Favor – Disfavor?
Work environment of a pedologist in a deep and wide soil profile | © J. Henkner
Subproject B 02:
Favor – Disfavor? Resource Development in Marginal Spaces
Project leadership:
Prof. Dr. Thomas Knopf, Prof. Dr. Thomas Scholten, Dr. Peter Kühn
Staff:
Dr. Jessica Henkner, Dr. Jan Johannes Miera
Region:
Baar, Black Forest, Swabian Alb
Why do people move from naturally convenient areas (favored spaces) to naturally inconvenient areas (unfavored spaces)?
The subproject ‚Favor – Disfavor? Resource Development in Marginal Spaces’ explores in two case studies the causes of such development processes and the connected movements into new areas. In regard to the resource soil, the ‚Altsiedellandschaft‘ at the Baar forms the favored space and is thereby the starting point for movements. These movements led to the naturally quite different inconvenient areas of the Black Forest and the Swabian Alb.
While one case study focuses primarily on pedological issues, the other deals with archaeological aspects.