Juergen Weichselgartner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3436359 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juergen Weichselgartner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juergen |
| FAMILY NAME | Weichselgartner |
| SIGNATURE | WEICHSELGARTNER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0901-7469 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 178 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Evolving Climate Services into Knowledge–Action Systems
The current landscape of climate services represents a highly diverse and still growing range of programs, projects, and portals involved in developing and/or providing climate services at different administrative levels and spatial–temporal scales. The diversity of service producers, users, and policy arenas has created a highly heterogeneous data- and information-oriented service landscape, and the authors contend that the domain of climate ser…
The Role of Knowledge in Disaster Risk Reduction
Disaster risk reduction policy and practice require knowledge for informed decision making and coordinated action. Although the knowledge production and implementation processes are critical for disaster risk reduction, these issues are seldom systematically addressed in-depth in disaster studies and policy programs. While efforts and improvements have been made with regard to data and information, only limited resources are committed to improvin…
Geographies of resilience: Challenges and opportunities of a descriptive concept
In disaster science, policy and practice, the transition of resilience from a descriptive concept to a normative agenda provides challenges and opportunities. This paper argues that both are needed to increase resilience. We briefly outline the concept and several recent international resilience-building efforts to elucidate critical questions and less-discussed issues. We highlight the need to move resilience thinking forward by emphasizing stru…
Risiko – Wissen – Wandel; Strukturen und Diskurse problemorientierter Umweltforschung
Priority knowledge for marine environments: Challenges at the science–society nexus
Barriers in the science-policy-practice interface: Toward a knowledge-action-system in global environmental change research
Resolving the Paradox: Food for Thought on the Wider Dimensions of Natural Disasters
Recent disaster statistics reflect an alarming trend of increasing losses from natural disasters. Typically, the insurance industry, scientific experts, and thus the media, refer to such “external” factors as population increase, the potential for damage in hazard-prone areas, and land use and climate change as the primary causes of this trend. Although these factors increase vulnerability to natural disasters, we argue that “internal” factors su…
Nach der Elbeflut 2002: Und danach
Knowing sufficient and applying more: Challenges in hazards management
The hazard management problem presents a curious pair of phenomena: common agreement that something bad is happening, and universal inability to stop the growth of human and economic losses. White et al. (2001) argued in their statement ‘‘knowing better and losing even more’’ that improved knowledge about disaster management was not by itself sufficient to reverse the upward trend in disaster statistics. The fact that property losses caused by na…
Disaster mitigation: The concept of vulnerability revisited
Literature on natural risks typically examines either biophysical process characteristics or human pre‐ or post‐disaster activities. This paper takes a somewhat different track; first, it argues that also natural disasters are socially constructed and, therefore, second, it resets the framework in which disaster management has to be placed. While most researchers usually focus on risk assessment it is suggested that the concept of vulnerability c…
Geographies of resilience: Challenges and opportunities of a descriptive concept
In disaster science, policy and practice, the transition of resilience from a descriptive concept to a normative agenda provides challenges and opportunities. This paper argues that both are needed to increase resilience. We briefly outline the concept and several recent international resilience-building efforts to elucidate critical questions and less-discussed issues. We highlight the need to move resilience thinking forward by emphasizing stru…
Barriers in the science-policy-practice interface: Toward a knowledge-action-system in global environmental change research
Knowing sufficient and applying more: Challenges in hazards management
The hazard management problem presents a curious pair of phenomena: common agreement that something bad is happening, and universal inability to stop the growth of human and economic losses. White et al. (2001) argued in their statement ‘‘knowing better and losing even more’’ that improved knowledge about disaster management was not by itself sufficient to reverse the upward trend in disaster statistics. The fact that property losses caused by na…
Priority knowledge for marine environments: Challenges at the science–society nexus
Disaster mitigation: The concept of vulnerability revisited
Literature on natural risks typically examines either biophysical process characteristics or human pre‐ or post‐disaster activities. This paper takes a somewhat different track; first, it argues that also natural disasters are socially constructed and, therefore, second, it resets the framework in which disaster management has to be placed. While most researchers usually focus on risk assessment it is suggested that the concept of vulnerability c…
Knowing sufficient and applying more: Challenges in hazards management
The hazard management problem presents a curious pair of phenomena: common agreement that something bad is happening, and universal inability to stop the growth of human and economic losses. White et al. (2001) argued in their statement ‘‘knowing better and losing even more’’ that improved knowledge about disaster management was not by itself sufficient to reverse the upward trend in disaster statistics. The fact that property losses caused by na…
Nach der Elbeflut 2002: Und danach
Resolving the Paradox: Food for Thought on the Wider Dimensions of Natural Disasters
Recent disaster statistics reflect an alarming trend of increasing losses from natural disasters. Typically, the insurance industry, scientific experts, and thus the media, refer to such “external” factors as population increase, the potential for damage in hazard-prone areas, and land use and climate change as the primary causes of this trend. Although these factors increase vulnerability to natural disasters, we argue that “internal” factors su…
Barriers in the science-policy-practice interface: Toward a knowledge-action-system in global environmental change research
Priority knowledge for marine environments: Challenges at the science–society nexus
Risiko – Wissen – Wandel; Strukturen und Diskurse problemorientierter Umweltforschung
Geographies of resilience: Challenges and opportunities of a descriptive concept
In disaster science, policy and practice, the transition of resilience from a descriptive concept to a normative agenda provides challenges and opportunities. This paper argues that both are needed to increase resilience. We briefly outline the concept and several recent international resilience-building efforts to elucidate critical questions and less-discussed issues. We highlight the need to move resilience thinking forward by emphasizing stru…
The Role of Knowledge in Disaster Risk Reduction
Disaster risk reduction policy and practice require knowledge for informed decision making and coordinated action. Although the knowledge production and implementation processes are critical for disaster risk reduction, these issues are seldom systematically addressed in-depth in disaster studies and policy programs. While efforts and improvements have been made with regard to data and information, only limited resources are committed to improvin…
Evolving Climate Services into Knowledge–Action Systems
The current landscape of climate services represents a highly diverse and still growing range of programs, projects, and portals involved in developing and/or providing climate services at different administrative levels and spatial–temporal scales. The diversity of service producers, users, and policy arenas has created a highly heterogeneous data- and information-oriented service landscape, and the authors contend that the domain of climate ser…
Political science (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (6 works) · Environmental resource management (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Flood Risk Assessment and Management (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Computer security (3 works) · Emergency management (3 works)