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This work is a scientific analysis of the operational experience of COVID-19 disaster relief in Heidelberg, Germany, between 2020 and 2022.

Communities across southern Germany have been forced to evacuate, and many have issued states of emergency as severe flooding hit the region this weekend.

The research work aims to provide a detailed investigation of various ways of potentially reducing peaks: adapted barrage operation, polder operation, a combination of both, and the simulation-based development of complex control specifications.

Within the framework of the German Strategy for ⁠Adaptation⁠ to Climate Change (⁠DAS⁠), the Federal government presents the 2023 (third) ⁠Monitoring⁠ Report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change.

In a recent study, a team of researchers led by Bruno Merz and Sergiy Vorogushyn from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences proposes a new strategy to motivate society to discuss appropriate flood risk management strategies.

This report and accompanying technical annex analyse the impact of climate framework laws in three countries, Germany, Ireland and New Zealand, based on evidence from 73 expert interviews and desk research.

This report evaluates the projected changes for 17 different climate parameters for each of the 401 German counties, districts, independent cities and regions.

Prolonged reminders of death from long-term disasters affect people’s choices and behaviours, finds a new study by King’s College London researchers.