Prof. Dr. Chinwe Ifejika Speranza

Bachelor

• Geographien der Nachhaltigkeit - Vorlesung und Übungen (2020 - )
• Sustainability in the Anthropocene - Vorlesung/Podcast (2020 - )
• Integrative Geographie und Nachhaltigkeit - Vorlesung und Übungen (2016 - 2019)
• Globale Entwicklungs und Umweltfragen - Vorlesung/Podcast (2016 - 2019)
• Initiativen zur Restaurierung von Land und Land Ressourcen - Proseminar (2019)
• «Land Degradation Neutrality»: Konzeption, Operationalisierung und Implikationen für die Erreichung der nachhaltigen Entwicklungsziele - Proseminar (2017)
• Betreuung Bachelorarbeiten in der Abteilung Landsysteme und Nachhaltige Ressourcennutzung  
• Forschungspraktikum Bachelorarbeit

Master

• Sustainable Land Management - Vorlesung/Podcast (2016 - )
• Sustainability - Forum/Podcast (2016 - )
• Land Systems and Sustainable Land Management – Land management variables and their applications across scales in Switzerland - Seminar (2020)
• Challenges in Geography - Vorlesung (2016 - 2020)
• Methods Seminar on Sustainable Development - System dynamics modelling of social-ecological systems - Seminar (2019)
• Environmental Justice: multi-dimensional and multi-scale perspectives - Seminar (2018)
• System dynamics for understanding the sustainability challenges of social-ecological systems - Seminar (2018)
• Feldkurs Kaukasus in Georgien - Exkursion (2017)
• Resilience in Sustainable Land Management and Land Systems; Der Resilienz-Ansatz in der nachhaltigen Nutzung von Land und natürlichen Ressourcen - Seminar (2016)
• Alpen und Gebirge - Vorlesung (2016)
• Betreuung Masterarbeiten in der Abteilung Landsysteme und Nachhaltige Ressourcennutzung
• Kolloquium Masterarbeit

PhD

• Kolloquium PhD
• International graduate School North-South
• Betreuung Doktorarbeiten
  • Pascal Bircher: Erosion risk modelling and monitoring, Switzerland (finalising 03/2020)
  • Donia Jendoubi: Land degradation in Northwest Tunisia (abgeschlossen 2020)
  • Emily Mutea: Livelihoods and food security (2017-2020)
  • Ademola Adenle: Land Degradation and Its Impacts on Ecosystem Services in Nigeria (2017-2020)
  • Simon Oberholzer: Monitoring sustainable soil management in Switzerland (2019-2022)
  • Franziska Mohr: Historical analysis of landscape change in Europe (2019-2022)

• Member, Board of the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the Future Earth core-project, the Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS).
• Centre for Training and Integrated Research in Arid and Semi-arid Lands Development (CETRAD), Nanyuki, Kenya
• Member, International Board of Directors of the African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS)
• Member, Independent Steering Committee (ISC) of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)
• The Swiss Society for African Studies / Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Afrikastudien
• African Studies Association in Germany / Vereinigung für Afrikawissenschaften in Deutschland (e.V.)
• Member Advisory Board, Bern Society of Natural Sciences (Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Bern (NGB)
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geographie-Arbeitskreis Subsaharisches Afrika (AKSA, Research Group on Sub-Saharan Africa of the German Geographical Society)
• Geographische Gesellschaft Bern
• Geographisch-Ethnographische Gesellschaft Zürich (GEGZ, Geographical-Ethnographical Society of Zurich)
• German Development Institute (DIE)
• Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya
• Network for the Evaluation of One Health (NEOH): Enable evaluations of One Health activities and comparison of initiatives as well as informed decision-making and resource allocation. 

Gutachterin für

• Environmental Science & Policy
• Regional Environmental Change
• Mountain Research & Development
• Environment, Development & Sustainability
• European Journal of Development Research
• Swiss National Science Foundation
• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 
• Global Change System for Analysis, Research & Training (START) 
• IFS, International Foundation for Science, Sweden

• UK Economic and Social Research Council

Publikationen

2020

Ifejika Speranza C. (2020) Gemeinsam für eine Landwirtschaft, die Zukunft sichert (Together for an agriculture that secures the future). Schweizerische Kirchenzeitung. Ausgabe 04.2020. https://www.kirchenzeitung.ch/article/gemeinsam-fuer-eine-landwirtschaft-die-zukunft-sichert-20393

2019

Tom Arnold (chair); Kees Blokland; Albert Engel; Chinwe Ifejika Speranza; Bruno Losch; Baudouin Michel; Francesco Rampa; Christine Wieck; Mashiri Zvarimwa (2019): AN AFRICA-EUROPE AGENDA FOR RURAL TRANSFORMATION, Report by the Task Force Rural Africa. Agriculture and Rural Development. European Commission, European Union. https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/food-farming-fisheries/farming/documents/report-tfra_mar2019_en.pdf