Climate Resilience
Environmental changes require multiscalar responses at the urban, regional, and global level
Anthropogenic climate change manifests in more frequent occurrence of extreme weather events like storms, high-intensity rainfall, and periods of increased temperatures. Crop failures, parasitic invasions, landslides, and floods affect land productivity, livelihood, and food security with severe effects especially in already impoverished regions of the world.
ECH researchers in the focus area dealing with climate resilience investigate the complex nexus of climate change, the environment, socio-economic impacts, and human responses. With a diverse background from natural, human, and social sciences, members research topics around sustainable urban city planning and digitalization as adaptive response strategies, global climate migration, resource extraction and inequality as well as broader economic impacts of regional industries vulnerable to climate change.
News and Stories
29.09.2023
Soil Bacteria Prevail Despite Drought Conditions
Recent research uncovers the resilience of certain soil microorganisms in the face[...]
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21.08.2023
Why We Need to Protect the Peatland Ecosystem Now
Peatlands are underestimated – yet they are flood protection, drought insurance, sewage[...]
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Projects
01.01.2024
KlipPer: Climate Change and Photovoltaic Energy
Aiko Voigt at the Department for Meteorology and Geophysics is leading the[...]
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06.06.2023
Highreslearn: Extracting Information From High-Resolution Climate Data
Lukas Brunner at the Department of Meteorology and Geophysics is leading the[...]
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15.05.2023
The Politics of Negative Emissions Technologies in the EU
Alina Brad at the Department of Political Sciences is leading this project[...]
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01.07.2022
CHROMA: Mobilization of Chromium by Organic Matter in Reduced Systems
Stephan Krämer at the Department of Geosciences is leading „Chroma“, a Marie[...]
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