Dr. Carsten Felgentreff

Research associate

Main research interests: Hazard research - adaptation/adaptation in times of climate change, spatial population mobility, migration research, applied urban and regional research, socio-economic transformation

Education and professional career

Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Geography of the University of Osnabrueck with the research emphasis on society - environment relationships (since 2004)

Lecturer at the Institute of Cultural and Social Geography of the University of Potsdam (1994-2004)

PhD at the University of Goettingen on Migration between Fiji's periphery and Suva, the capital of Fiji (1995)

Research for PhD at the University of Waikato (Hamilton, NZ) with fieldwork in Fiji and attachment at The University of the South Pacific (1993/94)

Researcher at the Institute of Geography of the University of Goettingen (1992/93)

Master of Arts with major in Ethnology and minors in Human Geography and Anthropology at the University of Goettingen (1991)

Dr. Carsten Felgentreff

© Uwe Lewandowski

Institute of Geography
Osnabrück University
Seminarstraße 19 a/b
49074 Osnabrück

Room: 02/209

Phone: +49 541 969-4248

 carsten.felgentreff@uni-osnabrueck.de

Office hours
Usually: Tue 1 - 2 p.m. online or in person
(after registration and appointment in StudIP under Office hours Felgentreff)

Arnold, H.; Franz, M.; Felgentreff, C.; Higgs, B. (2022): The effects of interdisciplinarity and internationality of group compositions in student fieldwork. In: Journal of Geography in Higher Education.  link

Felgentreff, C. (2020): Migration, forced immobility and return in times of coronavirus. In: Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft (ed.): World Risk Report 2020. O.O.: Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft and Ruhr University Bochum - Institute for International Law of Peace and Humanitarian Law (IFHV), pp. 24-27.  link

Felgentreff, Carsten (2018): Migration through climate policy. The global production of climate migrants. In: Andreas Pott, Christopf Rass and Frank Wolff (eds.): Was ist ein Migrationsregime? What Is a Migration Regime? Wiesbaden: Springer, pp. 139-165.

Felgentreff, Carsten (7. 5. 2018): Development and migration, resettlement and climate change. Development projects can force migration. In times of climate change, this becomes clear in the planned resettlement of entire communities in the Global South. Policy brief. Ed. by the Federal Agency for Civic Education. Federal Agency for Civic Education. Berlin.  link

Felgentreff, Carsten; Pott, Andreas (2016): Climatic turn in migration studies? Geographical perspectives on the relationship between climate and migration. In: The Earth 147 (2), pp. 73-80.  link

Felgentreff, Carsten; Pott, Andreas (ed./eds) (2016): Climate and Migration: Perspectives from Social and Cultural Geography. Thematic issue of Die Erde, vol. 147(2).  link

Schade, J., Ch. McDowell, E. Ferris, K. Schmidt, G. Bettini, C. Felgentreff, F. Gemenne, A. Patel, J. Rovins, R. Stojanov, Z. Sultana and A. Wright (2015), Climate change and climate policy induced relocation: A challenge for social justice. Recommendations of the Bielefeld Consultation 2014; Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Policy Brief Series, Issue 10. Vol. 1, December 2015.  link

Felgentreff, Carsten (2015), Klimaflüchtlinge [Climate refugees]. In Sybille Bauriedl (ed.), Wörterbuch Klimadebatte [Dictionary Climate Change]. Transcript (Edition Kulturwissenschaft, 82). Bielefeld, pp. 141-148.

Felgentreff, Carsten (2013), Geographische Risikoforschung [Geographical risk analysis]. In: Manfred Rolfes and Anke Uhlenwinkel (eds.): Metzler Handbuch 2.0 Geographieunterricht. Ein Leitfaden für Praxis und Ausbildung [Metzler Handbook 2.0 tuition in geograpy. A compendium for practice and training]. Westermann, Braunschweig, pp. 294-302.

Felgentreff, Carsten, Martin Geiger (eds. 2013), Migration und Umwelt. [Migration and Environment] IMIS-Beiträge 44. Osnabrück.

Aufenvenne, Philipp, Carsten Felgentreff (2013), Umweltmigranten und Klimaflüchtlinge - zweifelhafte Kategorien in der aktuellen Debatte [Environmental migrants and climate refugees - equivocal categories in the contemporary debate]. In: Felgentreff, Carsten, Martin Geiger (eds.): Migration und Umwelt. IMIS-Beiträge 44 [Migration and Environment], Osnabrück, pp. 19-44.

Felgentreff, Carsten, Kuhlicke, Christian, Westholt, Frank (2012), Naturereignisse und Sozialkatastrophen [Natural events and social catastrophes]. Schriftenreihe Sicherheit, 8th Berlin.  link

Hutter, Gérard, Kuhlicke, Christian, Glade, Thomas, Felgentreff, Carsten (eds., 2013), Social resilience in hazard research and planning. = Special Issue of Natural Hazards 67 (1)..,

Hutter, Gérard, Kuhlicke, Christian, Glade, Thomas, Felgentreff, Carsten (2013), Natural hazards and resilience: exploring institutional and organizational dimensions of social resilience. In: Natural Hazards 67 (1), pp. 1-6.

Daschkeit, Achim, Felgentreff, Carsten (eds., 2011), Klimawandel aus Hazardperspektive(n) [Climate change from hazard perspective(s)]. = Thematic Issue of Berichte zur Deutschen Landeskunde 85 (3).

Daschkeit, Achim, Felgentreff, Carsten (2011), Editorial: Klimawandel aus Hazardperspektive(n) [Editorial: Climate change from hazard perspecetive(s)]. In: Reports on German regional studies 85 (3), pp. 229-237.

Glade, Thomas; Felgentreff, Carsten; Birkmann, Joern (2010), Editorial for the special issue: extreme events and vulnerability in environment and society. In: Natural Hazards 55, pp. 571-576.

Felgentreff, Carsten, Wilfried Heller, Dhimiter Doka, Argile Berxholi (2009), Internal Population Redistribution in Post-Socialist Albania, in: Geo-Carpathica. Analele universitatii crestine 'Dimitrie Cantemir'. Facultatea de geografia turismului. Revista geografica. Anul IX, No. 9: 29-42.

Felgentreff, Carsten and Thomas Glade (eds., 2008), Naturrisiken und Sozialkatastrophen [Nature risks and social catastrophes], Heidelberg: Spektrum Akademischer Verlag.

Felgentreff, Carsten (2006), Disaster and Decision Processes. In: Nadim, Farrokh, Pöttler, Rudolf, Einstein, Herbert, Klapperich, Herbert, Kramer, Steven (eds.): "Geohazards". ECI Symposium Series, Vol. P7.  link

Felgentreff, Carsten, Wilfried Heller, Lindner, Waltraud (2003), Migration and Socio- economic transformation in selected rural study areas in Russia and Moldova (Praxis Kultur- und Sozialgeographie, Bd. 28), Potsdam.

Felgentreff, Carsten (2003), Post-Disaster Situations as 'Windows of Opportunity'? Post- Flood Perceptions and Changes in the German Odra River Region after the 1997 flood. In: The Earth, 134 (2): 163-180.  link

Felgentreff, Carsten (2002), Räumliche Bevölkerungsmobilität und multi-lokale soziale Räume [Spatial population mobility and multi-local social spaces]. In: Becker, Jörg, Felgentreff, Carsten, Aschauer, Wolfgang (eds.), Reden über Räume. Festsymposium on the occasion of the 60th birthday of Wilfried Heller (Potsdamer Geographische Forschungen, Vol. 23), Potsdam, pp. 21-35.

Felgentreff, Carsten (2000), Impact of the 1997 Odra Flood on Flood Protection in Brandenburg (FRG): The Dyke broke, but the local People's Trust in technical Solutions remained unbroken. In: Bronstert, Axel, Bismuth, Christine, Menzel, Lucas (eds.), European Conference on Advances in Flood Research (PIK-Report 65), Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), pp. 614-626.

Felgentreff, Carsten, Wilfried Heller (2000), On the Study of socio-economic transformation and Migration in rural areas of post-socialist Countries. In: Current Issues of Geography and Land Use, Vol 3, Barnaul/Russia.

Felgentreff, Carsten (1999), Spatial Population Mobility as Social Interaction: A Fijian Island's Multi-local Village Community. In: King, Russell, Connell, John (eds.), Small Worlds, Global Lives. Islands and Migration, London/New York: Pinter: 255-276.

Felgentreff, Carsten (1998), Migration and socio-economic transformation in South- East-Europe since 1990 and perspectives of regional development: Romania as an example. In: Social Sciences in Eastern Europe, 1998, H. 2.

Felgentreff, Carsten (1996), Migration and Remittances: Recent evidence from Kabara Island, Fiji. In: Asian Migrant, 9(1): 21-27.

Felgentreff, Carsten (1995), Spatial Population Mobility in Fiji. Eine exemplarische Untersuchung der Dorfgemeinschaft von Naikeleyaga (Kabara Island, Lau-Province) [Spatial population mobility in Fiji. The case of Naikeleyaga Village, Kabara Island, Lau Province]. = Potsdam Geographical Research, Vol. 11.  link

In Preparation for 2016:
Felgentreff, Carsten, Andreas Pott (eds.): Climate and migration: Perspectives from Social and Cultural Geography, special issue of the journal DIE ERDE Vol. 2/2016
Felgentreff, Carsten, Thomas Glade (eds.), Naturrisiken und Sozialkatastrophen [Nature risks and social catastrophes], Heidelberg: Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, revised edition.

Reviewer for

  • German Science Foundation (DFG)
  • BMBF/DLR German Aerospace Center e.V.
  • Fonds National de la Recherche, Luxembourg
  • Geographical journal
  • The Earth
  • Natural Hazards (NHAZ)
  • Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS)
  • Journal of Flood Risk Management
  • Behemoth
  • S+F (Security and peace)
  • United Nations University, Institute for Environment and Human Security, Bonn

Membership

  • IMIS (Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, Osnabrück University) - since 2010 full member
  • Verband der Geographen an deutschen Hochschulen VGDH (Association of University Geographers in Germany) - since 1995
  • Resident Fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University, Research Group "Communicating Disaster" - February - April 2011
  • Board Member of katNET e.V. - since 2013
  • Chair of the Working group 'Natural Hazards/Risks' of the German Geographical Society (DGfG) - from 2000 to 2010