David N Bresch
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 6568955 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David N Bresch |
| NOMBRES | David N |
| APELLIDO | Bresch |
| FIRMA | BRESCH D N |
| AFILIACIONES | Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8431-4263 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
A survival guide for assessing global fire risks to natural and human systems
Compared to tropical cyclones and floods, wildfires have historically been regarded as a secondary peril, which has contributed to the lack of a systemic perspective on global wildfire risk — an understanding increasingly required in disaster risk reduction. This gap is aggravated by the complex and interlinked climatic and anthropogenic drivers of wildfire occurrence, and the diverse and often difficult to interpret landscape of satellite-derive…
Lowering premiums and increasing investor returns by issuing multi-country CAT bonds
Low- and middle-income countries often lack the means to recover from extreme hazards, leading to detrimental long-term impacts on their economy and welfare. Hence, in recent years, the World Bank has actively promoted the use of risk transfer mechanisms such as the issuance of sovereign catastrophe bonds (CAT bonds). Despite many advantages, uptake remains limited to a few countries, mainly due to high premium demands. A common solution to reduc…
Tropical cyclone risk for global ecosystems in a changing climate
Coastal ecosystems provide a range of services including erosion prevention, clean water provision and carbon sequestration. With climate change, the rapid change in frequency and intensity of tropical cyclones may alter the composition of the ecosystems themselves potentially degrading the services they provide. Here we classify global ecoregions into dependent, resilient and vulnerable and show that a combined 9.4% of the surface of all terrest…
Critical intervention points for European adaptation to cascading climate change impacts
In an interconnected world, climate change impacts can cascade across sectors and regions, creating systemic risks. Here we analyse cascading climate change impacts on the EU, originating from outside the region, and identify critical intervention points for adaptation. Using network analysis, we integrate stakeholder-co-produced impact chains with quantitative data for 102 countries across foreign policy, human security, trade and finance. Our a…
Understanding the interactions of tropical cyclones in global supply chains
The increasing frequency and intensity of tropical cyclones, driven by climate change, pose significant risks to global supply chains, amplifying economic vulnerabilities. This study explores how interactions between multiple extreme events influence the propagation of indirect economic costs, focusing on the compounding effects that arise within interconnected systems. Leveraging a combination of the CLIMADA risk modeling platform and the ARIO i…
Global assessment of population exposure to multiple climate-related hazards from 2003 to 2021
Creating favorable conditions for inter- and transdisciplinary integration – An analytical framework and empirical insights
ITD integration is key for addressing complex global social-ecological challenges. • Making ITD integration happen depends on the interplay between structure and agency. • The study bridges conceptual and empirical insights from three Swiss case studies. • It is essential to create more favorable conditions for ITD integration in the future. • Several actors can make a difference by taking actions on different structural levels. Complex global so…
Infrastructure failure cascades quintuple risk of storm and flood-induced service disruptions across the globe
Society is dependent on critical infrastructure that provides basic services such as healthcare, mobility, communications, and power. Severe weather can damage these vital infrastructure assets, disrupting services. Such disruptions can further escalate due to system interdependencies. Although research increasingly evaluates physical risks to infrastructure assets, knowledge on service disruption risks from natural hazard-induced failure cascade…
Modelling marine heatwaves impact on shallow and upper mesophotic tropical coral reefs
Coral reefs ecosystems, often compared to rain forests for their high biodiversity, are threatened by ocean warming causing coral bleaching when the symbiotic relationship between dinoflagellates and corals breaks under high ocean temperatures. Thermal stress from marine heatwaves (MHWs) occur both at the surface and subsurface with subsurface MHWs lasting longer with potentially higher cumulative intensities. However, global coral bleaching mode…
Global protection from tropical cyclones by coastal ecosystems—past, present, and under climate change
Coastal ecosystems have the potential to contribute to disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change. While previous studies have estimated the value of current coastal ecosystems for reducing coastal risk, there have been relatively few studies that look at changes in ecosystem service provision, in the past and under climate change. We employ the probabilistic, event-based CLImate ADAptation platform (CLIMADA) to quantify the protect…
Intergenerational inequities in exposure to climate extremes
Young generations are severely threatened by climate change
Double benefit of limiting global warming for tropical cyclone exposure
Global warming and population change both heighten future risk of human displacement due to river floods
Every year, millions of people around the world are being displaced from their homes due to climate-related disasters. River flooding is responsible for a large part of this displacement. Previous studies have shown that river flood risk is expected to change as a result of global warming and its effects on the hydrological cycle. At the same time, future scenarios of socio-economic development imply substantial population increases in many of th…
Understanding and assessing uncertainty of observational climate datasets for model evaluation using ensembles
In climate science, observational gridded climate datasets that are based on in situ measurements serve as evidence for scientific claims and they are used to both calibrate and evaluate models. However, datasets only represent selected aspects of the real world, so when they are used for a specific purpose they can be a source of uncertainty. Here, we present a framework for understanding this uncertainty of observational datasets which distingu…
Joint knowledge production in climate change adaptation networks
Customising global climate science for national adaptation
Countries differ markedly in their production of climate science. While richer nations are often home to a variety of climate models, data infrastructures and climate experts, poorer sovereigns often lack these attributes. However, less is known about countries' capacity to use global climate science and customise it into products informing national adaptation. We use a unique global dataset, the UNFCCC National Communications, to perform a globa…
Effects of Impact-Based Warnings and Behavioral Recommendations for Extreme Weather Events
Bad weather continues not only to inflict damage on property but also to kill and injure people, despite significant advances in the predictive power of meteorological warnings. There is evidence that people tend to underreact to weather warning information, to a large extent because of insufficient understanding of the impacts that severe weather events can have, as well as to demonstrate the appropriate response behavior. A growing number of ex…
Creating favorable conditions for inter- and transdisciplinary integration – An analytical framework and empirical insights
ITD integration is key for addressing complex global social-ecological challenges. • Making ITD integration happen depends on the interplay between structure and agency. • The study bridges conceptual and empirical insights from three Swiss case studies. • It is essential to create more favorable conditions for ITD integration in the future. • Several actors can make a difference by taking actions on different structural levels. Complex global so…
Understanding and assessing uncertainty of observational climate datasets for model evaluation using ensembles
In climate science, observational gridded climate datasets that are based on in situ measurements serve as evidence for scientific claims and they are used to both calibrate and evaluate models. However, datasets only represent selected aspects of the real world, so when they are used for a specific purpose they can be a source of uncertainty. Here, we present a framework for understanding this uncertainty of observational datasets which distingu…
Joint knowledge production in climate change adaptation networks
Effects of Impact-Based Warnings and Behavioral Recommendations for Extreme Weather Events
Bad weather continues not only to inflict damage on property but also to kill and injure people, despite significant advances in the predictive power of meteorological warnings. There is evidence that people tend to underreact to weather warning information, to a large extent because of insufficient understanding of the impacts that severe weather events can have, as well as to demonstrate the appropriate response behavior. A growing number of ex…
Joint knowledge production in climate change adaptation networks
Customising global climate science for national adaptation
Countries differ markedly in their production of climate science. While richer nations are often home to a variety of climate models, data infrastructures and climate experts, poorer sovereigns often lack these attributes. However, less is known about countries' capacity to use global climate science and customise it into products informing national adaptation. We use a unique global dataset, the UNFCCC National Communications, to perform a globa…
Understanding and assessing uncertainty of observational climate datasets for model evaluation using ensembles
In climate science, observational gridded climate datasets that are based on in situ measurements serve as evidence for scientific claims and they are used to both calibrate and evaluate models. However, datasets only represent selected aspects of the real world, so when they are used for a specific purpose they can be a source of uncertainty. Here, we present a framework for understanding this uncertainty of observational datasets which distingu…
Intergenerational inequities in exposure to climate extremes
Young generations are severely threatened by climate change
Double benefit of limiting global warming for tropical cyclone exposure
Global warming and population change both heighten future risk of human displacement due to river floods
Every year, millions of people around the world are being displaced from their homes due to climate-related disasters. River flooding is responsible for a large part of this displacement. Previous studies have shown that river flood risk is expected to change as a result of global warming and its effects on the hydrological cycle. At the same time, future scenarios of socio-economic development imply substantial population increases in many of th…
Global protection from tropical cyclones by coastal ecosystems—past, present, and under climate change
Coastal ecosystems have the potential to contribute to disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change. While previous studies have estimated the value of current coastal ecosystems for reducing coastal risk, there have been relatively few studies that look at changes in ecosystem service provision, in the past and under climate change. We employ the probabilistic, event-based CLImate ADAptation platform (CLIMADA) to quantify the protect…
Infrastructure failure cascades quintuple risk of storm and flood-induced service disruptions across the globe
Society is dependent on critical infrastructure that provides basic services such as healthcare, mobility, communications, and power. Severe weather can damage these vital infrastructure assets, disrupting services. Such disruptions can further escalate due to system interdependencies. Although research increasingly evaluates physical risks to infrastructure assets, knowledge on service disruption risks from natural hazard-induced failure cascade…
Modelling marine heatwaves impact on shallow and upper mesophotic tropical coral reefs
Coral reefs ecosystems, often compared to rain forests for their high biodiversity, are threatened by ocean warming causing coral bleaching when the symbiotic relationship between dinoflagellates and corals breaks under high ocean temperatures. Thermal stress from marine heatwaves (MHWs) occur both at the surface and subsurface with subsurface MHWs lasting longer with potentially higher cumulative intensities. However, global coral bleaching mode…
Tropical cyclone risk for global ecosystems in a changing climate
Coastal ecosystems provide a range of services including erosion prevention, clean water provision and carbon sequestration. With climate change, the rapid change in frequency and intensity of tropical cyclones may alter the composition of the ecosystems themselves potentially degrading the services they provide. Here we classify global ecoregions into dependent, resilient and vulnerable and show that a combined 9.4% of the surface of all terrest…
Critical intervention points for European adaptation to cascading climate change impacts
In an interconnected world, climate change impacts can cascade across sectors and regions, creating systemic risks. Here we analyse cascading climate change impacts on the EU, originating from outside the region, and identify critical intervention points for adaptation. Using network analysis, we integrate stakeholder-co-produced impact chains with quantitative data for 102 countries across foreign policy, human security, trade and finance. Our a…
Understanding the interactions of tropical cyclones in global supply chains
The increasing frequency and intensity of tropical cyclones, driven by climate change, pose significant risks to global supply chains, amplifying economic vulnerabilities. This study explores how interactions between multiple extreme events influence the propagation of indirect economic costs, focusing on the compounding effects that arise within interconnected systems. Leveraging a combination of the CLIMADA risk modeling platform and the ARIO i…
Global assessment of population exposure to multiple climate-related hazards from 2003 to 2021
Creating favorable conditions for inter- and transdisciplinary integration – An analytical framework and empirical insights
ITD integration is key for addressing complex global social-ecological challenges. • Making ITD integration happen depends on the interplay between structure and agency. • The study bridges conceptual and empirical insights from three Swiss case studies. • It is essential to create more favorable conditions for ITD integration in the future. • Several actors can make a difference by taking actions on different structural levels. Complex global so…
A survival guide for assessing global fire risks to natural and human systems
Compared to tropical cyclones and floods, wildfires have historically been regarded as a secondary peril, which has contributed to the lack of a systemic perspective on global wildfire risk — an understanding increasingly required in disaster risk reduction. This gap is aggravated by the complex and interlinked climatic and anthropogenic drivers of wildfire occurrence, and the diverse and often difficult to interpret landscape of satellite-derive…
Lowering premiums and increasing investor returns by issuing multi-country CAT bonds
Low- and middle-income countries often lack the means to recover from extreme hazards, leading to detrimental long-term impacts on their economy and welfare. Hence, in recent years, the World Bank has actively promoted the use of risk transfer mechanisms such as the issuance of sovereign catastrophe bonds (CAT bonds). Despite many advantages, uptake remains limited to a few countries, mainly due to high premium demands. A common solution to reduc…
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