News & Highlights
Risk Communication to support property level adaptation
New project on resilience planning in German municipalities
Final meeting of cross-European project HOUSE-IN at UFZ
Final meeting of cross-European project HOUSE-IN at UFZ
From 9-11 Nov 2022, the final meeting of the JPI Urban Europe funded transdisciplinary project HOUSE-IN took place at UFZ. The project researches challenges at the intersection of housing and integration of forced migrants and discusses solutions in five European cities (Riga, Vienna, Helsingborg and Lund, Leipzig). It is coordinated at the Dept. SUSOZ at UFZ (by Annegret Haase and Anika Schmidt). About 20 participants, scientists and practitioners from municipalities, enterprises and civil society from 5 European countries took part in the meeting. It included hybrid working sessions and on-site excursions to local stakeholders organizing and supporting the access to housing and the settling and belonging of migrants in Leipzig. HOUSE-IN will end by 30 Nov 2022.Uwe Schlink as a fellow at Durham University (UK)

New edition: International Handbook of Ignorance Studies

The new edition of the Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies, edited by Matthias Gross and Linsey McGoey, is a seminal text in the field of studies in ignorance, secrecies, and nonknowledge. It is now fully revised and includes new and expanded chapters on religion, domestic law and jurisprudence, gender studies, memory studies, and colonial history, among many others.
New video online: Matthias Groß in Portrait
New video online: Christian Kuhlicke in Portrait
New project “Heat Stress” launched
In January 2022, the DBU-funded research project “Planetary Health Model for the Reduction of Heat Stress at the Neighborhood Level” started. In collaboration with partners from the City of Leipzig, it will run under the leadership of the UFZ until May 2023. By combining micrometeorological simulations and social science survey results, the new research field “Planetary Health” will be further developed for the neighborhood level in order to identify key factors for heat stress and to be able to provide practical recommendations for reducing the individual exposure of the population.
More information: Project homepage “Heat Stress”
Heads: Prof. Dr. Sigrun Kabisch, Prof. Dr. Uwe Schlink
Personnel: Daniel Hertel, Janine Pößneck
New project „Lebendige Wände − Living Walls“
The project “Lebendige Wände” (Living Walls) was launched in October 2021. Funded by the Saxon Ministry for Energy, Climate Protection, Environment and Agriculture, the project focuses on testing suitable facade greening concepts in Leipzig. Together with lwb, Saxony's largest municipal housing association, as well as the environmental protection association “Ökolöwe” and the citizens' initiative “Wir im Quartier”, obstacles are identified, the interests of residents are recorded, and greening and maintenance concepts are developed. An elaborate climatological measuring concept allows the monitoring of the cooling capacity and the vitality of the plants during heat and drought. The results will be integrated into existing urban climatological models.
More information: Project „Living Walls − Green facades for multifunctional climate adaptation in the city“