Bruno Merz
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3466764 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Bruno Merz |
| NOMBRES | Bruno |
| APELLIDO | Merz |
| FIRMA | MERZ B |
| AFILIACIONES | GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5992-1440 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Spatial counterfactuals to explore disastrous flooding
Flood-prone people and decision-makers are often unwilling to discuss and prepare for exceptional events, as such events are hard to perceive and out of experience for most people. Once an exceptional flood occurs, affected people and decision-makers are able to learn from this event. However, this learning is often focussed narrowly on the specific disaster experienced, thus missing an opportunity to explore and prepare for even more severe, or …
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…
Reconstructing Paleoflood Occurrence and Magnitude from Lake Sediments
Lake sediments are a valuable archive to document past flood occurrence and magnitude, and their evolution over centuries to millennia. This information has the potential to greatly improve current flood design and risk assessment approaches, which are hampered by the shortness and scarcity of gauge records. For this reason, paleoflood hydrology from lake sediments received fast-growing attention over the last decade. This allowed an extensive de…
Changing climate both increases and decreases European river floods
Understanding flood regime changes in Europe
There is growing concern that flooding is becoming more frequent and severe in Europe. A better understanding of flood regime changes and their drivers is therefore needed. The paper reviews the current knowledge on flood regime changes in European rivers that has been obtained through two approaches. The first approach is the detection of change based on observed flood events. Current methods are reviewed together with their challenges and oppor…
Fluvial flood risk management in a changing world
Flood risk emerges from the interaction of hazard and vulnerability. Over recent decades the notion of risk being the basis for flood management decisions has become widely accepted and operationalised through the use of models and quantified risk analysis providing the evidence for risk-informed decision making. However, it is now abundantly apparent that changes in time, at a range of scales, of pertinent variables that determine risk are not a…
Coping with floods
In August 2002, a severe flood event occurred in Central Europe. In the following year, a poll was performed in Germany in which 1697 private households were randomly selected from three regions: (a) the River Elbe area, (b) the Elbe tributaries in Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, and (c) the Bavarian Danube catchment. Residents were interviewed about flood characteristics, early warning, damage, recovery, preparedness and previously experienced floods.…
Irs-1
Rapamycin analogs that inhibit mTOR signaling have antitumor activity against certain lymphomas, but treatment of solid tumors has been less encouraging despite inhibition of mTOR function. Two recent papers give insight into the potential use of mTOR inhibitors. O'Reilly et al. provide evidence that poor tumor response to rapamycins is the result of relieving mTOR-mediated feedback inhibition of insulin receptor substrate 1, and activation of Ak…
Zum Umgang mit Naturgefahren in Deutschland
To improve management of natural risks in Germany, we advocate a risk culture containing five elements. These elements – risk identification, risk analysis, risk appraisal, risk reduction, and management of residual risks – are arranged in a cycle since natural hazards and, in particular, the damage potential and the susceptibility of our society to natural hazards evolve over time. Such a risk culture should centre on a risk dialogue involving a…
Flood loss reduction of private households due to building precautionary measures – lessons learned from the Elbe flood in August 2002
Building houses in inundation areas is always a risk, since absolute flood protection is impossible. Where settlements already exist, flood damage must be kept as small as possible. Suitable means are precautionary measures such as elevated building configuration or flood adapted use. However, data about the effects of such measures are rare, and consequently, the efficiency of different precautionary measures is unclear. To improve the knowledge…
HGF
Die Folgen extremer Naturereignisse nehmen weltweit immer dramatischere Ausmaße an. Katastrophenmanagement ist daher eines der drei Forschungsthemen des Forschungsnetzwerks Helmholtz-EOS Die Folgen extremer Naturereignisse nehmen weltweit immer dramatischere Ausmaße an. Katastrophenmanagement ist daher eines der drei Forschungsthemen des Forschungsnetzwerks Helmholtz-EOS
Understanding flood regime changes in Europe
There is growing concern that flooding is becoming more frequent and severe in Europe. A better understanding of flood regime changes and their drivers is therefore needed. The paper reviews the current knowledge on flood regime changes in European rivers that has been obtained through two approaches. The first approach is the detection of change based on observed flood events. Current methods are reviewed together with their challenges and oppor…
Flood loss reduction of private households due to building precautionary measures – lessons learned from the Elbe flood in August 2002
Building houses in inundation areas is always a risk, since absolute flood protection is impossible. Where settlements already exist, flood damage must be kept as small as possible. Suitable means are precautionary measures such as elevated building configuration or flood adapted use. However, data about the effects of such measures are rare, and consequently, the efficiency of different precautionary measures is unclear. To improve the knowledge…
HGF
Die Folgen extremer Naturereignisse nehmen weltweit immer dramatischere Ausmaße an. Katastrophenmanagement ist daher eines der drei Forschungsthemen des Forschungsnetzwerks Helmholtz-EOS Die Folgen extremer Naturereignisse nehmen weltweit immer dramatischere Ausmaße an. Katastrophenmanagement ist daher eines der drei Forschungsthemen des Forschungsnetzwerks Helmholtz-EOS
Irs-1
Rapamycin analogs that inhibit mTOR signaling have antitumor activity against certain lymphomas, but treatment of solid tumors has been less encouraging despite inhibition of mTOR function. Two recent papers give insight into the potential use of mTOR inhibitors. O'Reilly et al. provide evidence that poor tumor response to rapamycins is the result of relieving mTOR-mediated feedback inhibition of insulin receptor substrate 1, and activation of Ak…
Zum Umgang mit Naturgefahren in Deutschland
To improve management of natural risks in Germany, we advocate a risk culture containing five elements. These elements – risk identification, risk analysis, risk appraisal, risk reduction, and management of residual risks – are arranged in a cycle since natural hazards and, in particular, the damage potential and the susceptibility of our society to natural hazards evolve over time. Such a risk culture should centre on a risk dialogue involving a…
Coping with floods
In August 2002, a severe flood event occurred in Central Europe. In the following year, a poll was performed in Germany in which 1697 private households were randomly selected from three regions: (a) the River Elbe area, (b) the Elbe tributaries in Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, and (c) the Bavarian Danube catchment. Residents were interviewed about flood characteristics, early warning, damage, recovery, preparedness and previously experienced floods.…
Fluvial flood risk management in a changing world
Flood risk emerges from the interaction of hazard and vulnerability. Over recent decades the notion of risk being the basis for flood management decisions has become widely accepted and operationalised through the use of models and quantified risk analysis providing the evidence for risk-informed decision making. However, it is now abundantly apparent that changes in time, at a range of scales, of pertinent variables that determine risk are not a…
Understanding flood regime changes in Europe
There is growing concern that flooding is becoming more frequent and severe in Europe. A better understanding of flood regime changes and their drivers is therefore needed. The paper reviews the current knowledge on flood regime changes in European rivers that has been obtained through two approaches. The first approach is the detection of change based on observed flood events. Current methods are reviewed together with their challenges and oppor…
Changing climate both increases and decreases European river floods
Reconstructing Paleoflood Occurrence and Magnitude from Lake Sediments
Lake sediments are a valuable archive to document past flood occurrence and magnitude, and their evolution over centuries to millennia. This information has the potential to greatly improve current flood design and risk assessment approaches, which are hampered by the shortness and scarcity of gauge records. For this reason, paleoflood hydrology from lake sediments received fast-growing attention over the last decade. This allowed an extensive de…
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…
Spatial counterfactuals to explore disastrous flooding
Flood-prone people and decision-makers are often unwilling to discuss and prepare for exceptional events, as such events are hard to perceive and out of experience for most people. Once an exceptional flood occurs, affected people and decision-makers are able to learn from this event. However, this learning is often focussed narrowly on the specific disaster experienced, thus missing an opportunity to explore and prepare for even more severe, or …
Geography (9 obras) · Flood Risk Assessment and Management (8 obras) · Disaster Management and Resilience (6 obras) · Flood myth (6 obras) · Environmental planning (5 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras) · Environmental Science (4 obras) · Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (3 obras) · Political science (3 obras) · Archaeology (2 obras)