Jörn Birkmann
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1504407 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jörn Birkmann |
| PRENOMES | Jörn |
| SOBRENOME | Birkmann |
| ASSINATURA | BIRKMANN J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Stuttgart |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8733-3964 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 471 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Short- and long-term impacts of relocation and buffer zones
The effectiveness and feasibility of different risk reduction and adaptation measures are increasingly discussed, however, limited assessments exist on how measures, such as buffer zones and relocation, are perceived in the short- and long-term. The Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 is an important case to explore how coastal protection measures were perceived after the event and today, 20 years later. The paper examines how post-disaster relocation a…
Assessing climate-related non-economic loss and damage and rethinking the relation between L&D and adaptation
The international discourse on loss and damages (L&Ds) under the climate convention is ongoing. Significant attention has been given to a dedicated fund to assist vulnerable countries to recover from climate related L&D. While much of the political discussion focuses on the amount of funding needed and who should pay, less attention is given to risk reduction initiatives eligible for the L&D funding mechanisms. There is also an emerging need to l…
Strengthening resilience in reconstruction after extreme events – Insights from flood affected communities in Germany
Disaster resilience and building back better (BBB) are key concepts in the disaster risk and resilience discourse, however, these concepts often remain vague for many stakeholders involved in recovery. Based on the reconstruction process in Germany after the extreme floods of 2021 with more than 180 deaths, we explore challenges and opportunities to strengthen resilient recovery in one of the world's wealthiest and most technologically advanced c…
Linking science and practice in participatory future-oriented assessment and planning of human heat stress vulnerability in Bonn, Germany
The juxtaposition of climate change and development changes is vital for understanding the future impacts of heat stress in urban areas. However, an approach that considers the relationship between climatic factors and socio-economic vulnerability in a forward-looking and stakeholder-involved manner is challenging. This article demonstrates the application of a future-oriented vulnerability scenarios approach to address human heat stress in Bonn,…
Understanding human vulnerability to climate change
Climate change is a severe global threat. Research on climate change and vulnerability to natural hazards has made significant progress over the last decades. Most of the research has been devoted to improving the quality of climate information and hazard data, including exposure to specific phenomena, such as flooding or sea-level rise. Less attention has been given to the assessment of vulnerability and embedded social, economic and historical …
Characterizing Physical and Social Compositions of Cities to Inform Climate Adaptation
Cities are key to climate change mitigation and adaptation in an increasingly urbanized world. As climate, socio-economic, and physical compositions of cities are constantly changing, these need to be considered in their urban climate adaptation. To identify these changes, urban systems can be characterized by physical, functional, and social indicators. Multi-dimensional approaches are needed to capture changes of city form and function, includi…
Regional clusters of vulnerability show the need for transboundary cooperation
Reducing vulnerability is essential for adaptation to climate change. Compared to approaches that examine vulnerability to a specific hazard, our analysis offers an alternative perspective that conceptualizes vulnerability to climate change as a phenomenon that is independent of any specific type of hazard but relevant to multiple hazards. Vulnerability is thus a product of structural inequality and systemic in nature. Based on two established in…
Whose voices, whose choices? Pursuing climate resilient trajectories for the poor
Climate Resilient Trajectories are routes to development progress that take into account aspects of climate change adaptation and mitigation in a sustainability context, offering a way to explicitly consider impacts of development and climate change choices on different sectors, scales, and socio-economic effects. Due to their scope and relevance, Climate Resilient Trajectories are of great interest to climate scientists, governments and the priv…
Using OpenStreetMap Data and Machine Learning to Generate Socio-Economic Indicators
Socio-economic indicators are key to understanding societal challenges. They disassemble complex phenomena to gain insights and deepen understanding. Specific subsets of indicators have been developed to describe sustainability, human development, vulnerability, risk, resilience and climate change adaptation. Nonetheless, insufficient quality and availability of data often limit their explanatory power. Spatial and temporal resolution are often n…
The relevance of city size to the vulnerability of surrounding rural areas
DRIB Index 2020
Strengthening risk-informed decision-making
Purpose Enhancing the resilience of cities and strengthening risk-informed decision-making are defined as key within the Global Agenda 2030. Implementing risk-informed decision-making also requires the consideration of scenarios of exposure and vulnerability. Therefore, the paper presents selected scenario approaches and illustrates how such vulnerability scenarios can look like for specific indicators and how they can inform decision-making, par…
IPCC reasons for concern regarding climate change risks
Boost resilience of small and mid-sized cities
Disaster risk indicators in Brazil
Differentiating regions for adaptation financing
In the Paris Agreement, it is stated that country's vulnerability to climate change is a key factor to decide where and how to allocate adaptation funds. However, the distribution of available funds continues to be a controversial point of discussion. To inform this discussion, we look at how policy makers could be differentiating regions for financing countries adaptation needs. We synthesize the results of global vulnerability assessments and c…
The roads ahead
Assessment of Vulnerability to Natural Hazards
"Reducing risk that emerges from hazards of natural origin and societal vulnerability is a key challenge for the development of more resilient communities and the overall goal of sustainable development. Newest global assessment reports (GAR 2011, Welle et al. 2012; IPCC 2013) underscore that risk reduction and resilience building remains a key challenge for developing and developed countries alike particularly due to the increasing exposure of p…
Determinants of Risk
Many climate change adaptation efforts aim to address the implications of potential changes in the frequency, intensity, and duration of weather and climate events that affect the risk of extreme impacts on human society. That risk is determined not only by the climate and weather events (the hazards) but also by the exposure and vulnerability to these hazards. Therefore, effective adaptation and disaster risk management strategies and practices …
Enhancing early warning in the light of migration and environmental shocks
Regulation and Coupling of Society and Nature in the Context of Natural Hazards
O risco não percepcionado para as zonas costeiras da Europa
O desenvolvimento de estratégias apropriadas de redução de riscos e de vulnerabilidades para lidar com os riscos de tsunamis é um desafio importante para países, regiões e cidades a eles expostos. Este artigo descreve a forma como os riscos da ocorrência de tsunamis e, em particular, a vulnerabilidade a esses riscos podem ser avaliados e medidos. Com este objectivo, aplicou‐se um quadro de avaliação de vulnerabilidade à cidade de Cádis, o estudo …
Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security
Adaptive urban governance
Integrating disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation
The roads ahead
Resilience and Vulnerability
Miller, F., H. Osbahr, E. Boyd, F. Thomalla, S. Bharwani, G. Ziervogel, B. Walker, J. Birkmann, S. Van der Leeuw, J. Rockström, J. Hinkel, T. Downing, C. Folke, and D. Nelson 2010. Resilience and vulnerability: complementary or conflicting concepts?. Ecology and Society 15(3): 11. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03378-150311
Adaptive urban governance
Integrating disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation
Measuring revealed and emergent vulnerabilities of coastal communities to tsunami in Sri Lanka
This paper presents the important findings of a study undertaken in two selected tsunami-affected coastal cities in Sri Lanka (Batticaloa and Galle) to measure the revealed and emergent vulnerability of coastal communities. International risk studies have failed to demonstrate the high vulnerability of coastal communities to tsunami in Sri Lanka. Therefore, indirect assessment tools to measure pre-event vulnerability have to be complemented by as…
Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security
Whose voices, whose choices? Pursuing climate resilient trajectories for the poor
Climate Resilient Trajectories are routes to development progress that take into account aspects of climate change adaptation and mitigation in a sustainability context, offering a way to explicitly consider impacts of development and climate change choices on different sectors, scales, and socio-economic effects. Due to their scope and relevance, Climate Resilient Trajectories are of great interest to climate scientists, governments and the priv…
Disaster risk indicators in Brazil
Differentiating regions for adaptation financing
In the Paris Agreement, it is stated that country's vulnerability to climate change is a key factor to decide where and how to allocate adaptation funds. However, the distribution of available funds continues to be a controversial point of discussion. To inform this discussion, we look at how policy makers could be differentiating regions for financing countries adaptation needs. We synthesize the results of global vulnerability assessments and c…
Enhancing early warning in the light of migration and environmental shocks
Risk and vulnerability indicators at different scales
This paper outlines selected approaches to measuring risk and vulnerability to hazards of natural origin using indicators and indices. It discusses their applicability, usefulness and policy implications. Indicators and indices have been developed on different scales and for different purposes. The paper will briefly introduce three global approaches to disaster-risk identification and will juxtapose them with one local approach in order to exami…
Measuring revealed and emergent vulnerabilities of coastal communities to tsunami in Sri Lanka
This paper presents the important findings of a study undertaken in two selected tsunami-affected coastal cities in Sri Lanka (Batticaloa and Galle) to measure the revealed and emergent vulnerability of coastal communities. International risk studies have failed to demonstrate the high vulnerability of coastal communities to tsunami in Sri Lanka. Therefore, indirect assessment tools to measure pre-event vulnerability have to be complemented by as…
Adaptive urban governance
Integrating disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation
Resilience and Vulnerability
Miller, F., H. Osbahr, E. Boyd, F. Thomalla, S. Bharwani, G. Ziervogel, B. Walker, J. Birkmann, S. Van der Leeuw, J. Rockström, J. Hinkel, T. Downing, C. Folke, and D. Nelson 2010. Resilience and vulnerability: complementary or conflicting concepts?. Ecology and Society 15(3): 11. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03378-150311
Regulation and Coupling of Society and Nature in the Context of Natural Hazards
O risco não percepcionado para as zonas costeiras da Europa
O desenvolvimento de estratégias apropriadas de redução de riscos e de vulnerabilidades para lidar com os riscos de tsunamis é um desafio importante para países, regiões e cidades a eles expostos. Este artigo descreve a forma como os riscos da ocorrência de tsunamis e, em particular, a vulnerabilidade a esses riscos podem ser avaliados e medidos. Com este objectivo, aplicou‐se um quadro de avaliação de vulnerabilidade à cidade de Cádis, o estudo …
Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security
Determinants of Risk
Many climate change adaptation efforts aim to address the implications of potential changes in the frequency, intensity, and duration of weather and climate events that affect the risk of extreme impacts on human society. That risk is determined not only by the climate and weather events (the hazards) but also by the exposure and vulnerability to these hazards. Therefore, effective adaptation and disaster risk management strategies and practices …
Enhancing early warning in the light of migration and environmental shocks
Assessment of Vulnerability to Natural Hazards
"Reducing risk that emerges from hazards of natural origin and societal vulnerability is a key challenge for the development of more resilient communities and the overall goal of sustainable development. Newest global assessment reports (GAR 2011, Welle et al. 2012; IPCC 2013) underscore that risk reduction and resilience building remains a key challenge for developing and developed countries alike particularly due to the increasing exposure of p…
The roads ahead
Boost resilience of small and mid-sized cities
Disaster risk indicators in Brazil
Differentiating regions for adaptation financing
In the Paris Agreement, it is stated that country's vulnerability to climate change is a key factor to decide where and how to allocate adaptation funds. However, the distribution of available funds continues to be a controversial point of discussion. To inform this discussion, we look at how policy makers could be differentiating regions for financing countries adaptation needs. We synthesize the results of global vulnerability assessments and c…
IPCC reasons for concern regarding climate change risks
Using OpenStreetMap Data and Machine Learning to Generate Socio-Economic Indicators
Socio-economic indicators are key to understanding societal challenges. They disassemble complex phenomena to gain insights and deepen understanding. Specific subsets of indicators have been developed to describe sustainability, human development, vulnerability, risk, resilience and climate change adaptation. Nonetheless, insufficient quality and availability of data often limit their explanatory power. Spatial and temporal resolution are often n…
The relevance of city size to the vulnerability of surrounding rural areas
DRIB Index 2020
Strengthening risk-informed decision-making
Purpose Enhancing the resilience of cities and strengthening risk-informed decision-making are defined as key within the Global Agenda 2030. Implementing risk-informed decision-making also requires the consideration of scenarios of exposure and vulnerability. Therefore, the paper presents selected scenario approaches and illustrates how such vulnerability scenarios can look like for specific indicators and how they can inform decision-making, par…
Characterizing Physical and Social Compositions of Cities to Inform Climate Adaptation
Cities are key to climate change mitigation and adaptation in an increasingly urbanized world. As climate, socio-economic, and physical compositions of cities are constantly changing, these need to be considered in their urban climate adaptation. To identify these changes, urban systems can be characterized by physical, functional, and social indicators. Multi-dimensional approaches are needed to capture changes of city form and function, includi…
Regional clusters of vulnerability show the need for transboundary cooperation
Reducing vulnerability is essential for adaptation to climate change. Compared to approaches that examine vulnerability to a specific hazard, our analysis offers an alternative perspective that conceptualizes vulnerability to climate change as a phenomenon that is independent of any specific type of hazard but relevant to multiple hazards. Vulnerability is thus a product of structural inequality and systemic in nature. Based on two established in…
Whose voices, whose choices? Pursuing climate resilient trajectories for the poor
Climate Resilient Trajectories are routes to development progress that take into account aspects of climate change adaptation and mitigation in a sustainability context, offering a way to explicitly consider impacts of development and climate change choices on different sectors, scales, and socio-economic effects. Due to their scope and relevance, Climate Resilient Trajectories are of great interest to climate scientists, governments and the priv…
Understanding human vulnerability to climate change
Climate change is a severe global threat. Research on climate change and vulnerability to natural hazards has made significant progress over the last decades. Most of the research has been devoted to improving the quality of climate information and hazard data, including exposure to specific phenomena, such as flooding or sea-level rise. Less attention has been given to the assessment of vulnerability and embedded social, economic and historical …
Strengthening resilience in reconstruction after extreme events – Insights from flood affected communities in Germany
Disaster resilience and building back better (BBB) are key concepts in the disaster risk and resilience discourse, however, these concepts often remain vague for many stakeholders involved in recovery. Based on the reconstruction process in Germany after the extreme floods of 2021 with more than 180 deaths, we explore challenges and opportunities to strengthen resilient recovery in one of the world's wealthiest and most technologically advanced c…
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