Projekt

The follow-up project aims to continue its interdisciplinary research to support the rural development of the Kazbegi district in the Greater Caucasus. The joint investigation focuses on the human-environment-interface and comprises ecological and socio-economic research to develop sustainable agricultural land-use options. The project is divided into four units, with German and Georgian researchers cooperating in each unit. The research topics are dealing with aspects of landscape ecology, soil science, vegetation ecology/agrobiodiversity and socio-economics. The disciplinary and interdisciplinary results of the project units will be translated into normative scenarios for a sustainable development. The possible consequences and outcome of these scenarios will be depicted and illustrated as alternative futures by means of high resolution maps and socio economic data. The scenario development will be carried out in cooperation with an Advisory Board and Georgian NGO experts. This exchange will ensure a comprehensive consideration of the (local) social and political conditions. The results will be made available to political and societal decision-makers.

• Prof. Dr. Dr. Annette Otte

  Universität Gießen
  Zentrum für internationale Entwicklungs-
  und Umweltforschung (ZEU)
  Sektion 1
  Gießen
  

• Prof. Dr. Otar Abdaladze

  Ilia State University
  Institute of Ecology
  Tbilisi
  Georgien
  

• Prof. Dr. Maia Akhalkatsi

  Ilia State University
  Tbilisi Botanical Garden and
  Institute of Botany
  Tbilisi
  Georgien
  

• Prof. Dr. Besik Kalandadze

  I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi
  State University
  Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences
  Department of Geography
  Tbilisi
  Georgien
  

• Prof. Dr. Ingrid-Ute Leonhäuser

  Universität Gießen
  Zentrum für internationale
  Entwicklungs- und Umweltforschung
  Sektion 2
  Gießen
  

• Prof. Dr. George Nakhutsrishvili

  Ilia State University
  Tbilisi Botanical Garden and
  Institute of Botany
  Tbilisi
  Georgien
  

• Prof. Dr. Rainer Waldhardt

  Universität Gießen
  Zentrum für Internationale Entwicklungs-
  und Umweltforschung
  Sektion 1
  Gießen
  

• Prof. Dr. Joseph Salukvadze

  I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi
  State University
  Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
  Department of Human Goegraphy
  Tbilisi
  Georgien
  

• Prof. Dr. Joachim Aurbacher

  Universität Gießen
  Agricultural Production
  Economics
  Gießen
  

• Prof. Dr. Tengiz Urushadze

  Agricultural University of Georgia
  Mikheil Sabashvili Institute of
  Soil Science, Agrichemistry
  and Melioration
  Tbilisi
  Georgien
  

• Prof. Dr. David Bedoshvili

  Agricultural University of Georgia
  Institute of Farming
  Tbilisi
  Georgien
  

• Prof. Dr. Peter Felix-Henningsen

  Universität Gießen
  Institut für Bodenkunde und Bodenerhaltung
  Gießen