Prof. em. Dr. Thomas Hammer

E-Mail
thomas.hammer@unibe.ch
Postal Address
Prof. Dr. Thomas Hammer
Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)
University of Bern
Mittelstrasse 43
CH-3012 Bern

Areas of professional focus at CDE

  • Sustainable regional and landscape development (SRLD)
  • Sustainability transformations at local and regional level
  • Large scale Protected areas and regional development
  • Sustainable quality of life
  • Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) at university level (research and curricula development)

Projects

  • Head of the Bachelor and Master Minor in Sustainable Development until July 2022
  • Chair of the Programme Management of the CAS in Sustainable Development until the end of 2021
  • Sustainable quality of life in parks and protected areas of national importance (2017-2022)
  • Evaluation of the Regional Nature Parks of National Importance in the Canton of Bern (2018-2020)
  • Education for a sufficiency lifestyle

Further professional interests

  • Sustainable development as a development theory
  • Regional / global change and sustainable development
  • Desertification and rural development
  • Development geography

Field experience

Alpine regions, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Niger, Mauritania, Senegal

Languages

German, French, English


 

 

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  • Member of the international Network New Regional Development and Large Scale Protected Areas (NeReGro)
  • Member of the German Society for Geography (DGfG)
  • Member of the Board of the Swiss Geography Association (ASG) 2005-2015
  • Member of the Nature Conservation Commission of the Canton of Bern (2004-2015)