Chair for urban climate resilience
Welcome to the Chair for Urban Climate Resilience!
At the Chair of Urban Climate Resilience, we explore the question of how urban societies can become climate resilient. We see climate change as a symptom of a multifaceted planetary crisis, which is often expressed in public discourse with the term Anthropocene. In our view, climate resilience is a search process for society as a whole with the aim of reducing social vulnerability, increasing social adaptability and developing the potential for socio-ecological transformation.
The consequences of climate change will become even more severe in the future. This is because the greenhouse gases that are already in the atmosphere will continue to influence the climate for many decades to come. As a result, gradual changes will be the main cause. These include the gradual rise in the global average temperature, the melting of glaciers and rising sea levels. In order to ensure acceptable living conditions for future generations, comprehensive climate protection measures and effective adaptation strategies to the consequences of the climate crisis are required at global, national and local level.
The key question for us as geographers working in the social sciences is: climate resilience for whom?
We place priority on a future-orientated and sustainable approach to protecting our living environment and vulnerable population groups.
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current publications
ERLER, M., KECK, M., DITTRICH, C. (2022): The changing meaning of millets: Organic shops and distinctive consumption practices in Bengaluru, India. In: Journal of Consumer Culture, 22 (1): 124-142
FRIEDRICH, J., NAJORK, K., KECK, M., ZSCHEISCHLER, J. (2022): Bioeconomic fiction between narrative dynamics and a fixed imaginary: Indications from India and Germany. In: Sustainable Production and Consumption, 30 (2): 584-595
HERZBERG, R., SCHMIDT, T., KECK, M. (2022): Market power and food loss at the producer-retailer interface of fruit and vegetable supply chains in Germany. In: Sustainability Science: Online
KECK, M. (2021): Sustainability in agri-food systems: transformative trajectories toward the post-Anthropocene. In: Sustainability Science, 16 (3): 717-719
KECK, M., FLACHS, A. (2022): From Necrocene to Naíocene - promising pathways toward sustainable agri-food systems. In: Sustainability Science, 17(6), 2177-2185
MIDDENDORF, S., PURWINS, S., WALTER, C. (2022): Anthropogeographie im Anthropozän, der Anthropos und darüber hinaus: Lektüre von Helmuth Plessner. Geographica Helvetica, 77(4), 459-466. https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-77-459-2022
NAJORK, K., FRIEDRICH, J., KECK, M. (2022): Bt cotton, pink bollworm and the political economy of socio-biological obsolescence: insights from Telangana, India. In: Agriculture and Human Values: Online First, 39(3), 1007-1026
NAJORK, K., GADELA, S., NADIMINTI, P., SREERAMULU, G., REDDY, R., HARIBABU, E., KECK, M. (2021): The return of pink bollworm in India’s Bt cotton fields: livelihood vulnerabilities of farming households in Karimnagar District. In: Progress in Development Studies, 21 (1): 68-85
NAJORK, K., KECK, M. (2022): Mistranslating refuge crops: policy mobilities in the context of India’s cotton production. In: Geographica Helvetica, 77: 213-233
PURWINS, S. (2021): Die (Wieder-)Entdeckung von Ghanas Bauxit: Akteure, Strukturen und Narrative. In: Matthias Schmidt, Hubert Zapf (Eds.): Environmental Humanities: Beiträge zur geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Umweltforschung (pp. 161-180). Göttingen: V&R Unipress. https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737012669.161
PURWINS, S. (2022): "Come what may, we bring those resources to play": narratives, future‐making, and the case of bauxite extraction at Atewa Forest, Ghana. Area, 54(2), 233-241. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12765
PURWINS, S. (2022): Bauxite mining at Atewa Forest Reserve, Ghana: a political ecology of a conservation-exploitation conflict. GeoJournal, 87, 1085-1097. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-020-10303-3
PURWINS, S. (2023): Same same, but different: Ghana's Sinohydro deal as evolved 'Angola Model'?. Insight on Africa https://doi.org/10.1177/09750878221114381
PURWINS, S. (2023): Totope und das Meer: über Verwundbarkeiten und Anpassungen an der Küste von Ghana. In: Geographische Rundschau, 2023(1-2), 52-55.
PURWINS, S., GRASHEY-JANSEN, S. (im Druck): Natur- und Kulturlandschaft im Werdenfelser Land. In Thomas Schneider (Ed.): Geographische Exkursionen im näheren und weiteren Umland von Augsburg. Augsburg: Institut für Geographie, Universität Augsburg.
contact details
Center for Climate Resilience
Universitätsstraße 2
86159 Augsburg
Visiting Address:
Center for Climate Resilience
Universitätsstraße 12a
86159 Augsburg
Building I
For email addresses and phone numbers, please refer to the individual pages of the respective staff members at the chair.
