Auflistung nach Schlagwort "Vulnerability"

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    • Climate change vulnerability, water resources and social implications in North Africa 

      Schilling, Janpeter; Hertig, ElkeORCIDiD; Tramblay, Yves; Scheffran, Jürgen (Regional Environmental Change, 2020-06-30)
      North Africa is considered a climate change hot spot. Existing studies either focus on the physical aspects of climate change or discuss the social ones. The present article aims to address this divide by assessing and ...

    • Global vulnerability hotspots: differences and agreement between international indicator-based assessments 

      Feldmeyer, DanielORCIDiD; Birkmann, Joern; McMillan, Joanna M.; Stringer, Lindsay; Leal Filho, Walter; Djalante, Riyanti; Pinho, Patricia F.; Liwenga, Emma (Climatic Change, 2021-11-15)
      Climate change impacts and their consequences are determined not only by the intensity and frequency of different climatic hazards but also by the vulnerability of the system, society or community exposed. While general ...

    • Heat vulnerability and adaptive capacities: findings of a household survey in Ludwigsburg, BW, Germany 

      Laranjeira, KevinORCIDiD; Göttsche, Franziska; Birkmann, Joern; Garschagen, MatthiasORCIDiD (Climatic Change, 2021-05-10)
      In 2019, record-setting temperatures in Europe adversely affected human health and wellbeing (WMO 2020) and cities—thus, people in urban areas suffered particularly under heat stress. However, not only heat stress but also ...

    • Natural hazards and climate change are not drivers of disasters 

      Ismail-Zadeh, AlikORCIDiD (Natural Hazards, 2021-11-10)
      Many nations face challenges in assessing, understanding, and responding to the time-dependent nature of disaster risk. Changes in the intensity of occurrences of extreme events coupled with changes in vulnerability and ...

    • Vulnerability assessment of flash floods in Wadi Dahab Basin, Egypt 

      Prama, Maria; Omran, AdelORCIDiD; Schröder, DietrichORCIDiD; Abouelmagd, Abdou (Environmental Earth Sciences, 2020-02-28)
      Floods are considered one of the most severe natural disasters worldwide. They impact vast areas, particularly in arid/semi-arid regions, causing serious damages with thousands of human casualties and billions of Euros in ...