Christian Huggel
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Prof. Christian Huggel Climate and Environment: Impacts, Risks and Adaptaiton (Eclim) Geographisches Institut - Physical Geography Universität Zürich Winterthurerstr. 190 CH-8057 Zürich Switzerland Phone: +41 (0) 44 635 51 75 Phone2: +41 (0) 44 635 51 11 Fax: +41 (0) 44 635 68 48 E-mail: christian.huggel(at)geo.uzh.ch URL Institution: https://eclim-research.ch/ Personal URL: link Phone: +41 (0) 44 635 51 75 Phone2: +41 (0) 44 635 51 11 Fax: +41 (0) 44 635 68 48 E-mail: christian.huggel(at)geo.uzh.ch URL Institution: https://eclim-research.ch/ Personal URL: link |
Programs in which Christian Huggel holds an official function:
| IPCC-AR5-2013 | lead author | |
| MRI | advisory board | 2019 - |
Additional functions:
lead author IPCC-AR6 WGII;
Co-PI and Science Leadership Council member of Mountain Research Initiative (MRI)
Member of Consulting Group for Federal Environmental Research (OFU), Swiss Federal Office of the Environment
Past Chair of Joint IACS-IAVCEI Commission on Volcano-Ice Interactions (CVII)(2011)
Past chair of joint IACS-IPA Standing Group on Glacier and Permafrost Hazards in Mountains (GAPHAZ)
Expertise of Christian Huggel:
| Expertise Category | Specific Expertise |
|---|---|
| Scope | Impact of Change |
| Vulnerability to Change | |
| Adaptation Measures to Change | |
| Topic Hydrosphere | Fresh Water Systems / Rivers / Lakes |
| Topic Cryosphere | Glaciers |
| Permafrost / Solifluction | |
| Topic Politics/Law | Adaptation |
| Topic Sustainability | Sustainability |
| Topic Risk & Disaster Management | Topic Risk and Disaster Management |
| Risk Assessment / Forecasting | |
| Prevention of Risks and Natural Hazards | |
| Fundamental Knowledge | |
| Warning / Sensitization | |
| Spatial Zones | Spatial Zones |
| Mountain / Highland | |
| Spatial Scale | Spatial Scale |
| Global / Hemispheric | |
| Continental | |
| Regional | |
| National / Cultural | |
| Local / Community |
Specialties of Christian Huggel:
Climate impacts, risks and adaptation.
Detection of observed changes and attribution to climate change for natural and coupled socio-environmental systems (IPCC WGII)
Climate change impacts and adaptation in the Peruvian Andes, with the thematic fields of water resources, food security, disasters. Climate change impacts on high-mountain systems, in particular with reference to natural hazards, ways of adaptation, in the Alps, North and South America, Himalayas.
Some of the above work is conducted in programmes of the Swiss Government in collaboration with the Gov't of Peru. A consortium of 6 Swiss research institutions is collaborating with Peruvian institutions on different aspects of climate change impacts and adaptation. The Swiss consortium is led by the University of Zurich. This programme is a sort of pilot programme on climate change adaptation in mountain regions for the Swiss international cooperation (funded by DEZA/SDC). Further projects with the World Bank and the Comunidad Andina are aiming at developing guidelines for how to build scientific base lines for climate change adaptation projects. This is currently an important gap that exists on the international level. Other research projects, e.g. within the new Swiss NRP61, are focusing on impacts of glacier retreat on water resources, specifically with new (glacier) lakes, and aims at building a basis for current and future management of such situations, considering aspects of hydropower and tourism.
Last update: 11/23/23
Source of data: ProClim- Research InfoSystem (1993-2024)
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