MECHLER Reinhard, Dr.
Senior Research Associate
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D5.3.062
Welthandelsplatz 1/D5/level 3
1020 Vienna, Austria
Research Interest
Climate Economics
Risk and resilience
Disaster risk management
Climate Adaptation
Green Economy
Current Projects
Green GrowthAT
Flood Resilience
Recent Publications
Mechler R. & Bouwer, L. (2014). Reviewing trends and projections of global disaster losses and climate change: Is vulnerability the missing link? Climatic Change, Published online 12 August 2014.
Field, C.B., V.R. Barros, K.J. Mach, M.D. Mastrandrea, M. van Aalst, W.N. Adger, D.J. Arent, J. Barnett, R. Betts, T.E. Bilir, J. Birkmann, J. Carmin, D.D. Chadee, A.J. Challinor, M. Chatterjee, W. Cramer, D.J. Davidson, Y.O. Estrada, J.-P. Gattuso, Y. Hijioka, O. Hoegh-Guldberg, H.Q. Huang, G.E. Insarov, R.N. Jones, R.S. Kovats, P. Romero-Lankao, J.N. Larsen, I.J. Losada, J.A. Marengo, R.F. McLean, L.O. Mearns, R. Mechler, J.F. Morton, I. Niang, T. Oki, J.M. Olwoch, M. Opondo, E.S. Poloczanska, H.-O. Pörtner, M.H. Redsteer, A. Reisinger, A. Revi, D.N. Schmidt, M.R. Shaw, W. Solecki, D.A. Stone, J.M.R. Stone, K.M. Strzepek, A.G. Suarez, P. Tschakert, R. Valentini, S. Vicuña, A. Villamizar, K.E. Vincent, R. Warren, L.L. White, T.J. Wilbanks, P.P. Wong, and G.W. Yohe (2014). Technical summary. In: Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Part A: Global and Sectoral Aspects. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Field, C.B., V.R. Barros, D.J. Dokken, K.J. Mach, M.D. Mastrandrea, T.E. Bilir, M. Chatterjee, K.L. Ebi, Y.O. Estrada, R.C. Genova, B. Girma, E.S. Kissel, A.N. Levy, S. MacCracken, P.R. Mastrandrea, and L.L. White (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, pp. 35-94.
Chambwera, M., G. Heal, C. Dubeux, S. Hallegatte, L. Leclerc, A. Markandya, B.A. McCarl, R. Mechler, and J.E. Neumann (2014). Economics of adaptation. In: Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Part A: Global and Sectoral Aspects. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Field, C.B., V.R. Barros, D.J. Dokken, K.J. Mach, M.D. Mastrandrea, T.E. Bilir, M. Chatterjee, K.L. Ebi, Y.O. Estrada, R.C. Genova, B. Girma, E.S. Kissel, A.N. Levy, S. MacCracken, P.R. Mastrandrea, and L.L. White (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, 945-977.
Mochizuki, J., Mechler, R., Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Keating, A., Williges, K. (2014). Revisiting the "disaster and development" debate - Toward a broader understanding of macroeconomic risk and resilience. Climate Risk Management 3: 39–54
Scolobig, A., Mechler, R., Komendantova, N., Liu, W., Schroeter, D., Patt, A. (2014). The co-production of scientific advice and decision making under uncertainty: Lessons from the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Italy. GRF Davos Planet@Risk, 2(2):71-76
Mechler, R. Bouwer, L., Linnerooth-Bayer, J., Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Aerts, J., Surminski, S. (2014). Managing unnatural disaster risk from climate extremes. Nature Climate Change 4, 235-237
Jongman, B., Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Feyen, L., Aerts, J., Mechler, R., Botzen, W., Bouwer, L., Pflug, G., Rojas, R., Ward, P. (2014). Increasing stress on disaster risk finance due to large floods. Nature Climate Change 4, 264-268
Scrieciu, S. Chalabi, Z., Belton, V. Mechler, R. (2014). Advancing Methodological Thinking and Practice for Development-Compatible Climate Policy Planning. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change doi.org/10.1007/s11027-013-9538-z.
Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Mechler, R., Pflug, G., Williges, K. (2014). Funding Public Adaptation to Climate-related Disasters. Estimates for a Global Climate Fund. Global Environmental Change 25, 87-96
Mechler, R., Hochrainer-Stigler, S. (2014). Revisiting Arrow-Lind: Managing sovereign disaster risk. Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research 6 (1): 93-100
Kundzewicz, Z.W., Kanae, S., Seneviratne, S.I., Handmer, J., Nicholls, N., Peduzzi, P., Mechler, R. Bouwer, L., Arnell, N., Mach, K., Muir-Wood, R. Brakenridge, G.R., Kron, W., Benito, G., Honda, Y., Takahashi, K., Sherstyukov, B. (2013). Flood risk and climate change – global and regional perspectives. Hydrological Sciences Journal 59 (1): 1-28
Kull, D., Mechler, R. Hochrainer-Stigler, S. (2013). Probabilistic Cost-Benefit Anaysis of Disaster Risk Management in a Development Context. Disasters 37(3): 374-400.
Rezai, A. Taylor, L., Mechler, R. (2013). Ecological Climate Economics. Climate Policy and Economic Growth. Ecological Economics 85:69-76.
Scrieciu, S., Rezai, A., Mechler, R. (2013). On the economic foundations of green growth discourses: the case of climate change mitigation and macroeconomic dynamics in economic modeling. WIREs Energy and Environment 2 (3): 251-268.
Michel-Kerjan, E., Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Kunreuther, H., Linnerooth-Bayer, Mechler, R. Muir-Wood, R., Ranger, N., Vaziri, P., and Young, M. (2012). Catastrophe Risk Models for Evaluating Disaster Risk Reduction Investments in Developing Countries. Risk Analysis 33(6): 984-999