Prof. Dr. Matthias Garschagen

  • Faculty of Geosciences

  • Department of Geography

  • Chair of Human Geography and Human-Environment Relations

  • Vice-Dean Faculty of Geosciences

  • IPCC Lead Author in three reports of this current reporting cycle: Special Report on Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC), Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), Synthesis Report (SYR)

  • Scientific Steering Committee Member ICONICS (International Committee On New Integrated Climate change assessment Scenarios)

  • Scientific Steering Committee Member, Future Earth, Global Risk Perception Initiative

  • Scientific Advisory Board Member, Global Adaptation Mapping Initiative, GAMI

  • Dean, World Risk and Adaptation Futures Academy, jointly implemented by LMU, United Nations University and UNFCCC, financed my Munich Re Foundation

  • Editorial Board: Climate and Development

  • Editorial Board: Urban Climate

  • LMU Focal Point for LMU's ongoing application for Observer Status at UNFCCC

  • Frequent advisor to UNFCCC, e.g. within the Nairobi Work Programme and the Warsaw International Mechanisms

Climate-relevant research projects

A total of eight ongoing international projects on the following topics:

  • Assessment of future impacts and risks of climate change, especially in cities.

  • Multi-criteria evaluation of different adaptation options, e.g. resettlement vs. coastal protection, with regard to social acceptance, political feasibility, cost-benefit calculation, etc.

  • Synergies and conflicts between climate change adaptation and climate protection

  • Scenario methods for estimating future trends in societal vulnerability

Interdisciplinary points of contact

  • Climate change and responsibility

  • (Normative) attribution of climate change and climate change impacts

  • Climate change and the individual

  • Climate neutrality

  • Climate Law and Climate Justice

Climate-related courses at the LMU

  • Lecture in Geography:

    Dealing with "natural" disasters and climate change impacts: Risk reduction, adaptation and resilience from concept to application

  • Various methodological and theoretical seminars on risk assessment and evaluation of adaptation measures

m.garschagen@lmu.de