Untersucht wird der räumliche Zusammenhang zwischen Gully-Erosion und der Entfernung zu Siedlungen und Wanderwegen, als typische Bereiche menschlicher Interaktion, mit der natürlichen Umwelt in ländlichen afrikanischen Gebieten.
The cost of human movement, whether expressed in time, effort, or distance, is a function of natural and human related variables. At the same time, human movement itself, whether on land, air or sea, causes environmental cost. We are looking into the long-term environmental relationship of this interplay. [...]
The project »Routes of Interaction« is a collaboration between the Sanaa Branch of the Orient-Department, the Department of Earth Sciences – Physical Geography of the Freie Universität Berlin and the Egyptian Museum – Georg Steindorff, Leipzig University. Embedded into the SPP Programme of the DFG »Entangled Africa«, field work has been carried out since 2018. [...]
