A5015405907- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Disaster Response and Management
- Peacebuilding and International Security
- Risk Perception and Management
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Global Security and Public Health
- Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
- Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
- Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Public Relations and Crisis Communication
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
University of Tübingen
2018-2023
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Tübingen
2020
Cal Humanities
2018
In general, the identification and protection of vulnerable groups in case hazards or when a crisis unfolds is an issue that any disaster risk management should address, since people have different levels exposure to crises. this article, we promote application intersectionality perspective study groups, call for as guiding principle management, provide better more nuanced picture vulnerabilities groups. This can help national local authorities agencies formulate specific guides, hire staff...
The concept of social vulnerability has been increasingly applied in disaster literature, but its communicative drivers have remained understudied. In this article, we put forward a heuristic framework for explaining how communication-related factors may adversely affect people's capacity to prepare and respond disasters. This will help researchers, policy makers, practitioners the field disasters crises systematically identify individual, social-structural, situational that shape people...
While social vulnerability in the face of disasters has received increasing academic attention, relatively little is known about extent to which that knowledge reflected practice by institutions involved disaster management. This study charts practitioners' approaches eight European countries: Belgium; Estonia; Finland; Germany; Hungary; Italy; Norway; and Sweden. It draws on a comparative document analysis 95 interviews with managers reveals significant differences across countries terms...
Informal volunteering is increasingly important in disaster management, but authorities remain cautious about collaborating with informal volunteers. Relatively little known the extent to which volunteers are integrated into European management systems. We try remedy this gap by examining Germany, Italy, Belgium, Hungary, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Estonia, focusing on (1) policies institutional arrangements for integrating volunteers, (2) methods tools used their engagement, (3) presumed...
This article conceptualizes resilience as an emergent and contingent practice that shapes societal relationships in unexpected ways. It focuses on the case of 2013 floods Dresden, a city witnessed three major within 11 years. Emergent volunteer activities ground social media played significant role during flood emergency response efforts. Drawing Philippe Bourbeau’s definition process patterned adjustment, regards these structures incidents resilience. In not only was explicitly requested by...
Although self-imposed social isolation is an important way of reducing the risk COVID-19 infection, previous research indicates that this behaviour varies substantially between different groups and individuals. Socially marginalized people are generally less involved in protective health behaviours, but there few studies their behaviours. The aims paper therefore to: 1) compare to avoid among socially groups, 2) examine factors influencing this, focusing especially on role capital, awareness...
Abstract The shift of responsibility from the state and public authorities to individual local level is one most common critiques resilience policies. Individuals are portrayed as self-responsible entrepreneurs their own protection. This article proposes a more nuanced reading this process by arguing that also entails an emancipatory potential. Drawing on analysis German disaster management system its structural marginalisation care-dependent people, discusses potential make so far neglected...
Abstract The role of ethics in research and innovation projects (R&I) has become much more important recent decades. Particularly, security-related is required to reflect on normative issues within the process. At same time, form which addressed differs greatly. This not only due different agendas (e.g. as an evaluation criterion or a endeavour itself) aims technology development, social medical research) but also because perceptions with regard project external standard comply strand...
Informal volunteering is increasingly important in disaster management, but authorities remain cautious about collaborating with informal volunteers. Relatively little known the extent to which volunteers are integrated into European management systems. We try remedy this gap by examining Germany, Italy, Belgium, Hungary, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Estonia, focusing on (1) policies institutional arrangements for integrating volunteers, (2) methods tools used their engagement, (3) presumed...