Christian Rohr
Prof. Christian Rohr
Abteilung für Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Umweltgeschichte
Historisches InstitutUniversität BernUnitobler 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.chURL Institution:
https://www.hist.unibe.ch/Personal URL:
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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 |
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Expert Type | Scientific / Fundamental Research |
Scope | Impact of Change |
| Vulnerability to Change |
| Adaptation Measures to Change |
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 |
Topic Risk & Disaster Management | Topic Risk and Disaster Management |
| Fundamental Knowledge |
Spatial Zones | Mountain / Highland |
| Lowland |
| Urban |
| Rural |
Spatial Scale | Regional |
| National / Cultural |
Time Frame | Past |
Statistical Focus | Extreme Events |
Methods | Data Collection - Documents, Archives |
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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