Margreth Keiler

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Hi, my name is Margreth and I am a post-doc at the Department of Geography and Regional Research of the University Vienna, Austria.

My research interests and activities include both, process-oriented and applied research on natural hazards and risk. One special focus is on the spatial and temporal evolution of risk and I conducted studies on the variability of natural hazard processes as well as of values at risk.

I believe that one of the fundamental reasons for the lack of progress regarding natural hazard risk is the continuing separation of the research on natural processes and social processes without considering interaction between these systems. Therefore, an objective is to develop more balanced analyses of risks associated with the interaction of socio-economic and geophysical processes.

My current research places emphasis to develop a conceptual model for coupled human-landscape systems in alpine regions to achieve more insights in the two-way interaction between landscape and human systems. In this context the implications of complexity theory are a promising tool for this integrative research.

I am looking forward to meeting you soon and I hope we will have a lot of interesting discussion on complex systems.

Please feel free to contact me at margreth.keiler@univie.ac.at.