A5091540703- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Landslides and related hazards
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
- Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
- Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
- Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
- Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Urban Green Space and Health
Arbed (Luxembourg)
2019-2022
Universität Innsbruck
2017-2020
BOKU University
2016
Outdoor recreation contributes vitally to human well-being, but spatio-temporal mapping on large scales of this ecosystem service is rarely addressed in a comprehensive manner. In study, we aim map supply, demand, and flow, combining different approaches data sources, including spatially explicit indicators crowd-sourced information from social media. We analyse spatial temporal patterns the European Alps their surrounding areas (Alpine Space area) explore societal preferences. Our results...
Symbolic plants and animals are recognised as a cultural ecosystem service (CES), which is still underrepresented in services assessments. Thus, this study aims at identifying mapping important symbolic species the European Alps, of significance to large parts Alpine population. were identified by ten expert groups, their use was assessed qualitative way. The spatial distribution all across Space area mapped municipality level. Through hotspots analysis, we patterns species. Spearman...
Socio-economic indicators are key to understanding societal challenges. They disassemble complex phenomena gain insights and deepen understanding. Specific subsets of have been developed describe sustainability, human development, vulnerability, risk, resilience climate change adaptation. Nonetheless, insufficient quality availability data often limit their explanatory power. Spatial temporal resolution not at a scale appropriate for monitoring. mostly provided by governmental institutions...
The European Alps are known as the 'water towers of Europe'. However, climatic and socioeconomic changes influence both water supply demand, increasing need to manage this limited valuable resource properly avoid user conflicts scarcity. Two major challenges emerge when assessing scarcity in Alps: Firstly, mountainous regions very heterogeneous regarding availability demand over space time, therefore assessments be done at low temporal spatial scales. Secondly, tight coupling natural social...
A key challenge in the sustainable management of freshwater is related to non-stationary processes and transboundary requirements. The assessment often hampered due small-scale analyses, lacking data with focus on only its provision. Based ecosystem service (ES) concept, this study aims at quantitatively comparing potential water supply demand for European Alps their surrounding lowlands. We propose an easy-to-use combination different mapping approaches, including a large-scale hydrologic...
Abstract. With flash flood events having been repeatedly observed in Central and Western Europe recent years, there is a growing interest how catchment physiographic properties hydrological conditions are eventually controlling rapid concentrated responses. Here we focus on set of two nested catchments Luxembourg (Europe) that have exposed 2016 2018 to study their seasonal runoff time transfer distributions. Both similar size (∼ 30 km2) analogous distance distributions, but geological...
Abstract Flood risk management is founded on the regular assessment of damage potential. A significant parameter for assessing potential number at-risk objects. However, data sets exposure are often incomplete and/or lack time-references. Airborne remote sensing data, such as orthophotos, offers a regularly-updated, time-referenced depiction land use. As such, compensates sources (such digital cadastral maps). Orthophotos can even be used to analyze temporal dynamics flood potential,...
<p>In 2016 and 2018, severe convective rainfall events caused several flash floods in small mesoscale catchments eastern Luxembourg. While the runoff coefficients of these remained rather common, high proportion generated flood peaks was very unusual - requiring further research into dominating generating processes (e.g. flow paths type, activation/connectivity, antecedent conditions).</p><p>Here we to intend explore quantify, based on a longitudinal...
Abstract. With flash flood events having been repeatedly observed in Central and Western Europe recent years, there is a growing interest how catchment physiographic properties hydrological conditions are eventually controlling rapid concentrated responses. Here, we focus on set of two nested catchments Luxembourg (Europe) that have exposed 2016 2018 to events. While being similar size (~30 km2) analogous distance distributions, their geological bedrock landscape features notably different....