@article{31a0272af29a4bd7bf1bdcd92eb96788,
title = "Towards a socio-ecological system understanding of urban flood risk and barriers to climate change adaptation using causal loop diagrams",
abstract = "While cities are facing increasing challenges of flood risk due to combined effects of climate change and socioeconomic development, understanding of the complexity of urban flood risk is still limited, hampering decision-making and urban adaptation planning. This study presents a qualitative system dynamics modelling framework to investigate urban flood risk and adaptation under climate change in a coupled socio-ecological system, the city of Hamburg. The developed integrated conceptual model provides a holistic understanding of key physical and socio-economic processes and the role of feedback loops underlying the urban system, and contributes to the understanding of vicious cycles of barriers that perpetuate and hinder adaptation processes within cities. The qualitative approach can help to break down silo-thinking in urban flood risk assessments. Decision-makers could use the framework to understand the complexity of interactions among multiple drivers of flood risk to overcome barriers and lock-in effects to adaptation in cities.",
keywords = "barriers to urban adaptation, causal loop diagrams, climate change adaptation, feedback loops, participatory modelling, socio-ecological system analysis, system dynamics modelling, urban flood risk",
author = "Hanf, {Franziska Stefanie} and Felix Ament and Marita Boettcher and Finn Burgemeister and Lidia Gaslikova and Peter Hoffmann and J{\"o}rg Knieling and Volker Matthias and Linda Meier and Johannes Pein and Benjamin Poschlod and Markus Quante and Leonie Ratzke and Elisabeth Rudolph and J{\"u}rgen Scheffran and Schl{\"u}nzen, {K. Heinke} and Nima Shokri and Jana Sillmann and Anastasia Vogelbacher and {von Szombathely}, Malte and Martin Wickel",
year = "2025",
month = apr,
day = "4",
doi = "10.1080/19463138.2025.2474399",
language = "English",
volume = "17",
pages = "69--102",
journal = "International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development",
issn = "1946-3146",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis",
number = "1",
}
