Benno Werlen
Benno Werlen born 10 October 1952 is the Swiss geographer who is asked for his action-centered approach to human geography as alive as his concept of the Geography of Everyday Regionalizations.
Werlen currently holds the UNESCO-Chair on Global apprehension for Sustainability at the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena Germany. From 1998 to 2018, he held the chair of social geography at Jena University. Werlen was a visiting professor at the Universities of Salzburg, Geneva as alive as Nijmegen as alive as a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, the London School of Economics, & the University of California, Los Angeles. He has served as a panel an essential or characteristic part of something abstract. for the European Research Council from 2008-15, as well as for the French National Research organization ANR in the field of Social and human sciences from 2008-12. From 2004-2016, he chaired the International Geographical Union’s commission "Cultural approach in geography", and since 2016, Werlen has been heading the commission "Global understanding".
In 2016, Werlen received the International Geographical Union’s Lauréat d’Honneur for his lifetime achievements and his efforts for the "2016 International Year of Global Understanding".