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Dr. Florian Neisser (male) is a researcher at Fraunhofer INT, Unit for Technology and Innovation Planning. He is a distinguished expert on Disaster Risk and Crisis Management and Critical Infrastructure Protection. He is the project manager for Fraunhofer INT within the Horizon 2020 project FIRE-IN (SEC-21-GM network) and in his current work he is focusing on capability-driven research and innovation including the identification of promising solutions for an effective disaster risk management. Florian holds a PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Geography from the Faculty of Mathematics and Science of Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn. In his dissertation “Critical infrastructure and mobile risk” he was addressing the risk management strategies for the critical infrastructure traffic and transport regarding hazardous material transportation. Before joining the Fraunhofer INT team, Florian was a PostDoc Researcher and Project Manager in the CIRMin project (Critical Infrastructures Resilience as a minimum Supply Concept) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education (BMBF). Florian also has experience working as an innovation manager for safety and security research at the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg. Furthermore, Florian was a lecturer on Human Geography with a focus on studies of risk and uncertainty at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn.
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.
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 .
AMA StyleAlexander 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.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlexander 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.
Affluence and vulnerability are often seen as opposite sides of a coin—with affluence generally understood as reducing forms of vulnerability through increased resilience and adaptive capacity. However, in the context of climate change and an increase in associated hazards and disasters, we suggest the need to re-examine this dynamic relationship—a complex association we define here as the Affluence–Vulnerability Interface (AVI). We review research in different national contexts to show how a more nuanced understanding of the AVI can (a) problematize the notion that increasing material affluence necessarily has a mitigating influence on social vulnerability, (b) extend our analysis of social vulnerability beyond low-income regions to include affluent contexts and (c) improve our understanding of how psychosocial characteristics influence people’s vulnerability. Finally, we briefly outline three methodological approaches that we believe will assist future engagement with the AVI.
Christine Eriksen; Gregory L. Simon; Florian Roth; Shefali Juneja Lakhina; Ben Wisner; Carolina Adler; Frank Thomalla; Anna Scolobig; Kate Brady; Michael Bründl; Florian Neisser; Maree Grenfell; Linda Maduz; Timothy Prior. Rethinking the interplay between affluence and vulnerability to aid climate change adaptive capacity. Climatic Change 2020, 162, 25 -39.
AMA StyleChristine Eriksen, Gregory L. Simon, Florian Roth, Shefali Juneja Lakhina, Ben Wisner, Carolina Adler, Frank Thomalla, Anna Scolobig, Kate Brady, Michael Bründl, Florian Neisser, Maree Grenfell, Linda Maduz, Timothy Prior. Rethinking the interplay between affluence and vulnerability to aid climate change adaptive capacity. Climatic Change. 2020; 162 (1):25-39.
Chicago/Turabian StyleChristine Eriksen; Gregory L. Simon; Florian Roth; Shefali Juneja Lakhina; Ben Wisner; Carolina Adler; Frank Thomalla; Anna Scolobig; Kate Brady; Michael Bründl; Florian Neisser; Maree Grenfell; Linda Maduz; Timothy Prior. 2020. "Rethinking the interplay between affluence and vulnerability to aid climate change adaptive capacity." Climatic Change 162, no. 1: 25-39.
Disaster response actors are facing new challenges, which encompass not only new and ever more complex threats but also the need to collaborate across organizational boundaries and even state borders. Depending on scale, these interactions have to work across governance setups, political and legal conditions, organizational cultures, as well as personal preferences and experiences that vary among actors, organizations, and countries. But which concrete measures are taken by crisis management actors at different scales to bridge these challenges and which of these could serve others as example to address comparable challenges in their contexts? This study made attempts to analyze whether certain solutions across organizations and states exist that facilitate effective interorganizational crisis management in the member states of the European Union (EU). It is based on selected expert interviews with representatives of different types of disaster response organizations (health services, police services, fire services, and other crisis management organizations) from seven EU member states (Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Austria, and Greece).
Claudia Berchtold; Maike Vollmer; Philip Sendrowski; Florian Neisser; Larissa Müller; Sonja Grigoleit. Barriers and Facilitators in Interorganizational Disaster Response: Identifying Examples Across Europe. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science 2020, 11, 46 -58.
AMA StyleClaudia Berchtold, Maike Vollmer, Philip Sendrowski, Florian Neisser, Larissa Müller, Sonja Grigoleit. Barriers and Facilitators in Interorganizational Disaster Response: Identifying Examples Across Europe. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science. 2020; 11 (1):46-58.
Chicago/Turabian StyleClaudia Berchtold; Maike Vollmer; Philip Sendrowski; Florian Neisser; Larissa Müller; Sonja Grigoleit. 2020. "Barriers and Facilitators in Interorganizational Disaster Response: Identifying Examples Across Europe." International Journal of Disaster Risk Science 11, no. 1: 46-58.
A central challenge of urban risk governance lies in the complexity of the overlapping of multiple risks. This problem is particularly relevant and obvious in urban infrastructure settings. The concept of riskscapes addresses and integrates various aspects of risks: the overlapping of different risks, the multiplicity of perspectives on the same spatial area and spatially different meanings and consequences. An important aspect of the riskscapes concept lies in the range of perspectives regarding the risks. This article takes a closer look at aspects of multiplicity and overlaps of different riskscapes as well as the spatial and temporal dynamics of risks and riskscapes while turning to empirical findings on the transportation of hazardous goods. This is discussed with a specific focus on stationary and mobile forms of risk in the context of urban infrastructures. Based on a comparison of risk management in the Netherlands and in Germany, an aligned risk management strategy in regard to spatial planning and hazardous incidents regulation is recommendable. A context-sensitive, practice-oriented, and socio-spatial understanding of risks is necessary to grasp the context of specific urban situations and to get an in-depth understanding of risk situations—including the aspects stationary and mobile risks.
Florian Neisser; Detlef Müller-Mahn. Urban Riskscapes—Social and Spatial Dimensions of Risk in Urban Infrastructure Settings. The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods 2017, 347 -359.
AMA StyleFlorian Neisser, Detlef Müller-Mahn. Urban Riskscapes—Social and Spatial Dimensions of Risk in Urban Infrastructure Settings. The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods. 2017; ():347-359.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFlorian Neisser; Detlef Müller-Mahn. 2017. "Urban Riskscapes—Social and Spatial Dimensions of Risk in Urban Infrastructure Settings." The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods , no. : 347-359.
Florian Neisser; Simon Runkel. The future is now! Extrapolated riskscapes, anticipatory action and the management of potential emergencies. Geoforum 2017, 82, 170 -179.
AMA StyleFlorian Neisser, Simon Runkel. The future is now! Extrapolated riskscapes, anticipatory action and the management of potential emergencies. Geoforum. 2017; 82 ():170-179.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFlorian Neisser; Simon Runkel. 2017. "The future is now! Extrapolated riskscapes, anticipatory action and the management of potential emergencies." Geoforum 82, no. : 170-179.
Risk Management aims to generate ideas and promote good practice for those involved in the business of managing risk through the exchange of information and expertise across countries and disciplines
Florian M Neisser; Florian Neisser. ‘Riskscapes’ and risk management – Review and synthesis of an actor-network theory approach. Risk Management 2014, 16, 88 -120.
AMA StyleFlorian M Neisser, Florian Neisser. ‘Riskscapes’ and risk management – Review and synthesis of an actor-network theory approach. Risk Management. 2014; 16 (2):88-120.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFlorian M Neisser; Florian Neisser. 2014. "‘Riskscapes’ and risk management – Review and synthesis of an actor-network theory approach." Risk Management 16, no. 2: 88-120.
Disaster Management is an issue of global importance which requires timely and accurate information as well as clear and suitable communication technology to guarantee coordinated efforts to save lives and property. Thus, technology for gathering, retaining, managing and transferring information and the ability of linking experts plays an eminent role. This study is an observation of the setting of the web-based UN-SPIDER (United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response) Knowledge Portal based on the Actor-Network Theory. The theory treats the Knowledge Portal as an assemblage of heterogeneous entities. The observation is focused on the configuration and the processes which form this actor-network with the aim to bring together the space technology and the disaster management community to support and nurture virtual Communities of Practice and enable knowledge transfer.
Florian M. Neisser; Florian Neisser. Fostering Knowledge Transfer for Space Technology Utilization in Disaster Management. International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation 2013, 5, 1 -18.
AMA StyleFlorian M. Neisser, Florian Neisser. Fostering Knowledge Transfer for Space Technology Utilization in Disaster Management. International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation. 2013; 5 (1):1-18.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFlorian M. Neisser; Florian Neisser. 2013. "Fostering Knowledge Transfer for Space Technology Utilization in Disaster Management." International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation 5, no. 1: 1-18.