Christophe Neff (born 10 June 1964 in

Tübingen Tübingen (; ) is a traditional college town, university city in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, and developed on both sides of the Neckar and Ammer (Neckar), Ammer rivers. about one in ...

, West Germany) is a Franco-German

geographer A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts. The Greek prefix "geo" means "earth" a ...

, working on Mediterranean ecosystems, the geography of the Mediterranean Basin and

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at the

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; ) is both a German public research university in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, and a research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 when the University of Karlsruhe (), founde ...

. He is considered as one of the rare German experts on the Mediterranean ecosystem and

. Furthermore, he is an expert on the geography of

Francophone The Francophonie or Francophone world is the whole body of people and organisations around the world who use the French language regularly for private or public purposes. The term was coined by Onésime Reclus in 1880 and became important a ...

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surfac ...

and

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Africa and the Azores. Since 2009, Neff regularly contributes to a blog called 'Paysages' (engl.=

landscape A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or human-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes th ...

s) at le Monde.fr, which is mostly written in French, sometimes in German, and very occasionally in English. On the 23 of April 2019 Neff announced on his blog, that he will finished editing “paysages” on the blog hosting service of LeMonde.fr, because Le Monde has decided to close up the Blogs Le Monde.fr. He also explained that he would try to relaunch “Paysages” with another hosting service. In the same post he also expressed his regrets that the cultural gap between France and Germany had never been as large as in 2019, reminding readers that the original idea had been to create a franco-german blog. In June 2019 he relauchned his blog „paysages“ on wordpress.com. In June 2021 he published a trilingual (French, German, English) retrospective of 12 years editing the blog paysages, including also a list of the most popular blog posts. In January 2022, he noted that a large part of the links from the times when paysages was still hosted by le Monde.fr had disappeared in the meantime

References

Sources

* Andreas Dittmann u.a (Hrsg): Wer ist wo? Geographinnen und Geographen an Universitäten, Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Bonn 2006.

External links

Homepage of Christophe Neff at the University of Karlsruhe including publication list

french-english-german paysage-landscape-landschaft Blog of Christophe Neff

Broadcasting interview (Deutschlandfunk) about reducing wildfire risks by prescribed fire in Mediterranean France
(German) (manuscript + streamline) * Broadcasting Interview concerning wildland fires in Greece (Summer 2007) and wildfire situation in the Black Forest (Germany) (The interview is in German.) http://digbib.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/diva/2007-292/ 1964 births Living people Scientists from Tübingen French geographers German male bloggers French male bloggers German geographers French male writers German male writers University of Mannheim alumni People from Schramberg {{geographer-stub