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Prof. Alexander Fekete
TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences

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Project Goal: Organisation of emergency preparedness planning to secure the water supply, water disposal and energy supply of hospitals in case of extraordinary damage events

Starting Date:01 May 2020

Current Stage: Data collection

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Project Goal: Analysis and further development of existing methods and technical procedures of knowledge management in civil protection

Starting Date:01 October 2018

Current Stage: Analysis

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Project Goal: Workshops and Establishment of joint GIS monitoring system

Starting Date:01 January 2018

Current Stage: Preparation of concept and workshops

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Project Goal: Workshops and surveys amongst first responders and institutions, volunteers

Starting Date:01 January 2016

Current Stage: Continued as Research center and network

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Journal article
Published: 29 June 2021 in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
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In the context of earthquake risk, a vulnerability and resilience perspective has changed a purely technological orientation in facing natural hazards. One aspect of this change is the increasing awareness to include indigenous, traditional knowledge, community-based action, and local practices as well as experience from historic events in earthquake hazard management. Various research has shown that indigenous knowledge has an important role in avoiding undesired impacts from hazards. The involvement of indigenous knowledge into hazard management has been accepted as a fruitful approach by many countries. In Indonesia, the indigenous response to natural hazards, especially towards earthquakes, is to adapt the house constructions according to the hazards from their surrounding living environment and these have been tested and proven for many centuries. But while such indigenous knowledge has existed for centuries, learning requires more than just remembering, it needs to be translated into new actions. This paper highlights connections between knowing and acting on disasters, as manifested in house construction, and how this resonates with the concept of resilience.

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Hananto Kurnio; Alexander Fekete; Farhat Naz; Celia Norf; Robert Jüpner. Resilience learning and indigenous knowledge of earthquake risk in Indonesia. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 2021, 62, 102423 .

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Hananto Kurnio, Alexander Fekete, Farhat Naz, Celia Norf, Robert Jüpner. Resilience learning and indigenous knowledge of earthquake risk in Indonesia. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 2021; 62 ():102423.

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Hananto Kurnio; Alexander Fekete; Farhat Naz; Celia Norf; Robert Jüpner. 2021. "Resilience learning and indigenous knowledge of earthquake risk in Indonesia." International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 62, no. : 102423.

Journal article
Published: 09 March 2021 in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
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Participation is an often-demanded process in disaster risk reduction (DRR). However, it is often unclear who understands what under this term. International organizations such as the United Nations have promoted participation in their DRR strategies since the 1980s, but further research is needed on its opportunities and limitations. Here we highlight what is understood by participation according to different actors and various international contexts. This study was motivated by a workshop where flood-risk and resilience experts from 14 countries perceived the nature of participation and the lack of its implementation differently. To unravel the multitude of these perspectives, 27 expert interviews were conducted in seven countries: Belgium, Germany, Indonesia, Iran, Nepal, Pakistan and Peru between March and August 2020. Results show that constraints on the conduction of participation are not only related to the specific country context but differ even within countries. Limitations such as capacities and willingness to participate as well as the role and importance of participation are common issues across the investigated contexts and countries.

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Alexander Fekete; Atif Bilal Aslam; Mariana Madruga de Brito; Iris Dominguez; Nishara Fernando; Christian J. Illing; Apil K Kc; Farnaz Mahdavian; Celia Norf; Stephen Platt; Parana Ari Santi; Barbara Tempels. Increasing flood risk awareness and warning readiness by participation – But who understands what under ‘participation’? International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 2021, 57, 102157 .

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Alexander Fekete, Atif Bilal Aslam, Mariana Madruga de Brito, Iris Dominguez, Nishara Fernando, Christian J. Illing, Apil K Kc, Farnaz Mahdavian, Celia Norf, Stephen Platt, Parana Ari Santi, Barbara Tempels. Increasing flood risk awareness and warning readiness by participation – But who understands what under ‘participation’? International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 2021; 57 ():102157.

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Alexander Fekete; Atif Bilal Aslam; Mariana Madruga de Brito; Iris Dominguez; Nishara Fernando; Christian J. Illing; Apil K Kc; Farnaz Mahdavian; Celia Norf; Stephen Platt; Parana Ari Santi; Barbara Tempels. 2021. "Increasing flood risk awareness and warning readiness by participation – But who understands what under ‘participation’?" International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 57, no. : 102157.

Communication
Published: 16 January 2021 in Sustainability
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Current agendas such as the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction or the Sustainable Development Goals are demanding more integration of disaster risk management into other thematic fields and relevant sectors. However, certain thematic fields such as shelter planning and critical infrastructure have not been integrated yet. This article provides an analysis of minimum humanitarian standards contained in the well-known Sphere handbook. Gaps are identified for several critical infrastructure services. Moreover, guidance on how to derive infrastructure or lifeline needs has been found missing. This article analyses the missing service supply and infrastructure identification items and procedures. The main innovation is a more integrative perspective on infrastructure that can improve existing minimum humanitarian standards. It can guide the provision of infrastructure services to various types for different hazard scenarios, hence make humanitarian aid and shelter planning more sustainable in terms of avoiding infrastructure or lifeline shortages.

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Alexander Fekete; Lisa Bross; Steffen Krause; Florian Neisser; Katerina Tzavella. Bridging Gaps in Minimum Humanitarian Standards and Shelter Planning by Critical Infrastructures. Sustainability 2021, 13, 849 .

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Alexander Fekete, Lisa Bross, Steffen Krause, Florian Neisser, Katerina Tzavella. Bridging Gaps in Minimum Humanitarian Standards and Shelter Planning by Critical Infrastructures. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (2):849.

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Alexander Fekete; Lisa Bross; Steffen Krause; Florian Neisser; Katerina Tzavella. 2021. "Bridging Gaps in Minimum Humanitarian Standards and Shelter Planning by Critical Infrastructures." Sustainability 13, no. 2: 849.

Chapter
Published: 20 November 2020 in Designing Sustainable Cities
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In 2015, massive earthquakes of 7.8 and 7.4 magnitude struck Nepal. This resulted in severe economic and infrastructural damage, not to mention many human casualties. The government of Nepal has identified 625,000 houses as fully destroyed and 180,000 houses as being partially damaged. This research is a comparative study of traditional-urban, peri-urban, and remote rural settlements of Nepal which were severely hit by the earthquake. It provides an overview of interests and perceptions of local communities in terms of the recovery process. Furthermore, this research also identifies resilience in terms of basic service recovery (basic shelter, electricity, water supply, telecommunication, groceries/food) and existing challenges in housing recovery programs. Assessing the different settlement types individually also allows for tailored policy recommendations to bridge related gaps. From the survey conducted, it can be seen that earthquake affected people’s perception of housing (re)construction has changed considerably and that they are more interested in having earthquake resistant houses after the 2015 events. Analysis also shows that, unlike in urban areas, people in rural areas tend to build stronger houses when they understand the scientific reason behind earthquake-induced damages. Lack of financing is a major hindrance for reconstruction in all study areas, and there is a need for government and financial institutes to engage to create favourable financing schemes.

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Rupesh Shrestha; Alexander Fekete; Simone Sandholz. Post-earthquake Recovery in Nepal: A Study and Analysis of Post Disaster Perception and Needs for Housing Recovery After 2015 Earthquake. Designing Sustainable Cities 2020, 101 -121.

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Rupesh Shrestha, Alexander Fekete, Simone Sandholz. Post-earthquake Recovery in Nepal: A Study and Analysis of Post Disaster Perception and Needs for Housing Recovery After 2015 Earthquake. Designing Sustainable Cities. 2020; ():101-121.

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Rupesh Shrestha; Alexander Fekete; Simone Sandholz. 2020. "Post-earthquake Recovery in Nepal: A Study and Analysis of Post Disaster Perception and Needs for Housing Recovery After 2015 Earthquake." Designing Sustainable Cities , no. : 101-121.

Journal article
Published: 12 November 2020 in Infrastructures
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Emergency management services, such as firefighting, rescue teams and ambulances, are all heavily reliant on road networks. However, even for highly industrialised countries such as Germany, and even for large cities, spatial planning tools are lacking for road network interruptions of emergency services. Moreover, dependencies of emergency management expand not only on roads but on many other systemic interrelations, such as blockages of bridges. The first challenge this paper addresses is the development of a novel assessment that captures systemic interrelations of critical services and their dependencies explicitly designed to the needs of the emergency services. This aligns with a second challenge: capturing system nodes and areas around road networks and their geographical interrelation. System nodes, road links and city areas are integrated into a spatial grid of tessellated hexagons (also referred to as tiles) with geographical information systems. The hexagonal grid is designed to provide a simple map visualisation for emergency planners and fire brigades. Travel time planning is then optimised for accessing city areas in need by weighing impaired areas of past events based on operational incidents. The model is developed and tested with official incident data for the city of Cologne, Germany, and will help emergency managers to better device planning of resources based on this novel identification method of critical areas.

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Adrian Rohr; Peter Priesmeier; Katerina Tzavella; Alexander Fekete. System Criticality of Road Network Areas for Emergency Management Services—Spatial Assessment Using a Tessellation Approach. Infrastructures 2020, 5, 99 .

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Adrian Rohr, Peter Priesmeier, Katerina Tzavella, Alexander Fekete. System Criticality of Road Network Areas for Emergency Management Services—Spatial Assessment Using a Tessellation Approach. Infrastructures. 2020; 5 (11):99.

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Adrian Rohr; Peter Priesmeier; Katerina Tzavella; Alexander Fekete. 2020. "System Criticality of Road Network Areas for Emergency Management Services—Spatial Assessment Using a Tessellation Approach." Infrastructures 5, no. 11: 99.

Communication
Published: 10 November 2020 in Sustainability
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This article explores the relationship between digital transformation and disaster risk. Vulnerability studies aim at differentiating impacts and losses by using fine-grained information from demographic, social, and personal characteristics of humans. With ongoing digital development, these characteristics will transform and result in new traits, which need to be identified and integrated. Digital transformations will produce new social groups, partly human, semi-human, or non-human—some of which already exist, and some which can be foreseen by extrapolating from recent developments in the field of brain wearables, robotics, and software engineering. Though involved in the process of digital transformation, many researchers and practitioners in the field of Disaster Risk Reduction or Climate Change Adaptation are not yet aware of the repercussions for disaster and vulnerability assessments. Emerging vulnerabilities are due to a growing dependency on digital services and tools in the case of a severe emergency or crisis. This article depicts the different implications for future theoretical frameworks when identifying novel semi-human groups and their vulnerabilities to disaster risks. Findings include assumed changes within common indicators of social vulnerability, new indicators, a typology of humans, and human interrelations with digital extensions and two different perspectives on these groups and their dependencies with critical infrastructure.

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Alexander Fekete; Jakob Rhyner. Sustainable Digital Transformation of Disaster Risk—Integrating New Types of Digital Social Vulnerability and Interdependencies with Critical Infrastructure. Sustainability 2020, 12, 9324 .

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Alexander Fekete, Jakob Rhyner. Sustainable Digital Transformation of Disaster Risk—Integrating New Types of Digital Social Vulnerability and Interdependencies with Critical Infrastructure. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (22):9324.

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Alexander Fekete; Jakob Rhyner. 2020. "Sustainable Digital Transformation of Disaster Risk—Integrating New Types of Digital Social Vulnerability and Interdependencies with Critical Infrastructure." Sustainability 12, no. 22: 9324.

Journal article
Published: 06 October 2020 in Remote Sensing
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Urban growth and natural hazard events are continuous trends and reliable monitoring is demanded by organisations such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, or the United Nations Human Settlements Programme. CORONA is the program name of photoreconnaissance satellite imagery available from 1960 to 1984 provides an extension of monitoring ranges in comparison to later satellite data such as Landsat that are more widely used. Providing visual comparisons with aerial or high-resolution OrbView satellite imagery, this article demonstrates applications of CORONA images for change detection of urban growth and sprawl and natural hazard exposure. Cases from El Alto/ La Paz in Bolivia, Santiago de Chile, Yungay in Peru, Qazvin in Iran, and Mount St. Helens in the USA are analysed. After a preassessment of over 20 disaster events, the 1970 Yungay earthquake-triggered debris avalanche and the natural hazard processes of the 1980 Mt St. Helens volcanic eruption are further analysed. Usability and limitations of CORONA data are analysed, including the availability of data depending on flight missions, cloud cover, spatial and temporal resolution, but also rather scarce documentation of natural hazards in the 1960s and 70s. Results include the identification of urban borders expanding into hazard-prone areas such as mountains, riverbeds or erosion channels. These are important areas for future research, making more usage of this valuable but little-used data source. The article addresses geographers, spatial planners, political decision makers and other scientific areas dealing with remote sensing.

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Alexander Fekete. CORONA High-Resolution Satellite and Aerial Imagery for Change Detection Assessment of Natural Hazard Risk and Urban Growth in El Alto/La Paz in Bolivia, Santiago de Chile, Yungay in Peru, Qazvin in Iran, and Mount St. Helens in the USA. Remote Sensing 2020, 12, 3246 .

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Alexander Fekete. CORONA High-Resolution Satellite and Aerial Imagery for Change Detection Assessment of Natural Hazard Risk and Urban Growth in El Alto/La Paz in Bolivia, Santiago de Chile, Yungay in Peru, Qazvin in Iran, and Mount St. Helens in the USA. Remote Sensing. 2020; 12 (19):3246.

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Alexander Fekete. 2020. "CORONA High-Resolution Satellite and Aerial Imagery for Change Detection Assessment of Natural Hazard Risk and Urban Growth in El Alto/La Paz in Bolivia, Santiago de Chile, Yungay in Peru, Qazvin in Iran, and Mount St. Helens in the USA." Remote Sensing 12, no. 19: 3246.

Journal article
Published: 01 October 2020
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Alexander Fekete. Pathways for advancing integrative disaster risk and resilience management in Iran: Needs, challenges and opportunities. 2020, 49, 1 .

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Alexander Fekete. Pathways for advancing integrative disaster risk and resilience management in Iran: Needs, challenges and opportunities. . 2020; 49 ():1.

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Alexander Fekete. 2020. "Pathways for advancing integrative disaster risk and resilience management in Iran: Needs, challenges and opportunities." 49, no. : 1.

Opinion
Published: 14 July 2020 in WIREs Water
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A common assertion in discussions of flooding is that risk perception is critical and is linked to risk‐mitigating behavior. Furthermore, many assert that the adverse effects of floods could be reduced by changes in risk communication, thereby influencing risk perception to foster mitigating behavior. We argue that these assertions are based on quite questionable underlying assumptions: That stakeholders are generally aware of flood risk, that they have the capacity to engage in disaster risk reduction, and that their actions can be effective. The belief in and policies influenced by these three questionable assertions support, in turn, policies that shift responsibility for flood risk reduction onto individuals and homeowners, without regard for social and spatial justice issues. In contrast, we argue that context matters to understanding the complexity of the relation between flood risk perception and behavior, local power relations, and other constraints and opportunities that affect stakeholders. While the academic community has long played a pivotal role in supporting practical flood risk management, future research should take a more critical perspective on the underlying assumptions and focus on improving coordination across theories, methods, and variables, fostering comparative studies across disciplines, contexts, and scales. This article is categorized under: Engineering Water > Planning Water Human Water > Water as Imagined and Represented Science of Water > Water Extremes

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Samuel Rufat; Alexander Fekete; Iuliana Armaş; Thomas Hartmann; Christian Kuhlicke; Tim Prior; Thomas Thaler; Ben Wisner. Swimming alone? Why linking flood risk perception and behavior requires more than “it's the individual, stupid”. WIREs Water 2020, 7, 1 .

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Samuel Rufat, Alexander Fekete, Iuliana Armaş, Thomas Hartmann, Christian Kuhlicke, Tim Prior, Thomas Thaler, Ben Wisner. Swimming alone? Why linking flood risk perception and behavior requires more than “it's the individual, stupid”. WIREs Water. 2020; 7 (5):1.

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Samuel Rufat; Alexander Fekete; Iuliana Armaş; Thomas Hartmann; Christian Kuhlicke; Tim Prior; Thomas Thaler; Ben Wisner. 2020. "Swimming alone? Why linking flood risk perception and behavior requires more than “it's the individual, stupid”." WIREs Water 7, no. 5: 1.

Journal article
Published: 13 May 2020 in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
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Alexander Fekete; Asad Asadzadeh; Mohsen Ghafory-Ashtiany; Kambod Amini-Hosseini; Chris Hetkämper; Mahsa Moghadas; Abbas Ostadtaghizadeh; Adrian Rohr; Theo Kötter. Pathways for advancing integrative disaster risk and resilience management in Iran: Needs, challenges and opportunities. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 2020, 49, 101635 .

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Alexander Fekete, Asad Asadzadeh, Mohsen Ghafory-Ashtiany, Kambod Amini-Hosseini, Chris Hetkämper, Mahsa Moghadas, Abbas Ostadtaghizadeh, Adrian Rohr, Theo Kötter. Pathways for advancing integrative disaster risk and resilience management in Iran: Needs, challenges and opportunities. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 2020; 49 ():101635.

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Alexander Fekete; Asad Asadzadeh; Mohsen Ghafory-Ashtiany; Kambod Amini-Hosseini; Chris Hetkämper; Mahsa Moghadas; Abbas Ostadtaghizadeh; Adrian Rohr; Theo Kötter. 2020. "Pathways for advancing integrative disaster risk and resilience management in Iran: Needs, challenges and opportunities." International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 49, no. : 101635.

Original article
Published: 23 February 2020 in Journal of Flood Risk Management
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At the case study of the city of Cologne and the neighbouring Rhein‐Erft‐Kreis (a county), selected resilience aspects of critical infrastructure (CI) and cascading effects are analysed concerning major river floods. Using a Geographic Information System, the applicability of the approach is demonstrated using open source software and data, augmented by manual entries. This study demonstrates the feasibility and limitations of analysing lifeline features of interest for disaster risk and emergency management such as roads, bridges and electricity supply. By highlighting interdependencies of emergency services with CI such as roads, cascading effects of interconnected paths are shown. The findings indicate that in an extreme event flood scenario over 2,000 km of roads and eight bridges will be exposed to floods in the area of the rivers Rhine and Erft. This places huge demands on disaster and emergency management institutions and people affected and limits their resiliency.

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Alexander Fekete. Critical infrastructure cascading effects. Disaster resilience assessment for floods affecting city of Cologne and Rhein‐Erft‐Kreis. Journal of Flood Risk Management 2020, 13, 1 .

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Alexander Fekete. Critical infrastructure cascading effects. Disaster resilience assessment for floods affecting city of Cologne and Rhein‐Erft‐Kreis. Journal of Flood Risk Management. 2020; 13 (2):1.

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Alexander Fekete. 2020. "Critical infrastructure cascading effects. Disaster resilience assessment for floods affecting city of Cologne and Rhein‐Erft‐Kreis." Journal of Flood Risk Management 13, no. 2: 1.

Opinion
Published: 03 November 2019 in WIREs Water
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Resilience in relation to flood risk management (FRM) is not a new concept, yet parts of the FRM community are still struggling to apply it. The main challenge this study addresses is the question as to whether parts of the FRM community should still adopt, or rather “leap‐frog,” resilience. The main purpose is to evaluate whether resilience is a still on‐going trend or, already subsiding. Research suggests that resilience is an on‐going trend that connects research and policy and has gained international recognition as expressed by international guidelines and bodies promoting its research but also its operationalization. Academic literature in the area of FRM also shows a significant continuing development. Resilience enables to analyze dynamics and transformations of riverine areas, or coastal zones in connection to an integrated social‐environmental system approach with more emphasis and conceptual basis than previous concepts. Resilience is more than a short‐lived notion and it appears that FRM researchers cannot avoid addressing it. Resilience often is a convergence of ideas and mainstreaming of efforts, which in many venues is absolutely necessary and can help, for example, to decrease silo‐thinking. But as academics, we have a mandate to remain skeptical and remain on the look‐out for novel ideas, too. This article is categorized under: Engineering Water > Planning Water

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Alexander Fekete; Thomas Hartmann; Robert Jüpner. Resilience: On‐going wave or subsiding trend in flood risk research and practice? WIREs Water 2019, 7, 1 .

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Alexander Fekete, Thomas Hartmann, Robert Jüpner. Resilience: On‐going wave or subsiding trend in flood risk research and practice? WIREs Water. 2019; 7 (1):1.

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Alexander Fekete; Thomas Hartmann; Robert Jüpner. 2019. "Resilience: On‐going wave or subsiding trend in flood risk research and practice?" WIREs Water 7, no. 1: 1.

Journal article
Published: 16 July 2019 in WIREs Water
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Alexander Fekete. Critical infrastructure and flood resilience: Cascading effects beyond water. WIREs Water 2019, 6, 1 .

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Alexander Fekete. Critical infrastructure and flood resilience: Cascading effects beyond water. WIREs Water. 2019; 6 (5):1.

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Alexander Fekete. 2019. "Critical infrastructure and flood resilience: Cascading effects beyond water." WIREs Water 6, no. 5: 1.

Review
Published: 19 March 2019 in International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
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While social vulnerability assessments (SVA) use spatial indicators and indices that have become state of the art, they also receive substantial critique. This article analyzes, by means of a literature review of 63 articles, if and in which aspects such an indicator approach is regarded as useful by scientific studies. The findings indicate a need for more research on the validation and justification of indicators. This article supports the conceptual development of SVA by adding to reflection about advancements and applications, but also shortcomings. The main advancement area discussed is validation and the demand for establishing benchmark criteria for vulnerability. Based on this, longitudinal monitoring of vulnerability and validation studies are conceivable based on existing SVA, but these efforts demand more conceptual development.

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Alexander Fekete. Social Vulnerability (Re-)Assessment in Context to Natural Hazards: Review of the Usefulness of the Spatial Indicator Approach and Investigations of Validation Demands. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science 2019, 10, 220 -232.

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Alexander Fekete. Social Vulnerability (Re-)Assessment in Context to Natural Hazards: Review of the Usefulness of the Spatial Indicator Approach and Investigations of Validation Demands. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science. 2019; 10 (2):220-232.

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Alexander Fekete. 2019. "Social Vulnerability (Re-)Assessment in Context to Natural Hazards: Review of the Usefulness of the Spatial Indicator Approach and Investigations of Validation Demands." International Journal of Disaster Risk Science 10, no. 2: 220-232.

Conference paper
Published: 18 December 2018 in Proceedings of IFoU 2018: Reframing Urban Resilience Implementation: Aligning Sustainability and Resilience
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The concept of community disaster resilience is an increasingly important discourse on environmental changes and has been under debate on international academic and policy circles over the past decade. While conceptualizing disaster resilience is increasingly seen as a significant and requisite undertaking in hazard mitigation, reduction, and planning, there exist only a few number of frameworks in the literature presenting systematic methodology and guideline for empirical measurement of the concept. In addition, the question of whether such a measurement can adequately address the ongoing or emerging needs of local stakeholders and governments remains in agenda. To tackle this challenge, this study first intends to synthesis the needs of local stakeholders in community resilience measurement to serve both as a shared vison of resilience measurement missions and as a basis for developing a technical procedure for operationalizing community disaster resilience. Next, based on the defined needs, we propose a synthesized procedure that highlights how the needs of local stakeholders can be translated in measurement process. Finally, the developed framework is applied in order to perform a quality assessment of the 10 most well-known and related measurement frameworks. This synthesized approach, therefore, can bridge the gap between the visions and actions in resilience measurement and provide a measurement that is need-based, proactive rather than reactive, and action-oriented. Furthermore, it can predispose local stakeholders, leaders, and planners to prioritize those actions that are needed more to build and sustain resilience. The quality assessment demonstrates in-depth information regarding the characteristics of each measurement framework, which can be used to identify weaknesses and limitations of current disaster resilience measures and to improve them where needed, in order to meet the risk preparation and planning needs of stakeholders, decision makers, and urban planners.

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Asad Asadzadeh; Mahsa Moghadas; Theo Kötter; Alexander Fekete. Bridging the gap between stakeholder requirements and technical needs in community resilience measurement. Proceedings of IFoU 2018: Reframing Urban Resilience Implementation: Aligning Sustainability and Resilience 2018, 1 .

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Asad Asadzadeh, Mahsa Moghadas, Theo Kötter, Alexander Fekete. Bridging the gap between stakeholder requirements and technical needs in community resilience measurement. Proceedings of IFoU 2018: Reframing Urban Resilience Implementation: Aligning Sustainability and Resilience. 2018; ():1.

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Asad Asadzadeh; Mahsa Moghadas; Theo Kötter; Alexander Fekete. 2018. "Bridging the gap between stakeholder requirements and technical needs in community resilience measurement." Proceedings of IFoU 2018: Reframing Urban Resilience Implementation: Aligning Sustainability and Resilience , no. : 1.

Conference paper
Published: 17 December 2018 in Proceedings of IFoU 2018: Reframing Urban Resilience Implementation: Aligning Sustainability and Resilience
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In recent years, cities have been confronted with increasing risks induced by climate change and natural hazards impacts. The experience gained highlights how cascading failures of critical infrastructures and basic services can affect both inherent and adaptive capacities of cities in time of an adverse event and create post disaster conflicts. At the same time, international policy circles have acknowledged the need to have sufficiently consistent and comparable disaster-related data to allow meaningful measurement of progress and impact. Therefore, to serve this need, understanding the link between resilience qualities of critical infrastructures and Open Data can lead to increase the level of disaster resilience, preparedness and response. It can also influence future-oriented urban and infrastructural planning at the local level. This paper offers a theoretical framework for building resilience in basic infrastructures and services across disaster preparedness and response concerning the contribution of Open Data for climate and natural hazard risk management in Tehran, Iran.

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Mahsa Moghadas; Alexander Fekete; Asad Asadzadeh; Theo Kötter. A theoretical framework for building the risk-resilience of basic infrastructures and services using Open Data. Proceedings of IFoU 2018: Reframing Urban Resilience Implementation: Aligning Sustainability and Resilience 2018, 1 .

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Mahsa Moghadas, Alexander Fekete, Asad Asadzadeh, Theo Kötter. A theoretical framework for building the risk-resilience of basic infrastructures and services using Open Data. Proceedings of IFoU 2018: Reframing Urban Resilience Implementation: Aligning Sustainability and Resilience. 2018; ():1.

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Mahsa Moghadas; Alexander Fekete; Asad Asadzadeh; Theo Kötter. 2018. "A theoretical framework for building the risk-resilience of basic infrastructures and services using Open Data." Proceedings of IFoU 2018: Reframing Urban Resilience Implementation: Aligning Sustainability and Resilience , no. : 1.