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Employment (10)

University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna: Vienna, AT

2023-04 to present | Senior Scientist (Institute of Landscape Planning)
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Thomas Thaler

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis: Laxenburg, AT

2022-10-01 to present | Research Fellow (Equity and Justice Research Group)
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Thomas Thaler

Free University of Bozen - Bolzano: Bolzano, IT

2018-10-01 to 2023-07-30 | Lecturer
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Thomas Thaler

University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna: Vienna, AT

2014-11 to 2023-03 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Institute of Mountain Risk Engineering)
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Thomas Thaler

University of Vienna: Vienna, AT

2020-10-01 to 2020-12-31 | Guest Professor (Department of Geography and Regional Research)
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Thomas Thaler

University of Vienna: Vienna, AT

2019-10-01 to 2020-01-31 | Lecturer (Department of Geography and Regional Research)
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Thomas Thaler

Wuppertal University: Wuppertal, DE

2014-10 to 2015-02 | Lecture
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Thomas Thaler

Fresh Thoughts Consulting: Vienna, AT

2010-10 to 2014-05 | Research Associate
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Middlesex University: London, London, GB

2011-01 to 2013-12 | Research Assistant
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Ecologic Institute: Vienna, AT

2008-10 to 2010-07 | Researcher
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Education and qualifications (4)

Middlesex University: London, London, GB

2011-01 to 2015-10 | PhD
Education
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Thomas Thaler

Middlesex University: London, London, GB

2011-01 to 2011-07 | Postgraduate Certification
Education
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University of Vienna: Vienna, AT

2004-10-01 to 2010-05 | Magister
Education
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Vienna University of Economics and Business : Vienna, AT

2003-10-01 to 2009-09-30 | Magister
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Funding (18)

Utilization of private land for mainstreaming Nature-based Solutions in the systemic transformation towards a climate-resilient Europe

2023-09 to 2027-08 | Grant
HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme (Brussels, BE)
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Thomas Thaler

Multi-hazards in Biosphere Reserves - Management of multiple hydro-climatic risks to improve the social-ecological resilience

2023-05 to 2025-04 | Grant
Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna, AT)
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Thomas Thaler

Alpine Mountain Hay Meadows Management: Best management practices to maintain alpine mountain hay meadows in their Favourable Conservation Status against the threat of underuse under different property right ownership regimes inside and outside protected areas

2023-04 to 2026-03 | Grant
Biodiversa+ (Brussels, BE)
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Thomas Thaler

Biosphere reserves as models for Science-Society interaction to spur sustainability transformations in mountainous areas

2022-12 to 2025-11 | Grant
Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna, AT)
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Thomas Thaler

Nature-based solutions to urban heat islands and their impacts on social equality

2022-11 to 2025-02 | Grant
Climate and Energy Fund (Vienna, AT)
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Thomas Thaler

Identifying tools and methods to co-create a climate risk service for managing drought risk in Austria

2022-10 to 2024-09 | Grant
Climate and Energy Fund (Vienna, AT)
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Thomas Thaler

Leveraging systemic shocks for integrated climate change adaptation and mitigation

2021-11 to 2023-10 | Grant
Climate and Energy Fund (Vienna, AT)
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Thomas Thaler

Social vulnerability and adaptive capacity to risks from the impacts of future heat waves and air pollution

2021-10 to 2023-09 | Grant
Climate and Energy Fund (Vienna, AT)
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Thomas Thaler

The social equality of Nature-based Solutions to urban heat stress

2021-03 to 2024-08 | Grant
Vienna Science and Technology Fund (Vienna, AT)
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Thomas Thaler

Strategic decision-making in climate risk management: designing local adaptation pathways

2019-11 to 2022-03 | Grant
Climate and Energy Fund (Vienna, AT)
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Thomas Thaler

Balancing dimensions of vulnerability, coping ability and adaptive capacity for realising social justice in climate change adaptation policy

2018-06 to 2020-05 | Grant
Austrian Climate and Energy Fund (Vienna, AT)
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Thomas Thaler

Demographic change and hydrological hazards: flood risk management in Alpine areas facing population decline and demographic ageing (DemoHazAlps)

2017-12 to 2020-05 | Grant
Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna, AT)
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Thomas Thaler

The effects of natural disturbances on the risk from hydrogeomorphic hazards under climate change (PROTECTED).

2017-05 to 2019-04 | Grant
Klima- und Energiefonds (Vienna, AT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

KR16AC0K13167

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Thomas Thaler

FLOODLABEL: A smart tool for governance towards flood-resilient cities (FLOODLABEL).

2017-04 to 2020-03 | Grant
Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft (Vienna, AT)
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Thomas Thaler

Adaptation strategies and policy implementation for sharing responsibility in managing mountain hazards (SHARED)

2017-04 to 2019-03 | Grant
Klima- und Energiefonds (Vienna, AT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

KR16AC0K13268

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Thomas Thaler

Bottom-up citizen engagement to enhance private flood preparedness – Lessons learnt and potentials for Austria (BottomUp:Floods)

2016-05 to 2018-10 | Grant
Klima- und Energiefonds (Vienna, AT)
GRANT_NUMBER: KR15AC8K12462
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Thomas Thaler

Social and land-use impacts of flood relocation policies in the Eferding and Machland region: Longitudinal study of the 2016-2018 period (RELOCATE2016-2018)

2016-04 to 2019-03 | Grant
Klima- und Energiefonds (Vienna, AT)
GRANT_NUMBER:

KR15AC8K12625

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Thomas Thaler

Societal transformation and adaptation necessary to manage dynamics in flood hazard and risk mitigation

2014-11 to 2017-10 | Grant
Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy (Vienna, AT)
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Thomas Thaler

Works (50 of 69)

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Nature‐Based Solutions in Flood Risk Management

WIREs Water
2025-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Thomas Thaler; Lenka Slavikova; Thomas Hartmann
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An integrated assessment of future risks of climate change for Austria: spatio-temporal trends of ozone, heat, and social vulnerability 

2025-01-20 | Preprint
Contributors: Michael Friesenecker; Thomas Thaler; Monika Mayer; Harald Rieder; Herbert Formayr; Christian Schmidt; Lehner Fabian
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Nature-based Solutions on privately owned land: Stakeholder engagement matters

2025-01-20 | Preprint
Contributors: Marion Wallner; Thomas Thaler; Arthur Schindelegger; Katharina Gugerell
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Feeling hot is being hot? Comparing the mapping and the surveying paradigm for urban heat vulnerability in Vienna

Science of The Total Environment
2024-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Sebastian Seebauer; Michael Friesenecker; Thomas Thaler; Antonia E. Schneider; Stephan Schwarzinger
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Green gentrification and changing planning policies in Vienna?

Urban Research & Practice
2024-05-26 | Journal article
Contributors: Michael Friesenecker; Thomas Thaler; Christoph Clar
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Local and regional decision making for compound risk governance: a case study derived hypothetical model

2024-03-11 | Preprint
Contributors: Eric Lindquist; Thomas Thaler
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Impacts of social contracts for citizens in the austrian flood risk management system

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
2024-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Karin Weber; Doris Damyanovic; Thomas Thaler
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Policy experimentation within flood risk management: Transition pathways in Austria

The Geographical Journal
2023-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Thomas Thaler; Edmund C. Penning‐Rowsell
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Addressing path dependencies in decision-making processes for operationalizing compound climate-risk management

iScience
2023-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Thomas Thaler; Susanne Hanger-Kopp; Thomas Schinko; Ralf Nordbeck
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Natural flood management: Opportunities to implement nature‐based solutions on privately owned land

WIREs Water
2023-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Thomas Thaler; Paul Hudson; Christophe Viavattene; Colin Green
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The impact of demographic developments on flood risk management systems in rural regions in the Alpine Arc

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
2023-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Christoph Clar; Lena Junger; Ralf Nordbeck; Thomas Thaler
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Climate resilience of the City of Vienna: social impact of Nature-based Solutions

2023-05-15 | Preprint
Contributors: Marianne Bügelmayer-Blaschek; Martin Schneider; Tanja Tötzer; Michael Friesenecker; Thomas Thaler; Antonia Schneider; Michael Getzner; Sebastian Seebauer; Claudia Hahn; Maja Zuvela-Aloise
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How path dependency manifests in flood risk management: observations from four decades in the Ennstal and Aist catchments in Austria

Regional Environmental Change
2023-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Sebastian Seebauer; Thomas Thaler; Susanne Hanger-Kopp; Thomas Schinko
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Managing Disturbance Risks

2022 | Book chapter
Contributors: Rupert Seidl; Sigrid Netherer; Thomas Thaler
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Human–water research: discussion of “Guiding principles for hydrologists conducting interdisciplinary research and fieldwork with participants”

Hydrological Sciences Journal
2022-10-26 | Journal article
Contributors: Thomas Thaler
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The interplay between enterprise and entrepreneur in the flood risk management of small- and medium-sized enterprises in Austria

Environmental Hazards
2022-10-20 | Journal article
Contributors: Claudia Winkler; Thomas Thaler; Sebastian Seebauer
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Tracing the 'Spatial Turn' in Flood Risk Management

2022-08-19 | Preprint
Contributors: Lukas Löschner; Thomas Thaler; Walter Seher
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Enhancing Kathmandu’s Urban Design Through Implementation of Green Infrastructures

2022-03-28 | Preprint
Contributors: Rupesh Shrestha; Robert Jüpner; Thomas Thaler
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Leveraging the transformative potential of shocks: a conceptual framework to reach the adaptigation goal

2022-03-28 | Preprint
Contributors: Thomas Thaler; Eva Posch; Sebastian Seebauer; Claudia Winkler
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Bottom-up innovations in natural hazard risk management in Austria

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
2022-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Thomas Thaler; Marie-Sophie Attems; Sven Fuchs
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Just retreat—how different countries deal with it: examples from Austria and England

Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences
2021-09-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Thomas Thaler
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Flood-Resilient Communities: How We Can Encourage Adaptive Behaviour Through Smart Tools in Public–Private Interaction

Urban Planning
2021-08-19 | Journal article
Contributors: Peter R. Davids; Thomas Thaler
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German-Language Spatial Planning Research between Theory and Practice

Planning Practice & Research
2021-08-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Christian Diller; Martin Kohl; Thomas Thaler
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An institutional approach to vulnerability: evidence from natural hazard management in Europe

Environmental Research Letters
2021-04-01 | Journal article
Contributors: M Papathoma-Köhle; T Thaler; S Fuchs
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Paradoxes of financial schemes for resilient flood recovery of households

WIREs Water
2021-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Lenka Slavíková; Thomas Hartmann; Thomas Thaler
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Financial schemes for resilient flood recovery

Environmental Hazards
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85085161702

Part of ISBN:

18780059 17477891

Contributors: Slavíková, L.; Hartmann, T.; Thaler, T.
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Risk communication and adaptive behaviour in flood-prone areas of Austria: A Qmethodology study on opinions of affected homeowners

PLoS ONE
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85085714402

Part of ISBN:

19326203

Contributors: Attems, M.-S.; Schlögl, M.; Thaler, T.; Rauter, M.; Fuchs, S.
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Thomas Thaler via Scopus - Elsevier

The influence of tailored risk communication on individual adaptive behaviour

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85083735758

Part of ISBN:

22124209

Contributors: Attems, M.-S.; Thaler, T.; Snel, K.A.W.; Davids, P.; Hartmann, T.; Fuchs, S.
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Thomas Thaler via Scopus - Elsevier

Cooperation in flood risk management: understanding the role of strategic planning in two Austrian policy instruments

Environmental Science & Policy
2020-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Thomas Thaler; Ralf Nordbeck; Lukas Löschner; Walter Seher
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The influence of climate change and canopy disturbances on landslide susceptibility in headwater catchments

Science of The Total Environment
2020-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Christian Scheidl; Micha Heiser; Sebastian Kamper; Thomas Thaler; Klaus Klebinder; Fabian Nagl; Veronika Lechner; Gerhard Markart; Werner Rammer; Rupert Seidl
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Swimming alone? Why linking flood risk perception and behavior requires more than “it's the individual, stupid”

WIREs Water
2020-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Samuel Rufat; Alexander Fekete; Iuliana Armaş; Thomas Hartmann; Christian Kuhlicke; Tim Prior; Thomas Thaler; Ben Wisner
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Patience, persistence and pre-signals: Policy dynamics of planned relocation in Austria

Global Environmental Change
2020-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Thomas Thaler; Sebastian Seebauer; Arthur Schindelegger
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Financial recovery schemes in Austria: how planned relocation is used as an answer to future flood events

Environmental Hazards
2020-05-26 | Journal article
Contributors: Thomas Thaler; Sven Fuchs
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Learning from the past for strategic decision-making in climate risk management: Connecting historic and future adaptation pathways

2020-03-23 | Other
Contributors: Thomas Thaler; Philipp Babcicky; Christoph Clar; Thomas Schinko; Sebastian Seebauer
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Book review: Water justice

Geographica Helvetica
2020-03-19 | Journal article
Contributors: Thomas Thaler
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Implementation of property‐level flood risk adaptation (PLFRA) measures: Choices and decisions

WIREs Water
2020-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Marie‐Sophie Attems; Thomas Thaler; Elisabetta Genovese; Sven Fuchs
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Successful Small-Scale Household Relocation after a Millennial Flood Event in Simbach, Germany 2016

Water
2020-01-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Barbara Mayr; Thomas Thaler; Johannes Hübl
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Deconstructing the legal framework for flood protection in Austria: individual and state responsibilities from a planning perspective

Water International
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85068557666

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02508060

Contributors: Rauter, M.; Schindelegger, A.; Fuchs, S.; Thaler, T.
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Thomas Thaler via Scopus - Elsevier

Obligation or Innovation: Can the EU Floods Directive Be Seen as a Tipping Point Towards More Resilient Flood Risk Management? A Case Study from Vorarlberg, Austria

Sustainability
2019-10 | Journal article | Author
Contributors: Magdalena Rauter; Thomas Thaler; Marie-Sophie Attems; Sven Fuchs
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Bottom‐up citizen initiatives as emergent actors in flood risk management: Mapping roles, relations and limitations

Journal of Flood Risk Management
2019-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Sebastian Seebauer; Stefan Ortner; Philipp Babcicky; Thomas Thaler
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Bottom‑up citizen initiatives in natural hazard management: Why they appear and what they can do?

Environmental Science & Policy
2019-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Thomas Thaler; Sebastian Seebauer
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Preface: Damage of natural hazards: assessment and mitigation

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
2019-03-15 | Journal article
Contributors: Heidi Kreibich; Thomas Thaler; Thomas Glade; Daniela Molinari
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Drivers and barriers of adaptation initiatives – How societal transformation affects natural hazard management and risk mitigation in Europe

Science of The Total Environment
2019-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Thomas Thaler; Marie-Sophie Attems; Mathieu Bonnefond; Darren Clarke; Amandine Gatien-Tournat; Mathilde Gralepois; Marie Fournier; Conor Murphy; Magdalena Rauter; Maria Papathoma-Köhle et al.
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On the nexus between landslide susceptibility and transport infrastructure – an agent-based approach

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
2019-01-25 | Journal article
Contributors: Matthias Schlögl; Gerald Richter; Michael Avian; Thomas Thaler; Gerhard Heiss; Gernot Lenz; Sven Fuchs
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Correction to: Allocation of risk and benefits—distributional justices in mountain hazard management (Regional Environmental Change, (2018), 18, 2, (353-365), 10.1007/s10113-017-1229-y)

Regional Environmental Change
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85041549969

Contributors: Thaler, T.; Zischg, A.; Keiler, M.; Fuchs, S.
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Thomas Thaler via Scopus - Elsevier

Natural hazards and risk governance,Naturgefahren und Risiko-Governance

Geographische Rundschau
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85051513358

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00167460

Contributors: Hutter, G.; Thaler, T.
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Thomas Thaler via Scopus - Elsevier

Political feasibility of 1.5°C societal transformations: the role of social justice

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85037612780

Contributors: Patterson, J.J.; Thaler, T.; Hoffmann, M.; Hughes, S.; Oels, A.; Chu, E.; Mert, A.; Huitema, D.; Burch, S.; Jordan, A.
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Thomas Thaler via Scopus - Elsevier

On the nexus between landslide susceptibility and transport infrastructure – agent-based vulnerability assessment of rural road networks in the Eastern European Alps

2018-04-04 | Preprint
Contributors: Matthias Schlögl; Michael Avian; Gerald Richter; Thomas Thaler; Gerhard Heiss; Sven Fuchs; Gernot Lenz
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Social justice in the context of adaptation to climate change—reflecting on different policy approaches to distribute and allocate flood risk management

Regional Environmental Change
2018-02-21 | Journal article
Contributors: Thomas Thaler; Sven Fuchs; Sally Priest; Neelke Doorn
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Allocation of risk and benefits—distributional justices in mountain hazard management

Regional Environmental Change
2018-02-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Thomas Thaler; Andreas Zischg; Margreth Keiler; Sven Fuchs
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