Projects
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Coastal Futures
Coastal Futures
The project cluster "Zukunft Kueste – Coastal Futures" works towards integrated assessment for coastal changes. Based on the notion of socio-ecological systems, the application of the Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) approach and the concept of ecosystem services, the cluster focuses on risks and opportunities associated with offshore wind farms in the German North Sea as an example for sea use change. The cluster with several work packages and project partners is led and coordinated by HZG. Specifically, HZG research within the cluster looks at societal and socio-economic impacts of offshore wind energy in the context of spatial planning.
Risk perception of the citizens of Hamburg
In spring 2008, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Research Centre GmbH assigned forsa - Gesellschaft für Sozialforschung und statistische Analysen mbH to interview 500 citizens of the city of Hamburg about their estimation of in how far climate change affects their lifes and the probability of natural disasters.
Please follow the link below for the results of the study, the press release, and a selection of the thereof resulting press reports in German media.
All information are available in German language only!
Please follow the link below for the results of the study, the press release, and a selection of the thereof resulting press reports in German media.
All information are available in German language only!
Risk perception of the citizens of Hamburg
Wadden Sea Study 2008
In the summer of 2008 the Wadden Sea Study 2008 was conducted in 22 communities of the North Sea coast in the Länder Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein. Issues were regional identity, the natural environment as well as the perception of natural hazards.
Results of this study will be available in the autumn 2009.
Results of this study will be available in the autumn 2009.
