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Annegret H. Thieken

Annegret H. Thieken

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Environmental Sciences

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64
Citations
16368
World Ranking
2303
National Ranking
155

Overview

Annegret H. Thieken is affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and social sciences, with a specialization in global and planetary change as well as sociology and political science. The scientist's work covers a range of subjects including flood risk assessment and management, disaster management and resilience, and topics related to climate change impacts and adaptation.

Key topics of their research include:

  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Frequent publication venues for their research are:

  • Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • Journal of Flood Risk Management
  • International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
  • Risk Analysis

Some of the recent papers featuring their contributions include:

  • "Performance of the flood warning system in Germany in July 2021 - insights from affected residents," 2023, Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • "More than heavy rain turning into fast-flowing water - a landscape perspective on the 2021 Eifel floods," 2022, Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • "Ranking local climate policy: assessing the mitigation and adaptation activities of 104 German cities," 2021, Climatic Change
  • "The behavioral turn in flood risk management, its assumptions and potential implications," 2020, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water
  • "Are flood damage models converging to "reality"? Lessons learnt from a blind test," 2020, Natural hazards and earth system sciences

Throughout their career, they have collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Philip Bubeck
  • Paul Hudson
  • Lisa Dillenardt
  • Guilherme Samprogna Mohor
  • Heidi Kreibich

Best Publications

  • Review article "Assessment of economic flood damage"

    B. Merz;H. Kreibich;R. Schwarze;A. Thieken

  • Flood risk assessment and associated uncertainty

    Heiko Apel;Annegret H. Thieken;Bruno Merz;Günter Blöschl

  • Flood risk analyses—how detailed do we need to be?

    Heiko Apel;G. T. Aronica;Heidi Kreibich;A. H. Thieken

  • Estimation uncertainty of direct monetary flood damage to buildings

    B. Merz;H. Kreibich;A. Thieken;R. Schmidtke

  • Flood loss reduction of private households due to building precautionary measures - lessons learned from the Elbe flood in August 2002

    H. Kreibich;A. H. Thieken;Th. Petrow;M. Müller

  • Flood damage and influencing factors: New insights from the August 2002 flood in Germany

    Annegret H. Thieken;Meike Müller;Heidi Kreibich;Bruno Merz

  • Review article: assessing the costs of natural hazards - state of the art and knowledge gaps

    V. Meyer;N. Becker;V. Markantonis;R. Schwarze

  • Flood Risk Mapping At The Local Scale: Concepts and Challenges

    Bruno Merz;A. H. Thieken;M. Gocht

  • Flood-risk mapping: contributions towards an enhanced assessment of extreme events and associated risks

    B. Büchele;H. Kreibich;A. Kron;A. Thieken

  • Coping with floods: preparedness, response and recovery of flood-affected residents in Germany in 2002

    Annegret H. Thieken;Heidi Kreibich;Meike MüLLER;Bruno Merz

  • A Probabilistic Modelling System for Assessing Flood Risks

    Heiko Apel;Annegret H. Thieken;Bruno Merz;Günter Blöschl

  • Is flow velocity a significant parameter in flood damage modelling

    H. Kreibich;K. Piroth;I. Seifert;H. Maiwald

  • Flood risk curves and uncertainty bounds

    Bruno Merz;Annegret H. Thieken

  • Separating natural and epistemic uncertainty in flood frequency analysis

    Bruno Merz;Annegret H. Thieken

  • Insurability and mitigation of flood losses in private households in Germany.

    Annegret H. Thieken;Theresia Petrow;Heidi Kreibich;Bruno Merz

  • Adaptation to flood risk: Results of international paired flood event studies

    Heidi Kreibich;Giuliano Di Baldassarre;Sergiy Vorogushyn;Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts

  • Comparative Risk Assessments for the City of Cologne – Storms, Floods, Earthquakes

    Gottfried Grünthal;Annegret H: Thieken;Jochen Schwarz;Kai Sven Radtke

  • Development of FLEMOcs – a new model for the estimation of flood losses in the commercial sector

    Heidi Kreibich;Isabel Seifert;Bruno Merz;Annegret H. Thieken

  • Recent changes in flood preparedness of private households and businesses in Germany

    Heidi Kreibich;Isabel Seifert;Annegret H. Thieken;Eric Lindquist

  • Insights into Flood-Coping Appraisals of Protection Motivation Theory: Empirical Evidence from Germany and France.

    Philip Bubeck;W. J. Wouter Botzen;W. J. Wouter Botzen;Jonas Laudan;Jeroen C.J.H. Aerts

  • Quantification of uncertainties in flood risk assessments

    Heiko Apel;Bruno Merz;Annegret H. Thieken

Frequent Co-Authors

Heidi Kreibich
Heidi Kreibich Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Bruno Merz
Bruno Merz University of Potsdam
Heiko Apel
Heiko Apel University of Potsdam
Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts
Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Laurens M. Bouwer
Laurens M. Bouwer Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Paolo Ciavola
Paolo Ciavola University of Ferrara
Reinhard Mechler
Reinhard Mechler International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Friedemann Wenzel
Friedemann Wenzel Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Oliver Korup
Oliver Korup University of Potsdam

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