Christian Rohr

Prof. Christian Rohr
Abteilung für Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Umweltgeschichte
Historisches Institut
Universität Bern
Unitobler B 115
Länggassstrasse 49
CH-3012 Bern
Switzerland


Phone: +41 (0) 31 684 85 58
Phone2: +41 (0) 31 684 83 42
E-mail: christian.rohr(at)unibe.ch
URL Institution: https://www.hist.unibe.ch/
Personal URL: link

in which Christian Rohr holds an official function.

Additional functions:
Officer of the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) - Board Member


Key Publications of Christian Rohr (up to ten) :
Christian Rohr: Extreme Naturereignisse im Ostalpenraum. Naturerfahrung im Spätmittelalter und am Beginn der Neuzeit (Umwelthistorische Forschung 4), Köln/Weimar/Wien 2007, 640 pp.

Michael Kempe & Christian Rohr (eds.): Coping with the Unexpected. Natural disasters and their perception (Environment & History 9, 2, Special Issue, Strond/Isle of Harris 2003) 128 pp.
Louis K. McNally III & Christian Rohr (eds.): Diversity in the Global Reconstruction and Representation of Weather and Climate: East, South, West, North. Selected Papers from the ICHM Symposium at the International Congress of History of Science, Beijing, China, July 2005 (History of Meteorology 2 [2005] pp. 37-159.
Andrea Westermann & Christian Rohr (eds.): Climate and Beyond. The Production of Knowledge about the Earth as a Signpost of Social Change (Historical Social Research 40/2, Special Issue). Köln 2015 (auch online unter http://www.gesis.org/en/hsr/archive/2015/402-climate-and-beyond/).

Yuri Brugnara, Stefan Brönnimann, Marcelo Zamuriano, Jonas Schild, Christian Rohr & Daniel Marc Segesser: December 1916: Deadly Wartime Weather (Geographica Bernensia G91). Bern 2016, 8 S., doi:10.4480/GB2016.G91.01, auch online unter http://www.geography.unibe.ch/services/geographica_bernensia/online/gb2016g9101/index_eng.html

Rudolf Brázdil, Christian Rohr et al.: European floods during the winter 1783/1784: scenarios of an extreme event during the ‚Little Ice Age’. In: Theoretical and Applied Climatology 100 (2010) pp. 163-189, DOI 10.1007/s00704-009-0170-5
Christian Rohr: Floods of the Upper Danube River and Its Tributaries and Their Impact on Urban Economies (c. 1350–1600): The Examples of the Towns of Krems/Stein and Wels (Austria). In: Environment and History 19, 2 (2013), pp. 133-148.


Expertise of Christian Rohr:

Expertise Category	Specific Expertise
Expert Type	Scientific / Fundamental Research
Topic Atmosphere	Meteorology
	Climate
Topic Hydrosphere	Precipitation / Runoff
Topic Cryosphere	Snow Cover
Topic Ecosystems	Terrestrial Ecosystems
Topic Economy/ResourceUse	Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery
	Food Security
	Tourism
	Transport / Mobility
	Water
	Land Cover / Land Use / Landscape
Topic Technology	Technical Environmental Protection
Topic Politics/Law	Mitigation / Prevention / Emission Reductions
Topic Society	Population Dynamics / Migration / Urbanisation
	Perception / Behaviour / Attitudes
Topic Culture/History	Culture / History
Topic Sustainability	Sustainability
Spatial Zones	Mountain / Highland
	Urban
	Rural
Alpine Convention	Alpine Convention

Specialties of Christian Rohr:

Naturgefahren - Geschichte (1200-2000)

Ressourcenverteilung infolge Witterung und Klima - Geschichte (1200-2000)

Bauliche Adaptionsstrategien - Geschichte (1200-2000)

Kulturhistorische Untersuchungen zu Wahrnehmung, Deutung, Bewältigung von extremen Naturereignissen (Überschwemmungen, Lawinen, Erdbeben, Erdrutsche und Bergstürze, extreme Witterung). Bedeutung historischen Wissens für aktuelle Katastrophenbewältigung bzw. die Vorbereitung. http://www.hist.unibe.ch/content/institut/abteilungen/wsu/index_ger.html


Last update: 12/12/23
Source of data: ProClim- Research InfoSystem (1993-2024)
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