Dr. Harald Sterly
Dr. Harald Sterly
Senior Scientist
Contact
Department of Geography and Regional Research
Universitätsstraße 7/5, D512
1010 Wien
Tel.: +43-1-4277-48731
Email: harald.sterly@univie.ac.at
Teaching
Biography
As a human geographer, I focus on the spatial and social aspects of the intersection of climate and environmental change and different forms of mobility and migration. A specific interest lies on the outcomes of migration and translocal connectivities on the scope for people's agency and their vulnerability and resilience. At present, I am based as a Senior Scientist in the Department of Geography at the University of Vienna, from where I conduct empirical research with mixed methods approaches in Europe, Africa, as well as in Southeast, Central and South Asia. I have done my Diploma (MSc) in Geography at the University of Cologne and a postgraduate course in international development cooperation at the Humboldt-University Berlin. My PhD thesis focused on mobile communication and translocal social relations of rural-to-urban migrants in Bangladesh. In the past, I have coordinated research projects on mega-urban dynamics and informality in Bangladesh and China, and on the linkages between migration, translocal connections and social resilience in Thailand.
Research interests
Conceptual: spatiality of livelihoods, translocality, relational sociology, practice theories, science and technology studies, communication and digitalization
Thematic: migration, vulnerability, urbanization, rural-urban relations, development
Regional: South East Asia (Thailand), South Asia (Bangladesh), East Africa (Kenya, Somalia)
Publications
Durand-Delacre, D., Bettini, G., Nash, S. L., Sterly, H., Gioli, G., Hut, E., Boas, I., Farbotko, C., Sakdapolrak, P., de Bruijn, M., Furlong, B. T., van der Geest, K., Lietaer, S., & Hulme, M. (2021). Climate Migration is About People, not Numbers. In S. Böhm, & S. Sullivan (Eds.), Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis (pp. 63-81). Open Book Publishers. https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0265.06.pdf
Sterly, H., & Wirkus, L. (2021). Mobilfunkdaten: Forschungsethische Probleme bei der Arbeit mit Mobilfunkdaten in Kontexten von Migration und Flucht. In T. Bork-Hüffer, H. Füller, & T. Straube (Eds.), Handbuch Digitale Geographien: Welt - Wissen - Werkzeuge (pp. 343-353). UTB.
Hermans, K., Berger, E., Biber-Freudenberg, L., Bossenbroek, L., Ebeler, L., Groth, J., Hack, J., Hanspach, J., Soekardjo Hintz, K., Kimengsi, J. N., Kwong, Y. M., Oakes, R., Pagogna, R., Plieninger, T., Sterly, H., van der Geest, K., van Vliet, J., & Wiederkehr, C. (2021). Crisis-induced disruptions in place-based social-ecological research – an opportunity for redirection. GAIA - Ökologische Perspektiven in Natur-, Geistes- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, 30(2), 72-76. https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.30.2.3
Sakdapolrak, P., & Sterly, H. (2020). Building Climate Resilience through Migration in Thailand. Migration Information Source, Special Issue. https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/building-climate-resilience-through-migration-thailand
Oliver, N., Lepri, B., Sterly, H., Lambiotte, R., Delataille, S., De Nadai, M., Letouzé, E., Ali Salah, A., Benjamins, R., Cattuto, C., Colizza, V., de Cordes, N., Fraiberger, S. P., Koebe, T., Lehmann, S., Murillo, J., Pentland, A., N Pham, P., Pivetta, F., ... Vinck, P. (2020). Mobile phone data for informing public health actions across the COVID-19 pandemic life cycle. Science Advances, 6(23), Article eabc0764. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abc0764
Stange, G., Sterly, H., Sakdapolrak, P., Borderon, M., Schraven, B., Serraglio, D. A., & Aleksandrova, M. (2020). Impeded migration as adaptation: COVID-19 and its implications for translocal strategies of environmental risk management. Web publication https://environmentalmigration.iom.int/blogs/impeded-migration-adaptation-covid-19-and-its-implications-translocal-strategies-environmental
Sterly, H., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2020). Multiple Dimensions of Mediatised Translocal Social Practices. A Cast Study of Domestic Migrants in Bangladesh. Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft, 162, 369-395. https://doi.org/10.1553/moegg162s369
Rockenbauch, T., Sakdapolrak, P., & Sterly, H. (2019). Beyond the local – Exploring the socio-spatial patterns of translocal network capital and its role in household resilience in Northeast Thailand. Geoforum, 107, 154-167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.09.009
Boas, I., Farbotko, C., Adams, H., Sterly, H., Bush, S., Van der Geest, K., Wiegel, H., Ashraf, H., Baldwin, A., Bettini, G., Blondin, S., de Bruijn, M., Durand-Delacre, D., Fröhlich, C., Gioli, G., Guaita, L., Hut, E., Jarawura, F. X., Lamers, M., ... Hulme, M. (2019). Climate migration myths. Nature Climate Change, 9(12), 901-903. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0633-3
Rockenbauch, T., Sakdapolrak, P., & Sterly, H. (2019). Do translocal networks matter for agricultural innovation? A case study on advice sharing in small‑scale farming communities in Northeast Thailand. Agriculture and Human Values, 36, 685-702. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-019-09935-0
Sterly, H., Etzold, B., Wirkus, L., Sakdapolrak, P., Schewe, J., Schleussner, C.-F., & Hennig, B. (2019). AROMACoDa: Assessing Refugees' Onward Mobility through the Analysis of Communication Data. In A. A. Salah, A. Pentland, B. Lepri, E. Letouzé, Y.-A. de Montjoye, X. Dong, & P. Vinck (Eds.), Your Voice, Your Data, Your Future (pp. 70-82) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330999866_AROMA_CoDa_Assessing_Refugees'_Onward_Mobility_through_the_Analysis_of_Communication_Data
Sterly, H., Etzold, B., Wirkus, L., Sakdapolrak, P., Schewe, J., Schleussner, C.-F., & Hennig, B. (2019). Assessing Refugees’ Onward Mobility with Mobile Phone Data—A Case Study of (Syrian) Refugees in Turkey. In A. A. Salah, A. Pentland, B. Lepri, & E. Letouzé (Eds.), Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios: The 'Data for Refugees Challenge' Study (pp. 251-263). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12554-7_13
Sterly, H., Etzold, B., & Peth, S. A. (2019). Bangladesch – Beweggründe für Binnenmigration und translokale Lebensrealitäten. Geographische Rundschau (GR), 2019(3), 18-23.
Sterly, H. (2019). Coordinating the Research Programme. In F. Kraas, K. Hackenbroch, H. Sterly, J. Heintzenberg, P. Herrle, & V. Kreibich (Eds.), MegaCities MegaChallenge - Informal Dynamics of Gobal Change (pp. 160-161). Bornträger.
Hackenbroch, K., & Sterly, H. (2019). Dhaka: A Rapidly Expanding and Economically Dynamic Agglomeration. In F. Kraas, K. Hackenbroch, H. Sterly, J. Heintzenberg, P. Herrle, & V. Kreibich (Eds.), MegaCities MegaChallenge - Informal Dynamics of Gobal Change (pp. 40-51). Bornträger.
Kraas, F., Kroll, M., & Sterly, H. (2019). Global Megacity Dynamics. In F. Kraas, K. Hackenbroch, H. Sterly, J. Heintzenberg, P. Herrle, & V. Kreibich (Eds.), MegaCities MegaChallenge - Informal Dynamics of Gobal Change (pp. 25-32). Bornträger.
Hackenbroch, K., Altrock, U., & Sterly, H. (2019). Governance of the Megacity: Challenges for Service Provision and Planning. In F. Kraas, K. Hackenbroch, H. Sterly, J. Heintzenberg, P. Herrle, & V. Kreibich (Eds.), MegaCities MegaChallenge - Informal Dynamics of Gobal Change: Insights from Dhaka, Bangladesh and Pearl River Delta, China (pp. 66-70). Schweizerbart.
Sterly, H. (2019). Informality. In F. Kraas, K. Hackenbroch, H. Sterly, J. Heintzenberg, P. Herrle, & V. Kreibich (Eds.), MegaCities MegaChallenge - Informal Dynamics of Gobal Change (pp. 148-157). Bornträger.
Peters, M., & Sterly, H. (2019). Interdisciplinarity. In F. Kraas, K. Hackenbroch, H. Sterly, J. Heintzenberg, P. Herrle, & V. Kreibich (Eds.), MegaCities MegaChallenge - Informal Dynamics of Gobal Change (pp. 174-175). Bornträger.
Kraas, F., Hackenbroch, K., Sterly, H., Heintzenberg, J., Herrle, P., & Kreibich, V. (2019). Mega Cities Mega Challenge: Informal Dynamics of Global Change. Insights from Dhaka, Bangladesh and Pearl River Delta, China. Schweizerbart.