Dr. Walter Leimgruber

• Professor in Human Geography

Office: 327.2

Phone: +41 26 300 90 14 (dir.), … 10 (secr.) Fax: +41 26 300 97 46

email: walter.leimgruber@unifr.ch

Homepage: http://www.unifr.ch/

Homedav: https://homedav3.unifr.ch/leimgrub/Pub

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Courses and seminars of the Department of Geosciences, Geography unit at the University of Fribourg:

Bachelor level:

GG.0104 Cartography

GG.0110 Population Geography

GG.0111 Geography of Switzerland (half-course)

GG.0210 Economic Geography

GG.0305 Political Geography

Master level:

GG.0404 Drivers behind environmental and social issues

GG.0410 Master Thesis seminar (preliminary) (participating)

GG.0501 Master Thesis seminar (final) (participating)

GG.0462 Environmental social Geodata (from field to analysis) (participating)

GG.0465 Global Change and Human Rights Issues

GG.0466 Environmental Issues from a Soc. Sc. Perspective (participating)

Political boundaries and transborder issues

Cultural limits and questions of identity

Marginality and marginal regions

Processes behind human decisions and actions concerning environment and society

1971 PhD University of Basle (PhD thesis on population geography in part of the Basle region)

1984 University aggregation (Docent), University of Basle (Aggregation thesis – habilitation – on transborder relations on the Swiss-Italian boundary)

1982 - 1985 Senior assistant, University of Fribourg

1985 – 1989 Associate Professor, University of Fribourg

1989 - present Professor, University of Fribourg

1973 – 1975 Assistant and lecturer, University of Oulu /Finland)

1975 - 1982 Assistant University of Basle

1982 – present Senior assistant and professor, University of Fribourg

1999 Boundaries and border regions, postgraduate course, National University of Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentine

2001 Human geography seminar, Punjabi University, Patiala (India)

2003 Population and economic geography course, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

Il confine e la gente. Interrelazioni spaziali, sociali e politiche fra la Lombardia e il Canton Ticino. Collana dell'Istituto di Scienze Geografiche dell'Università di Parma, vol. 7. Varese: Lativa, 1987

Boundaries, values and identity: the Swiss-Italian transborder region. in: D. Rumley & J.V. Minghi (eds.): The geography of border landscapes, p. 43-62. London: Routledge, 1991

Impact of migration in the receiving countries. Switzerland. Paris (CICRED) & Genf (IOM). 96 pp., 1992

Perceptions of marginality. Theoretical issues and regional perceptions of marginality in geographical space. (edited with H. Jussila & R. Majoral). Aldershot: Ashgate 1998

Border effects and the cultural landscape: the changing impact of boundaries on regional development in Switzerland. in: H. Knippenberg & J. Markusse (eds.): Nationalising and denationalising European border regions, 1800-2000: views from geography and history. Geojournal Library 53, p. 199-221. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1999

Land use and abuse: on the ecological and spiritual marginalization of land. in: R. Majoral, H. Jussila and F. Delgado-Cravidão (eds.): Environment and marginality in geographical space. Issues of land use, territorial marginalization and development in the new millennium. Aldershot: Ashgate, p. 7 – 24, 2000

La politica immigratoria in Svizzera, in Meneghel G.B. and Lombardi D. (eds.), Immigrazione e territorio, Bologna, Patron Editore, pp. 29-42, 2002

Biosphere reserves: sustainable development of marginal regions? (with T. Hammer) In: H. Jussila, R. Majoral and B. Cullen (eds.), Sustainable Development and Geographical Space. Issues of population, environment, globalization and education in marginal regions, pp.129-144, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2002

(ed. with Majoral R. and Lee Chul-Woo), Policies and strategies in marginal regions. Summary and evaluations, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2003

Between global and local. Marginality and marginal regions in the context of globalization and deregulation. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2004

Values, migration, and environment: an essay on driving forces behind human decisions and their consequences, in Unruh J.D., Krol M.S. & Kliot N. (eds.), Environmental change and its implications for population migrations, Kluwer, Dordrecht (Advances in Global Change Research, vol. 20),2004, p.247-266

The Right to Diversity. Human Rights from a geographical point of view, Schriften zur internationalen Entwicklungs- und Umweltforschung 6, ed. ZEU Giessen, Peter Lang, Frankfurt/M, pp.21-36, 2004

Defying political boundaries: transborder tourism in a regional context. in: Visions in Leisure and Business 17/3, p. 8-29, 1998

Boundaries and transborder relations, or the hole in the prison wall. GeoJournal 64,3, 2005, pp.239-248

Marginality and marginal regions: problems of definition. in: Chang-Yi D. Chang (ed.): Marginality and development issues in marginal regions. Proceedings of the IGU Study Group 'Development issues in marginal regions', p. 1-18. Taipei, National Taiwan University, 1994

Remote alpine valleys and the problem of sustainability. (mit Georg Imhof). in: L. Andersson & T. Blom (eds.): Sustainability and development. On the future of small society in a dynamic economy, p. 385-396. Univ. of Karlstad (Sweden), 1998

La communauté des immigrés érythréens à Fribourg et sa perception de l’espace urbain (with A. Brunner). in: Les défis migratoires. Actes du Colloque CLUSE «Les défis migratoires à l’aube du troisième millénaire», Neuchâtel 1998, ed. P. Centlivres & I. Girod, p. 248-260. Zürich, Seismo, 2000

In Harmony with Nature - the importance of the productivist cycle for rural areas. in: S. PELC (ed.): Developmental problems in marginal rural areas: local initiative versus national and international regulation. Proceedings of the Marginal Areas Research Initiative Meeting. Ljubljana/Preddvor, 25-29 June 2000, pp. 15-26. Ljubljana: Faculty of Education, 2001