Building Resilience to Natural Hazards in the Context of Climate Change

Dr. Gerard Hutter: Since 1996 employee, since 2001 project manager at the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER), Dresden; scientific focus: Strategic planning for environmental risk reduction and climate change adaptation, urban resilience, in particular social resilience.Dr. Marco Neubert: Since 2000 employed at the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER), Dresden, since 2007 project manager; scientific focus: Vulnerability and risk analyses, impact modelling, resilience, climate change impacts, adaptation to climate change, applied geoinformatics (Geographic Information Systems, modelling, remote sensing), landscape ecology and landscape planning.Dr.-Ing. habil. Regine Ortlepp: Since 2013 employed, since 2017 Head of Research Department at the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER), Dresden; scientific focus: Resource efficiency, circular economy, sustainable construction, adaptation measures to climate change, risk assessment, technical and ecological resilience.

• 1. Building resilience to natural hazards in the context of climate change – Introducing the focus and agenda of the edited volume.- 2. Knowledge integration for building resilience – The example of flood risk maps.- 3. Justice and resilience in flood risk management: What are the socio-political implications?.- 4. House lifting to improve flood resilience in settlement are-as – An example of the Elbe village Brockwitz (Saxony).- 5. Sustainability and resilience – A practical approach to assessing sustainability in innovative infrastructure projects.- 6. Building heat-resilient neighborhoods – Testing the implementation on buildings and in open spaces in two sample quarters Dresden and Erfurt.- 7. The Impulse Project Stuttgart – Stimulating resilient urban development through blue-green infrastructure.- 8. Participation for building urban climate resilience? Results from four cities in Germany.- 9. Building resilience in the context of multi-level governance – Insights from a living lab in the Ruhr.- 10. Project-based learning for building urban resilience – Reflecting on project examples of climate change adaptation in the Dresden region.