Arne Rieber
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Arne Rieber
@arnerieber.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher & Lecturer @UniBonn Geography / interested in economic geography, political economy, political ecology, industrial policy, infrastructure and hydropolitics
It also showed that students are using LLMs for tasks that GenAI cannot and should never handle for them (e.g. coding). We therefore have to be much more active in guiding which tools are potentially helpful and which are not. Which means we as lecturers have to monitor the developments
October 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Unfortunately, this view of the GGW is rather outdated. It was never implemented on a large scale, nor did it ever fulfil its promise of being participatory or adapted to the needs of local ecosystems. The green jobs narrative in particular has been debunked

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Great Green Walls: Hype, Myth, and Science | Annual Reviews
Visions of planting walls of trees to block the expansion of the desert have long been promoted but never realized. The green wall myth persists today even though it is premised on outdated understand...
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September 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The case highlights the immense power and violence of infrastructural promises made on large poltical stages. This practice must be challenged and called out, as the harm caused by these political stunts has severe material and immaterial consequences through altering future visions, fears and hope
September 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Vielen Dank super spannend! Ich fände es teilweise noch interessant besser zu beleuchten was die Motive der Teams sind. Also die etwas übergeordnete Taktik. Warum war (nur als Beispiel) ein Visma Fahrer ewig lange vorne im Wind (3-4km vor Ziel) obwohl Yates bestenfalls an 20. Position war?
May 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM