsicherung“; completed in 2001
- Ulbert, Veronika: „Partizipative Gender-Forschung. Umweltprobleme und Strategien der Ressourcennutzung in der Dominikanischen Republik“; completed in 1999
- Weber, Eberhard: „Globalisierung und Politische Ökonomie der Armut in Indien“; completed in 1997
- Dittrich, Christoph: „Ernährungssicherung und Entwicklung in Nordpakistan. Nahrungskrisen und Verwundbarkeit im peripheren Hochgebirgsraum“; completed in 1995
- Hoffmann, Thomas: „Migration und Entwicklung am Beispiel des Solu-Khumbu-Distriktes, Ost-Nepal“; completed in 1995
- Pilardeaux, Benno: „Innovation und Entwicklung in Nordpakistan. Über die Rolle von exogenen Agrarinnovationen im Entwicklungsprozeß einer peripheren Hochgebirgsregion“; completed in 1995
- Gertel, Jörg: „Krisenherd Khartoum. Geschichte und Struktur der Wohnraumproblematik in der sudanesischen Hauptstadt“; completed in 1993
- Holtkamp, Thomas: „Dezentralisierung und Partizipation in Ghana. Neue Ansätze der Regionalentwicklung“; completed in 1993
Organization of International Conferences and Workshops
- 2007 Hohenkammer/Bavaria:
"UNU-EHS and MRF Summer Academy on Social Vulnerability: Megacities as Hotspots of Risk“ (Chief-Organizer) - 2006 Hohenkammer/Bavaria:
"UNU-EHS and MRF Summer Academy on Social Vulnerability: Water as Global Hotspot of Risk“ (Co-Organizer) - 2004 Bonn / Germany:
„Zwischen Karakorum und Kalimantan Netzwerkbildung und Hochschulen in Süd- und Südostasien“ (DAAD) - 1998 Freiburg i. Br. / Germany:
“Combating Famine in a Changing World. Famine between Subsistence and Market Economy.” (IGU) - 1996 Den Haag / Netherlands:
“The Geography of Vulnerable Food Systems“ (IGU) - 1995 Havana / Cuba:
“Latin American Food Systems in Transition: Challenges and Problems”. (IGU) - 1995 El Fashir / Sudan:
“The geographical Dimensions of Food Security in Developing Coutries.” (IGU) - 1994 Yokohama / Japan:
“Drought Management.” (FAO) Session of the World Conference on IDNDR - 1994 Prague / Czechia:
“Drought Hazard Assessment.” Planning Session for IDNDR (ICSU) - 1993 Oxford / U. K.:
“Climate Change and World Food Security.” (NATO, co-organizer) - Mexico-City / Mexico:
“Metropolitan Food Systems in Developing Countries.” (IGU, in conjunction with International Union on Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences.) - 1992 Boston /USA:
“Dynamics of Social Groups most vulnerable to Famine.” (IGU) - 1992 Washington / USA:
“Challenges for Food Research in the 1990s.” (IGU) - 1991 El Minia / Egypt:
“Famine Vulnerability and most critical Regions / Places.” (IGU) - 1990 Peking / China:
“Land Use, Rural Systems and Food Problems.” (IGU)
Editorial Work
Since 2001:
- Member of the Editorial Board „Internationales Asienforum“ (Freiburg)
Since 1998:
- Member of the Editorial Board “Die Erde” (Berlin)
Since 1997:
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board “Indian Geographical Journal” (Madras)
Since 1993:
- Founder and Editor “Freiburg Studies in Development Geography” (Freiburger Studien zur Geographischen Entwicklungsforschung); Breitenbach Publishers, Saarbrücken/Fort Lauderdale (Vol. 1–Vol. 15)
Since 2001:
- „Studies in Development Geography (Studien zur Geographischen Entwicklungsforschung) (with Prof. Thomas Krings, Freiburg), Verlag für Entwicklungspolitik, Saarbrücken (Vol. 16–37)
Publications (since 2001)
2011
BOHLE, H.-G. (2011): Social Vulnerability and Livelihood Security. Towards an Integrated Framework for Market Risk Assessment, In: GERTEL, J. & R. LEHERON (eds.): Economic Spaces of Pastoral Production and Commodity Systems: Markets and Livelihood (Ashgate Publishing). Farnham/Burlington: 43-51.
Watts, M. J. , Bohle, H. G. (2011, reprint from 1993): The Space of Vulnerability: the Causal Structure of Hunger and Famine. In: Gregory, D., Castree, N. (eds): Hunman Geography, Vol. 4 (SAGE Puplications). London: 393-422.
Bohle, H.-G. (2011): Geographische Entwicklungsforschung. In: Gebhardt, H., Glaser, R., Radtke, U. & P. Reuber (eds.): Geographie. Physische Geographie und Humangeographie. (Elsevier/Spektrum Akademischer Verlag). Heidelberg: 746-763
Zingel, W.-P., Keck, M., Etzold, B. & H.-G Bohle (2011): Urban Food Security and Health Status of the Poor in Dhaka, Bangladesh. In: Krämer, A., Khan, M.M.H. & F. Kraas (eds): Health in Megacities and Urban Areas. (Springer), Heidelberg: 301-319.
ERGLER, C., SAKDAPOLRAK, P. , BOHLE, H.-G. & R.A. KEARNS (2011): Entitlements to health care: Why is there a preference for private facilities among poorer residents of Chennai, India? In: Social Science & Medicine 72 (Elsevier). 327-337.
2010
BOHLE, H.-G., EAKIN, H. GREGORY, P., IZAC, A.M. ET AL. (2010): Food, Violence and Human Rights. In: INGRAM, J., ERICKSEN, P. & LIVERMAN, D. (eds.): Food Security and Global Environmental Change (Earthscan). London. 245-271
ERICKSEN, P., BOHLE, H.-G. & B. STEWART (2010): Vulnerability and Resilience of Food Systems. In: INGRAM, J., ERICKSEN, P. & LIVERMAN, D. (eds.): Food Security and Global Environmental Change (Earthscan). London. 67-77
BOHLE, H.-G. (2010): Environmental Entitlements, In: WARF, B. (ed.): Encyclopedia of Geography (Sage Publications). Thousand Oaks, California: 921-925
KECK, M., ETZOLD, B., BOHLE, H.-G. & W.-P. ZINGEL (2010): Rice for the Megacity. The Food System of Dhaka in between global risks and local vulnerabilities. In: KRAAS, F. (ed.): Megacities. International Year of Planet Earth. (UNESCO; Springer). Heidelberg. (forthcoming)
BOHLE, H.-G. (2010): Social Vulnerability and Livelihood Security. Towards an Integrated Framework for Market Risk Assessment, In: GERTEL, J. & R. LEHERON (eds.): Economic Spaces of Pastoral Production and Commodity Systems: Markets and Livelihood (Ashgate Publishing) (forthcoming)
2009
BOHLE, H.-G., KECK, M., & P. SAKDAPOLRAK (2009): Adaptive Food Governance. In: IHDP Update 3, Magazine of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change: 543-58
BOHLE, H.-G. (2009): Trockenräume als Risikoräume. In: Nova Acta Leopoldina 108 (373): 17-28.
ETZOLD, B., BOHLE, H.G., KECK, M. & W.-P. ZINGEL (2009): Informality as Agency. Negotiating Food Security in Dhaka. In: Die Erde 140 (1): 3-24.
BOHLE, H.-G., ETZOLD, B. & M. KECK (2009): Resilience as Agency. In: IHDP Update 2: 8-13.
BOHLE, H.G. (2009): Sustainable Livelihood Security. Evolution and Application. In: BRAUCH, H. G., GRIN, J., MESJASZ, C., KRUMMENACHER, H., CHADHA BEHERA, N., CHOUROU, B., OSWALD SPRING, U. & P. KAMERI-MBOTE (eds.): Facing Global Environmental Change: Environmental, Human, Energy, Food, Health and Water Security Concepts. Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace. Vol. 4. (Springer-Verlag). Berlin-Heidelberg-New York-Hong Kong-London-Milan-Paris-Tokyo. 521-528.
BRKLACICH M. , CHAZAN, M. & H.-G. BOHLE (2009): Human Security, Vulnerability, and Global Environmental Change. In: METTHEW, R.A., BARNETT, J., MCDONALD, B., O'BRIEN K. (eds.): Global Environmental Change and Human Security. (MIT Press). Cambridge. 35-52.
BOHLE, H.G. & P. SAKDAPOLRAK (2009): Chennai. Alltagskampf um Wasser, Nahrung und Gesundheit. In: Geographie und Schule 31 (181): 4-10.
2008
BOHLE, H.-G. & K. WARNER (2008): Megacities. Resilience and Social Vulnerability. UNU-SOURCE. Publications Series of UNU-EHS10/2008.
BOHLE, H.-G. & P. SAKDAPOLRAK (2008): Leben mit der Krise. Vertreibung von Slumbewohnern in der Megastadt Chennai. In: Geographische Rundschau 60 (4): 12-20.
BOHLE, H.-G., ETZOLD, B., KECK, M. & W.-P. ZINGEL (2008): Reis für die Megacity. Nahrungsversorgung von Dhaka zwischen globalen Risiken und lokalen Verwundbarkeiten. In: Geographische Rundschau 60 (11): 28-37.
BOHLE, H.-G. (2008): Krisen, Katastrophen, Kollaps – Geographien von Verwundbarkeit in der Risikogesellschaft. In: KULKE, E. & H. POPP (eds.): Umgang mit Risiken. Katastrophen-Destabilisierung-Sicherheit. Deutscher Geographentag 2007 Bayreuth. (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geographie). Bayreuth/Berlin. 69-82.
BOHLE, H.-G. (2008): Food Vulnerability – Health Vulnerability. Convergence and Common Ground in Global Change Research. In: EXNER, M., KLEIN, G., RECHKEMMER, A. & F. SCHMIDT (eds.): Towards Sustainable Global Health. UNU-SOURCE. Publications Series of UNU-EHS 11/2008: 38-41.
BOHLE, H.-G. & R. SAUERBORN (2008): Vulnerability and Adaptation. In: Global Environmental Change and Human Health. (Springer-Verlag). Heidelberg.
BOHLE, H.-G. (2008): Human Security, Vulnerability and Global Environmental Change. In: MATTHEW, R. BRKLACICH, M. & B. MCDONALD (eds.): Global Environmental Change and Human Security. (MIT Press). Cambridge. 35-52.
2007
BOHLE, H.-G. (2007): Living with Vulnerability. Livelihoods and Human Security in Risky Environments. InterSecTions. Publications Series of UNU-EHS 6/2007.
BOHLE, H.G. (2007): Geographien von Verwundbarkeit. In: Geographische Rundschau 59 (10): 20-25.
BOHLE, H.-G. (2007): Geographies of Violence and Vulnerability. An Actor-Oriented Analysis of the Civil War in Sri Lanka. In: Erdkunde 61 (2): 129-146.
DELZEIT, R, BOHLE, H.-G. & K. HOLM-MÜLLER (2007): Towards a certification of biomass: Feasibility of a certifications scheme of sustainability standards for trade and production of bioethanol in Brazil. Discussion Paper 2007: 1, Agricultural and Resource Economics.
BOHLE, H.-G. & H. FÜNFGELD (2007): The Political Ecology of Violence: Contested Entitlements and Politicised Livelihoods in Eastern Sri Lanka. In: Development and Change 38 (4): 665-687.
BOHLE, H.-G. (2007): Geographische Entwicklungsforschung. In: GEBHARDT, H., GLASER, R., RADTKE, U. & P. REUBER (eds.): Geographie. Physische Geographie und Humangeographie. (Elsevier/Spektrum Akademischer Verlag). Heidelberg. 797 – 815.
BOHLE, H.-G. (2007): Leben mit Risiko: Resilience als neues Paradigma für die Risikowelten von morgen. In: FELGENTREFF, C. & T. GLADE (eds.): Naturrisiken und Sozialkatastrophen. (Elsevier/Spektrum Akademischer Verlag). Heidelberg. 435 – 441.
BOHLE, H.-G. (2007): Soziale Verwundbarkeit: Mit dem Risiko leben lernen. In: Münchener Rück Stiftung, Vom Wissen zum Handeln. Report 2006: 4-5.
NESTLE, M., SAKDAPOLRAK, P., BOHLE, H.-G., GLASER, R., LOUIS, V., MISTELBACHER, J., SAUERBORN, R., GANS, P. & M. LECHNER (2007): Chennai: Umweltkrise und Gesundheitsrisiken in einer indischen Megacity. In: GLASER, R. & K. KREMB (eds.): Asien, Planet Erde (2). (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft). Darmstadt. 209-214.
BOHLE, H.-G., GLASER, R., LECHNER, M., SAUERBORN, R., LOUIS, V. & P. SAKDAPOLRAK (2007): Wasserkrisen in der Megacity Chennai in Südindien. In: GEBHARDT, H., GLASER, R., RADTKE, U. & P. REUBER (eds.): Geographie. Physische Geographie und Humangeographie. (Elsevier/Spektrum Akademischer Verlag). Heidelberg. 1009-1014.
BOHLE, H.-G. & T. GLADE (2007): Vulnerabilitätskonzepte in Sozial- und Naturwissenschaften. In: FELGENTREFF, C. & T. GLADE (eds.): Naturrisiken und Sozialkatastrophen. (Elsevier/Spektrum Akademischer Verlag). Heidelberg. 99-119.
2006
BOHLE, H.-G. (2006) (ed.): Climate Change and Human Security. Special Issue of Die Erde, Jg. 137.
BOHLE, H.-G. (2006): Soziales oder unsoziales Kapital? Das Konzept von Sozialkapital in der Geographischen Verwundbarkeitsforschung. In: Geographische Zeitschrift, 93 (2): 65-81.
CASTREE, N., ASPINALL, R., BERG, L. D., BOHLE, H.-G., HOGGART, K., KITCHIN, R., KLEINE, D., KULKE, E., MUNTON, R. & E. PAWSON. (2006): Research Assessment and the Production of Geographical Knowledge. In: Progress in Human Geography 30 (6): 747-782.
BOHLE, H.-G. & K. O’BRIEN (2006): The Discourse on Human Security: Implications and Relevance for Climate Change Research. A Review Article. In: Die Erde, Jg. 137, H. 3: 155-163.
BOHLE, H.-G. (2006): Vulnerability, Human Security and Resilience in Rapidly Growing Urban Areas. In: KRAAS, F., WUYI, W. & T. KRAFFT (eds.): Global Change, Urbanization and Health. (China Meteorological Press). Beijing: 187-195.
2005
O`BRIEN, K., BARNETT, J., DE SOYSA, I., MATTHEW, R., METHA, L., SEAGER, J.,WOODROW, M., & H.-G. BOHLE (2005): Hurricane Katrina Reveals Challenges to Human Security. In: AVISO, Bulletin on Global Environmental Change and Human Security 14: 1-8.
BOHLE, H.-G. (2005): Umwelt und Gesundheit als geographisches Integrationsthema. In: MÜLLER-MAHN, D. & U. WARDENGA (eds.): Möglichkeiten und Grenzen integrativer Forschungsansätze in Physischer Geographie und Humangeographie. Forum ifl.
(Selbstverlag Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde e.V.). Leipzig. 55-67.
BRKLACICH, M. & H.-G. BOHLE (2005): Assessing Human Vulnerability to Global Climatic Change. In: EHLERS, E. & T. KRAFFT (eds.): Earth System Science in the Anthropocene. Emerging Issues and Problems. (Springer-Verlag). Heidelberg. 51-61.
2004
BOHLE, H.-G. (2004): Geographien von Gewalt. Kulturgeographische Interpretationen des Bürgerkrieges auf Sri Lanka. In: Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen Band 148 (2): 22-29.
BOHLE, H.-G. (2004): Indien heute. In: Geographie heute 221/222 (25): 2-5.
BOHLE, H.-G. (2004): Vom Wasserkonflikt zur Wasserkrise. Der Niedergang eines südindischen Deltas. In: Geographische Rundschau 56 (12): 40-45.
2003
BOHLE, H.-G. (2003): Natural Disasters and Migration. In: Jahresbericht 2002, Schriftenreihe des DKKV 28: 14-15.
WATTS, M. & H.-G. BOHLE (2003): Verwundbarkeit, Sicherheit und Globalisierung. In: GEBHARDT, H., REUBER, P. & G. WOLKERSDORFER (eds.): Kulturgeographie – Aktuelle Ansätze und Entwicklungen. (Spektrum Akademischer Verlag). Heidelberg, Berlin. 67-82.
Bohle, H.-G. (2003): Land Degradation and Human Security, In: PLATE, E. ET AL. (eds.): Environment and Human Security Workshop Report, United Nations Research and Training Centre, Bonn: 3/1 – 3/6.
2002
BOHLE, H.-G. (2002) (ed.): The Geography of Vulnerable Food Systems. Special Issue of Die Erde 133.
BOHLE, H.-G. (2002) (ed.): Vulnerability. Special Issue of Geographica Helvetica 57.
BOHLE, H.-G. & J. ADHIKARI (2002): The Metropolitan Food System of Kathmandu – Conceptual Considerations and Empirical Evidence. In: Die Erde, 133 (4): 401-421.
BOHLE, H.-G. (2002): Zeitbombe Bevölkerungswachstum. Wie viele Menschen verkraftet die Erde? In: EHLERS, E. & H. LESER (eds.): Geographie heute – für die Welt von morgen. (Klett-Perthes Verlag). Gotha. 19-26.
BOHLE, H.-G. (2002): Food Security. In: Encyclopaedia on Social and Behavioral Sciences. (Elsevier): 5728-5730.
2001
BOHLE, H.-G. (2001): Bevölkerungsentwicklung und Ernährung. Sind die „Grenzen des Wachstums“ überschritten? In: Geographische Rundschau 53 (2):18-25.
BOHLE, H.-G. (2001): Neue Ansätze der Geographischen Risikoforschung. Ein Analyserahmen zur Bestimmung nachhaltiger Lebenssicherung von Armutsgruppen. In: Die Erde 132 (2): 119-140.
BOHLE, H.-G. (2001): Vulnerability and Criticality: Perspectives from Social Geography. In: IHDP Update, Newsletter of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change: 1-7
BOHLE, H.-G. (2001): Conceptual Approaches to Vulnerability: Searching for Common Ground. In: KASPERSON, J. X. & R.E. KASPERSON (eds): International Workshop on Vulnerability and Global Environmental Change. Stockholm Environment Institute. 14-17.
BOHLE, H.-G. (2001): Dürren. In: PLATE, E. J. & B. MERZ (eds.): Naturkatastrophen. Ursachen, Auswirkungen, Vorsorge. (Schweizerbart). Stuttgart. 190-207.
