Jochen Schanze

Technische Universität Dresden + Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development

There are various approaches available for assessing the flood vulnerability and damage to buildings and critical infrastructure. They cover pre- and post-event methods for different scales. However, there can hardly be found any method that allows for a large-scale pre-event assessment of the built structures with a high resolution. To make advanc...

The paper presents a methodology on how to consistently deal with the future change and management options in integrated water resources management (IWRM). It is based on a conceptual framework with a five step procedure for the formulation and analysis of a so-called ‘parameterised regional futures’. Developing and testing the approach for IWRM is...

The International Water Research Alliance Saxony (IWAS) is addressing the global challenges concerning water quality in the areas of drinking water and sanitation, agricultural irrigation and the quality of surface and ground waters, as well as developing specific ecosystem-relevant services to be implemented on an exemplary basis in selected model...

Urban green infrastructure (UGI) is a prominent concept toward climate adaptation and urban resilience, but it is also affected by droughts and heat. Hence, this study aims to advance the multi-assessment of drought and heat risks (DHRs) for UGI through the DHR assessment framework with conceptual and methodological features, paving the way toward...

Urban green infrastructure (UGI) is a prominent concept towards climate adaptation and urban resilience, but is also affected by droughts and heat. Hence, this study aims to advance the multi-assessment of drought and heat risks for UGI through a framework with conceptual and methodological features, paving the way towards knowledge creation and de...

‘Environmental non-migration’ refers to the spatial continuity of an individual’s residence at the same place despite environmental risk. Moreover, this is a largely under-researched topic, especially within the climate change adaptation discourse, but is increasingly coming to the attention of scientists and policymakers for sustainable adaptation...

The projected increase in ‘water scarcity – water reuse’ situations, the associated risks and sustainability challenges, and trends towards holistic approaches motivate the development of integrated assessment for decision-making. The integrated Risk and Sustainability Assessment (RSA) Framework combines the analysis and evaluation of both risk and...

Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are leading to accelerating climate change, forcing politicians and administrations to take actions to mitigate climate change and adapt to its impacts, such as changes in flood regimes. For European countries, an increasing frequency and severity of extreme rainfall and flood events is expected. However, stud...

One key challenge of water resources management is the identification and processing of the information necessary for decision-making. This article aims to provide avenues for translating a ‘water scarcity–water reuse’ (WS–WR) situation into an information system. It is dedicated to supporting an integrated assessment in decision-making with the fi...

Die Studie befasst sich mit den praktischen Aspekten der ⁠Anpassung an den Klimawandel⁠ und den gleichzeitigen demografischen und wirtschaftsstrukturellen Veränderungsprozessen in kleineren und/ oder finanzschwachen Kommunen. Im Fokus stehen die Handlungsansätze, die in erster Linie die kommunalen Akteure aus Politik, Verwaltung und Beratung bei de...

Systemic risks are characterized by high complexity, multiple uncertainties, major ambiguities, and transgressive effects on other systems outside of the system of origin. Due to these characteristics, systemic risks are overextending established risk management and create new, unsolved challenges for policymaking in risk assessment and risk govern...

Decision-makers face major challenges when trying to reduce risks of water scarcity sustainably through measures of water reuse. One of these challenges is the lack of interconnectedness between risk assessment for water scarcity and sustainability assessments for water reuse. Therefore, this paper aims to explore the conceptual integration of risk...

Millions of people impacted by climate change actually want to remain in place; these aspirations and respective capabilities need more attention in migration research and climate adaptation policies. Residents at risk may voluntarily stay put, as opposed to being involuntarily trapped, and understanding such subjectivity is empirically challenging...

In Anbetracht einer bisher nur begrenzt wirksamen gesellschaftlichen Umweltvorsorge wird das Konzept „Krise“ als wissenschaftliche Perspektive untersucht. Dazu erfolgt zum einen eine Systematisierung grundlegender Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehungen. Zum anderen werden Merkmale von „Krise“ aus einem multidisziplinären Spektrum der Literatur recherchiert. Unt...

Best Poster Award

River floods are currently among the most devastating natural hazards. In the last two decades, much research has been conducted in the field of flood risk management, but the role of land has received little attention explicitly; important questions are: How do different kinds of land use and land management influence flood risk generation? Whose...

Durch den Klimawandel veränderte thermische und hygrische Verhältnisse führen zu Auswirkungen auf den Bodenwasserhaushalt mit Folgen für Pflanzenwachstum und -vitalität, Grundwasserneubildung und Tiefenverlagerung von Stoffen, aber auch Befahrbarkeit und Anfälligkeit gegenüber Winderosion. Das Management der damit einhergehenden Risiken und Chancen...

The module "Hydrologic Modelling" within a flood risk chain is calibrated using the multicriteria optimization algorithm AMALGAM. AMALGAM is applied to HBV and WaSiM-ETH to find "optimal" parameter sets for futural uncertainty description within the flood risk chain. It is applied on the HPC system Taurus at TU Dresden.

Projections of future land-cover (LC) change are challenging because of the multitude of spatial and dynamic drivers involved, such as politics, economics, demographics, and the environment. This paper presents a combined qualitative and quantitative scenario approach for giving consistent projections of urban and rural land-cover change (LCC), con...

Die Studie befasst sich mit der Frage, inwieweit die Anpassung an den Klimawandel in den derzeitigen rechtlichen Regelungen auf regionaler und lokaler Ebene berücksichtigt wird. Im ersten Teil geht es um die Verankerung der Klimaanpassung in der Raumordnung, im Städtebau sowie in den Umweltfachplanungen. Dazu werden die rechtlichen Regelungen des R...

The paper presents the approach and empirical findings of a study on systematic land-cover change in the upper Western Bug River catchment in Ukraine. Landsat and SPOT images as remote sensing data are used for land-cover classification for the time steps 1989, 2000 and 2010. Thereby, three inner-annual scenes represent the vegetation development f...

The concept of resilience has become more prominent in the disaster risk sciences and policy documents on disaster risk reduction such as the United Nations Sendai Framework of Action 2015-2030. Originating from physics, psychology and ecology, it currently gains interest in a number of other fields. In line with that, it has been adopted in flood...

Projektionen des Flächennutzungswandels haben eine hohe Bedeutung als Grundlage für die räumlich differenzierte Analyse zukünftiger Zustände stadtregionaler Mensch-Umwelt-Systeme. Relevant ist dies beispielsweise im Rahmen der integrierten Erforschung von Folgen des Klimawandels sowie des Flächennutzungswandels, etwa für das Regionalklima, den Wass...

Die Risiken für Siedlungen und Regionen im Hinblick auf Hochwasser steigen auch in Deutschland weiter an. Als Ursachen dafür gelten der Klimawandel und die Ausweitung der Bauflächen. Der Band stellt eine innovative Gesamtmethodik vor, mit der Hochwasserrisiken sowie deren Veränderung und Management beschrieben und bewertet werden können. Diese Meth...

Assessment of building susceptibility due to natural hazard such as floods requires information about the building construction, which cannot always be properly collected and characterised in many cities of the world due to lack of reliable data and laborious techniques and high costs involved in field work. To overcome these issues, the paper prop...

The analysis of flood impacts on buildings in large areas require both a building typology and a method to calculate its physical impacts. This paper focuses on the importance of extraction of building characteristics from remote sensing data in areas where the characterisation of the building structure is lacking. A comprehensive description of a...

There are some approaches available for assessing flood damage to buildings and critical infrastructure. However, these methods up to now can hardly be adapted to a large scale because of lacking high resolution classification and characterisation approaches for the built structures. To overcome this obstacle, the paper presents, first, a conceptua...

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Der Umgang mit dem Klimawandel – mit seinen beiden Aspekten Klimaschutz und Anpassung an den Klimawandel – ist in den letzten Jahren zu einem zentralen gesellschaftlichen Aufgabenfeld geworden. Während die Raumplanung v. a. über die räumliche Steuerung von Flächen für erneuerbare Energien schon seit vielen Jahren wichtige Beiträge zum Klimaschutz b...

Little of the European coast line or land area has escaped human influence, with increasing pressures over generations of settlement, agriculture, industry and commerce. The pressures include water and flood management activities which control the extent and frequency of floods and the drainage of water from the land. Internationally, policies and...

The study programme FLOODmaster teaches the complex relationships of an integrated approach to flood risk management. The study programme is based on a common conceptual framework, its didactic approach addresses participants from different professional and cultural backgrounds. The blended-learning concept and a learning-management system serve as...

The Language of Risk was one of the first deliverables of the FLOODsite project. It was intended originally to be a working document for the project partners to assist with communication throughout the project. However, the document attracted interest more broadly, as FLOODsite took place at a time of policy development and change with the internat...

Polluted sediments resulting from flooding may pose a risk to human health and the environment. Comprehensive flood risk management therefore needs to integrate procedures for the assessment of the risks for potentially affected receptors caused by chemical substances. At present, approaches for the analysis, evaluation and reduction of multiple co...

The future management of flood risk will not come from a single technical solution or policy but from a range of responses which are tuned to the specific circumstances at a local or regional scale, taking account of national governance structures and public attitudes towards flood risks. This diversity of approach is recognised by the embodiment o...

FLOODsite is the largest ever EC research project on flood risk management, with an EC grant to the budget of nearly €10 Million complemented by supporting national funds. The project, which started in 2004, is scheduled to complete in February 2009, and has involved over 200 researchers from 13 countries including many of Europe's leading institut...

Long‐term planning in the context of Flood Risk Management (FRM) necessarily involves dealing with considerable uncertainties. In the past, there have been general doubts about the usefulness of long‐term plans as guiding frameworks for decision makers. Since the mid‐1990s, there has been a revival of long‐term planning to shape the future of Europ...

The article presents the current development of a methodology to assess flood risks due to contaminants with a high spatial resolution. The integrated approach combines methods from flood risk analysis with those from contaminant risk assessment. It focuses on toxicological receptors of urban areas represented by land-use data. For each receptor ri...

This paper presents basic ideas of a theoretical and methodological framework of integration for flood risk management which has been developed for the European Community, particularly by the Integrated Project FLOODsite of the 6th EU Framework Programme.

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Floods are one of the most threatening natural hazards for human societies (e.g. WBGU 1999). This is evident from the increase in damages in the last 50 years due to a series of extreme floods (Munich Re Group 2003). Recently, the tsunami in South East Asia caused 220,000 deaths which makes it probably one of the most disastrous floods. During the...

Presentations showed various approaches to flood modelling. Flood hazard are assessed from observed data and modelling. Surrogate observations should be approached with caution. The importance of flood hazard determination is increasing, because of changing climate, conflicting demands of water management, and continuing expansion of urban areas (h...

Floods are of increasing public concern world-wide due to increasing damages and unacceptably high numbers of injuries. Previous approaches of flood protection led to limited success especially during recent extreme events. Therefore, an integrated flood risk management is required which takes into consideration both the hydrometeorogical and the s...

The thesis deals with theoretical and methodological basics of a comprehensive development of the natural environment. It creates the method “environmental balance” based on existing knowledge of environmental planning and applied environmental research. The method can be understood as a methodological framework for the analysis and management of e...

Societal requirements and natural properties meet directly at riversides in urban areas. Training of urban rivers, due to constraints of urban development, often leads to heavy impacts on the ecological state of waters and may also influence the social quality of life and the economic prosperity of adjacent districts. Sustainable development requir...

Introduction Post Implementation Assessment (PIA) is a vital component of successful river rehabilitation (Kondolf 1995, Bruce-Burgess and Skinner 2002 a. o.). Although the need for PIA has been widely acclaimed so far there has been little effort to evaluate the success, life-span, or cost-effectiveness of river rehabilitation projects (Olson and...

The new model ArcEGMO-URBAN aims at deterministic and spatiotemporal modelling of water, nitrogen and phosphorus fluxes from all urbanised areas of a river basin considering all potential sources. Pollution loads are calculated for discrete urban patches and balanced on the level of hydrological subbasins. Modelling results can be defined by the us...

The purpose of our paper is twofold: (1) to overview and systematize the techniques and methods for spatial multiple criteria decision making; and (2) to demonstrate the approach of integrating GIS, multiple criteria analysis (MCA), and Compromise Programming (CP) for land suitability evaluation. The CP method is implemented in the ARC/INFO as an A...

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On the basis of a brief characterisation of today's European landscapes, the contribution refers to three dimensions of sustainable landscape develop-ment, namely cause-analytical, normative and planning dimensions. It de-scribes landscapes from a cause-analysis point of view as a fabric consisting of total human ecosystems, which is proposed to ma...