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Christian Pfister

The historian Christian Pfister (b. 1944) was research professor at the Swiss National Science Foundation between 1990 and 1996; in 1997 he was appointed Professor for Economic, Social and Environmental History at the University of Bern. In 2000 Pfister was awarded the Eduard-Brückner Prize for outstanding interdisciplinary work in climate history. Between 2001 and 2005 he was Vice President of the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH). Since the late ’80s Pfister has been a regular contributor to EU and European Science Foundation (ESF) projects.

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Lectures

09/03/2009 7:30 pm

What does yesterday’s snow tell us about tomorrow’s climate? On the reconstruction of extremes of climate and the patterns of their interpretation

Institution

University of Bern