Joern Birkmann

TL;DR: The SSP narratives as discussed by the authors is a set of five qualitative descriptions of future changes in demographics, human development, economy and lifestyle, policies and institutions, technology, and environment and natural resources, which can serve as a basis for integrated scenarios of emissions and land use, as well as climate impact, adaptation and vulnerability analyses.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the emerging linkages and complementarities between the concepts of resilience and vulnerability to identify areas of synergy, with regard to theory, methodology, and application.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a survey of adaptation to climate change and new risks resulting from climate change, which includes practical examples from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe with theoretical and conceptual frameworks.

TL;DR: The framework presented enhances the discussion on how to frame and link vulnerability, disaster risk, risk management and adaptation concepts and shows key linkages between the different concepts used within the disaster risk management (DRM) and climate change adaptation research.

TL;DR: This paper will briefly introduce three global approaches to disaster-risk identification and will juxtapose them with one local approach in order to examine the differences concerning the functions and the purpose of the assessment as well as their impact for policy development.