The diverse relationships and interactions between individuals, societies, the environment and natural resources are in the teaching and research focus of the Chair of Human Geography and Transformation Research.

In teaching, we strive to cover the breadth and diversity of human geography. These range from aspects of population, environment, energy, economic and political geography to transformation and development research.

Our research is partly based on the approach of political ecology, dealing with the management, use and perception of natural resources, vulnerability, resilience and migration in connection with the manifold transformations in the Global South, with renewable energy geographies and with current questions of applied economic geography on regional development, tourism, religion and cultural landscapes.