A5045713418- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Global Financial Crisis and Policies
- HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
- Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
- Coastal and Marine Management
University of Stuttgart
2019-2024
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...
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 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)....
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...
Abstract Urbanization has resulted in increasing the pace of informality, specifically developing countries like India. Informality is taking place at locations that are exposed to various hazards, and therefore, resilience building both informal formal settlements needed achieve sustainable development. Resilience assessment key defining appropriate area-specific measures. Given that, this research assesses Surat city India presents implications for To assess resilience, an indicator-based...
Abstract Climate change impacts and their consequences are determined not only by the intensity frequency of different climatic hazards but also vulnerability system, society or community exposed. While general agreement exists about importance assessing to understand climate risks, there is still a tendency neglect global regional patterns because they hard quantify, despite value in informing adaptation, disaster risk development policies. Several approaches quantifying exist. These differ...
The impact of climate change and related hazards such as floods, heatwaves, sea level rise on human lives, cities, their hinterlands depends not only the nature hazard, but also urban development, adaptation, other socioeconomic processes that determine vulnerability exposure. Spatial planning can reduce risk just by influencing exposure, addressing social vulnerability. This requires relevant information is available to planners plans are implemented coordinated between sectors. article...
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 are risk analyses, which can provide justification for prioritising adaptation information about where how prioritise different measures. Such maps should not just...
Conceptual frameworks are vital for identifying relevant components, dimensions and indicators to assess vulnerability natural hazards climatic change. Given the fact that is applied used in various disciplines by multiple schools of thought, several conceptual conceptualise have been developed. Even though these widely cited research, range context application contextual use such rarely explored. This paper provides a systematic review MOVE (Methods Improvement Vulnerability Assessment...
In 2016, heavy precipitation events in Southern Germany demonstrated that pluvial flooding can cause serious damages, not just large cities but also small and medium-sized cities. Hazard-oriented disaster management approaches to better address such spatially ubiquitous extreme are already being developed. However, integrated strategies reduce risk promote climate-resilient development pathways through both private precautionary measures urban planning still underdeveloped. Considering the...
Spatial development, particularly the rapid expansion of urban areas, is increasing disaster risk in city-regions around world. The planning region Stuttgart a growing polycentric with high demand for housing and commercial space, at same time faced pluvial flooding heatwaves. that controls coordinates development an important tool ex-ante reduction. However, planners face complex task to weigh up myriad goals which reduction just one. Decision-making tools practitioners public quantify...
For the Stuttgart region, as a polycentric, highly dense area with strong economic growth, adapting to effects of climate change is key prerequisite for maintaining quality life and living in region’s 179 towns communities, well security competitiveness region whole. The already characterized by serious summer heat stress air problems. Heavy rain events, such one most recently July 2021, have repeatedly hit important infrastructure facilities. Adapting events their impact priority...
Heat stress is recognised among the key risks in context of climate and societal changes. This study aims to explore link between socio-economic spatial factors contributing effects extreme heat events city Stuttgart. The paper presents some findings Citizens' Survey 2021 Stuttgart on variables such as experience with access green spaces. analysis further gives special emphasis relationships these e.g. income levels heat-related adaptation options. survey data was analyzed using Statistical...