Harald Sterly

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

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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

Sterly, H., Hennig, B., & Dongo, K. (2013). "Calling Abidjan'' -- Improving Population Estimations with Mobile Communication Data (IPEMCODA). In V. Blondel, N. de Cordes, A. Decuyper, P. Deville, J. Raguenez, & Z. Smoreda (Eds.), Mobile Phone Data for Development (pp. 108-114) https://perso.uclouvain.be/vincent.blondel/netmob/2013/D4D-book.pdf

Bork-Hüffer, T., Kilian, P., & Sterly, H. (2009). Informalität in Megastädten: Das Beispiel der megaurbanen Region Perlflussdelta, China. Praxis Geographie, 39(7-8).

Kraas, F., & Sterly, H. (2009). Land Use Change in Megacities and Challenges for Water Management. In K. Baier, & R. Strohschön (Eds.), Megacities – Interactions Between Land Use and Water Management (pp. 9-16).

Kraas, F., & Sterly, H. (2009). Megstädte von morgen: Laboratorien der Zukunft? Politische Ökologie, 27(114), 50-52.

Demel, N., Fiebiger, M., Guenther, D., Mogge, M., & Sterly, H. (2008). Guideline Outcome and Impact Orientation: in the projects and programmes of Welthungerhilfe.

Eva, P., Sterly, H., & Grundmann, G. (2006). Impact Assessment at Project Level - a Participatory Multi-Perspective Approach. Rural Development News, 58-62.

Grundmann, G., Demel, N., Eva, P., Sterly, H., Tschabo, A., & Verbeek, L. (2005). Wirkungen im Fokus: Konzeptionelle und methodische Ansätze zur Wirkungsorientierung des Deutschen Entwicklungsdienstes im Kontext von Armutsminderung und Konflikttransformation. Schriftenreihe des Seminars für Ländliche Entwicklung Vol. 217

Sterly, H. (2004). Der Einsatz von höchstauflösenden Fernerkundungsdaten und objektorientierter Bildverarbeitung zur Analyse von Landbedeckungsveränderungen im Innenstadtbereich von Bangkok.