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Lehr- und Forschungseinheit Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehungen
Luisenstraße 37
80333 München

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Luisenstraße 37
3. Stock
80333 München
Raum A 304

Tel.: +49 (0) 89 / 2180 - 4140
Fax: +49 (0) 89 / 2180 - 4142

E-Mail: m.garschagen@lmu.de

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Prof. Dr. Matthias Garschagen holds the chair in human geography and heads the Teaching and Research Unit for Human Environment Relations at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU). He further is a Honorary Professor at RMIT University, Melbourne, in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies.

 

Research:

Prof. Garschagen’s research focuses on risk, vulnerability, adaptation and transformation in the context of environmental hazards and climate change, particularly in cities. He is most interested in the ways urbanization and other societal changes shape future trends in risk, exposure and vulnerability in relation to environmental and climate hazards. A second focus is on the evaluation of different adaptation options, including those to floods, heat waves and cyclones, and the governance of risk reduction, particularly at the interface of state and non-state actors. In his research, Prof. Garschagen combines a global view with regional and local expertise in Southeast Asia (especially Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines and Singapore), South Asia (especially India), West Africa (especially Ghana and Nigeria) and Europe (especially Germany). 

Publications:

Next to a number of book projects, Prof. Garschagen's research findings have been published in well over 70 papers in high-ranking international journals (e.g. Nature, Nature Climate Change, Scientific Reports, Global Environmental Change, Environmental Research Letters, Planning Theory and Practice, Urban Climate, npj Urban Sustainability, Climate and Development). Articles include, for example, those on equitable climate change adaptation (in Nature), on the need to strengthen resilience in small and mid-sized cities (in Nature), on transitions in risk management from resilience to transformation (in Ecology and Society), on the relationship between global urbanization trends and climate change vulnerability (in Climatic Change), the governance of roles and responsibilties in climate change adaptation (in Nature Climate Change), the evaluation of different risk indices (in Climatic Change), the advancement of urban growth modeling for climate change exposure analysis (in Environmental Research Letters), the effectiveness of decentralizing risk reduction in Vietnam (in Habitat International) or on the applicability of urban resilience concepts across different cultural contexts (in Natural Hazards).

A full record of publications can be accessed here.

 

Other roles and responsibilities:

Prof. Garschagen has been serving as a Lead Author in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its Special Report on Ocean and the Cryosphere (SROCC), the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) and the Synthesis Report of the Sixth Assessment Cycle (SYR). For a number of years, he has been the scientific lead of the World Risk Report and he co-leads the expert working group on natural hazards and environmental risks within the German Association of Geographers. Prof. Garschagen has served as an associate editor of the international journals Climate and Development and Urban Climate as well as an editorial board member of the Journal of Extreme Events. He has been Principal Investigator or overall coordinator of well over a dozen international research projects.

 

Teaching:

Prof. Garschagen takes joy in covering a range of topics in human geography across BSc, MSc and education (Lehramt) programmes, both in German as well as English language. His portfolio comprises lectures in urban geography, climate related risk and adaptation, spatial planning, disaster risk reduction, resource geographies and regional geography. In seminars he covers thematic, theoretical and methodological classes (e.g. on spatial assessment tools, indicator-based assessments, empirical social science methods, statistics, scenario techniques or regional development).

Biography:

Before joining LMU in 2019, Matthias Garschagen worked for the United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) in Bonn, where he lead a section of around 20 researchers working on Vulnerability Assessment, Risk Management and Adaptive Planning (VARMAP) from 2014 to 2019. Matthias Garschagen holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Cologne, Germany (2013). He has extended fieldwork experience in Vietnam (over 18 months) and a number of other countries, including India and Indonesia. Matthias Garschagen studied Geography, Economics and Cultural Anthropology in Cologne and Vancouver at Simon Fraser University (2002 to 2008). He received scholarships from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Outreach: 

Matthias Garschagen's work has been met with considerable interest in the media, resulting in frequent interviews in TV (e.g. tagesthemen, heute journal, tagesschau), radio (e.g. BR IQ Wissenschaft und Forschung) and newspapers (e.g. Süddeutsche, ZEIT, FAZ, Spielgel, the guardian). More information can be accessed here.

Forschungsprojekte

KARE II - Klimaanpassung auf regionaler Ebene:ansteigende Starkregen- und Hitzerisiken in der Region Oberland
(01.03.2024 - 28.02.2027) >> mehr

Research interests：Coastal response to climate change；Flood Inundation and Exposure Analysis; Flood adaptation (01.11.2022 ) >> mehr

STEPSEC: Comparative evaluation of the potential of terrestrial carbon dioxide removal
(01.10.2021 - 30.09.2024) >> mehr

STEPSEC: Comparative evaluation of the potential of terrestrial carbon dioxide removal (01.10.2021 - 30.09.2024) >> mehr

FloodAdaptVN: Integrating Ecosystem-based Approaches into Flood Risk Management for Adaptive and Sustainable Urban Development in Central Viet Nam (01.04.2021 - 31.03.2025) >> mehr

LIRLAP: Linking Disaster Risk Governance and Land-use Planning: the case of informal settlements in hazard-prone areas in the Philippines (01.03.2021 - 28.02.2025) >> mehr

FReCom: Flood risk management and resilience building at community level in rapidly growing cities in China and Germany (01.01.2021 - 31.12.2024) >> mehr

Klimawandelanpassung auf regionaler Ebene: ansteigende Starkregenrisiken am Beispiel des bayrischen Oberlandes (KARE) (01.07.2020 - 30.06.2023) >> mehr

ZURES II - Anwendung und Verstetigung der zukunftsorientierten Klima- und Vulnerabilitätsszenarien in ausgewählten Instrumenten und Planungsprozessen: Modellstadt Ludwigsburg (01.06.2020 - 30.06.2022) >> mehr

KARE-Citizen Science: Aktivierung der Bevölkerung für Klimaanpassungsmaßnahmen über die Erhebung und Kommunikation von (Extrem‑) Wetterereignissen und deren regionalen Auswirkungen - ein Projekt mit Bildungseinrichtungen im bayerischen Oberland (01.04.2020 - 31.12.2021) >> mehr

TRANSCEND - Transformation Decisions for the Adaptation and Sustainability of Cities in the Face of Environmental and Socio-economic Change (15.11.2019 - 14.11.2024) >> mehr

FloodAdaptVN: Integrating Ecosystem-based Approaches into Flood Risk Management for Adaptive and Sustainable Urban Development in Central Viet Nam (01.08.2019 - 31.01.2021) >> mehr

LIRLAP: Linking Disaster Risk Governance and Land-use Planning: the case of informal settlements in hazard-prone areas in the Philippines (01.07.2019 - 31.12.2020) >> mehr

DECIDER: DECisions for Adaptive Pathway Design and the Integrative Development, Evaluation and Governance of Flood Risk Reduction Measures in Transforming Urban-Rural-Systems
(01.05.2019 - 30.04.2023) >> mehr

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