Pia‐johanna Schweizer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3470871 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pia‐johanna Schweizer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pia‐johanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Schweizer |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWEIZER P J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stuttgart |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2273-4366 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Principles for just and effective systemic risk governance
Non-Technical Summary We are in a polycrisis – the entanglement of crises across multiple, interconnected global systems such as climate, health, and finance – that interact to produce harms significantly greater than the sum of their parts. We propose that, to mitigate and adapt to this polycrisis, strong systemic risk governance is required, and that just and effective governance requires principles. Principles help us to identify common values…
Water as a Public Matter: Advancing Water Literacy
Even in countries long considered water-secure, challenges relating to water availability, water quality, and the consequences of increasingly extreme weather events such as droughts and heavy rainfall are now becoming evident. Together, these developments create the need for transformations across all levels of society. This generates new conflicts and calls for public debate. While public spheres are under pressure, we postulate that water lite…
Capacity development for locally-led knowledge co-production processes in Real World Labs for managing climate and disaster risk
Knowledge co-production processes are increasingly used to promote transdisciplinary collaboration and integration of knowledge across scales to better understand and govern complex sustainability challenges. However, existing literature tends to overlook the capacities and skills required for designing, researching and facilitating such processes, and the empirical evidence base demonstrating their benefits remains narrow. For example, practical…
Strengthening all-of-society approaches for disaster resilient societies through competency building: A European research agenda
The increasing frequency of disasters, alongside the recent COVID-19 pandemic, climate emergency, and ongoing/new crises including conflicts and their disproportionate impacts on many communities, all point towards the cascading, multidimensional, and systemic nature of risks. In the wake of this ever-changing risk landscape, it is paramount to adopt multi-sectoral, multidisciplinary risk reduction, preparedness, and adaptation approaches, which …
Wissenschaftsorganisationen als Impulsgeber einer Nachhaltigkeitstransformation
Wenn Wissenschaftsorganisationen wirkungsvolle Impulse für nachhaltige Entwicklung geben wollen, dann müssen sie sich Fragen stellen wie etwa: Was sind unsere gesellschaftlichen Ziele und Zwecke? Wie können wir das Wissenschaftssystem so weiterentwickeln, dass es eine Nachhaltigkeitstransformation fördert? Wie müssen wir uns als Organisation selbst transformieren? Die Suche nach Antworten stößt interne Lernprozesse und eine Auseinandersetzung mit…
Managing systemic risk through transformative change: Combining systemic risk analysis with knowledge co-production
Increasing interconnectedness, along with the effects of climate change and other global risk drivers, has led to mounting systemic risks in the complex systems that characterize our world. Systemic risks, with their cascading impacts and long-term sustainability concerns, necessitate transformative approaches to manage their effects across system scales and dimensions. To date, however, an “operationalization gap” impedes translating between pro…
Socio-metabolic risk and tipping points on islands
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) face enormous sustainability challenges such as heavy reliance on imports to meet basic needs, tenuous resource availability, coastal squeeze, and reduced waste absorption capacity. At the same time, the adverse effects of global environmental change such as global warming, extreme events, and outbreaks of pandemics significantly hinder SIDS’ progress towards sustainable development. This paper makes a concep…
Digitizing a sustainable future
The opportunities and risks of digitalisation for sustainable development: A systemic perspective
Digitalisation can drive the sustainable transformation of society and industry. Many of the opportunities are, however, closely linked with risks. The use of a systemic risk-benefit perspective can help with the review and categorisation of the major impacts and trade-offs regarding the ecological, economic, and social dimensions of sustainability. The dynamics and uncertainties of digitalisation are complex ‐ to make digitalisation a sustainabl…
Governance of systemic risks for disaster prevention and mitigation
Purpose Systemic risks originate in tightly coupled systems. They are characterised by complexity, transboundary cascading effects, non-linear stochastic developments, tipping points, and lag in perception and regulation. Disasters need to be analysed in the context of vulnerabilities of infrastructure, industrial activities, structural developments and behavioural patterns which amplify or attenuate the impact of hazards. In particular, disaster…
Systemic risks – concepts and challenges for risk governance
Modern societies are confronted with ‘systemic risks’ which challenge conventional risk analysis and management. The phrase ‘systemic risks’ denotes risk phenomena which are exceedingly complex and interdependent. Systemic risks originate in tightly coupled systems. They are characterised by cascading effects, tipping points and non-linear developments. Furthermore, compared to their potential impacts, they often lack proportional public awarenes…
Testing the value of public participation in Germany: Theory, operationalization and a case study on the evaluation of participation
The potential of public participation to facilitate infrastructure decision-making: Lessons from the German and European legal planning system for electricity grid expansion
Public participation for infrastructure planning in the context of the German “Energiewende”
Public Participation within the German Energiewende . Policies and Guidelines for Planning ProcessesDie Öffentlichkeit an der Energiewende beteiligen. Grundsätze und Leitlinien für Planungsvorhaben
Inclusive risk governance: Concepts and Application to Environmental Policy Making
The concept of inclusive risk governance is based on a normative belief that the integration of knowledge and values can best be accomplished by involving those actors in the decision-making process that are able to contribute all the respective knowledge as well as the variability of values necessary to make effective, efficient, fair and morally acceptable decisions about risk. In the risk arena the major actors are governments, the economic se…
Inclusive risk governance: Concepts and Application to Environmental Policy Making
The concept of inclusive risk governance is based on a normative belief that the integration of knowledge and values can best be accomplished by involving those actors in the decision-making process that are able to contribute all the respective knowledge as well as the variability of values necessary to make effective, efficient, fair and morally acceptable decisions about risk. In the risk arena the major actors are governments, the economic se…
Systemic risks – concepts and challenges for risk governance
Modern societies are confronted with ‘systemic risks’ which challenge conventional risk analysis and management. The phrase ‘systemic risks’ denotes risk phenomena which are exceedingly complex and interdependent. Systemic risks originate in tightly coupled systems. They are characterised by cascading effects, tipping points and non-linear developments. Furthermore, compared to their potential impacts, they often lack proportional public awarenes…
Public participation for infrastructure planning in the context of the German “Energiewende”
The potential of public participation to facilitate infrastructure decision-making: Lessons from the German and European legal planning system for electricity grid expansion
Testing the value of public participation in Germany: Theory, operationalization and a case study on the evaluation of participation
Inclusive risk governance: Concepts and Application to Environmental Policy Making
The concept of inclusive risk governance is based on a normative belief that the integration of knowledge and values can best be accomplished by involving those actors in the decision-making process that are able to contribute all the respective knowledge as well as the variability of values necessary to make effective, efficient, fair and morally acceptable decisions about risk. In the risk arena the major actors are governments, the economic se…
Public Participation within the German Energiewende . Policies and Guidelines for Planning ProcessesDie Öffentlichkeit an der Energiewende beteiligen. Grundsätze und Leitlinien für Planungsvorhaben
Public participation for infrastructure planning in the context of the German “Energiewende”
Testing the value of public participation in Germany: Theory, operationalization and a case study on the evaluation of participation
The potential of public participation to facilitate infrastructure decision-making: Lessons from the German and European legal planning system for electricity grid expansion
Governance of systemic risks for disaster prevention and mitigation
Purpose Systemic risks originate in tightly coupled systems. They are characterised by complexity, transboundary cascading effects, non-linear stochastic developments, tipping points, and lag in perception and regulation. Disasters need to be analysed in the context of vulnerabilities of infrastructure, industrial activities, structural developments and behavioural patterns which amplify or attenuate the impact of hazards. In particular, disaster…
Systemic risks – concepts and challenges for risk governance
Modern societies are confronted with ‘systemic risks’ which challenge conventional risk analysis and management. The phrase ‘systemic risks’ denotes risk phenomena which are exceedingly complex and interdependent. Systemic risks originate in tightly coupled systems. They are characterised by cascading effects, tipping points and non-linear developments. Furthermore, compared to their potential impacts, they often lack proportional public awarenes…
Digitizing a sustainable future
The opportunities and risks of digitalisation for sustainable development: A systemic perspective
Digitalisation can drive the sustainable transformation of society and industry. Many of the opportunities are, however, closely linked with risks. The use of a systemic risk-benefit perspective can help with the review and categorisation of the major impacts and trade-offs regarding the ecological, economic, and social dimensions of sustainability. The dynamics and uncertainties of digitalisation are complex ‐ to make digitalisation a sustainabl…
Socio-metabolic risk and tipping points on islands
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) face enormous sustainability challenges such as heavy reliance on imports to meet basic needs, tenuous resource availability, coastal squeeze, and reduced waste absorption capacity. At the same time, the adverse effects of global environmental change such as global warming, extreme events, and outbreaks of pandemics significantly hinder SIDS’ progress towards sustainable development. This paper makes a concep…
Managing systemic risk through transformative change: Combining systemic risk analysis with knowledge co-production
Increasing interconnectedness, along with the effects of climate change and other global risk drivers, has led to mounting systemic risks in the complex systems that characterize our world. Systemic risks, with their cascading impacts and long-term sustainability concerns, necessitate transformative approaches to manage their effects across system scales and dimensions. To date, however, an “operationalization gap” impedes translating between pro…
Capacity development for locally-led knowledge co-production processes in Real World Labs for managing climate and disaster risk
Knowledge co-production processes are increasingly used to promote transdisciplinary collaboration and integration of knowledge across scales to better understand and govern complex sustainability challenges. However, existing literature tends to overlook the capacities and skills required for designing, researching and facilitating such processes, and the empirical evidence base demonstrating their benefits remains narrow. For example, practical…
Strengthening all-of-society approaches for disaster resilient societies through competency building: A European research agenda
The increasing frequency of disasters, alongside the recent COVID-19 pandemic, climate emergency, and ongoing/new crises including conflicts and their disproportionate impacts on many communities, all point towards the cascading, multidimensional, and systemic nature of risks. In the wake of this ever-changing risk landscape, it is paramount to adopt multi-sectoral, multidisciplinary risk reduction, preparedness, and adaptation approaches, which …
Wissenschaftsorganisationen als Impulsgeber einer Nachhaltigkeitstransformation
Wenn Wissenschaftsorganisationen wirkungsvolle Impulse für nachhaltige Entwicklung geben wollen, dann müssen sie sich Fragen stellen wie etwa: Was sind unsere gesellschaftlichen Ziele und Zwecke? Wie können wir das Wissenschaftssystem so weiterentwickeln, dass es eine Nachhaltigkeitstransformation fördert? Wie müssen wir uns als Organisation selbst transformieren? Die Suche nach Antworten stößt interne Lernprozesse und eine Auseinandersetzung mit…
Principles for just and effective systemic risk governance
Non-Technical Summary We are in a polycrisis – the entanglement of crises across multiple, interconnected global systems such as climate, health, and finance – that interact to produce harms significantly greater than the sum of their parts. We propose that, to mitigate and adapt to this polycrisis, strong systemic risk governance is required, and that just and effective governance requires principles. Principles help us to identify common values…
Water as a Public Matter: Advancing Water Literacy
Even in countries long considered water-secure, challenges relating to water availability, water quality, and the consequences of increasingly extreme weather events such as droughts and heavy rainfall are now becoming evident. Together, these developments create the need for transformations across all levels of society. This generates new conflicts and calls for public debate. While public spheres are under pressure, we postulate that water lite…
Political science (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (6 works) · Corporate governance (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Environmental planning (4 works) · German (4 works) · Risk analysis (engineering (4 works)