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MSc. Alina Schürmann
Research focus
  • Climate and land use change
  • Migration in West Africa
Scientific career
  • since 06/2021:
    Research assistant and doctoral student at the Institute of Geosciences and Geography at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institut of Geosciences and Geography
  • 06/2020 – 06/2021:
    Research assistant at the Institute of Geosciences and Geography at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Sustainable Landscape Development Group
  • 01/2019 – 12/2019:
    Research assistant at the Institute of Geosciences and Geography in the project “BIKAB -Bildungsmodule zur Klima-Anpassung für den Bildungssektor Sachsen-Anhalts”, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
  • 09/2017 – 10/2018:
    Research assistant at the Department of Sustainable Landscape Development, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
  • 11/2016 – 02/2017:
    Research assistant as cartographer at the Max Planck Institute, Halle (Saale)
  • 12/2015 – 07/2016:
    Research assistant in the Geo Remote Sensing and Thematic Cartography working group, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Current project

 

Publications

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Aweda, E.D., Okhimamhe, A.A., Obateru, R.O., Schuermann, A., Teucher, M. and Conrad, C. (2024) Assessing the Impacts of Migration on Land Degradation in the Savannah Region of Nigeria. Sustainability, 16, 8157. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16188157.
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Schuermann, A., Kleemann, J., Teucher, M. and Conrad, C. (2024) Mapping Socio-Environmental Vulnerability to Assess Rural Migration in Ghana. Applied Geography, 167, 103283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103283.
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Schuermann, A., Kleemann, J., Teucher, M., Fürst, C. and Conrad, C. (2022) Migration in West Africa: A Visual Analysis of Motivation, Causes, and Routes. Ecology and Society, 27, art16. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-13489-270316.
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Spyra, M., Kleemann, J., Calò, N.C., Schuermann, A. and Fürst, C. (2021) Protection of Peri-Urban Open Spaces at the Level of Regional Policy-Making: Examples from Six European Regions. 107, 105480. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105480.
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Schuermann, A., Kleemann, J., Fürst, C. and Teucher, M. (2020) Assessing the Relationship between Land Tenure Issues and Land Cover Changes around the Arabuko Sokoke Forest in Kenya. Land Use Policy, 95, 104625. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104625.
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Thürkow, D., Lindau, A.-K., Schmidt, G., Illiger, P., Krause, C., Gerstmann, H. and Schuermann, A. (2019) Using Interactive Story Maps Enriched by Direct Knowledge Queries for the Development of E-Learning Modules on Climate Change. KN – Journal of Cartography and Geographic Information, 69, 195–204. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42489-019-00024-0.
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Schuermann, A. (2022) Unterschätzte Mobilität. In: Bussemer, J., Albrech, F., Riethmüller, D. and Jakob, C., Eds., Atlas Der Migration – Neue Daten Und Fakten Über Menschen in Bewegung, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin. https://www.rosalux.de/publikation/id/49454.
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Schuermann, A., Kleemann, J., Teucher, M. and Conrad, C. (2023) Finding the Hotspots: A Novel Geo-Spatial Approach to Identify Areas in Ghana That Are Prone to Internal Migration. Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2023, Frankfurt (Main).
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Schuermann, A., Conrad, C. and Kleemann, J. (2023) Assessing Different Climate Migration Frameworks and Its Applicability to Rural Migration in Ghana. Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2023, Frankfurt (Main).
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Schuermann, A., Kleemann, J., Teucher, M. and Conrad, C. (2023) Using a Multifactorial Overlay Approach to Identify Hotspots of Environment-Induced Migration  in Three West African Countries. Cologne.
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Schuermann, A., Conrad, C. and Kleemann, J. (2022) Exploring the Food-Climate-Migration Nexus in West Africa by Analyzing Land Surface Dynamics and Weather Extremes in Combination with Expert Interviews. 2nd International Conference on Geographical Science for Resilient Communities, Ecosystems and Livelihoods under Global Environmental Change. Kampala, Uganda ​​​.
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Schuermann, A. and Conrad, C. (2022) Analyzing Land Surface Dynamics and Weather Extremes Combined with Qualitative Field Research to Disentangle the Food-Climate-Migration Nexus in West Africa. ESA Living Planet Symposium. Bonn.
MSc. Alina Schürmann
  • Room H4 1.37
  • Office hours by appointment
  • 0049 (0)345/55-26038
  • alina.schuermann@geo.uni-halle.de