Special Issue : German Society for Geomorphology

Kurzfassung/Abstract

The German Society for Geomorphology (GSG; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geomorphologie: DGGM) has evolved out of the German Working Group for Geomorphology in 2021 reflecting the widened scope of relevant topics and involved disciplines, the increasing importance for the professional job market and society in general as well as the increasing importance of international cooperation and global challenges. In this special issue we attempted to visualise the breadth in relevant methods and geomorphological subdisciplines, the wide scope of investigated temporal and spatial scales but also the diversification in terms of career levels and gender equality. The SI contains 25 research papers and one commentary incorporating more than 30 German, Austrian, Swiss and other geomorphology groups, all active in the GSG, with co-authors from virtually all continents. This editorial provides a short historical overview of the GSG evolution, short paper summaries, a tabular paper overview and a graphic representation of contributing groups and networking, the career level and gender of all authors, relevant topics, methods as well as temporal and spatial scales.