Christophe Neff (born 10 June 1964 in

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, Germany) is a Franco-German

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, working on

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s, the geography of the

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and

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at the

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; german: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) is a public research university in Karlsruhe, Germany. The institute is a national research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 w ...

. 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 French became an international language in the Middle Ages, when the power of the Kingdom of France made it the second international language, alongside Latin. This status continued to grow into the 18th century, by which time French was the ...

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

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s) at

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, 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 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 bloggers French bloggers German geographers French male writers German male writers Male bloggers University of Mannheim alumni People from Schramberg {{geographer-stub