Christophe Neff

Christophe Neff (born 10 June 1964 in Tübingen, Germany) is a Franco-German [1] geographer, working on Mediterranean ecosystems, the geography of the Mediterranean Basin and fire ecology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.[2]

In Germany he is considered as one of the rare German experts for Mediterranean ecosystem and fire ecology.[3] Furthermore, he is an expert of the geography of Francophone (African French geography) and Lusophone Africa[4] and the Azores. In April 2015 Neff wrote in his blog, that in Germany he is considered to be one of the rare specialists of the regional geography of Tunisia, and this since 2005, year in which he began to work in Tunisia.[5] In January 2011 during the Tunisian Revolution Neff told in a blogpost, that the Tunisian society was the only society in the Arab world and Africa which could currently successful construct a free society and parliamentarian democracy.[6] He based that statement on the fact, that Tunisia has a large middle class.[7]

Neff was one of the rare German scientists evoquing the genocide in Darfur at the beginning of the civil war in Darfur [8]

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Notes and references

  1. "Blognotice 22.01.2013: pensées personnelles franco-allemandes sur le cinquantième anniversaire du Traité de l’Elysée".
  2. https://plus.google.com/107267791825841788060/about?hl=de
  3. Pressrelease of the KIT (in German) concerning Neffs Wildfireresearch
  4. http://cneffpaysages.blog.lemonde.fr/2009/05/28/iii-un-blog-sur-les-paysages-an-english-introduction/
  5. Christophe Neff. "Des paysages à l’infini – « Algérie, la mer retrouvée » – sur l’émission Thalassa du 03.04.2015" (in French). Blogs le Monde on LeMonde.fr. Retrieved 20 December 2015.,original citation in the blogpost : « ce qui me valut à la longue d’être considéré en Allemagne comme un des rares spécialistes allemands de la Tunisie »
  6. Christophe Neff (21 January 2011). "Les lumières du Fohrenbühl et la révolution tunisienne (21.1.2011)" (in French). Blogs le Monde on LeMonde.fr. Retrieved 22 December 2015. original citation in the blogpost : « Personnellement, je pense que si il y a une société capable de construire une démocratie laïque, une société civile libre des ses propres mains et sans interventions externe, dans le Monde arabe et en Afrique c'est bien la société tunisienne. »
  7. Christophe Neff (21 January 2011). "Les lumières du Fohrenbühl et la révolution tunisienne (21.1.2011)" (in French). Blogs le Monde on LeMonde.fr. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
  8. http://www.uni-mannheim.de/pressestelle/DW_Ionas/pressemitteilungen/2004/2004_02/2004_pm_35.html

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