Thomas Thaler
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1097754 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Thomas Thaler |
| NOMBRES | Thomas |
| APELLIDO | Thaler |
| FIRMA | THALER T |
| AFILIACIONES | BOKU University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3869-3722 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 110 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Just adaptation to urban heat
Increasing weather extremes, particularly urban heat, have made nature-based solutions (NBS) a central component of urban climate adaptation. At the same time, growing evidence suggests that NBS may reproduce existing social inequalities if environmental justice is not explicitly addressed. Drawing on Nancy Fraser’s multidimensional conception of justice, this paper examines the distributional, recognitional, and representative dimensions of just…
Intersectional vulnerabilities in climate change adaptation
Urban heatwaves have a significant impact on cities due to their density and the scarcity of green and blue spaces. Public green and blue spaces (PGBS) play a crucial role in mitigating these negative consequences. To counter these socio-spatial inequalities, urban planning plays a crucial role in increasing the availability of PGBS near their living areas. This paper examines how women's intersectional heat vulnerabilities are addressed in clima…
Taming the green gentrification cycle? Evidence from street greening in Vienna
Cities are increasingly vulnerable to climate change, prompting policymakers to implement urban greening. While extensive research has examined whether urban greening initiatives trigger gentrification, recent studies conceptualize a green gentrification cycle, where greening can both precede and follow gentrification. This study investigates both the occurrence of green gentrification and gentrified greening, as well as demand-, supply – and res…
Bridging knowledge systems in sustainability doctoral education
Analysing doctoral theses originating from sustainability doctoral schools reveals that it remains a challenge to bridge knowledge systems within the framework of doctoral research. We argue that doctoral programmes should do more to support students in transcending knowledge boundaries.The current polycrisis requires a recognition that no single knowledge system is sufficient for generating solutions. Bridging knowledge systems is central to int…
Impacts of hazard maps on individual reaction? Results from a case study in South Tyrol, Italy
This study investigates the impact of hazard maps on people’s risk awareness, risk perception and willingness to engage in risk management activities in South Tyrol, Italy. By comparing empirical survey data from municipalities with and without approved hazard maps, the research aims to understand how these maps influence people’s awareness and attitudes towards natural hazards. The results show that while hazard maps significantly improve risk p…
Policy Implementation Challenges of Unesco's Man and the Biosphere Program, Illustrated by Science–Society Interactions in 18 Mountain Biosphere Reserves
Mountain regions are increasingly vulnerable to the converging global crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and land degradation. These socioecological challenges demand not only incremental adaptation but also broader societal transformation processes, including in knowledge production. Science–society interactions (SSIs) are increasingly recognized as a promising pathway toward the coproduction of context-specific, actionable knowledge t…
Impacts of social contracts for citizens in the austrian flood risk management system
Green gentrification and changing planning policies in Vienna
Adapting urban spaces to the impacts of climate change is one of today’s key challenges, especially when it comes to avoiding the associated social trade-offs which are often overlooked in planning and policy regulation. Based on a review of existing policy and legal documents from Vienna, we analyse how mitigation of green gentrification is already included in Viennese urban planning and policy, and how the administration tries to manage it stra…
Contributions of science–society interactions to spur sustainability transformations in vulnerable landscapes
Nature visits, but not residential greenness, are associated with reduced income-related inequalities in subjective well-being
Nature exposure can promote human health and well-being. Additionally, there is some, albeit mixed, evidence that this relationship is stronger for socio-economically disadvantaged groups (equigenesis). Using a cross-sectional survey of the Austrian population (N = 2300), we explored the relationships between both residential greenness and recreational nature visits, and affective (WHO-5 Well-Being Index) and evaluative (Personal Well-Being Index…
Implementing catchment-wide flood risk management plans
Climate change is projected to heighten flood risk. To adapt to this higher flood risk, catchment-wide flood risk management (FRM) plans have become increasingly popular. These plans aim to implement risk reduction measures (RRMs), usually in rural areas on privately owned land, with the goal of reducing the vulnerability of downstream/urban regions. These interventions can have ramifications for rural/upstream areas as they restrict such areas’ …
The impact of demographic developments on flood risk management systems in rural regions in the Alpine Arc
Demographic trends across Europe indicate that many regions face sustained population decline due to aging and out-migration. Rural regions are often prone to flood hazards and have repeatedly been affected by damaging events in the past. However, we lack in-depth knowledge about how demographic trends challenge their capacities, abilities, and plans to manage flood risks. In this paper, we aim to close this gap. We employed a mixed-methods appro…
Social Justice in the Green City
The Covid-19 pandemic and energy, climate, and demographic crises have shown how cities are vulnerable to these impacts and how the access to green and blue spaces has become highly relevant to people. One strategy that we can observe is the strong focus on the resilience discourse, meaning implementing more green and blue spaces in urban areas, such as at previous brownfield quarters. However, social justice implications of urban greening have b…
Green Gentrification, Social Justice, and Climate Change in the Literature
While global urban development is increasingly oriented towards strategies to facilitate green urbanism, potential community trade-offs are largely overlooked. This article presents the findings of a quantitative and qualitative meta-analysis of the current literature on green gentrification (the process leading the implementation of an environmental planning agenda displacing or excluding the most economically vulnerable population) in connectio…
Homeowners and the Resilient City
Policy experimentation within flood risk management
Flood risk management (FRM) is facing various challenges, such as climate change and biodiversity losses. Traditional structural FRM measures are now not always feasible as responses to these challenges. One answer might be the use of policy experiments to promote innovation. This paper aims to assess and to explain why innovations in FRM are rarely implemented. We analysed seven innovative strategies across Austria that combine several different…
Homeowners and the Resilient City
This book focuses on the issue of urban resilience and how has become central to the debate around response and adaptation to climate change.
Bottom-up innovations in natural hazard risk management in Austria
Current procedures in risk management request new institutional innovations to effectively respond to observed dynamics. This paper aims to assess and explain institutional innovations in natural hazard risk management by analyzing examples of multi-functional protection schemes, which are distinctive to mainstream solutions. These multi-functional protection schemes combine several different functions (e.g. risk management strategy, sustainable …
On the right track of flood planning policy? Land uptake in Central-European floodplains (1990–2018)
Mountain Resilience
Mountains are home to a considerable share of the human population. Around a billion people live in mountainous areas, which harbor rich natural and sociocultural diversity. Today, many people living in mountainous areas worldwide face fundamental changes to their cultural and economic living conditions. At the same time, mountain communities have defied harsh environments in the past by adapting to changing natural conditions and showing remarka…
Make it personal
Smart Urban Governance for Climate Change Adaptation
Climate change will affect the way cities work substantially. Flooding and urban heating are among the most tangible consequences in cities around the globe. Extreme hydro-meteorological events will likely increase in the future due to climate change. Making cities climate-resilient is therefore an urgent challenge to sustain urban living. To adapt cities to the consequences of climate change, new ideas and concepts need to be adopted. This often…
Flood-Resilient Communities
To achieve a more flood-resilient society, it is essential to involve citizens. Therefore, new instruments, such as tailor-made advice for homeowners, are being developed to inform homeowners about adaptive strategies in building to motivate them to implement these measures. This article evaluates if public–private interactions, such as tailored advice, change risk behaviour and therefore increase flood resilience among homeowners. The article co…
German-Language Spatial Planning Research between Theory and Practice
This paper examines two leading questions of current German spatial-planning-research. The first question regards the significance of co-authorships in German-language spatial planning research, measuring the extent of interdisciplinarity and cooperation. Compared with other disciplines, stable co-authorships have less importance. The second question pertains to the role of theoretical bases in the journal articles: Large parts of publications in…
An institutional approach to vulnerability
Institutional vulnerability to natural hazards has not been thoroughly investigated until now. Yet, institutional vulnerability is strongly connected to all other vulnerability dimensions, and specific socio-economic and physical indicators. Moreover, different types of crises such as economic, political or health crisis strongly affect the institutional capacity of communities to deal with the consequences of natural hazards. For this reason, a …
Defining and operationalizing path dependency for the development and monitoring of adaptation pathways
Adaptation pathway approaches (APAs) have become an increasingly popular means of facilitating local and regional anticipatory planning under the influence of climate change. Many studies in this field of research identify path dependencies as a key barrier to adaptation efforts. However, their respective definitions of path dependency are often vague and impede a comprehensive integration of this concept into APAs. We fill this gap by systematic…
Multi-level stakeholder engagement in flood risk management—A question of roles and power
Political feasibility of 1.5°C societal transformations
Constraining global climate change to 1.5°C is commonly understood to require urgent and deep societal transformations. Yet such transformations are not always viewed as politically feasible; finding ways to enhance the political feasibility of ambitious decarbonization trajectories is needed. This paper reviews the role of social justice as an organizing principle for politically feasible 1.5°C transformations. A social justice lens usefully foc…
Patience, persistence and pre-signals
Within the wide array of adaptive responses to flood hazards, planned relocation of residents at risk is usually only taken into account if other responses are ineffective or unavailable. Residents targeted by planned relocation are confronted with radical changes in their livelihood; therefore, relocation is highly contested within public risk discourse. The present paper assesses dynamic processes in the design and implementation of voluntary p…
Participatory and collaborative governance for sustainable flood risk management
Natural Hazard Management from a Coevolutionary Perspective
A coevolutionary perspective is adopted to understand the dynamics of exposure to mountain hazards in the European Alps. A spatially explicit, object-based temporal assessment of elements at risk to mountain hazards (river floods, torrential floods, and debris flows) in Austria and Switzerland is presented for the period from 1919 to 2012. The assessment is based on two different data sets: (1) hazard information adhering to legally binding land …
Financial recovery schemes in Austria
Damages due to extreme hydro-metrological events request for additional efforts to enhance the implementation of property level flood risk adaptation (PLFRA) measures. Although a highly effective long-term measure, the planned relocation of individuals from areas at risk is rarely considered as an adaptive response. We evaluate how financial recovery schemes are actually linked to planned relocation option in two study sites in Austria. In both a…
Partnership funding in flood risk management
The new flood risk policy discussion in England has started to redefine national policy regarding flood and coastal risk management. The key issue in the new policy agenda is to encourage the responsibilities of local authorities in flood risk management, which involve defining local strategies to manage local risks. This downscaling process in flood risk management has a series of consequences in the development of new governance structures and …
Policy experimentation within flood risk management
Flood risk management (FRM) is facing various challenges, such as climate change and biodiversity losses. Traditional structural FRM measures are now not always feasible as responses to these challenges. One answer might be the use of policy experiments to promote innovation. This paper aims to assess and to explain why innovations in FRM are rarely implemented. We analysed seven innovative strategies across Austria that combine several different…
The impact of humanitarian assistance on post-disaster social vulnerabilities
Every year, thousands of people around the world who face unequal access to political and social power and resources lose their lives and/or livelihoods in natural hazard events. As a result, the reduction of vulnerability has become a central concern of humanitarian actors. This paper analyses the impact of humanitarian assistance on vulnerabilities in Nepal following the Gorkha earthquake on 25 April 2015. The causes and manifestations of vulne…
Flood risk management in Austria
Bottom‐up citizen initiatives in natural hazard management
In the face of increasingly frequent and severe extreme weather events due to climate change, merely top-down governance approaches are increasingly found inadequate and ineffective. Recent climate change adaptation policy strives to promote bottom-up, citizen-driven initiatives to improve local resilience. How and under what conditions citizens may engage in collective action remains unclear, however. We employ a mixed-methods approach in Easter…
The introduction of catchment-wide co-operations
Moving away from local-based flood risk policy in Austria
Floodplain areas across the world have always played an attractive role for residential and non-residential developments. The Alpine regions have a strong pressure to develop new residential and non-residential buildings in hazard areas due to lack of other areas suitable for development. Consequently, the number of elements at risk and vulnerability to flood hazards increased. In order to reduce the vulnerability, the focus of mitigation flood h…
Financial schemes for resilient flood recovery
Options for the increase of flood resilience during the recovery phase is, to a large extent, overlooked. The special issue Financial Schemes for Resilient Flood Recovery investigates how the implementation of financial schemes (government relief subsidies, insurance schemes, buy-outs, etc.) might increase flood resilience. Five papers address following questions: Shall government relief subsidies exist when there is flood insurance in place, and…
Partnership funding in flood risk management
The new flood risk policy discussion in England has started to redefine national policy regarding flood and coastal risk management. The key issue in the new policy agenda is to encourage the responsibilities of local authorities in flood risk management, which involve defining local strategies to manage local risks. This downscaling process in flood risk management has a series of consequences in the development of new governance structures and …
Multi-level stakeholder engagement in flood risk management—A question of roles and power
Participatory and collaborative governance for sustainable flood risk management
Moving away from local-based flood risk policy in Austria
Floodplain areas across the world have always played an attractive role for residential and non-residential developments. The Alpine regions have a strong pressure to develop new residential and non-residential buildings in hazard areas due to lack of other areas suitable for development. Consequently, the number of elements at risk and vulnerability to flood hazards increased. In order to reduce the vulnerability, the focus of mitigation flood h…
Political feasibility of 1.5°C societal transformations
Constraining global climate change to 1.5°C is commonly understood to require urgent and deep societal transformations. Yet such transformations are not always viewed as politically feasible; finding ways to enhance the political feasibility of ambitious decarbonization trajectories is needed. This paper reviews the role of social justice as an organizing principle for politically feasible 1.5°C transformations. A social justice lens usefully foc…
The introduction of catchment-wide co-operations
Natural Hazard Management from a Coevolutionary Perspective
A coevolutionary perspective is adopted to understand the dynamics of exposure to mountain hazards in the European Alps. A spatially explicit, object-based temporal assessment of elements at risk to mountain hazards (river floods, torrential floods, and debris flows) in Austria and Switzerland is presented for the period from 1919 to 2012. The assessment is based on two different data sets: (1) hazard information adhering to legally binding land …
Vulnerability and Resilience to Natural Hazards
International audience
Financial recovery schemes in Austria
Damages due to extreme hydro-metrological events request for additional efforts to enhance the implementation of property level flood risk adaptation (PLFRA) measures. Although a highly effective long-term measure, the planned relocation of individuals from areas at risk is rarely considered as an adaptive response. We evaluate how financial recovery schemes are actually linked to planned relocation option in two study sites in Austria. In both a…
Bottom‐up citizen initiatives in natural hazard management
In the face of increasingly frequent and severe extreme weather events due to climate change, merely top-down governance approaches are increasingly found inadequate and ineffective. Recent climate change adaptation policy strives to promote bottom-up, citizen-driven initiatives to improve local resilience. How and under what conditions citizens may engage in collective action remains unclear, however. We employ a mixed-methods approach in Easter…
The influence of tailored risk communication on individual adaptive behaviour
Hydro-meteorological hazards annually lead to considerable economic losses worldwide. Property level flood risk adaptation (PLFRA) measures have shown to decrease potential damages by floods and other hazards. However, such measures are often implemented inadequately, frequently because of lacking communication between public administration and homeowners. Thus, risk communication systems have been created by multiple actors, ranging from the gov…
Financial schemes for resilient flood recovery
Options for the increase of flood resilience during the recovery phase is, to a large extent, overlooked. The special issue Financial Schemes for Resilient Flood Recovery investigates how the implementation of financial schemes (government relief subsidies, insurance schemes, buy-outs, etc.) might increase flood resilience. Five papers address following questions: Shall government relief subsidies exist when there is flood insurance in place, and…
Cooperation in flood risk management
Strategic land use planning assumes a pivotal role in flood risk management. By using formal instruments, spatial planning can (i) legally secure areas for flood retention or other flood protection measures (hazard reduction) as well as (ii) regulate settlement development in hazard areas and ensure flood-adapted land uses (damage prevention). The interrelations between upstream and downstream riparian areas in flood risk management, however, req…
Patience, persistence and pre-signals
Within the wide array of adaptive responses to flood hazards, planned relocation of residents at risk is usually only taken into account if other responses are ineffective or unavailable. Residents targeted by planned relocation are confronted with radical changes in their livelihood; therefore, relocation is highly contested within public risk discourse. The present paper assesses dynamic processes in the design and implementation of voluntary p…
Flood risk management in Austria
Make it personal
Smart Urban Governance for Climate Change Adaptation
Climate change will affect the way cities work substantially. Flooding and urban heating are among the most tangible consequences in cities around the globe. Extreme hydro-meteorological events will likely increase in the future due to climate change. Making cities climate-resilient is therefore an urgent challenge to sustain urban living. To adapt cities to the consequences of climate change, new ideas and concepts need to be adopted. This often…
Flood-Resilient Communities
To achieve a more flood-resilient society, it is essential to involve citizens. Therefore, new instruments, such as tailor-made advice for homeowners, are being developed to inform homeowners about adaptive strategies in building to motivate them to implement these measures. This article evaluates if public–private interactions, such as tailored advice, change risk behaviour and therefore increase flood resilience among homeowners. The article co…
German-Language Spatial Planning Research between Theory and Practice
This paper examines two leading questions of current German spatial-planning-research. The first question regards the significance of co-authorships in German-language spatial planning research, measuring the extent of interdisciplinarity and cooperation. Compared with other disciplines, stable co-authorships have less importance. The second question pertains to the role of theoretical bases in the journal articles: Large parts of publications in…
An institutional approach to vulnerability
Institutional vulnerability to natural hazards has not been thoroughly investigated until now. Yet, institutional vulnerability is strongly connected to all other vulnerability dimensions, and specific socio-economic and physical indicators. Moreover, different types of crises such as economic, political or health crisis strongly affect the institutional capacity of communities to deal with the consequences of natural hazards. For this reason, a …
Just retreat—how different countries deal with it
Flood risk management has developed a large inventory of potential actions to climate-related hazards. Within this wide array of measures, managed retreat of communities at risk is usually only taken into account if other strategies are ineffective or unavailable. Communities who are affected by managed retreat are confronted with radical changes in their livelihood. However, managed retreat is highly contested. The use of managed retreat include…
Defining and operationalizing path dependency for the development and monitoring of adaptation pathways
Adaptation pathway approaches (APAs) have become an increasingly popular means of facilitating local and regional anticipatory planning under the influence of climate change. Many studies in this field of research identify path dependencies as a key barrier to adaptation efforts. However, their respective definitions of path dependency are often vague and impede a comprehensive integration of this concept into APAs. We fill this gap by systematic…
The impact of humanitarian assistance on post-disaster social vulnerabilities
Every year, thousands of people around the world who face unequal access to political and social power and resources lose their lives and/or livelihoods in natural hazard events. As a result, the reduction of vulnerability has become a central concern of humanitarian actors. This paper analyses the impact of humanitarian assistance on vulnerabilities in Nepal following the Gorkha earthquake on 25 April 2015. The causes and manifestations of vulne…
Homeowners and the Resilient City
This book focuses on the issue of urban resilience and how has become central to the debate around response and adaptation to climate change.
Bottom-up innovations in natural hazard risk management in Austria
Current procedures in risk management request new institutional innovations to effectively respond to observed dynamics. This paper aims to assess and explain institutional innovations in natural hazard risk management by analyzing examples of multi-functional protection schemes, which are distinctive to mainstream solutions. These multi-functional protection schemes combine several different functions (e.g. risk management strategy, sustainable …
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