Team > MA Clemens Romankiewicz
MA Clemens Romankiewicz
Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences
Political Geography
Biography
| Since 2015 | Scientific associate at the Institute of African Studies, University of Bayreuth. Coordinator of the cooperation project with the University of Sousse, Tunisia, „Inception of a Master in African Studies“ (German Academic Exchange Service)) |
| 2011-2014 | Research fellow in the project „Climate change, environmental change, and migration: Social-ecological conditions of population movements in the Sahel of Mali and Senegal“, (Federal Ministry of Education and Research), Prof. Dr. Martin Doevenspeck, Department of Political Geography, University of Bayreuth. |
| 2010-2011 | Freelance coordinator in the federal program “Job-related language improvement for persons with a migration background” (Federal Office for Migration and Refugees in the framework of the European Social Fund) |
| 2008-2009 | Technical Assistant for the German Development Service (DED) in Mopti, Mali, in the “Project for the support of environmental policies” (GTZ/DED) in cooperation with the Malian Ministry for the Environment |
| 2005-2007 | Graduate assistant at the department of Population and Social Geography and the Centre for Natural Risks and Development (ZENEB), University of Bayreuth |
| 2006-2006 | 2 months fieldwork in the Afar region of Ethiopia for the project “Vulnerability, risk communication and coping with crises in the Afar region/Ethiopia“ ” (German Research Foundation) |
| 2004-2006 | Master studies (M.A.) in African Development Studies in Geography at the University of Bayreuth; master’s thesis (Prof. Müller-Mahn) on “Ecological Change and changing livelihood systems of the Afar pastoralists in the Afar Region in Ethiopia“ |
| 2002-2003 | Semester abroad at Tshwane University of Technology (Ex Technikon Pretoria) in Pretoria, South Africa |
| 2000-2004 | Bachelor studies (B.Sc.) in Environmental and Resource Management at the BTU, Cottbus |
Dissertation project
Mobility and environmental change in the West African Sahel
Presentations
- „Transnationale Migration – Ein Fallbeispiel aus dem Senegal“. Seminar: „Menschen in Bewegung – ein geographischer Blick auf globale und regionale Migrationsphänomene des 21. Jahrhundert“, Fridtjof-Nansen-Akademie für Politische Bildung, Ingelheim, 9. - 11. November 2016
- „Migration und Klimawandel in Westafrika“. Seminar: „Menschen in Bewegung – ein geographischer Blick auf globale und regionale Migrationsphänomene des 21. Jahrhundert“, Fridtjof-Nansen-Akademie für Politische Bildung, Ingelheim, 9. - 11. November 2016
- “Phénomènes migratoires et perceptions des tendances environnementales et climatiques – principaux résultats”. micle Stakeholder Workshop, 04. – 05. Dezember 2013, Dakar. mit Victoria van der Land
- “Berufspraxis und Forschung – Erfahrungen und Perspektiven nach dem Studium“, Masterseminar „Praxisfelder und angewandte Entwicklungszusammenarbeit“ der Afrikawissenschaften und Internationalen Entwicklung, 21. Oktober 2013, Universität Wien
- "Issues of data and methods in linking environment and migration - a critical focus on scale". COST Action IS1101 Climate change and migration - Workshop: “Managing SCALE and contextualized knowledge in inter/transdisciplinary research on environmentally induced migration”, UN University, 9-10 October 2013. mit Lina Eklund (Centre of Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University).
- „Detecting environmental change using time series, high resolution imagery and field work - a case study in the Sahel of Mali“. European Geosciences Union - General Assembly, Wien, 22 – 27 April 2012. Poster (http://www.micle-project.net/uploads/media/egu_poster_small.pdf) mit Martin Brandt, Cyrus Samimi, Raphael Spiekermann.
- "Mobilität und Umweltveränderungen im Westafrikanischen Sahel". Interdisziplinäre Tagung: "Migration and the City – Mobilität und Urbanität im atlantischen Raum in interdisziplinärer Perspektive" 08.-10.02.2013, Historisches Seminar, Leibniz Universität Hannover.
- "Klima, Umwelt und Migration im westafrikanischen Sahel". Geographisches Kolloquium, Universität Bayreuth, 29.01.2013.
- „Contemporary mobility and environmental change in the West African Sahel: engaging methods, approaching the nexus?“ European Science Foundation Research Conference: “Tracing Social Inequalities in Environmentally-Induced Migration”, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF)/University of Bielefeld, 09 – 13 December 2012.
- "Climate and mobility in the West African Sahel: Conceptualizing the local dimensions of the environment and migration nexus", Conference on "Climate Change – Global Scenarios and Local Experiences", zusammen mit Martin Doevenspeck, Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Forschung, Universität Bielefeld, 24.10.2011.
Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences
Political Geography
Research interests
- Klimawandel und Landdegradation
- Umweltveränderungen und Umweltwahrnehmung
- Migrations- und Mobilitätsforschung
- sozial-ökologische Bedingungen von Bevölkerungsbewegungen
- Anpassungsstrategien
- Regional: Subsahara Afrika (Mali und Senegal)
Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences
Political Geography
Publications
Article in a journal (peer-reviewed)
Romankiewicz, Clemens; Doevenspeck, Martin; Brandt, Martin; Samimi, Cyrus
Adaptation as by-product : Migration and environmental change in Nguith, Senegal
in Die Erde vol. 147 (2016) issue 2. - pp. 95-108
doi:10.12854/erde-147-7 ...
Eklund, Lina; Romankiewicz, Clemens; Brandt, Martin; Doevenspeck, Martin; Samimi, Cyrus
Data and methods in the environment-migration nexus : a scale perspective
in Die Erde vol. 147 (2016) issue 2. - pp. 139-152
doi:10.12854/erde-147-10 ...
Ayanu, Yohannes; Jentsch, Anke; Müller-Mahn, Detlef; Rettberg, Simone; Romankiewicz, Clemens; Koellner, Thomas
Ecosystem engineer unleashed : Prosopis juliflora threatening ecosystem services?
in Regional Environmental Change vol. 15 (2015) issue 1. - pp. 155-167
doi:10.1007/s10113-014-0616-x ...
Brandt, Martin; Romankiewicz, Clemens; Spiekermann, Raphael; Samimi, Cyrus
Environmental change in time series : An interdisciplinary study in the Sahel of Mali and ...
in Journal of Arid Environments vol. 105 (2014) . - pp. 52-63
doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2014.02.019 ...
Romankiewicz, Clemens; Doevenspeck, Martin
Migration und Umwelt im westafrikanischen Sahel : methodische Ãberlegungen
in IMIS-Beiträge (2013) issue 44. - pp. 81-96
Article in a journal (not peer-reviewed)
Romankiewicz, Clemens; Samimi, Cyrus; Brandt, Martin; Spiekermann, Raphael
Detecting environmental change using time series, high resolution imagery and field work : ...
in Geophysical Research Abstracts vol. 14 (2012)
http://www.micle-project.net/uploads/media/egu_pos ...
Article in a book (peer-reviewed)
Romankiewicz, Clemens; van der Land, Victoria; van der Geest, Kees
Environmental Change and Migration : a Review of West African Case Studies
In: Mc Leman, Robert ; Gemenne, Francois (ed.): The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Displacement and Migration - London, 2018
Romankiewicz, Clemens; Doevenspeck, Martin
Climate and mobility in the West African Sahel : conceptualising the local dimensions of t ...
In: Greschke, Heike M. ; Tischler, Julia (ed.): Grounding Global Climate Change : Contributions from the Social and Cultural Sciences - Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2015. - pp. 79-100
doi:10.1007/978-94-017-9322-3_5 ...
Article in a book (not peer-reviewed)
Doevenspeck, Martin; Romankiewicz, Clemens
Klima, Umwelt und Migration im westafrikanischen Sahel
In: Obermaier, Gabriele ; Samimi, Cyrus (ed.): Folgen des Klimawandels - Bayreuth: Verlag Naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Bayreuth e.V., 2015. - pp. 105-124 . - (Bayreuther Kontaktstudium Geographie; 8)
Romankiewicz, Clemens
Focus Mali
In: Hummel, Diana ; Doevenspeck, Martin ; Samimi, Cyrus (ed.): Climate Change, Environment and Migration in the Sahel : Selected Issues with a Focus on Senegal and Mali - Frankfurt am Main, 2012. - pp. 34-36 . - (Micle Working Paper; 1)
https://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&sou ...
Review
Romankiewicz, Clemens; Doevenspeck, Martin
Piquet, E. ; Pécoud, A. ; de Guchteneire, P. (Eds.): Migration and Climate Change. 2011
Geographica Helvetica
2012
doi:10.5194/gh-67-233-2012 ...
Doctoral thesis
Romankiewicz, Clemens
West African Migration in the Age of Climate Change : Translocal Perspectives on Mobility ...
Bayreuth, 2019. - x, 192, xxx pp.
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00004566 ...
(thesis, 2019, Universität Bayreuth, Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften)
Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences
Political Geography
MA Clemens Romankiewicz
Institute of African Studies
Wölfelstraße 2, room 212
D-95444 Bayreuth
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-4504
E-mail: clemens.romankiewicz@uni-bayreuth.de