CCR professor Florian Diekert and colleagues have presented a framework for improved resilience strategies for human-nature systems in the Journal of The Royal Society Interface. The concept provides a better understanding of how, when and why early warning systems and indicators can lead to improved decisions – and when they cannot.

Floods, droughts, and heatwaves are increasing globally. This is typically attributed to CO₂-driven climate change. In an opinion article for Hydrology and Earth System Science, Peter Fiener and colleagues argue that the focus on CO₂-driven climate change is leading to a shift in focus away from potentially more important drivers of floods and droughts: past land-use changes.

Innovative teaching at the ZfK: students from three subject areas are taking an interdisciplinary approach to climate, resilience and serious games. The first World Climate Game took place from 10 to 14 March 2025 as an interdisciplinary block seminar at the Centre for Climate Resilience.

The Summer Institute in Systemic Risks, Cascades and Tipping Points (CASCADE) invites 25 Master and Ph.D. students to the 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】iterranean Institute for Life Sciences, 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 of Split, Croatia, for 10 days from October 17-26, 2025.
Students will receive training in systemic risk, a concept that analyzes the accumulation of risks and tipping points through cascading effects of systems and sectors.

From 17 to 19 February 2025, the German Climate Consortium (DKK) held the symposium ‘Implementation crisis in climate change mitigation and adaptation as well as possible solutions’ in cooperation with the Centre for Climate Resilience. The conference, chaired by DKK chairwoman and CCR professor Dr. Angela Oels, was a summit meeting of social scientists in climate research in Germany.

Manuel C. Kathan and Sebastian Utz from the Chair of Public Finance with a focus on Climate Finance publish their new research paper in the international journal Finance Research Letters.

Just two weeks after the official kick-off of BRaVE, the doctoral students were invited to a workshop on 4 February to sharpen their focus on interdisciplinary collaboration and gain new insights. Prof. Dr. Ulli Vilsmaier from the Responsive Research Collective led the students through this enriching workshop.

To achieve the climate targets, we will have to actively remove CO? from the atmosphere in the future. Prof. Dr. Ottmar Edenhofer, Director and Chief Economist of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), gave a fascinating lecture at the Centre for Climate Resilience in which he highlighted both the challenges and opportunities of so-called negative emissions and CO? pricing.

The 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 of Augsburg belongs to the top 10 percent of places to study business and economics in Germany. According to the current WirtschaftsWoche ranking, the university is ranked 18^th among German universities and 24^th among universities in the D-A-CH region.

From September 30 to October 2, the congress "New Cultural Geography" will take place at the 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 of Augsburg. It is organized by the Chair of Urban Climate Resilience and is themed "Speculative geographies of the new climate regime". The call for sessions is now online.

We are pleased to announce a Special Issue entitled “Sustainable and resilient retail supply chains” as part of the Retail Operations stream at the EURO 2025 conference in Leeds.

With the new BRaVE research network, the 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 of Augsburg is aiming to research vulnerabilities arising from the effects of climate change and develop solutions for adaptation. The network was officially launched on the 23rd of January 2025 and involves twelve interdisciplinary sub-projects.