GRK 1024:  Interdisciplinary Environmental History - Natural Environment and Societal Behaviour in Central Europe

• Subject Area: History
• Term: from 2004 to 2013
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 373314

Starting at suitable case or regional studies the interdisciplinary Research Training Group explores crucial issues of social, economic and environmental history. Apart from the reconstruction of historical patterns of exploitation in particular areas, the awareness of consequences and "side effects" of exploitation since the Middle Ages will be an equally important issue. The following four fields of research - linked up with each other - have been specified: exploitation and experience of space and environment in the Middle Ages, diking of nature: live stock diseases, pest control and river control(s) from Early Enlightenment to Mid-Twentieth Century, Conflicts about natural resources (18th to 20th Century), and constructions and reifications of the environment. Although focusing on topics common to all participants the study programme confronts the disciplines’ different approaches to reconstruction and reception of past environments and helps to develop integrative capabilities through intensive exchange between natural and social sciences as well as humanities scientific methods, approaches and cognitive interests in environmental history.

• DFG Programme: Research Training Groups
• Applicant Institution: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• Participating Researchers: Privatdozent Dr. Peter Aufgebauer; Professor Dr. Hartmut Berghoff; Professorin Dr. Renate Bürger-Arndt; Professorin Dr. Rebekka Habermas (†); Professor Dr. Bernd Herrmann; Professor Dr. Max Krott; Professor Dr. Rainer Marggraf; Professor Dr. Karl-Heinz Pörtge; Professor Dr. Karl-Heinz Willroth
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Manfred Jakubowski-Tiessen, since 7/2010