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Reinhard Mechler
Researcher at International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Publications - 209
Citations - 9144
Reinhard Mechler is an academic researcher from International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. The author has contributed to research in topics: Risk management & Climate change. The author has an hindex of 43, co-authored 198 publications receiving 7643 citations. Previous affiliations of Reinhard Mechler include Vienna University of Economics and Business & University of Vienna.
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Flood risk and climate change: global and regional perspectives
Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz,Shinjiro Kanae,Sonia I. Seneviratne,John Handmer,Neville Nicholls,Pascal Peduzzi,Reinhard Mechler,Laurens M. Bouwer,Nigel W. Arnell,Katherine J Mach,Robert Muir-Wood,R. Brakenridge,Wolfgang Kron,Gerardo Benito,Yasushi Honda,Kiyoshi Takahashi,Boris Sherstyukov +16 more
TL;DR: In this article, a holistic perspective on changing rainfall-driven flood risk is provided for the late 20th and early 21st centuries, which includes an assessment of changes in flood risk in seven of the regions considered in the recent IPCC SREX report.
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Determinants of risk: Exposure and vulnerability
Omar D. Cardona,Maarten van Aalst,Jörn Birkmann,Maureen Fordham,Glenn R. McGregor,Rosa Perez,Roger S. Pulwarty,E. Lisa F. Schipper,Bach Tan Sinh,Henri Décamps,Mark Keim,Ian Davis,Kristie L. Ebi,Allan Lavell,Reinhard Mechler,Virginia Murray,Mark Pelling,Jürgen Pohl,Anthony-Oliver Smith,Frank Thomalla +19 more
TL;DR: This chapter aims to provide a rigorous understanding of the dimensions of exposure and vulnerability, as well as a proper assessment of changes in those dimensions, by further detailing the determinants of risk as presented in Chapter 1.
Technical Summary: Global warming of 1.5°C. An IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty
Myles R. Allen,Philip Antwi-Agyei,F. Aragon-Durand,Mustafa H.M. Babiker,Paolo Bertoldi,M. Bind,Sarah Brown,Marcos Silveira Buckeridge,I. Camilloni,A. Cartwright,W. Cramer,P. Dasgupta,A. Diedhiou,Riyanti Djalante,W. Dong,Kristie L. Ebi,Francois Engelbrecht,Solomone Fifita,James D. Ford,S. Fuß,Bronwyn Hayward,Jean Charles Hourcade,Veronika Ginzburg,J. Guiot,Collins Handa,Y. Hijioka,S. Humphreys,Mikiko Kainuma,J. Kala,Markku Kanninen,Haroon S. Kheshgi,S. Kobayashi,Elmar Kriegler,Debora Ley,Diana Liverman,Natalie M. Mahowald,Reinhard Mechler,S. Mehrotra,Yacob Mulugetta,Luis Mundaca,Peter Newman,Chukwumerije Okereke,Antony J. Payne,Rosa Perez,Patricia Pinho,A. Revokatova,Keywan Riahi,Seth Schultz,Roland Séférian,Sonia I. Seneviratne,Linda Steg,A.G. Rogriguez,T. Sugiyama,A. Thonas,M.V. Vilarino,M. Wairiu,R. Warren,G. Zhou,Kirsten Zickfeld +58 more
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Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction – Success or Warning Sign for Paris?
TL;DR: A new international blueprint for disaster risk reduction (DRR) has been adopted in Sendai, Japan, at the end of the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR, March 14-18, 2015).
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Increasing stress on disaster-risk finance due to large floods
Brenden Jongman,Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler,Luc Feyen,Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts,Reinhard Mechler,W. J. Wouter Botzen,Laurens M. Bouwer,Georg Ch. Pflug,Rodrigo Rojas,Philip J. Ward +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an assessment of economic flood risk trends across Europe reveals high current and future stress on risk financing schemes, and the magnitude and distribution of losses can be contained by investing in flood protection, increasing insurance coverage or by expanding public compensation funds.