Alexander Fekete
Biographic Data
| ID | 6313177 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Fekete |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Fekete |
| SIGNATURE | FEKETE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8029-6774 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Vertical vulnerability and exposure of people in the context of disaster risk at the building, city and regional level
Vulnerability in the context of disaster risk is widely analysed in terms of the horizontal distribution of people and social groups, as well as their features and capabilities. However, vertical distributions are not yet well-researched, as a systematic literature scoping review finds. Power relations and hierarchies are analysed in existing studies, as are other effects of vertical separation within groups, including disease transmission, inequ…
Modelling spatio-temporal distribution of urban population - A high-resolution model for German cities
Information about the spatial distribution of urban populations is highly relevant for areas such as urban planning, infrastructure services, and hazard prevention. Conventionally, census-based population maps provide a static image of population numbers. However, the distribution of urban populations is highly dynamic and changes throughout the course of a day, which can result in significant discrepancies from static maps. We therefore develope…
Social resilience assessment for urban fires in Guimarães historic center
This study investigates social resilience to urban fires in the historic center of Guimarães, Portugal, focusing on preventive, adaptive, coping, and recovery capacities. Online and face-to-face surveys collected data from 143 respondents, including residents, workers, and visitors. The results reveal significant differences in fire preparedness and awareness, with only 27 % of respondents having experienced directly a fire and 63 % participating…
Hinging on the preparedness of first responders. A case study on the 2021 flood operations in Romania
In this study, we surveyed a sample of 1023 professional first responders involved in the rescue operations to the floods in the summer of 2021 in Romania, when over two hundred lives were lost and five hundred needed to be evacuated. Our goal was to assess the perceived preparedness of rescuers for disaster response in Romania. We tested the relationship between preparedness and perception of the operative intervention from a cognitive aspect an…
Addressing the social vulnerability gap in disaster risk perception
While practitioners are often prompt to call for more risk communication campaigns, the impacts of disadvantage and vulnerability are often overlooked. This is related to social vulnerability frameworks that often fail to explicitly address risk perception, whereas risk perception theories usually overlook social vulnerability. The resulting social vulnerability research gap might be self-reinforcing: empirical studies will find it difficult to d…
Multi-risks attributed to climate change and urbanization in East Africa
This study analyzed research on East Africa, multiple risks and Climate Change using bibliometric analysis. The main findings are that for many countries in East Africa, studies are absent, even on single risk assessments. Overall, multi-risk assessments that analyze hazard and impact chains are missing. Only a few cities have received scientific attention at the city level. The findings can help scientists as well as policymakers identify resear…
Identification of methodologies to quantify education system resilience—A scoping review
Schools and other educational institutions are important pillars for the well-being of society. However, education continuity is increasingly threatened by negative influences such as disasters and acts of violence. An important tool to ensure the safety of educational institutions is the development of a methodology to measure education system resilience. To advance the development of such a methodology, a scoping review is conducted to identify…
Should everyone in need be treated equally? A European survey of expert judgment on social vulnerability to floods and pandemics to validate multi-hazard vulnerability factors
Several European countries were affected by severe floods in 2021. At the same time, despite the deployment of vaccines, Europe was the COVID-19 pandemic's epicenter several times during 2021. One research aim of this study is to identify socio-demographic groups vulnerable to floods and whether the groups vulnerable to floods and pandemics overlap or are disjoint. We ran a survey in four languages (English, French, German, and Spanish) and colle…
Assessment of social vulnerability to forest fire and hazardous facilities in Germany
In recent years, Germany has seen an increase in forest fires, and many fires have occurred in military training areas that are difficult to access for firefighting. While casualties are still low and mostly restricted to firefighting personnel, settlements are also increasingly threatened. Increasing impacts from extreme events due to climate change will likely increase the ignition and spread of fires. More people are being affected by fires, a…
Capacitating urban governance and planning systems to drive transformative resilience
Urban governance and planning systems are central cornerstones of international research and policy initiatives to advance sustainable development, climate change adaptation, and disaster risk reduction in the context of increasing global environmental change. Yet, the inherent processes and components of conventional governance and planning systems, such as discourses, structures, tools, and practices, must be revised to drive a transition to fu…
A Framework for Scaling Urban Transformative Resilience through Utilizing Volunteered Geographic Information
Resilience in the urban context can be described as a continuum of absorptive, adaptive, and transformative capacities. The need to move toward a sustainable future and bounce forward after any disruption has led recent urban resilience initiatives to engage with the concept of transformative resilience when and where conventional and top-down resilience initiatives are less likely to deliver effective strategies, plans, and implementable actions…
Adjustment or transformation? Disaster risk intervention examples from Austria, Indonesia, Kiribati and South Africa
Change triggered by natural hazards such as pluvial and coastal floods, sea-level rise as well as risks resulting from water scarcity are highly dynamic and related to the effects of ongoing climate change. Whether and how societies adapt, adjust, change, or transform because of climate change and related risks, is a currently debated topic. This question demands revisiting and comprehensively addressing existing theoretical foundations of transf…
Urbanization, migration, and the challenges of resilience thinking in urban planning
This paper examines transformative resilience as the common challenge for urban/regional governance and planning systems in two contrasting contexts from the Global North (Germany) and the Global South (Iran). The aim is to reveal the pathways and trade-offs through which governance and planning systems interactions constrain or open opportunities for transformative resilience to the challenges posed by urbanization and migration dynamics. To pro…
Increasing flood risk awareness and warning readiness by participation – But who understands what under ‘participation’
Participation is an often-demanded process in disaster risk reduction (DRR). However, it is often unclear who understands what under this term. International organizations such as the United Nations have promoted participation in their DRR strategies since the 1980s, but further research is needed on its opportunities and limitations. Here we highlight what is understood by participation according to different actors and various international con…
Resilience learning and indigenous knowledge of earthquake risk in Indonesia
In the context of earthquake risk, a vulnerability and resilience perspective has changed a purely technological orientation in facing natural hazards. One aspect of this change is the increasing awareness to include indigenous, traditional knowledge, community-based action, and local practices as well as experience from historic events in earthquake hazard management. Various research has shown that indigenous knowledge has an important role in …
Public health without water? Emergency water supply and minimum supply standards of hospitals in high-income countries using the example of Germany and Austria
The drinking water supply is a core element of national regulations for normal and emergency supply as well as coping with crisis events. Particularly with regard to the interdependence of critical infrastructures means that water supply failures can have far-reaching consequences and endanger the safety of a society, e.g., by impairing hospital operations. In case of an emergency in the drinking water infrastructure, minimum supply standards, e.…
Pathways for advancing integrative disaster risk and resilience management in Iran
A multi-criteria approach for assessing urban flood resilience in Tehran, Iran
Operationalizing the concept of urban disaster resilience is a major milestone toward understanding both the characteristics that contribute to the resilience of cities to natural hazards and the interactions required to build and sustain it. While the measurement of urban disaster resilience has recently gained much attention, there is so far no optimal approach for operationalizing this concept and therefore there is a need to conduct more empi…
Relevanzbewertungsbefähigung und Ohnmachtserfahrung
Urban Disaster Resilience and Security
Atlas Vulnerability and Resilience/Atlas Verwundbarkeit und Resilienz
International audience
Validation of a social vulnerability index in context to river-floods in Germany
Social vulnerability indices are a means for generating information about people potentially affected by disasters that are e.g. triggered by river-floods. The purpose behind such an index is in this study the development and the validation of a social vulnerability map of population characteristics towards river-floods covering all counties in Germany. This map is based on a composite index of three main indicators for social vulnerability in Ge…
Urbanization, migration, and the challenges of resilience thinking in urban planning
This paper examines transformative resilience as the common challenge for urban/regional governance and planning systems in two contrasting contexts from the Global North (Germany) and the Global South (Iran). The aim is to reveal the pathways and trade-offs through which governance and planning systems interactions constrain or open opportunities for transformative resilience to the challenges posed by urbanization and migration dynamics. To pro…
Validation of a social vulnerability index in context to river-floods in Germany
Social vulnerability indices are a means for generating information about people potentially affected by disasters that are e.g. triggered by river-floods. The purpose behind such an index is in this study the development and the validation of a social vulnerability map of population characteristics towards river-floods covering all counties in Germany. This map is based on a composite index of three main indicators for social vulnerability in Ge…
Atlas Vulnerability and Resilience/Atlas Verwundbarkeit und Resilienz
International audience
Relevanzbewertungsbefähigung und Ohnmachtserfahrung
Urban Disaster Resilience and Security
A multi-criteria approach for assessing urban flood resilience in Tehran, Iran
Operationalizing the concept of urban disaster resilience is a major milestone toward understanding both the characteristics that contribute to the resilience of cities to natural hazards and the interactions required to build and sustain it. While the measurement of urban disaster resilience has recently gained much attention, there is so far no optimal approach for operationalizing this concept and therefore there is a need to conduct more empi…
Pathways for advancing integrative disaster risk and resilience management in Iran
Increasing flood risk awareness and warning readiness by participation – But who understands what under ‘participation’
Participation is an often-demanded process in disaster risk reduction (DRR). However, it is often unclear who understands what under this term. International organizations such as the United Nations have promoted participation in their DRR strategies since the 1980s, but further research is needed on its opportunities and limitations. Here we highlight what is understood by participation according to different actors and various international con…
Resilience learning and indigenous knowledge of earthquake risk in Indonesia
In the context of earthquake risk, a vulnerability and resilience perspective has changed a purely technological orientation in facing natural hazards. One aspect of this change is the increasing awareness to include indigenous, traditional knowledge, community-based action, and local practices as well as experience from historic events in earthquake hazard management. Various research has shown that indigenous knowledge has an important role in …
Public health without water? Emergency water supply and minimum supply standards of hospitals in high-income countries using the example of Germany and Austria
The drinking water supply is a core element of national regulations for normal and emergency supply as well as coping with crisis events. Particularly with regard to the interdependence of critical infrastructures means that water supply failures can have far-reaching consequences and endanger the safety of a society, e.g., by impairing hospital operations. In case of an emergency in the drinking water infrastructure, minimum supply standards, e.…
A Framework for Scaling Urban Transformative Resilience through Utilizing Volunteered Geographic Information
Resilience in the urban context can be described as a continuum of absorptive, adaptive, and transformative capacities. The need to move toward a sustainable future and bounce forward after any disruption has led recent urban resilience initiatives to engage with the concept of transformative resilience when and where conventional and top-down resilience initiatives are less likely to deliver effective strategies, plans, and implementable actions…
Adjustment or transformation? Disaster risk intervention examples from Austria, Indonesia, Kiribati and South Africa
Change triggered by natural hazards such as pluvial and coastal floods, sea-level rise as well as risks resulting from water scarcity are highly dynamic and related to the effects of ongoing climate change. Whether and how societies adapt, adjust, change, or transform because of climate change and related risks, is a currently debated topic. This question demands revisiting and comprehensively addressing existing theoretical foundations of transf…
Urbanization, migration, and the challenges of resilience thinking in urban planning
This paper examines transformative resilience as the common challenge for urban/regional governance and planning systems in two contrasting contexts from the Global North (Germany) and the Global South (Iran). The aim is to reveal the pathways and trade-offs through which governance and planning systems interactions constrain or open opportunities for transformative resilience to the challenges posed by urbanization and migration dynamics. To pro…
Identification of methodologies to quantify education system resilience—A scoping review
Schools and other educational institutions are important pillars for the well-being of society. However, education continuity is increasingly threatened by negative influences such as disasters and acts of violence. An important tool to ensure the safety of educational institutions is the development of a methodology to measure education system resilience. To advance the development of such a methodology, a scoping review is conducted to identify…
Should everyone in need be treated equally? A European survey of expert judgment on social vulnerability to floods and pandemics to validate multi-hazard vulnerability factors
Several European countries were affected by severe floods in 2021. At the same time, despite the deployment of vaccines, Europe was the COVID-19 pandemic's epicenter several times during 2021. One research aim of this study is to identify socio-demographic groups vulnerable to floods and whether the groups vulnerable to floods and pandemics overlap or are disjoint. We ran a survey in four languages (English, French, German, and Spanish) and colle…
Assessment of social vulnerability to forest fire and hazardous facilities in Germany
In recent years, Germany has seen an increase in forest fires, and many fires have occurred in military training areas that are difficult to access for firefighting. While casualties are still low and mostly restricted to firefighting personnel, settlements are also increasingly threatened. Increasing impacts from extreme events due to climate change will likely increase the ignition and spread of fires. More people are being affected by fires, a…
Capacitating urban governance and planning systems to drive transformative resilience
Urban governance and planning systems are central cornerstones of international research and policy initiatives to advance sustainable development, climate change adaptation, and disaster risk reduction in the context of increasing global environmental change. Yet, the inherent processes and components of conventional governance and planning systems, such as discourses, structures, tools, and practices, must be revised to drive a transition to fu…
Multi-risks attributed to climate change and urbanization in East Africa
This study analyzed research on East Africa, multiple risks and Climate Change using bibliometric analysis. The main findings are that for many countries in East Africa, studies are absent, even on single risk assessments. Overall, multi-risk assessments that analyze hazard and impact chains are missing. Only a few cities have received scientific attention at the city level. The findings can help scientists as well as policymakers identify resear…
Social resilience assessment for urban fires in Guimarães historic center
This study investigates social resilience to urban fires in the historic center of Guimarães, Portugal, focusing on preventive, adaptive, coping, and recovery capacities. Online and face-to-face surveys collected data from 143 respondents, including residents, workers, and visitors. The results reveal significant differences in fire preparedness and awareness, with only 27 % of respondents having experienced directly a fire and 63 % participating…
Hinging on the preparedness of first responders. A case study on the 2021 flood operations in Romania
In this study, we surveyed a sample of 1023 professional first responders involved in the rescue operations to the floods in the summer of 2021 in Romania, when over two hundred lives were lost and five hundred needed to be evacuated. Our goal was to assess the perceived preparedness of rescuers for disaster response in Romania. We tested the relationship between preparedness and perception of the operative intervention from a cognitive aspect an…
Addressing the social vulnerability gap in disaster risk perception
While practitioners are often prompt to call for more risk communication campaigns, the impacts of disadvantage and vulnerability are often overlooked. This is related to social vulnerability frameworks that often fail to explicitly address risk perception, whereas risk perception theories usually overlook social vulnerability. The resulting social vulnerability research gap might be self-reinforcing: empirical studies will find it difficult to d…
Vertical vulnerability and exposure of people in the context of disaster risk at the building, city and regional level
Vulnerability in the context of disaster risk is widely analysed in terms of the horizontal distribution of people and social groups, as well as their features and capabilities. However, vertical distributions are not yet well-researched, as a systematic literature scoping review finds. Power relations and hierarchies are analysed in existing studies, as are other effects of vertical separation within groups, including disease transmission, inequ…
Modelling spatio-temporal distribution of urban population - A high-resolution model for German cities
Information about the spatial distribution of urban populations is highly relevant for areas such as urban planning, infrastructure services, and hazard prevention. Conventionally, census-based population maps provide a static image of population numbers. However, the distribution of urban populations is highly dynamic and changes throughout the course of a day, which can result in significant discrepancies from static maps. We therefore develope…
Disaster Management and Resilience (18 works) · Geography (16 works) · Environmental planning (11 works) · Business (9 works) · Engineering (9 works) · Flood Risk Assessment and Management (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Environmental resource management (7 works) · Psychology (7 works)