Research projects
Current research focuses at the chair for urbane climate resilience include climate change and its currently noticeable weather events. Another focus is related to the consequences of climate and environmental change, as it is about reducing social vulnerability and how this is interwoven with social inequalities. This leads to a third focus: social resilience in urban areas. In particular, the question of a sustainable and systemic approach to transformation towards just, sufficient, culturally appropriate and healthy food systems in urban food environments get explored.
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Ongoing research projects
Applicants: Elke Hertig, Carmen Anthonj, Fabian Fahlbusch, Alkomiet Hasan, Markus Keck, Miriam Kunz, Evelyn Lamy
Editing: n.n.
Collaboration: City of Augsburg
Project duration: 24 months, 2026-2028
Funding: Programme to promote the acquisition of top-class third-party funding (伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Augsburg)
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Summary:
The project aims to analyse the health resilience of young people (10-24 years) in Central European cities under climate and environmental change. Young people in cities often live in an environment that is not able to provide adequate resources for their health and well-being. The relationships between the physical environment and health are strongly influenced by personal and social factors. GROW not only considers pathogenic factors, but also salutogenic factors that promote health. The focus is on four health resilience factors: (1) physical activity, motor skills, weight and obesity, (2) mental health and well-being, (3) cognitive regulation and attention, and (4) risk perception and behaviour.
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Schwammregion Holzwinkel-Altenmünster
Application: Simone Hummel, Sebastian Purwins, Markus Keck
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Collaboration: Development forum Holzwinkel and Altenmünster e.V.
Project duration: 36 months, 2025-2028
Funding: Bavarian State Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Tourism (StMELF)
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Summary:
The development forum Holzwinkel und Altenmünster e.V., which is funded as part of an ‘Integrated Rural Development’ (ILE) programme, has successfully applied to become a model location for the creation of a sponge region (Schwammregion). As part of the project, various measures are being developed and implemented with the aim of reducing the region's vulnerability to heavy rainfall events and heatwaves. Together with the Chair of Urban Climate Resilience, innovative approaches are being developed to increase the water storage function of soils in the region, promote biodiversity and raise public awareness of the importance of water as a resource. The Chair conducts accompanying research and analyses the transferability of the measures developed to strengthen the region's climate resilience.
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Further information:
https://www.stmelf.bayern.de/landentwicklung/landschaft/aktionsprogramm-/index.html
ResCUE - Building resilience in critical zones: Steep-slope agriculture under changing environmental conditions in the Rwenzori, Uganda
Applicants: Markus Keck, Peter Fiener
Project management: Triphine Ainembabazi
Collaboration: Paul Mukwaya (Makerere 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏)
Project duration: 36 months, 2024-2027
Funding: Green Research Network (伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Augsburg)
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High birth rates, political instability and climate change are exerting increasing pressure on land use in Africa. In this context, smallholder farmers in the East African Rift System are forced to cultivate very steep slopes, which are considered ‘critical zones’ as they are at risk of collapsing in the near future. In this project, we use the example of the eastern slopes of the Rwenzori Mountains in the Albertine Rift Valley in Uganda to investigate whether and to what extent it is possible to strengthen the resilience of this critical zone in order to prevent the collapse of agricultural systems in this region.
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Further information:
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Resilience in the G7 countries
Applicants: Corinna Berger, Lukas Hellwig-Tüns, Sebastian Purwins, Markus Keck
Editing: Thais Kreykenb?hm, Marlene Geiselmann, Laura Warwetsch
Collaboration: EBP Germany, EBP Switzerland
Project duration: 24 months, 2023-2025
Funding: Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Building (BMWSB)
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Despite their diverse political systems and historical and geographical circumstances, the G7 countries face similar challenges today. At a meeting of the ministries responsible for urban development in Potsdam in 2022, urban resilience was identified as a common topic for cooperation. The aim of this project is to provide an overview of the framework conditions, strategies and measures for shaping urban resilience in the G7 countries and to identify success factors and challenges for their implementation at municipal level.
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Further information:
https://www.bbsr.bund.de/BBSR/DE/forschung/programme/exwost/jahr/2024/urbane-resilienzstrategien-g7-staaten/01-start.html
Serious games as tools for participatory urban development
Concept: Markus Keck
Editing: Rouven Kaiser
Collaboration: Weitblick GmbH
Project duration: 36 months, 2022-2025
Funding: own funds of the chair
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Serious games have experienced a real boom in recent years and are now used in educational institutions, private companies and public administrations. As part of the project, we are investigating the importance of serious games in participatory urban development in Germany and their potential for the experimental design of urban climate resilience. To this end, we are developing a critique of serious games as a tool for managing participatory participation formats and at the same time exploring possibilities for using serious games as a speculative method in participatory research.
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NutriAIDE – Building smart food environments for improved nutrition
Applicants: Markus Keck, Subbarao Guvaraparavu, Lena Hennes, Soyoung Park, Vineet Singh
Editing: Johannes Mahne-Bieder, Merle Müller-Hansen
Collaboration: Calvry Wellness Solutions Inc., German Institute of Human Nutrition, ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition, Wuppertal Institute
Project duration: 36 months, 2022-2025
Funding: Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL)
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Summary:
The project is an interdisciplinary study of nutritional practices of the new urban middle class in India and the development of an app-based approach to transforming urban food environments. Together with colleagues from the fields of nutritional sciences, psychology and sustainability research, we are designing and testing an application software (app) called NutriAIDE in collaboration with the private software company Calvry Wellness Solutions Ltd. and then putting it into operation. With the help of the app, consumers will be empowered to change their eating patterns in favour of eating healthy and sustainable food.
Further information:
https://nutriaide.org/
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