Rüdiger Glaser

University of Freiburg | Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg · Physical Geography

A multi-actor behavioural approach has recently entered the discussion about resilience, (in)stability, and system transformation in archaeology and the social sciences in general. The ecological, economic, and socio-cultural contextualization aims at integrating a processual component into the ecosystem’s functionality and the adaptive cycle of h...

Municipalities are often challenged in adapting to climate change impacts, with knowledge gaps regarding climate risks being an important constraint hindering the development and implementation of adaption strategies. Although at the municipal level, risks are highly context specific, recurring patterns of hazard, exposure and vulnerability can oft...

To understand the concerns, approvals and disapprovals of expert opinions about managerial issues from around reservoirs this study uses the approach of Fuzzy Composite Programming (FCP) in direct questionnaires to parameterize and rate a set of indicators with statements about managerial issues concerning societal implications by the responding ex...

A multi-actor behavioural approach has recently entered the discussion about resilience, (in)stability, and system transformation in archaeology and the social sciences in general. The ecological, economic, and socio-cultural contextualization aims at integrating a processual component into the ecosystem’s functionality and the adaptive cycle of hu...

Tickborne-encephalitis (TBE) is a potentially life-threating neurological disease that is mainly transmitted by ticks. The goal of the present study is to analyze the potential uniform environmental patterns of the identified TBEV microfoci in Germany. The results are used to calculate probabilities for the present distribution of TBEV microfoci in...

Extreme weather events and severe flash floods during July 2021 caused numerous deaths and massive ecological disasters across Europe. The regionally overstrained environmental and socio-cultural resilience triggered an intensive discussion about cause and effect, responsibilities and public denouncement, and the financial consequences of climate-i...

Extreme weather events and severe flash floods during July 2021 caused numerous deaths and massive ecological disasters across Europe. The regionally overstrained environmental and socio-cultural resilience triggered an intensive discussion about cause and effect, responsibilities and public denouncement, and the financial consequences of climate-i...

In this study we examine the spatial patterns of risk towards climate change and climatic extremes in the “Trinational Metropolitan Region Upper Rhine” (TMU). Following the concept of risk analysis, we identify the regional dimension of climatic stressors in relation to the socio-economic dimension. We present an indicator-based assessment, which o...

The given article focuses on the benefit of harvested Ambient Geographic Information (AGI) as complementary data sources for severe weather events and provides methodical approaches for the spatio-temporal analysis of such data. The perceptions and awareness of Twitter users posting about severe weather patterns were explored as there were aspects...

Die Effekte des Klimawandels machen sich in den Kommunen und Landkreisen Baden-Württembergs zunehmend bemerkbar. Während in großen Kommunen nach dem Klimaschutz verstärkt auch die Klimawandelanpassung in der Verwaltungspraxis verankert wird, verfügen kleine und mittlere Kommunen meist nicht über die notwendigen Kapazitäten, um den Auswirkungen des...

Im Klimaportal erfahren Sie die aktuellen Klimaprojektionen für Baden-Württemberg. Hierfür wurden die landesweiten Klimadaten erstmals für die lokale Ebene berechnet und für jede der über 1.000 Kommunen ein individueller Klimasteckbrief erstellt. Über die Karte können die individuellen Klimasteckbrief für sämtliche Gemeinde abgerufen werden. https...

Reservoirs are a common way to store and retain water serving for a multitude of purposes like storage of drinking and irrigation water, recreation, flood protection, navigation, and hydropower production, and have been built since centuries. Today, few reservoirs serve only one purpose, which requires management of present demands and interests. S...

Citizen-led local participation is considered the key to a successful energy transition, and citizens’ co-owned power plants are an alternative and representative form of local participation. The extent to which citizens’ co-owned power plants can embody “locality, democracy, participation, energy autonomy, poverty reduction, and energy justice” ha...

Climate and regional land-use and landcover change (LUCC) impact the ecosystem of the Upper Rhine Area (URA) and transform large parts of the landscape into strongly irrigated agricultural cropland. The increase of long-term drought periods and the trend towards low summer precipitation totals trigger an increase in groundwater scarcity and amplify...

Climate and regional land-use and landcover change (LUCC) impact the ecosystem of the Upper Rhine Area (URA) and transform large parts of the landscape into strongly irrigated agricultural cropland. The increase of long-term drought periods and the trend towards low summer precipitation totals trigger an increase in groundwater scarcity and amplifi...

Abstract. Droughts are multidimensional hazards that can lead to substantial environmental and societal impacts. To understand causes and impacts, multiple variables need to be considered. Many studies identified past drought events and investigated drought propagation from meteorological droughts via soil moisture to hydrological droughts and some...

Droughts are multidimensional hazards that can lead to substantial environmental and societal impacts. To understand causes and impacts, multiple perspectives need to be considered. Many studies have identified past drought events and investigated drought propagation from meteorological droughts via soil moisture to hydrological droughts, and some...

Climate vulnerability assessments are an important prerequisite for establishing successful climate adaptation strategies. Despite a growing number of assessments on the national or global scale, there is still a need for regionalized studies with a high resolution to identify meso-scale vulnerability patterns. In this paper, we present an indicato...

There are concerns that recent climate change is altering the frequency and magnitude of river floods in an unprecedented way1. Historical studies have identified flood-rich periods in the past half millennium in various regions of Europe2. However, because of the low temporal resolution of existing datasets and the relatively low number of series,...

The present article deals with the reconstruction of drought time series in Germany since 1500. The reconstructions are based on historical records from the virtual research environment Tambora (tambora.org, 2018) and official instrumental records. The historical records and recent data were related to each other through modern index calculations,...

Engraved in stone or attached as metal plates to bridges or house walls, flood marks are mostly publicly accessible symbols of high-water level and form part of the cultural heritage. They serve as tangible representations of the extent of past floods and are thus regarded a medium which can raise public risk awareness and contribute to a collectiv...

Das für jeden zugängliche (und erweiterbare) Webportal www.tambora.org bietet über 250000 zeitlich differenzierbare und räumlich verortete Ereignisse. Im mitteleuropäischen Bereich finden sich für die letzten tausend Jahre Einträge zu den Themen Klima (beispielsweise Hitze, Kälte, Niederschlag, ...), Phenologie (etwa Erntequalität, -quantität und -...

Der Weg schriftlicher Quellen aus den Archiven in die virtuelle Forschungsumgebung

Les deux départements alsaciens figurent parmi les 20 départements les plus à risque en matière d’inondation. Et pourtant, si le Haut-Rhin semble à présent bénéficier d’une bonne prise en compte du risque à travers les PPRI (Plans de Prévention des Risques d’Inondation), le Bas-Rhin affiche un retard considérable . Pour remédier à cette situation,...

Drought directly and indirectly affects the entire socio-economic and environmental sectors in southwestern Germany. Such impacts are a result of the drought hazard and an underlying vulnerability of the systems. With respect to climate change and the dynamics of vulnerability over time, it becomes crucial to investigate the preceding components, i...

This study investigates the different stakeholder based discourses and challenges around the Franconian Lake District (FLD), a recently constructed large reservoir system in Germany. The construction and operation of reservoirs represent a massive alteration of their natural and social environments leading to discourses and potential conflicts betw...

The present article deals with the reconstruction of drought time series in Germany since 1500. The reconstructions are based on written records from the historical climate and environmental database tambora.org, early and official instrument data as well as precipitation and temperature indices. From the historical descriptions of the weather clim...

Klimawandel am Oberrhein: Ein zweisprachiges Dossier mit 24 Karten und 6 Begleittexten // Changement climatique dans le Rhin Superieur: un dossier bilingue avec 24 cartes et 6 textes d’accompagnement. Publiziert bei www.georhena.eu/de/Kartensammlung // publié sur www.georhena.eu/fr/Cartotheque

Despite the strong societal impact of natural hazards, their documentation remains incomplete, with only a few inventories exceeding the past two centuries. Surprisingly enough, this also applies to Europe, a densely populated territory, and to floods, which along with storms are the most common and damage-causing natural hazard in Europe. In addit...

Periurban areas of growing cities in developing countries have been conceptualised as highly dynamic landscapes characterised by a mixture of socioeconomic structures, land uses and functions. While the body of conceptual literature on periurban areas has significantly increased over the past two decades, methods for operationalising these multi-di...

The enterprises in the Trinational Metropolitan Region Upper Rhine are affected by climate change in a multitude of ways. The relevant climatic stressors such as heatwaves, heavy rain, flood risk, etc. differ greatly on the local scale and sectorwise. In addition, many enterprises, particularly small and medium sized ones (SME), are often lacking p...

River flooding is among the most destructive of natural hazards globally, causing widespread loss of life, damage to infrastructure and economic deprivation. Societies are currently under increasing threat from such floods, predominantly from increasing exposure of people and assets in flood‐prone areas, but also as a result of changes in flood mag...

Food and nutrition insecurity remains a challenge in sub-Saharan Africa. Several studies have examined food and nutrition insecurity in urban or rural areas but have not captured the whole continuum. Between November and December 2013, 240 households were surveyed along the urban–rural continuum in Northern Ghana. The study objective was to underst...

Despite the strong societal impact of natural hazards, their documentation remains incomplete, with only a few inventories exceeding the past two centuries. Surprisingly enough, this also applies to Europe, a densely populated territory, and to floods, which along with storms is the most common and damage-causing natural hazard in this area. In add...

Future estimations of flood hazard and risk for developing optimal coping and adaption strategies inevitably include considerations of the frequency and magnitude of past events. Methods of historical climatology represent one way of assessing flood occurrences beyond the period of instrumental measurements and can thereby substantially help to ext...

Climate reconstructions for Central Europe based on data from societal and natural archives from the last millennium are presented and discussed. The long-term relationship between climate change and food security is addressed by comparing the long-term climate development with harvest yield reports and information on famines and food crises. In th...

This paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the extent to which climate and climatic change can have a negative impact on societies by triggering migration, or even contribute to conflict. It summarizes results from the transdisciplinary project Climate of migration (funded 2010–2014), whose innovative title was created by Franz Mauelshagen and...

Betrachtet man ein Sandkorn im Mikroskop, so lassen sich Aussagen über die Transportprozesse treffen. Im Gegensatz dazu ermöglicht eine Analyse von Satellitenbildern der Sahelzone Rückschlüsse über großräumige Desertifikationsprozesse. Der Inhalt einer wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung hängt also in starkem Maß von der Wahl der Maßstabsebene der Betr...

Böden überziehen nahezu flächendeckend die Landoberfläche und stellen die wichtigste Energieumsatzfläche der Erde dar. Für den Begriff Boden gibt es mehrere Definitionen, meist in Abhängigkeit seiner Funktion, die er für die unterschiedlichen Arbeitsrichtungen besitzt. Aus geographischer Sicht ist der Boden der extrem dünne, oberste belebte Bereich...

Das Erscheinungsbild der Erdoberfläche wird von endogenen und exogenen Prozessen geprägt. Die Geomorphologie ist der Bereich der physischen Geographie, der sich mit der Beschreibung der Oberflächenformen der Erde, der Untersuchung der räumlichen und zeitlichen Entwicklung dieser Oberflächenformen sowie der formenbildenden Prozesse befasst. Die Wort...

Umweltschutz ist in den letzten Jahrzehnten zu einem der führenden gesellschaftlichen und politischen Leitbegriffe geworden. Bei genauerer Betrachtung sind es verschiedene Motive, die in diesem Zusammenhang aufblitzen: Was ist schützenswert? Was halten wir für Natur? Welche Einschränkungen und welche Risiken wollen wir als Gesellschaft tragen und w...

Wasser steht uns immer zur Verfügung! In diesem Luxus leben wir Mitteleuropäer und die Menschen in anderen Regionen gemäßigter Klimate. Trotzdem streben wir an, mit der Ressource Trinkwasser sehr sparsam umzugehen, so verbrauchen wir in Deutschland pro Tag und Person 127 Liter Trinkwasser und erreichen damit gemeinsam mit Belgien den geringsten Ver...

Lange war es für Wissenschaftler schwierig, das Erdinnere zu erforschen. Bei einem Erdradius von ca. 6 300 km konnte selbst die bis heute tiefste Bohrung auf der russischen Halbinsel Kola, die 1994 eine Tiefe von 12 262 m erreichte, nur einen geringen Teil des Erdinneren aufschließen. Doch schon früh entwickelten die Menschen – mutmaßlich geprägt d...

Das Klima der Erde ist der entscheidende Faktor für das Leben in der uns bekannten Form. Änderungen im Klimasystem können die Lebensbedingungen unserer Umwelt stark beeinträchtigen. Das Klima ist daher ein Forschungsfeld, in dem viele Disziplinen engagiert sind und sich die Disziplingrenzen verwischen.