“Climate change adaptation”, “building resilience” and “vulnerability and risk reduction” are noble words, but do we really know what is meant by these terms and how to assess their respective progress? This book seeks to address these questions. The world has recently experienced...

Current approaches of measuring vulnerability to natural hazards generally use a rather static perspective that focuses on a single point in time - often before a hazardous event occurs. In contrast, the paper argues that vulnerability assessment should also take into account the changing...

und die Zunahme von Extremwetterereignissen (Hochwasser, Stürme etc.) sind Anzeichen des globalen Umweltwandels, der neue Herausforderungen an die Raumplanung stellt. Der Beitrag prüft, wie Raumplanung insbesondere die Regionalplanung bisher Naturgefahren und Vulnerabilität betrachtet. Dabei...