Research fellow

Research Interests

Urban and economic geography, socio-ecological transformation, sustainability, human-environment relations, participation, peri-urban change, smart cities, agriculture

Germany, Austria, India, Kenya

Qualitative and quantitative methods, remote sensing, discourse analysis

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4727-4346
GoogleScholar: https://scholar.google.ch/citations?user=z3eyqi4AAAAJ&hl=de
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexander-Follmann-2

 

Research Projects

Participation in research projects (ongoing)

Peri-urban transformations in Chennai, India
PI in cooperation with Loraine Kennedy (CNRS Paris), Karin Pfeffer (ITC Twente) and Christoph Woiwode (IGCS, IIT Madras, Chennai)
own funds, DAAD/BMBF-Scholarship Indo-German Centre for Sustainability (since 2023)

CRC 228 - Future Rural Africa: Future-making and social-ecological transformation
Associate member
DFG (since 2019)
More information: https://www.crc228.de/

Participation in research projects (completed)

Beyond the Domesticated and Wild Divide: Plant Biology and the Politics of Nutrition (BiPoN)
PI together with Kopriva et al. as part of the GSSC and CEPLAS
Excellent Research Support Program: UoC Forum, University of Cologne (2021-2023)
More information: https://bipon.uni-koeln.de/

Inventory analysis of the situation of the weekly markets in Cologne
PI together with P. Dannenberg
City of Cologne (2021-2023)

DFG-scientific network: Spaces of Global Production: The Territorial Dimensions of Global Production Networks and World City Networks
Co-I together with Kleibert et al.
DFG (2018-2021)

DAAD Thematic Network: Remapping the Global South: Teaching, Researching, Exchanging
Co-I together with Potthast et al.
DAAD (2015-2020)
More information: https://remapping-the-global-south.uni-koeln.de/

 

Professional Training

January 2023
Habilitation Geography, Universität zu Köln. Topic: Urban-Economic Geographies of Peri-urban Transformations in the Global South

November 2022 – March 2023
Interim professorship for Development Geography, Institute of Geography, University of Bonn

September 2021 – March 2022
Interim professorship for Human Geography: Urban and Regional Development, Institute of Geography, University of Cologne

October 2009– June 2015
Doctoral studies at the Institute of Geography, University of Cologne, Prof. Dr. Boris Braun
“Governing Riverscapes. Urban Environmental Change along the River Yamuna in Delhi, India“
(Thesis available at Franz Steiner Verlag)

October 2009 - April 2010
Visiting PhD.-candidate at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India
(PhD-fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD)

October 2003 -  March 2009
Academic Studies: Geography (diploma), University of Cologne
with minor subjects: Urban Planning (Städtebau, University of Bonn), Transport Economics (Verkehrswissenschaften), Economics (VWL)

Diploma Thesis: „Die Revitalisierung des Kölner Rheinauhafens im planerischen und öffentlichen Diskurs“

September 2006 - April 2007
Simon Fraser University (SFU), Vancouver, Canada (German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD)

 

Professional experience (selection)
 

since October 2024
Guest Professor, Research Unit of Urban and Regional Research, Institute of Spatial Planning, TU Wien

since May 2016
Principal Investigator (PI), Global South Studies Center, University of Cologne

since March 2014
Lecturer and research fellow, Institute of Geography, University of Cologne

October 2023 – September 2024
Interim professorship for Urban and Regional Research at the Institute of Geography, University of Bonn

August 2023 – September 2024
Visiting Fellow, Research Unit of Urban and Regional Research, Institute of Spatial Planning, TU Wien

April 2023 – September 2023
Interim professorship for Economic Geographies of the Future, Department for Geography, LMU Munich

November 2022 – March 2023
Interim professorship for Development Geography, Institute of Geography, University of Bonn

September 2021 – March 2022
Interim professorship for Human Geography: Urban and Regional Development, Institute of Geography, University of Cologne

October 2020 – November 2023
Board member, Global South Studies Center (GSSC), University of Cologne

September 2013 - February 2014
Lecturer, Institute of Geography, University of Cologne

April 2010 - July 2011
Lecturer, Institute of Geography, University of Cologne

April 2009 - September 2009
Staff member Stadt- und Regionalplanung Dr. Jansen GmbH, Cologne (Urban and Regional Planning)

February 2008 - March 2009
Student assistant Stadt- und Regionalplanung Dr. Jansen GmbH, Cologne (Urban and Regional Planning)

 

Awards/scholarships:

Science Award for Human Geography (2023, Wissenschaftspreis für Humangeographie) of the Prof. Dr. Frithjof Voss Foundation, Foundation for Geography, Berlin

2nd award Geoverbund ABC/J Young Academics Awards 2017 (ABC/J-Forschungspreis 2017) for PhD-thesis 'Governing Riverscapes - Urban Environmental Change along the Yamuna in Delhi, India'

PhD-fellowship, German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), April 2011 - September 2013

PhD-starting grant „New Passage to India“ des Deutschen Akademischen Ausland Dienstes (DAAD) (October 2009 – March 2010)

1st award Köln-Preis 2009, Universität zu Köln for the Diploma Thesis: „Die Revitalisierung des Kölner Rheinauhafens im planerischen und öffentlichen Diskurs“

2nd award Dr.-Prill-Preis 2009, Förderpreis Geographie der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Köln e.V. for the Diploma Thesis: „Die Revitalisierung des Kölner Rheinauhafens im planerischen und öffentlichen Diskurs“

 

Organizations and Memberships

• Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Köln e.V. (chairman)
• Arbeitskreis Südasien in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geographie (speaker)
• Verband der Geographen an Deutschen Hochschulen (VGDH)
• Associated member CRC228 Future Rural Africa
• Editorial Board Member Geography Compass
   

Scientific Expert Reviews

ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies; Anthropoligical Quarterly, Area, Area Development and Policy, ASIEN; Challenges in Sustainability; Cities; Climate and Development; Die Erde; Environmental Impact Assessment Review; Environmental Policy and Planning, Environment and Urbanization, Food Policy, Geoforum; Geographica Helvetica; Habitat International; International Journal of Urban and Regional Research IJURR, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management; Journal of Rural Studies; Journal of Planning Literature; Journal of Urban Management; Land Use Policy; Local Environment; Nature Urban Sustainability, Nature Cities, Organization Studies; Remote Sensing, Standort - Zeitschrift für Angewandte Geographie; Sustainability; Urban Geography; ZFW - Advances in Economic Geography

 

Publications

Monographs

FOLLMANN, A., 2016. Governing Riverscapes. Urban Environmental Change along the River Yamuna in Delhi, India. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart.

 

Articles in peer-reviewed journals (with impact factor)

Follmann, A., Dannenberg, P., Baur, N., Walther, G., Bernzen, A., Börner, J., Brüntrup, M., Franz, M., Götz, L., Hornidge, A., Hulke, C., Jaghdani, T. J., Krishnan, A., Kulke, E., Labucay, I., Nduru, G., Neise, T., Priyadarshini, P., Revilla Diez, J., Rütt, J., Scheller, C., Spengler, T., Sulle, E., in print/2024. Conceptualizing Sustainability and Resilience in Value Chains in Times of Multiple Crises – Notes on Agri-food Chains. Die Erde.

Dannenberg, P., Braun, B., Greiner, C., Follmann, A., Haug, M., Semedi Hargo Yuwono, P., Stetter, M. G., Widlok, T., Kopriva, S., 2024. Eight arguments why biodiversity is important to safeguard food security. Plants, People, Planet. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10492

Chakraborty, S., Novotný, J., Maity, I., Lemoine-Rodríguez, R., Follmann, A., 2024. Same planet but different worlds! Diverging convergence pattern of urban form typologies across 413 cities with million+ inhabitants and their sustainability trade-offs. Habitat International 145, 103024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103024

Lawhon, M., Follmann, A., Dannenberg, P., Braun, B., Cornea, N., Greiner, C., Guma, P., Karpouzoglou, T., Revilla-Diez, J., Schindler, S, Sielker, F., Tups, G., Vij, S., 2023. Making heterogeneous infrastructural futures in and beyond the Global South. Futures. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2023.103270

Kanosvamhira, T., Follmann, A., Tevera, D., 2023. Experimental urban commons? A reexamination of urban community food gardens in Cape Town, South Africa. The Geographical Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12553

Crespo, M., Follmann, A., Butsch, C., Dannenberg, P., 2023. The Effects of International Retirement Migration on Indigenous Communities: Empirical Insights from Cotacachi, Ecuador. Journal of Latin American Geography 22 (2), 116-141. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/909087

Follmann, A.; Kennedy, L.; Pfeffer, K.; Wu, F., 2023. Peri-urban transformation in the Global South: a comparative socio-spatial analytics approach. Regional Studies, 57(3), 447-461. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2022.2095365

Sahana, M., Ravetz, J.; Dadashpoor, H., Patel, P., Follmann, A., 2023. Where is the Peri-Urban? A Systematic Review of Peri-Urban Research and Approaches for its Identification and Demarcation Worldwide. Remote Sensing, 2023, 15, 1316. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15051316

Chakraborty, S., Dadashpoor, H., Novotný, J. Maity, I.  Follmann, A., Patel, P., Roy, U., Pramanik, S., 2022. In the pursuit of sustainability? Spatio-temporal pathways of urban growth patterns in world’s megacities. Cities, 131, 103919. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.103919

Follmann, A., 2022. Geographies of peri-urbanization in the Global South. Geography Compass, 16(7), e12650. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12650

Crespo, M., Follmann, A., Butsch, C., Dannenberg, P., 2022. International Retirement Migration: Mapping the spatio-temporal growth of foreign-owned properties in Cotacachi, Ecuador. Journal of Maps, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2022.2039310

Follmann, A., Willkomm, M., Dannenberg, P., 2021. As the city grows, what do farmers do? A systematic review of urban and peri-urban agriculture under rapid urban growth across the Global South. Landscape and Urban Planning, 215, 104186.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.104186

Follmann, A., Willkomm, M., Nduru, G., Owuor, G., Dannenberg, P. 2021. Continuity under change: Towards a spatiotemporal understanding of market-oriented urban and peri-urban agriculture – Insights from Kenya. Applied Geography, 135, 102528.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2021.102528

Chakraborty, S., Pramanik, S., Follmann, A., et al. 2021. Dominant urban form and its relation to nighttime land surface temperature in the rapidly urbanizing National Capital Region of India. Urban Climate, 40, 101002.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2021.101002

Chakraborty, S., Maity, I., Patel, P. P., Dadashpoor, H., Pramanik, S., Follmann, A., et al., 2021b. Spatio-temporal patterns of urbanization in the Kolkata Urban Agglomeration: A dynamic spatial territory-based approach. Sustainable Cities and Society, 67, 102715.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2021.102715.

Willkomm, M., Follmann, A., Dannenberg, P., 2021. Between replacement and intensification: Spatiotemporal dynamics of different land use types of urban and peri-urban agriculture under rapid urban growth in Nakuru, Kenya. Professional Geographer. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2020.1835500.

Leitheiser, S., Follmann, A., 2020. The social innovation–(re)politicisation nexus: Unlocking the political in actually existing smart city campaigns? The case of SmartCity Cologne, Germany. Urban Studies 57 (4), 894-915. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098019869820.

Willkomm, M., Follmann, A., Dannenberg, P., 2019. Rule-based, hierarchical land use and land cover classification of urban and peri-urban agriculture in data-poor regions with RapidEye satellite imagery: a case study of Nakuru, Kenya. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 13 (016517 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.13.016517.

Follmann, A., Hartmann, G., Dannenberg, P., 2018. Multi-temporal transect analysis of peri-urban developments in Faridabad, India. In: Journal of Maps 14 (1), 17-25.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2018.1424656.

Follmann, A., 2015. Urban mega-projects for a ‘world-class’ riverfront – The interplay of informality, flexibility and exceptionality along the Yamuna in Delhi, India. Habitat International 45, Part 3, 213-222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2014.02.007.

Follmann, A., Viehoff, V., 2015. A green garden on red clay: creating a new urban common as a form of political gardening in Cologne, Germany. Local Environment 20 (10), 1148-1174. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2014.894966.

 

Articles in peer-reviewed journals (without impact factor)

Kraas, F., Follmann, A., 2024. Aktuelle Urbanisierungsprozesse in Indien. Geographische Rundschau 76 (3), 10-15.

Follmann, A., Leitheiser, S., Kretschmer, H., 2021. Smart und/oder partizipativ? Eine kritische Betrachtung der SmartCity Cologne. sub\urban. Zeitschrift für Kritische Stadtforschung, 9(1/2), 115-139. https://doi.org/10.36900/suburban.v9i1/2.612.

Follmann, A., Willkomm, M., Dannenberg, P., 2021d. Auswirkungen des Stadtwachstums auf die peri-urbane Landwirtschaft in Kenia. Geographische Rundschau 73(10), 22-27.

Butsch, C., Follmann, A., Rafflenbeul, B., 2021. Stadtwachstum im Globalen Süden. Geographische Rundschau 73(10), 4-9.

Dannenberg, P., Follmann, A., 2019. Südafrikas Rolle und Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten in der BRICS-Staatengruppe. Geographische Rundschau 71 (7/8), 24-29.

Follmann, A., Braun, B., 2017. Stadtnatur und Wildnis in deutschen Großstädten – gesellschaftliche Ansprüche und Schutzkonzepte. Geographische Rundschau 69 (5), 44-50.

Follmann, A., 2016. The role of environmental activists in governing riverscapes: the case of the Yamuna in Delhi, India. South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (SAMAJ) [Online] 2016 (14). https://journals.openedition.org/samaj/4184

Dannenberg, P., Follmann, A., 2015. Ringen um Grün in der Stadt. Standort 39 (2-3). 94-100.

Follmann, A., Trumpp, T., 2013. Armutsbekämpfung oder Bekämpfung der Armen? Welt-stadtvisionen und Slum-Räumungen in Delhi. Geographische Rundschau 65 (10): 4-10.

 

Contributions to peer-reviewed edited volumes

Lopéz-Julies, T., Follmann, A., Bußler, P., im Druck/2024. Decolonizing Excursions – Co-Teaching Exkursionsmodul im/mit dem Globalen Süden. In: Mossig, I., Müller, A. (Hrsg.) GeoTandems - Teamteaching in der geographischen Hochschullehre. LIT-Verlag, Berlin.

Follmann, A., Hohengarten, D., 2024. Ernährungsrat, Essbare Stadt, Gemeinschaftsgärten: Innere und äußere Logiken und Widersprüche der sozial-ökologischen Transformation durch Urban Gardening am Beispiel Köln. In: Baier, A., Müller, C., Werner, K. (Eds.), Unterwegs in die Stadt der Zukunft. Urbane Gärten als Orte der Transformation. transcript, Bielefeld

Röhrs, M., Villarreal Gómez, A., Follmann, A., 2023/in print: Des-Fisicalizatión y Flexibililidad Territorializada en Áreas Protegidas: (Des)Regulación de las Construcciones Informales en el Ecosistema de la Ciénaga de la Virgen en Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), In: Aliseda, J. M., et al. (Hrsg.), Desarrollo compatible: Experiencias en Europa e Iberoamérica. Thomson Reuters/Arazandi

Dannenberg, P., Follmann A., 2023. Landwirtschaft und ländliche Räume. In: Kulke, E. (Hrsg.) Wirtschaftsgeographie Deutschlands. Springer, 103-136. (Neuauflage)

Ouma, S., Dannenberg, P., Derudder, B., Dörry, S., Follmann, A., Kleibert, J., Hagemann, A., van Meeteren, M., Scholvin, S., Stenmans, J.. in press/2022. Spaces of Global Production. IN: The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. Wiley [online].

Follmann, A., 2022. Hybrid Riverscapes: Governing river cities beyond land and water dichotomies – the Yamuna in Delhi, India. In: Padawangi, R., Rabé, P., Perkasa, A. (Hrsg.) River Cities: Water Space in Urban Development and History. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam., 267-288. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048553372-012

Dannenberg, P., Follmann A., in press/2022. Landwirtschaft und ländliche Räume. In: Kulke, E. (Hrsg.) Wirtschaftsgeographie Deutschlands. Springer. (Neuauflage)

Follmann, A., Viehoff, V., 2019. Public-access community gardens: A new form of urban commons? – Imagining new socio-ecological futures in an urban gardening project in Cologne. In: Tornaghi, C., Certomà, C. (Eds.): Urban Gardening as Politics. Routledge.

Viehoff, V., Follmann, A., 2017. Das Politische eines Gemeinschaftsgartens - NeuLand in Köln als Experimentierort für urban commoning? In: Kumnig, S., Rosol, M., Exner, A. (Eds.), Umkämpftes Grün. Zwischen neoliberaler Stadtentwicklung und Stadtgestaltung von unten. transcript, Bielefeld, 233-261.

Braun, B., Follmann, A., 2016. Gewässerrenaturierung und Naturschutz im Stadtraum – eine Betrachtung aus Sicht der Politischen Ökologie. In: Budke, A., Kuckuck, M. (Eds.), Politische Bildung im Geographieunterricht, 119-128.

Follmann, A., 2014. Delhi's changing riverfront: bourgeois environmentalism and the reclamation of Yamuna's floodplain for a world-class city in the making. In: Joshi, H. & A. Viguier (Hrsg.): Ville et Fleuve en Asie du Sud: regards croisés. Inalco. Paris, 121-139.

 

More publications

Chakraborty, S., Patel, P., Follmann, A., 2022. Land use and land cover changes in the rapidly urbanizing National Capital Region (NCR) in India. In: Müller, J., Wenner, M., Dittrich, C. (Hrsg.). Aktuelle Forschungsbeiträge zu Südasien 11. Jahrestagung des AK Südasien, 07./08. Mai 2021, Göttingen/Online. (Geographien Südasiens, Band 13), 1-5.

Butsch, C., Follmann, A., Keck, M., Müller, J. 2021. Geographies of South Asia: empirical research and the pandemic. Editorial zum Themenheft Südasien. Asien, 156/157 (Juli/Oktober 2020), 5-15.

Ernährungsrat für Köln und Umgebung (Hrsg.) 2019. Eine Ernährungsstrategie für Köln und Umgebung - Handlungsfelder, Bestandsaufnahme und Zielvorgaben Impulse für die kommunale Ernährungswende. AutorInnen: Dürscheid, H., Follmann, A., Heinzelmann, L., Herrndorf, M., Heuschkel, Z., Hirsch, D., Kreutzberger, S., Lück, S., Nagel-Dürscheid, M., Sander, F., Schwaderer, F., Schwartz, K., Thurn, V., Wiedemann, C. und Wissmann, A. Köln. Link.

Dannenberg, P., Follmann, A., Hartmann, G., 2017. Urbanisierung und peri-urbaner Wandel in und um Faridabad, Indien. In: Schmidt, M., Follmann, A., Poerting, J., (Hrsg.) 2017. Aktuelle Forschungsbeiträge zu Südasien: 7. Jahrestagung des AK Südasien, 27./28. Januar 2017, Augsburg, Heidelberg; Berlin: CrossAsia-eBooks (Geographien Südasiens, Band 8), 34-37.

Follmann, A., 2017. Bienen in der Stadt. Geographische Rundschau 69 (5), 23.

Dannenberg, P., Follmann, A., 2015. Armut und Globalisierung. Herausforderungen, Chancen und Risiken. Praxis Geographie 45 (12), 4-9.

Follmann, A., 2014. Informalität als flexibles Planungsinstrument – die Exzeptionalität städtebaulicher Großprojekte in der Flussaue der Yamuna in Delhi. In: Butsch, C., Franz, M., Keck, M., Kroll, M., Lennartz, T., Poerting, J. (Hrsg.), Aktuelle Forschungsbeiträge zu Südasien. 4. Jahrestagung des AK Südasien, 24./25. Januar 2014, Freiburg. Geographien Südasiens, Schriftenreihe des Arbeitskreises Südasien in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geographie (DGfG), Heidelberg, 29-32.

Braun, B., Follmann, A., 2013: Häfen in Köln: Arbeiten und Leben am Wasser. In: Zehner, K. et al. (Hrsg.): Exkursionsführer Köln und der Kölner Raum, Kölner Geographische Arbeiten 93: 15-23.

Follmann, A., 2012: Renaissance der Häfen als Wohn-, Gewerbe- und Freizeitstandorte. In: Schäfke, R. (Hrsg.): Hafenstadt Köln, Emons Verlag, Köln, S. 250-273.

Bernzen, A., Follmann, A., 2012: Green Economy. Neue Leitidee für Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften. Ökologisches Wirtschaften. BUFO 2.2012, 6-7.

Follmann, A., 2011. Urban Environmental Governance – New Actors and Power Relations?2011/09 - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI); Chance2Sustain. Link.

 

Editorship and moderation of thematic issues

Sahana, M., Dadashpoor, H., Patel, P., Follmann, A., 2020-2021. Moderation Special Issue in Remote Sending: Remote Sensing Approaches to Landscape Analysis of Urban and Peri-Urban Environments.

Follmann, A., Butsch, C., Rafflenbeul, B. 2021. Stadtentwicklung im Globalen Süden. Geographische Rundschau 73 (10).

Follmann, A., Butsch, C., Keck, M., Müller, J., 2021. Themenheft Südasien. Asien.

Follmann, A., Müller, J., Falk, G. (Hrsg.) 2020. Aktuelle Forschungsbeiträge zu Südasien: 10. Jahrestagung des AK Südasien, 24./25. Januar 2020 in Freiburg, Heidelberg; Berlin: CrossAsia-eBooks (Geographien Südasiens, Band 12).

Butsch, C., Follmann, A., Müller, J., (Hrsg.) 2018. Aktuelle Forschungsbeiträge zu Südasien: 8. Jahrestagung des AK Südasien, 19./20. Januar 2018 in Köln, Heidelberg, Berlin: CrossAsia-eBooks (Geographien Südasiens, Band 10).

Schmidt, M., Follmann, A., Poerting, J., (Hrsg.) 2017. Aktuelle Forschungsbeiträge zu Südasien: 7. Jahrestagung des AK Südasien, 27./28. Januar 2017, Augsburg, Heidelberg; Berlin: CrossAsia-eBooks (Geographien Südasiens, Band 8).

Braun, B., Follmann, A., 2017. Natur in der Stadt. Geographische Rundschau 69 (5).

Dannenberg, P., Follmann, A., 2015. Armut als Herausforderung. Praxis Geographie 45 (12).

 

Lectures

SoSe 2022	Lecture seminar Urban Environments in Africa (in English, also for Master Culture and Environment in Africa), together with Dr. Mary Lawhon, University of Edinburgh
SoSe 2022	Lecture seminar Political Ecology (in English, also for students of the International Master of Environmental Sciences) together with Dr. Mary Lawhon, University of Edinburgh
WS 2021/2022	Seminar and population and city (2 x)
SoSe 2021	Lecture Seminar Political Ecology (in English, also for students of the International Master of Environmental Sciences)
WS 2020/2021	Seminar and population and city (2 x)
SoSe 2020	Lecture seminar Political Ecology (in English, also for students of the International Master of Environmental Sciences)
SoSe 2020	Lecture seminar Political Ecology (in English, also for students of the International Master of Environmental Sciences)
WS 2019/ 2020	Introduction to Human-Environment Relations (Studiengang Culture and Environment in Africa) together with C. Bogner, M. Pelican, H.P. Wotzka, A. Storch, T. Widlok, M. Cruz, H. Felber, M. Engel
WS 2019/ 2020	Seminar Nature in the City? Urban green and urban development
WS 2019/ 2020	Seminar Population and City
SoSe 2019	Seminar Current Issues in Urban and Regional Development
SoSe 2019	Political Ecology I (for students of the International Master of Environmental Sciences; together with Dr. Gerda Kuiper)
SoSe 2019	Seminar Economy and Development (together with T. Neise)
SoSe 2019	Excursion to the seminar Economy and Development: 1) National Park Eifel - nature conservation, cultural landscape change and tourism; 2) port and economic development in Cologne
WS 2018/ 2019	Practical course on anthropogeography: Cologne's food system - (regional) value chains for vegetables and fruit (together with Prof. Dr. Dannenberg)
SoSe 2018	Political Ecology I (for students of the International Master of Environmental Sciences; together with Dr. Gerda Kuiper)
SoSe 2018	Seminar Economy and Development (2 courses, together with Dr. A. Bernzen)
SoSe 2018	Lecture Seminar Urban Environments in Africa (in English)
WS 2017/2018	Excursion to South Africa (together with Prof. Dr. Dannenberg)
WS 2017/2018	Preparatory Seminar for the Excursion South Africa (together with Prof. Dr. Dannenberg)
WS 2017/2018	Lecture Seminar New Concepts and Approaches in Economic Geography (together with Dr. A. Bernzen)
WS 2017/2018	Political Ecology II (for students of the International Master of Environmental Science)
SoSe 2017	Political Ecology (for students of the International Master of Environmental Sciences)
SoSe 2017	Seminar Economy and Development (2 courses, together with Dr. A. Bernzen)
SoSe 2017	Lecture Seminar Urban Environments in Africa
WS 2016/2017	Field Internship Natural and Cultural Heritage in Delhi, India (together with Prof. Dr. Peter Dannenberg)
SoSe 2016	Field Internship Urban Green Spaces - An example from Berlin, Germany (together with Prof. Dr. Peter Dannenberg)
SoSe 2016	Political Ecology (for students of the International Master of Environmental Sciences)
WS 2015/2016	Field Practicum Urban Green Spaces in Urban Development - An example from Berlin, Germany (together with Maximilian Willkomm, M.Sc.)
SoSe 2015	Intermediate Seminar Nature in the City? Urban Green and Urban Development
SoSe 2015	Proseminar Society and Culture
WS 2014/2015	Intermediate seminar Urban Informality
WS 2014/2015	Field Mapping Practicum Urban Green in Urban Development
SoSe 2014	Political Ecology - An Approach to Society-Environment Research
SoSe 2014	Great Excursion India (together with Prof. Dr. Ranjit Mitra, SPA Delhi)
SoSe 2014	Preparatory Seminar for the Great Excursion India (together with Prof. Dr. Ranjit Mitra, SPA Delhi)
WS 2013/2014	Cartography (3 courses)
WS 2013/2014	Proseminar City and Economy (2 courses; together with StR i.H: Stephan Langer)
WS 2012/2013	Excursion India (together with Dr. V. Selbach)
SoSe 2012	Intermediate Seminar Political Ecology - An Approach to Society-Environment Research (together with Dr. V. Viehoff)
SoSe 2011	Proseminar Society and Culture
WS 2010/2011	Proseminar City and Economy (2 courses)
SoSe 2010	Proseminar Society and Culture (2 courses)

 

Talks

• Follmann, A., 2022. Investigating peri-urban dynamics in the global south: A socio spatial analytics approach. Global Conference on Economic Geography, Dublin. 7-10 June 2022.

• Follmann, A., 2022. Peri-urbanization in the global south – thinking beyond universalizing concepts. Workshop Urban Geographies in the Global South, Innsbruck, 24-25 March 2022  (online).

• Follmann, A., 2022. Investigating peri-urban dynamics in India: A socio spatial analytics approach. AK Südasien. 25 January 2022 (online).

• Follmann, A., 2021. Continuity under change: agricultural transformations and spatiotemporal dynamics in urban and peri-urban farming in Kenya. AK Industriegeographie. 25-26 November 2021, (online).

• Follmann, A., 2021. As the city grows, what do farmers do? A systematic review of the literature and empirical insights from Kenya. CRC-TRR 228 Future Rural Africa. 25 October 2021 (online).

• Follmann, A. 2020. Contextual spatial knowledge for mapping processes of (peri-) urbanization. IGCS winter school “Sustainability in the Peri-cene: Human settlements, food, ecology and governance", IIT Madras, Chennai, 15-29 Februar 2020.

• Follmann, A. 2020. Urban and peri-urban agri-food systems in transition: insights from Kenya and India. IGCS winter school “Sustainability in the Peri-cene: Human settlements, food, ecology and governance", IIT Madras, Chennai, 15-29 Februar 2020.

• Follmann, A., Willkomm, M., Dannenberg, P. 2019. As the city grows, what do the farmers do? A review of urban and peri-urban agriculture in the Global South. Deutscher Kongress für Geographie [German Conference for Geography], Kiel.

• Follmann, A., Willkomm, M., Dannenberg, P. 2019. Socio-ecological transformations of urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) in East African cities: Empirical insights from Nyeri and Nakuru, Kenya. Deutscher Kongress für Geographie [German Conference for Geography], Kiel.

• Follmann, A., Malik, M. 2019. Thinking beyond “seasonal encroachments” – Riverscape farmers’ response to seasonal dynamism and evictions along the banks of River Yamuna in Delhi, India. RC21 Conference, New Delhi, India.

• Follmann, A. 2019. Where is the land and water for peri-urban farming? Value chains, metabolisms and socio-ecological change in peri-urban Kenya. WaterPower Symposium, Trier, 15-16 July 2019.

• Follmann, A., Willkomm, M. & Dannenberg, P. 2018. Conceptualizing the integration of urban and peri-urban agriculture in commercial agri-food value chains: linking value chains and urban metabolisms. Global Conference on Economic Geography 2018, Cologne.

• Follmann, A. 2017. Hybrid Riverscapes: Governing river cities beyond land and water dichotomies - the Yamuna in Delhi, India. Interdisciplinary Conference on River Cities: Water Space in Urban Development and History, Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA), Surabaya, Indonesia, 11-12 December, 2017.

• Follmann, A. 2017. Drivers, processes and effects of the integration of urban and peri-urban agriculture into commercial agri-food value chains in medium-sized cities in Kenya. Seminar #57/17. Department of Geography, Environmental Studies & Tourism, University of Western Cape, Cape Town, 19. October, 2017.

• Follmann, A., Willkomm, M. & Dannenberg, P. 2017. Environmental impacts of urban and peri-urban agro-food systems in transition: integrating metabolisms into agro-food value chain analysis. AAG Annual Meeting 2017, Boston, 5.-9. April 2017.

• Follmann, A., Willkomm, M. & Dannenberg, P. 2017. Environmental impacts of urban and peri-urban agro-food systems in transition: insights from Kenya and India. Conference on Peri-Urban Development: Concept, Emerging Ideas and Notions of Sustainability. Indo-German Centre for Sustainability (IGCS) at IIT Madras, Chennai, 27-28 Januar 2017.

• Follmann, A. 2016. Changing environmental impacts of urban and peri-urban agriculture in Kenya: introducing metabolisms into value chain analysis. Jahrestreffen AK Subsaharisches Afrika in der DGfG 2016. 25.-26. November 2016.

• Follmann, A., Willkomm, M. & Dannenberg, P. 2016. Economic dynamics, value chains and metabolisms of urban and peri-urban agriculture - conceptual framework & example from Kenya & India. International Water Management Institute (IWMI) Nepal, Kathmandu, 17. Oktober 2016.

• Follmann, A., Willkomm, M. & Dannenberg, P. 2016. Economic dynamics, value chains and metabolisms of urban and peri-urban agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review. 33rd International Geographical Congress, Beijing, 21.-25. August 2016.

• Follmann, A., 2016. Governing Delhi’s Riverscapes: Conflicts of Interest, Power and Knowledge Asymmetries in Urban Environmental Governance. 33rd International Geographical Congress, Beijing, 21.-25. August 2016.

• Follmann, A., 2015. Governing Riverscapes: Analysing urban environmental change along the Yamuna in Delhi. Lecture Series, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, 14. September 2015.

• Dannenberg, P., Follmann, A. 2015. The Urban Green Debate: bridging insights from the Global South and North. Conference: Transformations in the Global South. Global South Studies Center, University of Cologne, 27.–29. Mai 2015.

• Follmann, A. 2014. Urban mega-projects for a ‘world-class’ riverfront. The interplay of informality, flexibility and exceptionality along the Yamuna in Delhi, India. PhD seminar: The role of conflicts in water related urban projects. Politecnico di Milano, Scuola di Architettura e Società. Mailand, 30 Mai 2014.

• Follmann, A. 2013. When government encroaches: urban mega-projects as zones of exceptions - the case of Delhi. "Stakes" (Politiques socio-économiques et Recompositions territoriales) du CEIAS, Paris, 20. November 2013.

• Follmann, A., 2012. Delhi’s changing riverfront – land use conflicts surrounding the reclamation of Yamuna’s floodplain for a world-class city in the making. Panel: Urban dynamics and environmental conflicts. International Geographical Congress, Köln, 26.–30. August 2012.

• Follmann, A., 2012. Delhi’s changing riverfront – the reclamation of Yamuna’s floodplain for a world-class city in the making. Symposium ‘Ville et fleuve en Asie du Sud: regards croisés’. Inalco, Paris, 4. April 2012.

• Follmann, A., 2011. Planning versus Reality: Politics of land-use change along the river Yamuna in Delhi. 22nd Workshop CSH/CPR. Urban Workshops by the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH) and Centre for Policy Research (CPR), New Delhi, 29. November 2011.

• Follmann, A., 2011. EADI General Conference 2011: Planning versus Reality – the Politics of Land-Use Change along the River Yamuna in Delhi. EADI General Conference 2011: Rethinking Development in an Age of Scarcity and Uncertainty, York, England, 19.-22. September 2011.

• Follmann, A., Zimmer, A. 2015. Urban Political Ecology – reviewing the debate for the cities in the Global South. Lecture Series, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, 18. September 2015.