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Axel Borsdorf
Axel Borsdorf (born March 8, 1948 in Volmerdingsen) is a German-Austrian geographer. From 1991 until his retirement in 2014, he taught as a full professor at the University of Innsbruck.

Studies
From 1968 to 1974, Borsdorf studied geography, German studies, geology and prehistory at the universities of Göttingen (Germany), Valdivia (Chile) and Tübingen (Germany). In 1976 he received his PhD at the University of Tübingen with an urban geography thesis on the Chilean medium-sized towns of Valdivia and Osorno, and in 1985 the venia legendi for geography in Tübingen with a regional geography thesis on Aysén in the Western Patagonian Andes.

Professorship and visiting professorships
In 1991 he was appointed to the chair of geography at the University of Innsbruck, succeeding Adolf Leidlmair. He also received visiting professorships at the University of Oregon at Eugene, the Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, the University of Bern, the University of Chile (Santiago), the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Santiago), the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas, Mexico, and the Austral University of Chile at Valdivia..

Functions and memberships
From 1995 until 2018 Borsdorf was a real member of the Austrian Academy of Science s and, after moving to Germany, is now a corresponding member of this academy. From 1999 to 2006 he was director of the Institute for Urban and Regional Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, founded by Elisabeth Lichtenberger. In 2006 he became the director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, which he founded. He was also chairman of the Association of Scientific Geography in Austria. He is also a member of the Austrian National Committee Global Change and the Austrian National Committee Man and the Biosphere. From 2004 to 2006 he served as President of the Austrian Geographical Society. The Innsbruck Geographical Society appointed him a honorary chairman in 2014. Since 2015 he has been an honorary member of Long Term Ecological Research Austria. In 2016 he was awarded the Franz von Hauer Medal from the Austrian Geographical Society. Since 2023 he has been an honorary member of the Steering Committee of the IGU Commission of Mountain Studies.

Research
In his scientific work, Borsdorf devotes himself to cultural-geographical urban and mountain research as well as geographical methodology. His work often follows the cultural morphogenetic approach developed in the 1920s by Oskar Schmieder (under the influence of Carl O. Sauer at Berkeley) and transferred to Latin American cities by Herbert Wilhelmy. Since the end of the 1970s, Borsdorf's research on socio-spatial segregation and fragmentation in Latin American cities has been widely disseminated, and in 2002 - together with Jürgen Bähr and Michael Janoschka - it ultimately led to a synthesis of different cultural-genetic city models. His regional geographical focus is western South America, especially Chile, and Europe.

Borsdorf was an editor and member of the editorial board of several academic journals. He was also the founder of the journal eco.mont – Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research and Management. From 1998 to 2012 he was co-editor of the oldest geography magazine DIE ERDE of the Society of Geography in Berlin, which has been published since 1853.

Publications (selection)

 * with P. Zembri (eds.): Structures. European Cities: Insights on Outskirts. COST, Paris 2004, ISBN 9782110856630
 * with C. Parnreiter (eds.): International Research on Metropolises. Milestones and Frontiers. ISR Forschungsberichte 29, Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, Wien 2003, ISBN 9783700131779
 * with J. Stötter, E. Veulliet (eds): Managing Alpine Future. Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, Vienna 2008, ISBN 9783700165712
 * with V. Grover, J. Breuste, P. Tiwari, F. Witkowski (eds.): Impact of Global Changes on Mountains: Responses and Adaptation. CRC Press, Boca Raton 2015, ISBN 9781482208900
 * with Christoph Stadel: The Andes. A geographical portrait. Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg 2015, ISBN 9783319035307
 * with C. Marchant, A. Rovira, R. Sánchez (Hrsg.): Chile cambiando. Revisitando la Geografía regional de Wolfgang Weischet. GEOlibros 36, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile ISBN 978-956-14-2718-1

Books in honor to Axel Borsdorf ("Festschrift")

 * Stötter, J. & M. Coy (Hrsg.): Die Welt verstehen – eine geographische Herausforderung. Eine Festschrift der Geographie Innsbruck für Axel Borsdorf. Innsbrucker Geographische Studien 40. Innsbruck 2016. ISBN 978-3-901182-43-3
 * Sánchez, R., R. Hidalgo & F. Arenas (eds.): Re-conociendo las geografías de América Latina y el Caribe. GEOlibros 24. Santiago de Chile 2017. ISBN 978-956-14-2051-9

External links section

 * Institute of Geography, University of Innsbruck https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/geographie/personal/borsdorf/
 * Institute of Interdisciplinary Mountain Research https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/igf/home
 * Axel Borsdorf in Academia.edu https://uibk.academia.edu/AxelProfBorsdorf
 * Research Gate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Axel-Borsdorf