Environmental Risks in Urban and Regional Development
In the Research Area "Environmental Risks in Urban and Regional Development" we are concerned with analysing and assessing risks for spatial development from natural hazards and climate change, as well as planning strategies, policy instruments, and measures in risk prevention.
In the Research Area "Environmental Risks in Urban and Regional Development" our aim is to
- assess the vulnerability of buildings, cities, and regions to environmental impacts and the resulting risks by means of building construction and landscape ecology studies;
- design and test spatial models for the integrated analysis of different damage types and simulation of the effects of preventive measures, using approaches that in simplified form can also serve as risk indicators;
- advanced decision-support, tools, helping local and regional actors to retrieve, assess, and use information on environmental risks arising in the various scenarios of regional change;
- develop planning methods and proposals for legal instruments in risk prevention that take account of both spatial causes and effects and the uncertainties of environmental risks;
- formulate a conceptual process model for risk management strategies and on this basis identify performance factors for effective risk reduction.
