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11.9. Schröter

Keynote Presentations from the 2nd ALTER-Net Summer School, Peyresq 1 - 13 September 2007



Speaker: Dagmar Schröter
Dagmar.Schroeter -at- gmail.com
Umweltbundesamt, Spittelauer Lände 5, 1090 Vienna, Austria and
Research Fellow at Clark University, Worcester, USA
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Title of the talk: The environmental dimension of human vulnerability - Results from Europe (and elsewhere) (pdf: 7MB)


Summary of the talk by Sandra Cavalieri: Students´ summary (pdf)


Recommended background literature on this presentation:

  • Schröter D, Cramer W, Leemans R, Prentice IC, Araújo MB, Arnell NW, Bondeau A, Bugmann H, Carter TR, Garcia CA, de la Vega-Leinert AC, Erhard M, Ewert F, Glendining M, House JI, Kankaanpää S, Klein RJT, Lavorel S, Lindner M, Metzger MJ, Meyer J, Mitchell TD, Reginster I, Rounsevell M, Sabaté S, Sitch S, Smith B, Smith J, Smith P, Sykes MT, Thonicke K, Thuiller W, Tuck G, Zaehle S, Zierl B (2005) Ecosystem service supply and vulnerability to global change in Europe. Science 310:1333-1337, doi:10.1126/science.1115233
  • Schröter D (2005) Vulnerability to changes in ecosystem services. CID Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Working Paper No. 10, Center for International Development (CID), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, pp 22. (pdf: 200KB)
  • Patt AG, Schröter D, De la Vega-Leinert AC, Klein RJT (2006) An introduction to the diversity of approaches to vulnerability research and assessment: Common features and lessons learned. Introduction to the book: Environmental vulnerability assessment for policy and decision-making, Patt AG, Klein RJT, De la Vega-Leinert AC, Schröter D (eds.). In review. (pdf: 100KB)
  • Metzger MJ, Schröter D (2006) Towards a spatially explicit and quantitative vulnerability assessment of environmental change in Europe. Regional Environmental Change 6(4):201-216.doi:10.1007/s10113-006-0020-2.
  • Schröter D, Polsky C, Patt AG (2005) Assessing vulnerabilities to the effects of global change: an eight step approach. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 10(4):573-595. doi:10.1007/s11027-005-6135-9
  • Metzger M, Leemans R, Schröter D (2005) A multidisciplinary multi-scale framework for assessing vulnerability to global change. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 7:253-267. doi:10.1016/j.jag.2005.06.011
  • Grothmann T, Patt A (2005) Adaptive capacity and human cognition: The process of individual adaptation to climate change. Global Environmental Change 15:199-213. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2005.01.002
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