Christophe Neff Explained

Christophe Neff (born 10 June 1964 in Tübingen, West Germany) is a Franco-German ^[1] geographer, working on Mediterranean ecosystems, the geography of the Mediterranean Basin and fire ecology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.^[2] He is considered as one of the rare German experts on the Mediterranean ecosystem and fire ecology.^{[3] [4]} Furthermore, he is an expert on the geography of Francophone Africa and Lusophone Africa and the Azores.^[5] Since 2009, Neff regularly contributes to a blog called 'Paysages' ^[6] (engl.= landscapes) 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,^[7] reminding readers that the original idea had been to create a franco-german blog. 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.^[8] 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^[9]

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/

Notes and References

1. Web site: Blognotice 22.01.2013: pensées personnelles franco-allemandes sur le cinquantième anniversaire du Traité de l’Elysée.
2. Web site: ORCID Christophe Neff (Academic CV on OCID) . ORCID. 28 May 2021.
3. http://www.pkm.kit.edu/downloads/Ueberblick_WaldbraendeinEuropa.pdf Pressrelease of the KIT (in German) concerning Neffs Wildfireresearch
4. Web site: Brennende Interessen – Der Mensch, der Wald und das Feuer (Broadcasting Interview about global change and wildfire riks). HR2. 12 May 2016 . ARD-Mediathek. de.
5. Web site: Souvenirs de vingt ans de voyage de recherche à Capelo (Île le de Faial/Açores) . 3 November 2019. blog paysages . 7 November 2019. fr .
6. Web site: blog paysages on Le Monde.fr .
7. Web site: La fin du blog paysages sur les blogs LeMonde.fr – Das Ende des Blog « paysages » auf den Blogs von Le Monde.fr . 23 April 2019. . 26 April 2019. fr, de .
8. Web site: Paysages – douzième année d’existence sur la toile donc déjà deux ans sur wordpress.com (billet trilingues français, allemand, anglais). 27 June 2021. Paysages: paysages et livres – Landschaften und Bücher – Landscapes and Books. 13 January 2022. fr, de, en .
9. Web site: Blognotice 11.01.2022 : les liens perdus du blog paysages. 11 January 2022. Paysages: paysages et livres – Landschaften und Bücher – Landscapes and Books. 15 January 2022. fr .