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	Section A: Holocene Environment and Cultural History in Northeastern Africa • A1 - Climatic Change and Human Settlement between the Nile Valley and the Central Sahara • A2 - Wadi Howar: Settlement Area and Thoroughfare at the Southern Margin of the Libyan Desert • A3 - Language and Cultural Changes in the Macro-Region, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia • A5 - Environmental Situation and Change in North Eastern Africa: The Special Example of Ancient Egypt • A6 - Climatical und cultural History in the Ennedi-Mountains and surrounding Areas • A7 - Household Economy and Social Processes among the BeRí (Bideyat, Zaghawa) and Daza of the Ennedi and its Surroundings • A8 - From stone to metal: Late Neolithic to Early Iron Age cultural patterns and ecological conditions between central and eastern Sahara • A9 - Landscape archaeology on Boni Island (northern Sudan): Environmental potential and Holocene use history of a cataract zone in comparative perspective • A10 - The For language
	Section B: History of the Environment, Settlement and Language in Southwestern Africa • B1 - Migration, Settlement and Cultural History on the Basis of Linguistic Sources • B4 - Palaeoecology and the Late Holocene Occupation of Northern Namibia • B5 - Soils, Colluviums and Valley Sediments as Indicators of Climatic Change and Landscape Evolution • B7 - Modelling Vulnerability in Kaokoveld (Northern Namibia) using Remote Sensing
	Section C: Land Usage and Survival Strategies in Southwestern Africa • C1 - Crisis Management and Risk Minimization among Pastoralists, Peasants, and (former) Foragers in southern Africa • C8 - Ethnic Groups and Nationalities in a Period of Political, Economic and Social Change in Northern Namibia since 1915 • C10 - Demographic, economic and social transformations in a Namibian multiethnic region • C11 - Landscape and Memory in postcolonial Namibia • C13 - Ideology, Practice and Power: Linking Land Reform, Conservation and Democratisation in Southern Africa
	Section E: Land Usage and -Concepts in regional and transcontinental comparison • E1 - GIS-based Atlas of Holocene Land Use Potential for Selected Research Areas • E2 - The Interaction between Economic Change and Sociocultural Change • E3 - Africa's Arid Zones of Trade and Cultural Interaction

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	• VW Junior Research Group: Savanna Range Management (http://www.savanna.uni-koeln.de)

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	• Analyzing the Carrying Capacity of North Namibian Pastures Using Remote Sensing Techniques • Degradation • History, Cultural Traditions and Innovations in Southern Africa • Demography of Human Populations in Arid Areas

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