Building Resilience to Natural Hazards in the Context of Climate Change

Urban resilience and building resilience are “hot topics” of research and practice on sustainability in the context of climate change. The edited volume advances the “state of art” of urban resilience research through focusing on three important processes of building resilience: knowledge integration, implementation, and learning. In the volume, knowledge integration primarily refers to the combination of specialized knowledge domains (e.g., flood risk management and urban planning). Implementation refers to realized specific changes of the building stock and related green, blue and grey infrastructures at local level (e.g., for dealing with rising temperatures and heat waves at the neighborhood scale in cities). Learning requires moving beyond single projects and experiments of resilience to enhance sustainability at city and regional scale. The editors adopt an interdisciplinary approach to this volume of the Springer series on resilience. The volume includes contributions from civilengineering, physical geography, the social sciences, and urban planning.
The EditorsDr. Gerard Hutter: Since 1996 employee, since 2001 project manager at the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER), Dresden; scientific focus: Strategic planning for environmental risk reduction and climate change adaptation, urban resilience, in particular social resilience.
Dr. Marco Neubert: Since 2000 employed at the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER), Dresden, since 2007 project manager; scientific focus: Vulnerability and risk analyses, impact modelling, resilience, climate change impacts, adaptation to climate change, applied geoinformatics (Geographic Information Systems, modelling, remote sensing), landscape ecology and landscape planning.
Dr.-Ing. habil. Regine Ortlepp: Since 2013 employed, since 2017 Head of Research Department at the LeibnizInstitute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER), Dresden; scientific focus: Resource efficiency, circular economy, sustainable construction, adaptation measures to climate change, risk assessment, technical and ecological resilience.