Walter Leimgruber

Prof. emerit. Walter Leimgruber
Emeritus Professor
Dépt. des Géosciences - Géographie
Université de Fribourg
Chemin du Musée 4
CH-1700 Fribourg
Switzerland


Phone: +41 (0) 26 402 83 02
Phone2: +41 (0) 26 300 90 10
E-mail: walter.leimgruber(at)unifr.ch
URL Institution: www.unifr.ch/geoscience/geographie


Additional functions:
Secretary, IGU Commission on Globalization, Marginalization and Regional and Local Response
Member editorial board, Research in Globalization
Co-editor Springer Series, Perspectives on Geographical Marginality


Key Publications of Walter Leimgruber (up to ten) :
Between global and local. Marginality and marginal regions in the context of globalization and deregulation. Ashgate, Aldershot (2004)
Building the future through education: the Umthati school garden project in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, in The global challenge and marginalization (ed. Márcio M. Valença, Etienne Nel, Walter Leimgruber), New York, Nova Science Publisher, pp.133-144 (2005)
Global change – global transformations. Human processes behind a dynamic world, Saarbrücken, Scholars’ Press (2014)
Minorities – an expression of diversity and an exercise in tolerance, in: Pelc S. and Koderman, M. (eds.), Nature, tourism and ethnicity as drivers of (de)marginalization. Insights to marginality from perspective of sustainability and development, vol. 3 of the series Perspectives on Geographical Marginality, edited by Walter Leimgruber, Etienne Nel and Stanko Pelc, Springer, pp.131-144 (2018)
Rich country – ‘poor’ regions. Fighting regional disparities in Switzerland, in: Nel. E and Pelc S. (eds), Responses to geographical marginality and marginalization. From social innovatxion to regional development, vol. 4 of the series Perspectives on Geographical Marginality, edited by Walter Leimgruber, Etienne Nel and Stanko Pelc, Springer, pp. 47-64 (2020)
Marginalization – the dark side of globalization, with Borna Fuerst-Bjeli?, in: Globalization, marginalization and conflict. Political, economic and social processes, edited by Borna Fuerst-Bjeli? and Walter Leimgruber, Springer, pp. 3-11 (2020)
Tourism in Switzerland – How can the future be? Research in Globalization vol. 3, December 2021, Elsevier; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resglo.2021.100058
Small regional centres at the periphery of Switzerland. Porrentruy and Brig-Glis, In: Ba?ski J. (ed. 2022), The Routledge Handbook of small towns, New York & Abingdon, pp. 244-253



Specialties of Walter Leimgruber:
Human geography

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