The rise in worldwide demand for food to nourish an increasing urban population, along with the necessity of drastically reducing the cross-scale environmental impact induced by urban population life-styles, is amongst the greatest present challenges faced by humanity. This situation stresses the importance of assessing the viability of further adequating the city food supply-demand chain to the natural boundaries resulting from the local climate and bio-physical conditions of large urbanized regions. In this context, a global overview of the potential for metropolitan food self-sufficiency, according to agriculture production along the urban-rural transition zone is needed to understand in more detail interactions between sustainable city growth and Climate Change.
Contact
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
steffen.kriewald[at]pik-potsdam.de
P.O. Box 60 12 03
14412 Potsdam
14412 Potsdam
ORCID
Research Interests:
- Urban growth and urban sustainability
- Geospatial analysis and geovisualization with open source software:
Publication(s):
- Steffen Kriewald, Diego Rybski and Jürgen P. Kropp (in preparation): Urban Transition Functions: European patterns of city growth. Sustainability.
- Steffen Kriewald, Prajal Pradhan, Luis Costa, Anselmo García Cantú Ros and Jürgen P. Kropp: Hungry cities: how local food self-sufficiency relates to climate change, diets, and urbanisation. Environmental Research Letters, 14 (9), 094007.
- Till Fluschnik, Steffen Kriewald, Anselmo García Cantú Ros, Bin Zhou, Dominik E. Reusser, Jürgen P. Kropp, and Diego Rybski (2016): The Size Distribution, Scaling Properties and Spatial Organization of Urban Clusters: A Global and Regional Percolation Perspective, IJGI, ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2016, 5(7), 110.
- Samih Al-areqi, Steffen Kriewald, Anna-Lena Lamprecht, Dominik Reusser, Markus Wrobel and Tiziana Margaria: Towards a flexible assessment of climate impacts: The example of agile workflows for the ci:grasp platform. International Symposium On Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation. 2014,(pp. 420-435).
Conference Presentation(s):
- Steffen Kriewald, Prajal Pradhan, Luis Costa, Diego Rybski and Jürgen P. Kropp (2017). Feeding the urban world: A sustainable food system in the light of SDGs. Impactworld, 2017, Potsdam.
- Steffen Kriewald, Prajal Pradhan, Luis Costa, Diego Rybski and Jürgen P. Kropp (2017). Hungry Cities in a changing climate: The quest for a sutainable food supply. Cities and Climate Conference, 2017, Potsdam.
- Steffen Kriewald, Anselmo García Cantú Ros, Till Sterzel, Prajal Pradhan, and Jürgen P. Kropp (2015). Limits and opportunities of a regionalized food production for cities: A global analysis. DPG AKE 14.4, 2015, Berlin.
- Samih Al-areqi, Steffen Kriewald, Anna-Lena Lamprecht, Dominik Reusser, Markus Wrobel and Tiziana Margaria (2014): Agile Workflows for Climate Impact Risk Assessment based on the ci:grasp Platform and the jABC Modeling Framework. 7th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software, 2014.
- Steffen Kriewald, Anselmo García Cantú Ros, Till Sterzel, and Jürgen P. Kropp(2013). The global potential of local peri-urban food production. In Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 15, EGU2013-13803, 2013, Vienna, Austria.
- Till Fluschnik, Steffen Kriewald, Anselmo García Cantú Ros, Bin Zouh, Dominik E. Reusser and Jürgen P. Kropp (2013). Urban land cover at criticality and city size distributions. In Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 15, EGU2013-13805, 2013, Vienna, Austria.
- Anselmo García Cantú Ros, Steffen Kriewald, Giordana Dunkhorst, Till Sterzel and Jürgen P. Kropp (2013). Towards assessing the potential of peri-urban agriculture worldwide. In Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 15, EGU2013-13324, 2013, Vienna, Austria.
- Anselmo García Cantú Ros, Till Fluschnik, Steffen Kriewald, and Diego Rybski (2013). City size distributions of urban clusters near the percolation transition: a global perspective. DPG SOE 25.5, 2013, Regensburg.
- Tabea K. Lissner, Steffen Kriewald, Prajal Pradhan, Markus Wrobel, Dominik E. Reusser, and Jürgen P. Kropp (2012). Assessing adaptation actions from the ci:grasp database. In Climate Adaptation in Action 2012, Melbourne.
- Anselmo García Cantú Ros, Steffen Kriewald, Diego Rybski and Jürgen P. Kropp (2012). Food security, growth and spatial organization of urban areas: a global perspective. In Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 14, EGU2012-13153, 2012, Vienna, Austria.
Projects at PIK:
- Flagship Project: Climate Proof Cities and Infrastructure
- Bernau.pro.Klima Anpassung an den Klimawandel in Bernau mittels ökosystembasierter und partizipativer räumlicher Planung
- A Region at Risk: The Human Dimensions of Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific Report in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank
- RAMSES Science for cities in transition
- PROGRESS Potsdamer Forschungs- und Technologieverbund zu Naturgefahren, Klimawandel und Nachhaltigkeit
- ci:grasp Platform providing information on climate impacts and adaptation
