Aggregate vulnerability indicators: explanatory power and usefulness for regional policy and governance
Abstract
In the course of an ongoing EU project to map vulnerabilities at the NUTS2 level vis-à-vis five major global challenges (climate change, sustainable and competitive energy, globalization, demographic change and social polarization) a number of questions emerged regarding the efficacy of the project’s top-down approach to addressing such multifaceted issues. The ACRP “Regional Futures” project aims to improve the methodology based on an in-depth study of the vulnerabilities of four regions in Austria and Germany, with a focus on the climate change and energy challenge. Thus the project will improve the understanding of the robustness of results achieved under the constraints of the EU study and provide valuable information on exposure, sensitivity, adaptive capacity and vulnerability in the five regions for a spectrum of future scenarios. Although all five challenges will be included in the study, special emphasis will be put on the climate and the energy challenges. In the study of future developments the consequences of prioritizing climate and energy strategies will receive special attention.
keywords Vulnerability Regional development Regional Governance Aggregierte Indikatoren Europe 2020 Adaptive Capacities
Publikationen
Regional Futures under the Microscope: Regional Challenges in Upper Austria (AT), Lower Austria (AT), Styria (AT) and Kassel (DE), ACRP (B068686), 3rd Call, Final Report, Vienna: BOKU
Autoren: Danzinger, G (ed.); Lindenthal, T; Chiari, S; Formayer, H; Penker, M; Peer, V; Enengel, B; Auer, M; Steininger, K; Sammer, K; Hahne, U; Kühnel, F; Schuh, B; Kromp, W Jahr: 2014
Forschungsbericht (extern. Auftraggeber)
Regional Futures under the Microscope: Regional Challenges in Upper Austria (AT), Lower Austria (AT), Styria (AT) and Kassel (DE), ACRP (B068686), 3rd Call, Interim Report 1, Vienna: BOKU
Autoren: Chiari, S (ed.); Lindenthal, T; Chiari, S; Formayer, H; Penker, M; Peer, V; Enengel, B; Auer, M; Steininger, K; Sammer, K; Hahne, U; Kühnel, F; Schuh, B; Kromp, W Jahr: 2012
Forschungsbericht (extern. Auftraggeber)
Globale Heruasforderungen und Chancen für periphere Regionen im Alpenraum
Autoren: Penker, M Jahr: 2015
Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
Project staff
Marianne Penker
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Marianne Penker
marianne.penker@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-73115
BOKU Project Leader
01.09.2011 - 31.12.2013