Frauke Kraas
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3752805 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Frauke Kraas |
| NOMBRES | Frauke |
| APELLIDO | Kraas |
| FIRMA | KRAAS F |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cologne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3498-6758 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Medical diversity of migrants’ physical and mental health understandings
Health understandings of migrants, immigrants and persons with a migration background (in short: 'im/migrants') often diverge from the biomedical paradigm dominant in many host societies. Shaped by culturally diverse backgrounds, these understandings influence im/migrants’ health practices and utilisation of formal healthcare services. This study aims to explore the health understandings of im/migrants residing in two socio-culturally diverse urb…
Between hope and hype
Despite the central role attributed to civil society organisations (CSOs) in disaster risk reduction (DRR) and within the all-of-society approach of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 (SFDRR), the post-SFDRR evidence base has not been systematically assessed in terms of how CSO roles are conceptualised, operationalised and evaluated across hazards, disaster phases and governance contexts. Here, we provide a systematic glob…
Nature-based Solutions for landslide risk reduction in informal settlements of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) for climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) aim to take advantage of the benefits that nature can provide to cope with potential adverse impacts. This study identifies and evaluates NbS for landslide risk reduction in the informal settlements of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, comparing them with conventional engineering measures. The research is based on a qualitative, participatory methodology, …
Disaster awareness and preparedness of micro, small and medium enterprises
Myanmar is a disaster-prone country, experiencing frequent hazards, such as fires, floods, cyclones, landslides, heatwaves and droughts, as well as a high earthquake risk. In such countries, it is crucial that societies become as resilient as possible to disasters. To improve resilience, it is essential that there is a solid understanding of disaster awareness and preparedness throughout society, as this is a prerequisite for successful disaster …
Migrants' and immigrants' understandings of health and disease. Medical diversity in two diverse urban neighbourhoods
Health and disease are understood in diverse ways, and im/migrants bring cultural backgrounds that shape explanatory concepts. These understandings influence health practices and may affect utilisation of healthcare institutions. Yet most research focuses on biomedical perspectives, offering limited insight into how alternative medical, and supernatural understandings shape im/migrants' health practices. This study examined im/migrants in two Ger…
Institutional risk and crisis communication on natural hazards and disaster risks in Yangon, Myanmar
The city of Yangon, Myanmar, is located in a disaster-prone area of Southeast Asia. To reduce the risk of natural hazards, relevant frameworks of the UN, ASEAN and Myanmar’s national and local levels focus on making citizens more resilient by improving their ability to anticipate, prevent, absorb and transform risks of disasters. Those documents’ core elements are knowledge provision, actionable advice on natural hazards and capacity building of …
Towards integrated flood management
Despite the rising global flood risk, the impacts of flooding remain systematically underestimated, leading to significant consequences for particularly vulnerable river deltas. Most studies focus either on single hazards or social vulnerability while overlooking the interconnected dynamics of deltaic social-ecological systems. In response to the first priority of the Sendai Framework, which calls for an understanding of disaster risk in all its …
Evaluating flood hazards in data-sparse coastal lowlands
Coastal lowlands and river deltas worldwide are increasingly exposed to coastal, pluvial and fluvial flooding as well as relative sea-level rise (RSLR). However, information about both single and multiple flood-type hazards, their potential impact and the characteristics of areas, population and assets at risk is often still limited as high-quality data either does not exist or is not accessible. This often constitutes a main barrier for generati…
Disaster risk perception and preparedness of households in Yangon, Myanmar
In disaster-prone countries, it is of great concern that societies as a whole, as well as households and individuals, should become as resilient to disasters as possible. In Myanmar, with its frequent natural hazards like floods, cyclones and droughts and its high probability of earthquakes, raising awareness of and preparedness for disasters is of eminent importance in order to increase the resilience of society, households and individuals. Disa…
Involving private healthcare practitioners in an urban NCD sentinel surveillance system
BACKGROUND: Despite the rising impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) on public health in India, lack of quality data and routine surveillance hampers the planning process for NCD prevention and control. Current surveillance programs focus largely on communicable diseases and do not adequately include the private healthcare sector as a major source of care in cities. OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study was to conceptualize, implement, and e…
Risk governance in the megacity Mumbai/India – A Complex Adaptive System perspective
Knowledge, attitude, and practices with respect to disease surveillance among urban private practitioners in Pune, India
BACKGROUND: Participation of private practitioners in routine disease surveillance in India is minimal despite the fact that they account for over 70% of the primary healthcare provision. We aimed to investigate the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of private practitioners in the city of Pune toward disease surveillance. Our goal was to identify what barriers and facilitators determine their participation in current and future surveillance eff…
Health Care Disparities in Megaurban C hina
One of the unintended effects of C hina's health care reforms is the emergence of unregistered practitioners. We discuss reasons for their development and their role in the urban health care provision system under consideration of general developments in health care provision and health governance – thereby drawing scientific attention to a by far under‐researched topic. We analyse the basic characteristics and strategies of clinic‐based unregist…
Mobility and the Transiency of Social Spaces
This paper investigates how China's heterogeneous African population contributes to shaping new types of social spaces in Chinese cities. We analyse how their different types of collective ( primary and corporate ) agency work in the creation of trans ient spaces, that is, trans local and trans forming spaces in Guangzhou and Foshan, China. A mixed‐methods research approach was applied to cover the breadth and depth of African merchants' social s…
Megacities
Global Change, National Development Goals, Urbanisation and International Migration in China
Does rapid urbanization aggravate health disparities? Reflections on the epidemiological transition in Pune, India
BACKGROUND: Rapid urbanization in low- and middle-income countries reinforces risk and epidemiological transition in urban societies, which are characterized by high socioeconomic gradients. Limited availability of disaggregated morbidity data in these settings impedes research on epidemiological profiles of different population subgroups. OBJECTIVE: The study aimed to analyze the epidemiological transition in the emerging megacity of Pune with r…
Agency and the Making of Transient Urban Spaces
Internal migration within Asian countries and international migration to, within, and out of Asia have been on the rise throughout the past decades. As types and pathways of migration, migrants' sociocultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, and their transnational and translocal trajectories become increasingly diverse, a majority of them move to cities. Diverging power geometries and relations are constantly negotiated and (re)produced in the soc…
Megacities
Governance challenges in China’s urban health care system – the role of stakeholders
The article at hand aims at contributing to a deeper understanding of problems in China’s urban health system governance by comparing levels of influence and the roles of different stakeholder groups – government bodies, public, private and illegal health care providers, patients and their social networks, paying institutions, social organizations, and the civil society – in the production and reproduction of the layout of the health care system …
Adaptive urban governance
Megacities and global change
Aktuelle Urbanisierungsprozesse in Südostasien
Städte und Urbanisierungsprozesse traten während der letzten beiden Jahrzehnte zunehmenden Wirtschaftswachstums in Südostasien als Elemente und Prozesse in den Vordergrund, wobei trotz Gemeinsamkeiten mit weltweiten Prozessen bisher eigenständige Ausprägungen überwiegen. Da bisher entsprechende Analysen fehlen, verfolgt der Beitrag das Ziel, einen vergleichenden Überblick über die spezifischen aktuellen Phänomene, Prozesse und Probleme der Urbani…
Sozioökonomische und politische Umbrüche in Südostasien
Mit dem zweifachen ökonomischen Umbruch – Wirtschaftsboom seit Mitte der 1980er Jahre sowie Wirtschaftskrise seit 1997 – gehen einschneidende soziale und politische Strukturumbrüche in Südostasien einher: (1) Bei der demographischen Entwicklung sind eine deutliche Verlangsamung des Bevölkerungswachstums sowie veränderte innerstaatliche und internationale Migrationsprozesse zu beobachten. (2) Die wirtschaftlichen Entwicklungen zeigen erhebliche St…
The Decline of Ethno-Diversity in High Mountain Regions
Worldwide, high mountains are characterized by great ethnic, linguistic, socio-cultural, and sometimes also religious variety. Thus, they figure among the last enclaves of traditionally ethno-linguistic diversity. The example of the Rhaetoromansch people in Grisons (Graubiinden) is used to identify the different phases of the territorial retreat as well as its causes. The area currently occupied is a remnant of a long process of constriction as t…
Adaptive urban governance
Mobility and the Transiency of Social Spaces
This paper investigates how China's heterogeneous African population contributes to shaping new types of social spaces in Chinese cities. We analyse how their different types of collective ( primary and corporate ) agency work in the creation of trans ient spaces, that is, trans local and trans forming spaces in Guangzhou and Foshan, China. A mixed‐methods research approach was applied to cover the breadth and depth of African merchants' social s…
Agency and the Making of Transient Urban Spaces
Internal migration within Asian countries and international migration to, within, and out of Asia have been on the rise throughout the past decades. As types and pathways of migration, migrants' sociocultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, and their transnational and translocal trajectories become increasingly diverse, a majority of them move to cities. Diverging power geometries and relations are constantly negotiated and (re)produced in the soc…
Megacities and global change
Risk governance in the megacity Mumbai/India – A Complex Adaptive System perspective
Health Care Disparities in Megaurban C hina
One of the unintended effects of C hina's health care reforms is the emergence of unregistered practitioners. We discuss reasons for their development and their role in the urban health care provision system under consideration of general developments in health care provision and health governance – thereby drawing scientific attention to a by far under‐researched topic. We analyse the basic characteristics and strategies of clinic‐based unregist…
The Decline of Ethno-Diversity in High Mountain Regions
Worldwide, high mountains are characterized by great ethnic, linguistic, socio-cultural, and sometimes also religious variety. Thus, they figure among the last enclaves of traditionally ethno-linguistic diversity. The example of the Rhaetoromansch people in Grisons (Graubiinden) is used to identify the different phases of the territorial retreat as well as its causes. The area currently occupied is a remnant of a long process of constriction as t…
Die Raetoromanen Graubuendens. Peripherisierung Einer Minoritaet
Aktuelle Urbanisierungsprozesse in Südostasien
Städte und Urbanisierungsprozesse traten während der letzten beiden Jahrzehnte zunehmenden Wirtschaftswachstums in Südostasien als Elemente und Prozesse in den Vordergrund, wobei trotz Gemeinsamkeiten mit weltweiten Prozessen bisher eigenständige Ausprägungen überwiegen. Da bisher entsprechende Analysen fehlen, verfolgt der Beitrag das Ziel, einen vergleichenden Überblick über die spezifischen aktuellen Phänomene, Prozesse und Probleme der Urbani…
Sozioökonomische und politische Umbrüche in Südostasien
Mit dem zweifachen ökonomischen Umbruch – Wirtschaftsboom seit Mitte der 1980er Jahre sowie Wirtschaftskrise seit 1997 – gehen einschneidende soziale und politische Strukturumbrüche in Südostasien einher: (1) Bei der demographischen Entwicklung sind eine deutliche Verlangsamung des Bevölkerungswachstums sowie veränderte innerstaatliche und internationale Migrationsprozesse zu beobachten. (2) Die wirtschaftlichen Entwicklungen zeigen erhebliche St…
Megacities and global change
Adaptive urban governance
Governance challenges in China’s urban health care system – the role of stakeholders
The article at hand aims at contributing to a deeper understanding of problems in China’s urban health system governance by comparing levels of influence and the roles of different stakeholder groups – government bodies, public, private and illegal health care providers, patients and their social networks, paying institutions, social organizations, and the civil society – in the production and reproduction of the layout of the health care system …
Megacities
Megacities
Global Change, National Development Goals, Urbanisation and International Migration in China
Does rapid urbanization aggravate health disparities? Reflections on the epidemiological transition in Pune, India
BACKGROUND: Rapid urbanization in low- and middle-income countries reinforces risk and epidemiological transition in urban societies, which are characterized by high socioeconomic gradients. Limited availability of disaggregated morbidity data in these settings impedes research on epidemiological profiles of different population subgroups. OBJECTIVE: The study aimed to analyze the epidemiological transition in the emerging megacity of Pune with r…
Agency and the Making of Transient Urban Spaces
Internal migration within Asian countries and international migration to, within, and out of Asia have been on the rise throughout the past decades. As types and pathways of migration, migrants' sociocultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, and their transnational and translocal trajectories become increasingly diverse, a majority of them move to cities. Diverging power geometries and relations are constantly negotiated and (re)produced in the soc…
Knowledge, attitude, and practices with respect to disease surveillance among urban private practitioners in Pune, India
BACKGROUND: Participation of private practitioners in routine disease surveillance in India is minimal despite the fact that they account for over 70% of the primary healthcare provision. We aimed to investigate the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of private practitioners in the city of Pune toward disease surveillance. Our goal was to identify what barriers and facilitators determine their participation in current and future surveillance eff…
Health Care Disparities in Megaurban C hina
One of the unintended effects of C hina's health care reforms is the emergence of unregistered practitioners. We discuss reasons for their development and their role in the urban health care provision system under consideration of general developments in health care provision and health governance – thereby drawing scientific attention to a by far under‐researched topic. We analyse the basic characteristics and strategies of clinic‐based unregist…
Mobility and the Transiency of Social Spaces
This paper investigates how China's heterogeneous African population contributes to shaping new types of social spaces in Chinese cities. We analyse how their different types of collective ( primary and corporate ) agency work in the creation of trans ient spaces, that is, trans local and trans forming spaces in Guangzhou and Foshan, China. A mixed‐methods research approach was applied to cover the breadth and depth of African merchants' social s…
Involving private healthcare practitioners in an urban NCD sentinel surveillance system
BACKGROUND: Despite the rising impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) on public health in India, lack of quality data and routine surveillance hampers the planning process for NCD prevention and control. Current surveillance programs focus largely on communicable diseases and do not adequately include the private healthcare sector as a major source of care in cities. OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study was to conceptualize, implement, and e…
Risk governance in the megacity Mumbai/India – A Complex Adaptive System perspective
Disaster risk perception and preparedness of households in Yangon, Myanmar
In disaster-prone countries, it is of great concern that societies as a whole, as well as households and individuals, should become as resilient to disasters as possible. In Myanmar, with its frequent natural hazards like floods, cyclones and droughts and its high probability of earthquakes, raising awareness of and preparedness for disasters is of eminent importance in order to increase the resilience of society, households and individuals. Disa…
Towards integrated flood management
Despite the rising global flood risk, the impacts of flooding remain systematically underestimated, leading to significant consequences for particularly vulnerable river deltas. Most studies focus either on single hazards or social vulnerability while overlooking the interconnected dynamics of deltaic social-ecological systems. In response to the first priority of the Sendai Framework, which calls for an understanding of disaster risk in all its …
Evaluating flood hazards in data-sparse coastal lowlands
Coastal lowlands and river deltas worldwide are increasingly exposed to coastal, pluvial and fluvial flooding as well as relative sea-level rise (RSLR). However, information about both single and multiple flood-type hazards, their potential impact and the characteristics of areas, population and assets at risk is often still limited as high-quality data either does not exist or is not accessible. This often constitutes a main barrier for generati…
Institutional risk and crisis communication on natural hazards and disaster risks in Yangon, Myanmar
The city of Yangon, Myanmar, is located in a disaster-prone area of Southeast Asia. To reduce the risk of natural hazards, relevant frameworks of the UN, ASEAN and Myanmar’s national and local levels focus on making citizens more resilient by improving their ability to anticipate, prevent, absorb and transform risks of disasters. Those documents’ core elements are knowledge provision, actionable advice on natural hazards and capacity building of …
Medical diversity of migrants’ physical and mental health understandings
Health understandings of migrants, immigrants and persons with a migration background (in short: 'im/migrants') often diverge from the biomedical paradigm dominant in many host societies. Shaped by culturally diverse backgrounds, these understandings influence im/migrants’ health practices and utilisation of formal healthcare services. This study aims to explore the health understandings of im/migrants residing in two socio-culturally diverse urb…
Between hope and hype
Despite the central role attributed to civil society organisations (CSOs) in disaster risk reduction (DRR) and within the all-of-society approach of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 (SFDRR), the post-SFDRR evidence base has not been systematically assessed in terms of how CSO roles are conceptualised, operationalised and evaluated across hazards, disaster phases and governance contexts. Here, we provide a systematic glob…
Nature-based Solutions for landslide risk reduction in informal settlements of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) for climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) aim to take advantage of the benefits that nature can provide to cope with potential adverse impacts. This study identifies and evaluates NbS for landslide risk reduction in the informal settlements of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, comparing them with conventional engineering measures. The research is based on a qualitative, participatory methodology, …
Disaster awareness and preparedness of micro, small and medium enterprises
Myanmar is a disaster-prone country, experiencing frequent hazards, such as fires, floods, cyclones, landslides, heatwaves and droughts, as well as a high earthquake risk. In such countries, it is crucial that societies become as resilient as possible to disasters. To improve resilience, it is essential that there is a solid understanding of disaster awareness and preparedness throughout society, as this is a prerequisite for successful disaster …
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