Recent Publications of CCD Group Members
Reviewed (ISI) Journal Articles (last 12 month)
- Costa L, Kropp JP (2012): Linking operations and definitions of
vulnerability: Lessons from case studies in climate-change and
risk-hazard context. Sustainability Science, [online first],
[DOI].
- Prahl BF, Rybski D, Kropp JP, Burghoff O, Held H (2012): Applying Stochastic Small-Scale Damage
Functions to German Winter Storms. Geophysical Research Letters, [online first]
[DOI].
- Holsten A, Kropp JP
(2012): An integrated and transferable climate change vulnerability assessment for regional application. Natural
Hazards [online first], DOI
- Tekken V, Ulazzi E, Costa L, Kropp JP (2012): Increasing pressure, declining water and eroding coast in NE Morocco. Journal of Coastal Conservation [in press].
- Lissner T,
Holsten A, Walther C, Kropp JP (2012): Towards sectoral and
standardised vulnerability assessments: the example of heatwave impacts
on human health. Climatic Change 112: 687-708, [DOI] .
- Sietz D, Manani Choque SE, Lüdeke MKB (2012)
Typical patterns of smallholders climate vulnerability with respect to food security in the Peruvian Altiplano. Regional Environmental Change [online first], [DOI].
- Hickler T, Vohland K, Feehan J, Miller PA, Smith B, Costa-Carvalho L,
Giesecke T, Fronzek S, Carter T, Cramer W, Kühn I & Sykes MT
(2012): Projecting the future distribution of European potential
natural vegetation zones with a generalized, tree species-based dynamic
vegetation model. Gl Ecol Biogeogr 21, 1, 50-63.
[DOI].
- Costa L, Rybski D, Kropp JP (2011): A Human Development Framework for CO2 Reductions. PlosOne, 6(12) e29262, [DOI],
[Suppl. Material].
- Boettle M, Kropp JP, Reiber L, Roithmeier O, Rybski D, Walther C (2011): About the influence of elevation model quality on estimated flood damages: results from the Kalundberg case study. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 11, 3327–3334,
[DOI].
- Rybski D, Buldyrev SV, Havlin S, Liljeros F, Makse HA (2011):
Communication activity in social networks: growth and correlations. European Physical Journal B 84(1): 147-159.
- McIntosh BS, Ascough JC, Twery M, Chew J, Elmahdi A, Haase D, Harou J, Hepting D, Cuddy S, Jakeman AJ, Chen S, Kassahun A, Lautenbach S, Matthews K, Merritt W, Quinn NWT, Rodriguez-Roda I, Sieber S, Stavenga M, Sulis A, Ticehurst J, Volk M, Wrobel M, van Delden H, El-Sawah S (2011): Environmental Decision Support Systems (EDSS) Development – Challenges and Best Practices.
Environmental Modelling & Software 26(12), 1389-1402.
- Kit O, Lüdeke MKB, Reckien D (2011): Texture-based identification of urban slums in Hyderabad, India using remote sensing data. Applied Geography 32(2): 660-667.
- Gray AJG, Sadler J, Kit O, Kyzirakos K, Karpathiotakis M, Calbimonte JP, Page K, Garcia-Castro R, Frazer A, Galpin I, Fernandes A, Paton NW, Corcho O, Koubarakis M, De Roure D, Martinez K, Gomez-Perez A (2011): A Semantic Sensor Web for Environmental Decision Support Applications. Sensors 11(9): 8855-8887.
- Rozenfeld H D, Rybski D, Gabaix X, Makse HA (2011): The area and population of cities: New insights from a different perspective on cities. American Economic Review, 101(5): 2205–25, [DOI].
- Olonscheck M, Holsten A, Kropp JP (2011): Heating and cooling energy demand and emissions of the German residential building stock under climate change. Energy Policy 39(9): 4795-4806, [DOI].
- Reckien D, Martinez-Fernandez C (2011): Why do cities shrink? European Planning Studies, 19(8): 1375-1397.
- Sietz D, Boschütz M, Klein RJT (2011): Mainstreaming climate adaptation into development assistance: rationale, institutional barriers and opportunities in Mozambique. Environmental Science & Policy 14(4):493-502.
- Garcia Cantu Ros A, Antonopoulos C, Basios V (2011): Emergence of coherent motion in aggregates of motile coupled maps. Chaos Solitons and Fractals
44(8): 574-586.
- Reckien D, Eisenack K, Lüdeke MKB (2011): Land consumption by urban sprawl - a new approach to deduce urban development scenarios from actors’ preferences. Environmental Modeling and Assessment 16(5): 465-477.
- Reusser DE, Wrobel M, Nocke T, Sterzel T, Förster H, Kropp JP (2011). Presentation of uncertainties on web
platforms for climate change information. Procedia Environmental Sciences 7: 80-85.
- Förster H, Sterzel T, Pape CA, Moneo-Lain M, Niemeyer I, Boer R, Kropp JP (2011): Sea-level rise in Indonesia: On adaptation priorities in the agricultural sector. Regional Environmental Change 11(4): 893-904, [DOI].
- García Cantú Ros A, McEwen JW and Gaspard P (2011): Effect of ultrafast diffusion on adsorption, desorption, and reaction processes over heterogeneous surfaces Phys. Rev. E 83, 021604.
- Klaus M, Holsten A, Hostert P., Kropp JP (2011): An integrated methodology to assess windthrow impacts on forest stands under climate change. Forest Ecology and Management, 261: 1799-1810,
[DOI].
- Sietz D, Lüdeke MKB, Walther C. (2011) Categorisation of typical vulnerability patterns in global drylands. Global Environmental Change 21(2): 431-440, [DOI].
- Rybski D, Holsten A, Kropp JP (2011): Towards a unified characterization of phenological phases: fluctuations and correlations with temperature. Physica A, 390(4): 680-688, [DOI].
- Costa-Carvalho L, Thonike K, Poulter B, Badeck F (2011): Sensitivity of Portuguese forest fires to climatic, human and landscape variables – Differences between fire drivers in extreme fire years and decadal averages. Regional Environmental Change 11(3): 541-551, [DOI].
- Grothmann T, Daschkeit A, Felgentreff C, Görg C, Horstmann B, Scholz I, Tekken V
(2011): Anpassung an den Klimawandel - Potenziale sozialwissenschaftlicher Forschung in Deutschland. GAIA 20(2): 84-90.
Currently under review
- Kit O, Lüdeke MKB, Reckien D (2012): Defining the bull's eye: satellite imagery-assisted
slum population assessment in Hyderabad/India. Environment and Urbanization.
- Steinhäuser M, Rybski D, Kropp JP (2012): Indirect
identification of damage functions from damage records. Geophysical
Research Letters.
- Holsten A, Dominic AR, Costa L, Kropp JP (2012): Evaluation of the Performance of Meteorological Forest Fire Indices for German Federal States. Forest Ecology and Management.
Books, Book Chapters (last 2 years)
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Menoni S & Margottini C (2011): Inside Risk: A Strategy for Sustainable Risk Mitigation, Springer, Berlin, 364pp.
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Kropp JP, Schellnhuber HJ (2011): In Extremis: Disruptive Events, Trends, and Correlations in Hydrology and Climate. Springer, Heidelberg, Berlin, 380pp.
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Zimmermann K.O. (Ed.) (2011): Resilient Cities - Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change, Dordrecht: Springer
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| Kropp JP, Scheffran J (2007): Advanced Methods for Decision Making and Risk Management in Sustainability Science. Nova Science Publ., New York | |
| Kropp JP, Schellnhuber HJ (2008): Prototyping of Broad-Scale Climate and Ecosystem Classes by Means of Self-Organising Maps. in: P. Agarwal & A. Skupin (Eds.) Self-Organising Maps: Applications in Geographic Information Sciences, 216pp., Wiley & Sons, New York | |
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Lucas P, Hilderink H, Kok M, Lüdeke MKB (2011): Long-term Development and the Millennium Development Goals In: A Changing Environment for Human Security: New Agendas for Research, Policy, and Action eds.: O'Brian K, Wolf J, Sygna L. London: Earthscan, [in press]. |
Reports, Studies, Policy Documents (last 2 years)
- Council of Europe/Kropp JP (2008): Climate change: building adaptive capacity of local and regional authorities. Standing Committee on Sustainable Development, Approved on Malaga Session March 2008
- Kropp JP (2010): Flüchtlingsströme der Zukunft. in: Bundeswehr aktuell, Nr. 38 / 2010, S. 6
- Rybski D, Costa L (2010): Welche Kosten verursacht der Klimawandel? in: EUCC - Die Küstenunion Deutschland e.V. (Hrsg.): Meer & Küste - Deutsche Ostsee, Nr. 2 / 2010, S. 31
- Naturpark Teutoburger Wald / Eggegebirge (2009): KlimaErlebnisWandern im Naturpark Teutoburger Wald / Eggegebirge.
Karten und Abbildungen aus dem Bericht:
Kropp JP, Holsten A, et al. (2009): Klimawandel in Nordrhein-Westfalen: Regionale Abschätzung der Anfälligkeit ausgewählter Sektoren.
Potsdam-Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany.
Contributions to popular scientific journals & books
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