GIScience: Spatial Analysis | Indicator development | Decision Support Systems | Geovisualisation | Participatory GIS

Topics: Disaster Risk Management & Vulnerability Assessment | Climate Change | GMES | Health | Development topics

• ConHaz: Consultancy to assess the current hazard mapping capacity and effectiveness of scenario based tools for long term planning mechanisms [UNDP Malawi/COOPI; 08/11 - 12/11]
• SALIMA: Hydrological and vulnerability assessment of the Linthipe and Lingadzi catchments in Malawi [EC DIPECHO; 03/11 - 10/11]
• HEALTHY FUTURES: Health, Environmental Change and Adaptive Capacity: Mapping, examining and anticipating future risks of water-related vector-borne diseases in Eastern Africa [EC FP7; 01/11 - 12/14]
• CHANGES:  Changing Hydro-meteorological Risks – as Analyzed by a New Generation of European Scientists [EC Marie Curie Training Network; 01/11 - 12/13]
• GI4DRR: Providing Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technical support for Disaster Risk Reduction programmes implemented by DIPECHO partners in the South East African and South West Indian Ocean region [EC DIPECHO; 07/10 - 09/11]
• GMSM: Global Monitoring of Soil Moisture for Water Hazards Assessment [Austrian Space Programme; 04/09 - 01/12]
• MOVE: Methods for the Improvement of Vulnerability Assessment in Europe [EC FP7; 10/08 - 12/11]

• CLISP: Climate Change Adaptation by Spatial Planning in the Alpine Space [INTERREG Alpine Space; 09/08 - 08/11]
• G-MOSAIC: GMES Services for Management of Operations, Situation Awareness and Intelligence for regional Crises [EC FP7; 10/08 - 09/11]
• VULMOZ: Funding to conduct the PhD research in Búzi, Mozambique [Institutional funding by Munich Re Foundation; 10/07 - 05/08]
  
• BRAHMATWINN: Twinning European and South Asian River Basins to enhance capacity and implement adaptive management approaches  [EC FP6; 06/06 - 12/09]
  
• PFIF: Permafrost im Fels [Austrian Academy of Sciences; 2007]
• GMOSS: Global Monitoring for Security and Stability [EC FP6; 03/04 - 02/08]
• CIG-UCM: Capacity Building in Geoinformation for Sustainable Development at CIG/UCM in Beira/Mozambique [Austrian Foreign Ministry; 12/03 - 06/05]

• Dollinger, F., Kienberger, S., Klingler, S., Lampelmaier, L., Neuwirth, C., Prinz, T, Reischenböck, G, Riedler, W., Schönegger, C., Zeil-Fahlbusch, E., 2011. Klimawandel und Raumplanung in Salzburg – Ergebnisse des Alpenraumprojektes CLISP zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel für die Modellregion Pinzgau-Pongau. Mitteilungen zur Rauplanung, Band 22.
• Hutton, C. W., Kienberger, S., Amoako Johnson, F., Allan, A., Giannini, V., Allen, R., 2011. Vulnerability to climate change: people, place and exposure to hazard, Adv. Sci. Res., 7, 37-45, doi:10.5194/asr-7-37-2011. http://www.adv-sci-res.net/7/11/2011/asr-7-37-2011.html
• Giannini, V., Ceccato, L., Hutton, C., Allan, A. A., Kienberger, S., Flügel, W.-A., Giupponi, C., 2011: Development of responses based on IPCC and "what-if?" IWRM scenarios, Adv. Sci. Res., 7, 71-81, doi:10.5194/asr-7-71-2011. http://www.adv-sci-res.net/7/11/2011/asr-7-71-2011.html
  
• Dobler, A., Yaoming, M., Sharma, N., Kienberger, S., Ahrens, B., 2011. Regional climate projections in two alpine river basins: Upper Danube and Upper Brahmaputra, Adv. Sci. Res., 7, 11-20, doi:10.5194/asr-7-11-2011, 2011. http://www.adv-sci-res.net/7/11/2011/asr-7-11-2011.html
• Kienberger, S., Contreras, D., Lang, S., 2010. Regions of vulnerability: Spatial modelling of different conceptual approaches. Proceedings of GIScience 2010, Zürich, Switzerland. http://www.giscience2010.org/pdfs/paper_241.pdf
• Lang, S., Albrecht, F., Kienberger, S. , Tiede, D.,  2010. Object validity for operational tasks in a policy context. Journal for Spatial Science, 55 (1), 9-22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14498596.2010.48763
• Kienberger, S., Lang, S., Zeil, P., 2009. Spatial vulnerability units – expert-based spatial modelling of socio-economic vulnerability in the Salzach catchment, Austria, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 9, 767-778. http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/9/767/2009/nhess-9-767-2009.html 

• Birkmann, J., Garschagen, M., Kienberger, S., Storch, H. (3 November 2011): Advancing the development of socio-economic scenarios through the lens of vulnerability and adaptive capacity. The Nature and Use of New Socioeconomic Pathways for Climate Change Research, 2.-4. November 2011, Boulder, USA. 
• Kienberger, S. (20. October 2011): Mapping Vulnerability: Concept and Methods.The Use of Space Technology for Disaster Management in Sri Lanka, 20.October 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
• Kienberger, S. (5 Jul 2011): New spatial tools for improved vulnerability mapping - Climate Change/Disaster Risk Reduction - Mozambique/Austria. VIII Expert Working Group on Measuring Vulnerability, 4. - 5. July 2011, Salzburg, Austria.
• Kienberger, S. (8 Apr 2011): Application of the MOVE framework for local and sub-national scale levels on flood hazards - Contributions to the vulnerability and scale debate. EGU General Assembly 2011, 3. – 8. Apr 2011, Vienna, Austria.
• Zeil, P., Kienberger, S. (9 Feb 2011): Capacity development and facilitation. UN-SPIDER Expert Meeting on Space-based Technologies and Emergency Response in the context of the 48th Session Scientific and Technical Subcommittee Meeting of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPOUS), 7-18 February 2011, Vienna, Austria.
• Kienberger, S. (25 Oct 2010): Spatial Modelling of Vulnerability to floods in Mozambique – Integration  of community and expert perceptions in a spatial manner, AARSE 2010 - African Association of Remote Sensing for the Environment, 25.-29.10.2010 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
• Kienberger, S. (4 Oct. 2010): Monitoring Vulnerability – Integration of Earth Observation for enhanced Disaster Risk Reduction. International Symposium on Benefiting from Earth Observation, Bridging the Data Gap for Adaptation to Climate Change in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region, 4 - 6 October 2010, Kathmandu, Nepal.