Jochen Hinkel
Research Interests
My research focuses on vulnerability and adaptation to climate change.
Thereby, I am particularly interested in the integration and communication of heterogeneous knowledge, which is, I believe, key to assessing vulnerability and adaptation.
In my doctoral thesis I have explored how transdisciplinary knowledge integration can be facilitated in the context of integrated assessment and vulnerability assessment of climate change.
Currently, I am a member of PIK's Research Domain IV, Transdisciplinary Concepts and Methods, and am leading the FAVAIA Project that aims at developing and applying methods to support the integration and communication processes across disciplines and between science and policy.
Current Projects
- PIK's FAVAIA Project. FAVAIA formalises vulnerability and related concepts, develops computational tools for vulnerability assessment and connects vulnerability and adaptation research with the policy process.
- Within the EU-funded ADAM Project I am involved in the development of a formal framework for vulnerability to climate change and in conducting a meta-analyses of impacts, vulnerabilities and adaptations to climate change in Europe. See the ADAM Workpackage A1 and the FAVAIA Project descriptions for more information.
- Within the EU-funded NEWATER Project I am involved in comparing and improving indicator and model-based methods for assessing water vulnerability.
- I designed and maintain the Dynamic and Interactive Vulnerability Assessment (DIVA) Tool. DIVA is a user-friendly simulation tool that integrates natural and social science models to assess coastal vulnerability for user-selected climatic and socio-economic scenarios and adaptation policies, on sub-national, national, regional and global scales, covering all coastal nations.
Contact
Dr. Jochen Hinkel
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
P.O. Box 601203
D-14412 Potsdam, Germany
Phone: +49-331-288-2598
Mail: hinkel@pik-potsdam.de