Neu, M.Sc. Friedrich

Email:

friedrich.neu [at] geographie.uni-freiburg.de

Weblink:

https://www.geographie.uni-freiburg.de/en/professorships/geography-of-global-cha…

Phone:

+49 (0)761 – 20354233

Areas of Research:

Global environmental and climate change (incl. adaptation), Resettlement, Political Ecology

Regional Focus:

Sub-Sahara Africa (esp. Ghana and Rwanda), Delta region

Education:

since 2019	PhD at University of Freiburg (Title: "Adaptation to Environmental Change in Ghana’s Volta River Delta")
2014–2017	M.Sc. Geography of Global Change at University of Freiburg
2012–2014	M.Sc. Management at University of Frankfurt
2009–2012	B.Sc.Economics and Business Administration at University of Frankfurt

Professional Experience / Applied Research:

2018–heute	Lecturer in BSc Geography and MSc Geography of Global Change at University of Freiburg
2017–2018	Project Coordinator of [U25] Online Suicide Prevention Program Deutscher Caritasverband e.V.

Ph.D. Thesis

PhD Scholarship Holder of Evangelisches Studienwerk e.V.

Ph.D. students

Publications

Zeitschriftenartikel (Wiss.)

Political Ecologies of Resettlement in River Deltas

Neu, M.Sc. Friedrich / Hartmut Fünfgeld

Geography Compass

10.1111/gec3.12621

In river deltas, human interference with regional and global socio-ecological systems has led to a plethora of gradual and more abrupt environmental changes that result in inundation, coastal and river bank erosion, land loss and, ultimately, displaced people. Often apolitically framed as protective, state-led transfer of people to new housing grounds, resettlement has become a common response to such displacements.

2022