Sabine Troeger- PhD & Habilitation
- Professor at University of Bonn
Sabine Troeger
- PhD & Habilitation
- Professor at University of Bonn
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Introduction
Sabine Troeger currently works at the Department of Geography, University of Bonn. Sabine does research in Cultural Anthropology/Social-Geography & Geograhic Development Research. Her most recent publication is '‘Committees’, a Promising Institution in Climate Change Communication and Adaptation?' published in Springer 'Climate Change Management' series.
She has established a DAAD- Fact Finding Mission with Jinka University in Lower Omo region/South Ethiopia, which is the initiative for a university cooperation between Bonn University and Jinka University.
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The paper reflects on modes and chances of Natural Resource Management (NRM) in terms of decentralized executive powers, responsibility and authority in decision taking in the hands of communities and local actors. The argument focuses on the in African development contexts appraised and uniformly referred to political institution of ‘committees’,...
Societal Transformation (ST) is taken as the promise towards successful Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) in recent discourses. With the example of the Nyangatom, one of the World Cultural Heritage (UNESCO) pastoralist ethnic groups in South Omo/South Ethiopia, any unanimous belief in the power of ST is challenged! In interpretation of data from ethn...
Pastoralist and Agro-Pastoralist livelihood-systems in general are or were well adapted to their fragile environments. Today, these adaptation strategies have become dysfunctional and cannot support people in their strife for livelihood security any more. Indigenous groups and peoples in Africa are everywhere and irrespective their nationality conf...
Temperature increase and changing rainfall patterns have been widely observed and well-documented consequences of global climate change. However, the consequences at the grassroot level remain under researched. What are the impacts on agrarian production and local livelihoods? How are communities and individual farmers interpreting the new environm...
The ardcle challenges the thesis of 'fragmentation' in its radical connotation of a final and irrevocable exclusion from globalizing worlds in current theory discourses, an exclusion of those not expressively needed by globalization. The example of 350 households in Addis Ababa, who were forcibly evicted from their inner-city homesteads in the cour...
People living in countries of the so-called South are currently facing to a large extent impulses of socialchange that move between democratic processes oftransformation and progressive globalisation. This arti-cle seeks possible means of assessing this Status ofsocial upheaval. Specific social conditions that enableactors to positively change thei...
Sustainable use of the natural environment is conventionally interpreted as a result of the successful or unsuccess- ful adaptation of the human being to the natural environment, whereby factors such as 'knowledge' and 'structural conditions' are taken to be decisive in the success of efforts to adapt. In contrast to this kind of interpretation, th...
Der Aspekt gesellschaftlicher Umverteilung ist als ein
Faktor, der für eine Verwundbarkeit durch Nahrungsdefizite bedeutsam ist, mit in den Vordergrund der
Erforschung von Nahrungskrisen gerückt. Der Artikel wendet sich ihm zu und analysiert die Dynamik
des diesbezüglichen Wandels in Tansania, die sich als
Reaktion der Menschen auf eine Konfrontati...
