Current Projects
AdaptCosts – costs of adaptation and adaptive capacities in emerging and developing countries
This project, conducted together with Germanwatch, primarily aims at analyzing the costs of adaptation in selected important emerging and developing countries. The project addresses three main questions: (i) Which financial resources are necessary in the selected countries to adapt to climate change? (ii) Which financial resources are already planned and budgeted in national adaptation plans of the selected countries? (iii) What are the financial and institutional adaptive capacities of the selected countries? (funded by German Environmental Agency “UBA Deutschland”)
Contact: J. Kropp, L. Costa
TransRisk - Transitions and Risks for Developing Countries
Climate Impacts: Global & Regional Adaptation Support Platform (ci:grasp)
The project runs in close cooperation with German Development Cooperation (GIZ) and aims to develop an methodological inventory for effective adaptation (funded by BMU).
Contact: J. Kropp, D. Reusser
BaltCICA - Climate Change: Impacts, Costs and Adaptation in the Baltic Sea Region
The project aims to estimate costs for adaptation actions and climate related damages for several coastal communities in the Baltic sea catchment. Central element of the project is an impact model intercomparison for models estimating impacts of sea-level rise (financed by INTERREG BSR).
Contact: J. Kropp, D. Rybski
ESPON Climate - Climate Change and territorial effects on regions and local economies in Europe
The European planning and observation network is set up to support policy development and to build a European scientific community in the field of territorial development. In this context climate change play increasingly an important role. The project goes beyond problem descriptions, but addresses potential implications that climate change can have on territorial development. By analysing different European regions, its vulnerability, and adaptation options in more detail, e.g. for North-Rhine Westphalia in Germany, the European Alps, the Mediterranean coastal region in Spain, or the Tizia river catchment in SE Europe the challenges for the regions will be examined (financed by European Union structural funds).
Contact: J. Kropp, A. Holsten
HYDERABAD - Megacities: Climate and Energy in a complex transition process towards Sustainability in Hyderabad
The Hyderabad project involves 11 German, Indian and International Partners. The objective of the project is to establish Hyderabad as a „Low Emission City in Asia“; it comprises the following components: (a) Designing a „Sustainable Development Framework“, which involves mitigation and adaptation strategies regarding climate change and the provision of energy; (b) Developing a „Perspective Action Plan“ towards conceptualizing relevant implementation strategies and (c) Initiating pilot projects, learning processes, institutions and governance structures, contributing to permanent behavioural changes (financed by BMBF).
Contact: M. Lüdeke
KIBEX: Critical Infrastructure, and climate change related extreme events
Infrastructure and population are most affected by climate extremes. In so far it is the aim of the project to describe systematically how infrastructure and population might be affected and which components of the social and physical system part have to be considered for a risk assessment (financed by Minstry of the Interior).
Contact: J. Kropp
Patterns of Vulnerability (ARCHETYPES)
The aim of this project is to explore the possibilities to develop a methodology for the quantitative analysis of archetypes of vulnerability. Quantification is done by using indicators from the MNP GISMO model and the IMAGE framework. Such an approach paves the roads towards a comprehensive Global Change vulnerability assessment. The impacts of different policy interventions on the vulnerability of people are also analyzed (financed by MNP/Netherlands).
Contact: M. Lüdeke
PROGRESS - Potsdam Research Cluster on Georisk Analysis, Environmental Change and Sustainability
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The research cluster is part of the ''Top Level Research and Innovation Programm'' of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research and funded by approx. 11m Euros. The NSP group hosts the subproject ''Systemanalytical Approaches in Risk Assessment''. The project deals with a systematic analysis of city systems, criteria for risk resilient infrastructure, information transfer, and the development of new tools for decision making (financed by BMBF). |
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Contact: J. Kropp, A. Cantu Ros
CMF - Climate Media Factory Potsdam
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Joint project between Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the Film and Television Academy “Konrad Wolf” on tailor made media products dealing with the transfer of climate knowledge to stakeholders (financed by the BMBF) |
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Contact: J. Kropp, B. Hezel
MEDIATION - Methodology for Effective Decision-making on Impacts and Adaptation
Assessment of climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation requires a combination of generic and context-specific knowledge. Currently, the availability of such knowledge in Europe is fragmented and incomplete. MEDIATION addresses these challenges, e.g. by (i) a systematic analysis of the decision-making context; (ii) inventory, review and improvement of methods and metrics for impacts and vulnerability analysis; (iii) likewise for costing of impacts and adaptation options; (iv) development of an overarching integrated methodology; (v) development of a flexible, interactive common platform for knowledge sharing. (funded by FRP7)
Contact: J. Kropp, M. Wrobel
RIVAS - Regional Integrated Vulnerability Assessment for Austria
The project responds to both the explicit call for improved vulnerability studies on the sub-national and regional level and to an urgent need for knowledge on regional vulnerabilities in Austria. The project will pursue three closely interlinked main lines of activities: (i) the preparation of a transferable conceptual, methodological and procedural framework for regional vulnerability assessment, (ii) the application of the participatory vulnerability assessment concept in an Austrian pilot region (Pinzgau-Pongau); and (iii) the evaluation of test results and stakeholder process performance. (funded by the Environmental Agency of Austria).
Contact: J. Kropp
ACA - Developing Action Plans against Climate Change in South East Asian Cities
Living in cities will become the preferable lifestyle in the 21st century. With regard to climate change cities are both (i) responsible for approx. 70% of all GHG emissions, and (ii) resilient with respect to envirmental disaster like cyclones or floods. Therefore it is mandatory to develop strategies which can reconcile adaptation, climate protection and development (win-win-win concepts). The project will analyse structural feature of cities by parallel developing foresighted concepts in this regard.
Cities involved in India:
- Corporation of Cochin/Kerala
- Municipal Corporation of Madurai/Tamil Nadu
- Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation/Andra Pradesh
- Guntur Municipal Corporation/Andra Pradesh
Cities involved on the Philippines:
- Baguio City/Benguet, Luzon
- Dagupan City/Pangasinan, Luzon
- San Fernando City/La Union, Luzon
- Tuguegarao City/Cagayan, Luzon
The project is funded by the International Climate Initiative of the Federal Ministry of Environment, Germany.
Contact: J. Kropp, D. Rybski
