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Overview

Sven Fuchs is affiliated with BOKU University in Austria and primarily conducts research in the field of Environmental Science. Their work extensively covers topics related to flood risk assessment and management, landslides and related hazards, and disaster management and resilience.

The main fields of study for Sven Fuchs include:

  • Environmental Science

Their subfields of study highlight a focus on:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

Sven Fuchs' main research topics encompass:

  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research

Recent publications by Sven Fuchs feature research on physical vulnerability models and indices related to natural hazards, including floods and wildfires. Notable papers include:

  • A generic physical vulnerability model for floods: review and concept for data-scarce regions (2020), published in Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • A wildfire vulnerability index for buildings (2022), published in Scientific Reports
  • Physical vulnerability to dynamic flooding: Vulnerability curves and vulnerability indices (2022), published in Journal of Hydrology
  • An institutional approach to vulnerability: evidence from natural hazard management in Europe (2021), published in Environmental Research Letters
  • The influence of tailored risk communication on individual adaptive behaviour (2020), published in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

Frequent collaborators supporting Sven Fuchs' research include:

  • Margreth Keiler
  • Matthias Schlögl
  • Maria Papathoma-Köhle
  • Thomas Thaler
  • Marie-Sophie Attems

Publications are frequently found in the following venues:

  • Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • Natural Hazards
  • Scientific Reports
  • International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Land Use Policy

Best Publications

  • Towards an empirical vulnerability function for use in debris flow risk assessment

    S. Fuchs;K. Heiss;J. Hübl

  • Susceptibility versus resilience to mountain hazards in Austria - paradigms of vulnerability revisited

    S. Fuchs

  • Vulnerability assessment in natural hazard and risk analysis: current approaches and future challenges

    Sven Fuchs;Sven Fuchs;Jörn Birkmann;Thomas Glade

  • Editorial for the special issue: vulnerability to natural hazards—the challenge of integration

    Sven Fuchs;Sven Fuchs;Christian Kuhlicke;Christian Kuhlicke;Volker Meyer

  • Matrices, curves and indicators: A review of approaches to assess physical vulnerability to debris flows

    Maria Papathoma-Köhle;Bernhard Gems;Michael Sturm;Sven Fuchs

  • A spatiotemporal multi-hazard exposure assessment based on property data

    Sven Fuchs;Margreth Keiler;Andreas Paul Zischg;Andreas Paul Zischg

  • Mitigating mountain hazards in Austria – legislation, risk transfer, and awareness building

    M. Holub;S. Fuchs

  • A quantitative vulnerability function for fluvial sediment transport

    Reinhold Totschnig;Walter Sedlacek;Sven Fuchs

  • Flood risk perception and adaptation capacity: A contribution to the socio-hydrology debate

    Sven Fuchs;Konstantinos Karagiorgos;Kyriaki Kitikidou;Fotios Maris

  • Natural Hazard Management from a Coevolutionary Perspective: Exposure and Policy Response in the European Alps

    Sven Fuchs;Veronika Röthlisberger;Thomas Thaler;Andreas Paul Zischg

  • Mountain torrents: Quantifying vulnerability and assessing uncertainties.

    Reinhold Totschnig;Sven Fuchs

  • Evaluation of common mixing models for calculating bulk thermal conductivity of sedimentary rocks: Correction charts and new conversion equations

    Sven Fuchs;Felina Schütz;Hans-Jürgen Förster;Andrea Förster

  • Loss estimation for landslides in mountain areas - An integrated toolbox for vulnerability assessment and damage documentation

    M. Papathoma-Köhle;A. Zischg;S. Fuchs;T. Glade

  • Spatiotemporal dynamics: the need for an innovative approach in mountain hazard risk management

    Sven Fuchs;Margreth Keiler;Sergey Sokratov;Alexander Shnyparkov

  • A physical approach on flood risk vulnerability of buildings

    B. Mazzorana;S. Simoni;C. Scherer;B. Gems

  • Implementation of property‐level flood risk adaptation (PLFRA) measures: Choices and decisions

    Marie‐Sophie Attems;Thomas Thaler;Elisabetta Genovese;Sven Fuchs

  • Evaluating cartographic design in flood risk mapping.

    Sven Fuchs;Karl Spachinger;Wolfgang Dorner;Juliette Rochman

  • Vulnerability indicators for natural hazards: an innovative selection and weighting approach.

    Maria Papathoma-Köhle;Matthias Schlögl;Sven Fuchs

  • Calculation of thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity and specific heat capacity of sedimentary rocks using petrophysical well logs

    Sven Fuchs;Niels Balling;Andrea Förster

  • Avalanche risk assessment – a multi-temporal approach, results from Galtür, Austria

    Margreth Keiler;R. Sailer;P. Jörg;C. Weber

  • Mountain hazards: reducing vulnerability by adapted building design

    Markus Holub;Jürgen Suda;Sven Fuchs;Sven Fuchs

  • Integrated flash flood vulnerability assessment: Insights from East Attica, Greece

    Konstantinos Karagiorgos;Thomas Thaler;Micha Heiser;Johannes Hübl

  • Avalanche Hazard Mitigation Strategies Assessed by Cost Effectiveness Analyses and Cost Benefit Analyses—evidence from Davos, Switzerland

    Sven Fuchs;Magdalena Thöni;Maria Christina McAlpin;Urs Gruber

  • Development of avalanche risk between 1950 and 2000 in the Municipality of Davos, Switzerland

    S. Fuchs;M. Bründl;J. Stötter

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrea Förster
Andrea Förster Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Niels Balling
Niels Balling Aarhus University
Thomas Glade
Thomas Glade University of Vienna
Hans-Jürgen Förster
Hans-Jürgen Förster University of Potsdam
Francesco Comiti
Francesco Comiti Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Robert N. Harris
Robert N. Harris Oregon State University
Lars Henrik Nielsen
Lars Henrik Nielsen Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Markus Stoffel
Markus Stoffel University of Geneva
Wolfgang Schöner
Wolfgang Schöner University of Graz
Andreas Gobiet
Andreas Gobiet Central Institution for Meteorology and Geodynamics

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