Recent major flood events as well as the extremely dry and hot summers over the last few years have demonstrated that climate change and its consequences are becoming increasingly noticeable in Central Europe and are already having a major impact on people’s lives. Despite diverse political efforts and growing global awareness of the urgency of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, emissions continue to rise. Climate change is one of the most severe global challenges facing humanity. Both our past and our present actions continue to exert significant influence on the climate and the living conditions of future generations.

 

In view of the irreversibility of climate change impacts, active, sustainable climate policy requires the development and implementation of specific adaptation strategies. In order to maintain our health and prosperity, economic productivity, biodiversity, and long-term sustainable coexistence with the environment, ecological systems as well as our society and economy must become resilient to the impacts of global climate change.

 

Climate resilience entails the reduction of vulnerability to climate impacts and the strengthening of our capacity to adapt. Climate resilience therefore includes a broad spectrum of areas ranging from ecosystems to human health and society, economy, politics, and law. Climate resilience requires a comprehensive transformation.

 

The aim of the Centre for Climate Resilience is to develop the scientific foundations for adapting to the inevitable consequences of climate change, as well as developing holistic and implementable adaptation strategies for application at regional, national, and international levels.

News

March 26, 2024

Neue Stellenausschreibungen am ZfK: Für die Unterstützung der Public Climate School 2024-2026 werden studentische Hilfskräfte gesucht.

Am Lehrstuhl für Politikwissenschaft mit Schwerpunkt Klimapolitik (Prof. Dr. Angela Oels) sowie am Lehrstuhl für Umweltsoziologie mit Schwerpunkt auf Sozial-Ökologische Transformation, Resilienzdesign und Klima (Prof. Dr. Maria Backhouse) des Zentrums für Klimaresilienz der Universität Augsburg forschen und lehren wir zu Fragestellungen der Klima- und Umweltpolitik und -soziologie. Zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt suchen wir zwei interessierte und engagierte studentische Hilfskräfte mit Arbeitsschwerpunkt auf der jährlich stattfindenden Public Climate School an der Universität Augsburg.
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March 25, 2024

Greenwashing bei Unternehmen messen

Wenn sich Unternehmen umweltfreundlicher darstellen, als sie eigentlich sind, schadet das der Gesellschaft. Bisher lässt sich solches Greenwashing schwer beziffern. Nun haben zwei Wirtschaftswissenschaftler vom Zentrum für Klimaresilienz ein Konzept für einen Greenwashing-Indikator entwickelt. Damit könnten Greenwashing-Fälle künftig schneller entdeckt werden, wie sie in der Fachzeitschrift „Review of Managerial Science“ schreiben.

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Symbolbild Greenwashing
March 22, 2024

Deutscher Hydrologiepreis 2024 für Prof. Dr. Harald Kunstmann

Der Augsburger Wissenschaftler Prof. Dr. Harald Kunstmann wurde mit dem renommierten Deutschen Hydrologiepreis 2024 der Deutschen Hydrologischen Gesellschaft (DHG) geehrt. Die Auszeichnung würdigt Kunstmanns langjähriges Engagement und seine wegweisenden Arbeiten im Bereich Wasserforschung und Klimaänderung.

 

 

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Prof. Harald Kunstmann wird mit dem Deutschen Hydrologiepreis 2024 geehrt.

Current Events

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Portraitbild der Präsidentin Prof. Dr. Sabine Doering-Manteuffel
When it comes to solving the climate crisis, all scientific disciplines have to pull together. We have been doing excellent international research on climate change for years. That is why we are now merging our strengths in a university centre for climate resilience.

President Prof. Dr. Sabine Doering-Manteuffel

Prof. Dr. Malte A. Peter - Vizepräsident für die Bereiche Innovation, Transfer und Allianzen, Universität Augsburg
The interdisciplinary and international expertise in the field of climate resilience already present at the University of Augsburg will be complemented by a total of ten newly created professorships, two of them within the scope of the existing research focus on Environmental Health Sciences.

Vice-President Prof. Dr. Malte Peter

Prof. Keck
The search for solutions and ways to create climate resilience is not limited to technical questions, but also has a social component. In my opinion, the key question is: climate resilience for whom? A sustainable approach to our living environment and the protection of vulnerable groups are a personal priority for me.

Prof. Dr. Markus Keck (Professor for Urban Climate Resilience)

Prof. Dr. Manuel Ostermeier
The changes in climate are increasingly creating new framework conditions and restrictions for social and corporate planning problems through out the entire value chain. We have to meet these challenges with an interdisciplinary approach in order to generate innovative and climate-resilient solutions that take into account the different perspectives of the individual disciplines.

Prof. Dr. Manuel Ostermeier (Professor for Resilient Operations)

Kontakt & Anschrift

Contact & Postal address

 

Centre for Climate Resilience - CCR  

Universität Augsburg

Universitätsstraße 12

86159 Augsburg

 

Tel:  +49 821 598-4802

E-Mail: info@ccr.uni-augsburg.de

 

 

 

 

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Directions & Parking

 

The CCR ist based in the building I on the  campus map.

 

Precise directions on how to get us with public transport or by car an be found on the bottom of this page


Parking: P5 + P6

 

 

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