A5050871054- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Disaster Response and Management
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
- Global Financial Crisis and Policies
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Architecture and Cultural Influences
- Regional resilience and development
- Media Influence and Health
- Coastal and Marine Management
University of Stuttgart
2017-2024
Climate change is a severe global threat. Research on climate and vulnerability to natural hazards has made significant progress over the last decades. Most of research been devoted improving quality information hazard data, including exposure specific phenomena, such as flooding or sea-level rise. Less attention given assessment embedded social, economic historical conditions that foster societies. A number assessments based indicators have developed past years. Yet an essential question...
More than 130 lives were lost in the 2021 heavy precipitation and flood event Ahr Valley, Germany, where large parts of valley destroyed. Afterwards, public funding about 15 billion Euros has been made available for reconstruction. However, with people settlements being highly exposed zones, core question that is not sufficiently addressed whether affected want to rebuild same place, or rather opt move out. The paper explores this assesses motivations reasons moving staying Valley. For...
Rural areas are highly vulnerable to floods due limited social, economic, and physical resources. Understanding rural vulnerability is vital for developing effective disaster risk reduction strategies. Even though cities intrinsically linked, was assessed without considering its relation cities. Numerous theoretical frameworks on systemizing assessing were developed with varying level of scope depth in terms scale, dimensions, components. Nevertheless, these did not explicitly mention the...
Social protection has emerged as a strategy to minimize climate change impacts by building the resilience of vulnerable communities. It is increasingly being used in disaster risk reduction and adaptation. This study reviews role social scientific literature through bibliometric thematic analysis. Web Science database was retrieve articles using selected keywords. Historical growth, citations, keywords, country analyses were perform review. Thematic analysis identify themes pertaining...
Disaster resilience and building back better (BBB) are key concepts in the disaster risk discourse, however, these often remain vague for many stakeholders involved recovery. Based on reconstruction process Germany after extreme floods of 2021 with more than 180 deaths, we explore challenges opportunities to strengthen resilient recovery one world's wealthiest most technologically advanced countries. We examine factors that contributed severe losses damages assess different phases process....
Vulnerability and response capacities of disaster-affected communities might change due to extreme events measures taken thereafter. This has also been acknowledged there are only very few empirical studies on how spatio-temporal changes in vulnerability at community level occur they affect risk management development. Against this background, the paper investigates flood-affected rural Pakistan. A major flood hit Pakistan 2010 that had a global repercussion international media; however,...
Vulnerability to environmental hazards has widely been assessed in disaster risk science and climate change literature by integrating socio-economic geographical features of a community or place. However, the role spatial proximity cities – an important feature influencing household vulnerability not scrutinized. This paper assesses how distance affects rural farming communities against flood hazard. proposes Vulnerability-Proximity Nexus (VPN) framework operationalises it context Pakistan....
High uncertainty in the occurrence of extreme events and disasters have made resilience-building an imperative part society. Resilience assessment is important tool this context. multidimensional as well place-, scale- time-specific, which requires a comprehensive approach for measuring analysing. In regard, composite indicators are preferred, extensive literature available on resilience indices all spatial temporal scales hazard-specific or multi-hazard related indicators. However,...
Abstract Reducing vulnerability is essential for adaptation to climate change. Compared approaches that examine a specific hazard, our analysis offers an alternative perspective conceptualizes change as phenomenon independent of any type hazard but relevant multiple hazards. Vulnerability thus product structural inequality and systemic in nature. Based on two established index systems, we perform global analyses phenomena—such poverty, access basic infrastructure services forced...
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a practical framework for community participation in post-disaster resettlement. Design/methodology/approach proposed has been tested two model villages (MVs) Punjab, Pakistan. Primary data were collected through household surveys, focus group discussions and expert interviews. A survey with 67 households was conducted obtaining qualitative regarding Findings first MV (Ittehad MV) resettled by the local NGO, second (Basti Meera Mullan)...
Purpose The extreme flood event of 2010 in Pakistan led to extensive internal displacement rural communities, resulting initiatives resettle the displaced population model villages (MVs). MV concept is quite new context post-disaster resettlement and its role building community resilience well-being has not been explored. This study aims assess MVs relocated particularly looking at differences between those developed by governmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs)....
Pakistan has faced frequent flash and riverine flooding in the recent decades. This study evaluates effectiveness of flood EWS from perspectives local experts/institutions communities. Interviews consultations with experts (13 officials government other concerned departments) were carried out to understand institutional challenges communicating early warnings, whereas three flood-prone communities different-sized cities (Rawalpindi, Sialkot Muzaffargarh) surveyed. A total 210 samples...
Abstract. The Stuttgart region in southwest Germany already experiences heat stress and extreme precipitation events. According to German law, spatial planning at the municipal regional levels has an important role adapting such However, this is a challenge achieve alongside other demands on land use. One resource support adaptive risk analyses, which can provide justification for prioritising adaptation information about where how prioritise different measures. Such maps should not just...