BiWaWehr
Training module for fire departments on managing exceptional water-related natural hazards as part of climate adaptation

Website: https://biwawehr.de

Contact: Prof. Robert Jüpner

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Disaster Education (Overview)

Website: https://sowi.rptu.de/fgs/paedagogik/forschung/projekte-erwachsenenbildung/disaster-education-research

Contact: Prof. Dr. Matthias Rohs / Sophie Lacher, M.A.

Braun, T., Danner-Schröder, A., & Müller-Seitz, G. (2016). Organizational Resilience Through Multiple Roles—A Working Approach for the Future, in: PERSONALquarterly, 1: 23–27.

Carstensen, D. et al. (2024): Flooding in Germany at the Turn of the Year 2023/24. In: Korrespondenz Wasserwirtschaft, Issue 2 | 2024, pp. 76–77

Danner-Schröder, A. & Müller-Seitz, G. (2020). Temporal co-dependence between temporary and permanent organizing: Tackling grand challenges in the case of the refugee crisis in Germany, in: Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 67: 179–208.

Danner-Schröder, A. (2020). Focusing on and backgrounding events simultaneously: The past–present–future relationship of the Great East Japan Earthquake, in:Journal of Management Inquiry, 29(1): 92–110.

Danner-Schröder, A. & Geiger, D. (2016). Unraveling the driving force behind work patterning: Toward an understanding of the micro-level dynamics of standardization and flexibility, in: Organization Science, 27(3): 633–658.

Danner-Schröder, A. & Geiger, D. (2016). Organizational resilience as a capability: How companies can successfully manage crises, in: Zeitschrift Führung + Organisation, 3: 201–208.

Geiger, D., Danner-Schröder, A., & Kremser, W. (2021). Getting ahead of time—Performing temporal boundaries to coordinate routines under temporal uncertainty, in *Administrative Science Quarterly*, 66(1): 220–264.

Grossmann, J., Lacher, S., Rohs, M., & Fliegener, L. (2026). Household disaster preparedness in Germany: The roles of preparedness engagement and living conditions. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 143, 106343.doi.orgdoi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2026.106343

Jüpner, R., et al. (2024): Training for Managing Flood Disasters—A Recent Example from Operational Practice. In: Korrespondenz Wasserwirtschaft, Issue 3 | 2024, pp. 184–189,

Jüpner, R., Hoffmann, H. (2023). Lessons Learned from the 2021 Flood Disaster in Germany for Improving Operational Flood Protection. In: Porth, M., Schüttrumpf, H., Ostermann, U. (Eds.) Water, Energy, and Environment. Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-42657-6_3

Lacher, S. (2025b). Exploring Disaster Preparedness: A Scoping Review of Adult and Continuing Education Approaches in International Civil Protection Research. Journal of Risk Research, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2024.2447252

Lacher, S., & Rohs, M. (2023). Civil protection through adult and continuing education in Germany. A scoping review of an emerging research field. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2023.2263651

Lacher, S., & Rohs, M. (2025). Environmental Commitment at the Crossroads? Exploring the Dialectic of Risk Prevention and Climate Protection. Sustainability, 17(24), 10891. https://doi.org/10.3390/su172410891

Lacher, S. & Rohs, M. (2025b). Environmental Commitment at the Crossroads? Exploring the Dialectic of Risk Prevention and Climate Protection. Sustainability, 17(24), 10891. https://doi.org/10.3390/su172410891

Lacher, S., & Rohs, M. (2026). Preparedness Without Pedagogy? An AI-Assisted Web Scraping Analysis of Informal Online Disaster Preparedness Resources for the Public. Education Sciences, 16(1), 146 https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci16010146

Lacher, S., Rohs, M., Grossmann, J., & Fliegener, L. (2026). Adult education for disaster preparedness. A cluster analysis of learning strategies and training needs in Germany. Studies in the Education of Adults, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/02660830.2026.2635025

Müller-Seitz, G., & Macpherson, A. (2013). Learning during crisis as a ‘war for meaning’: The case of the German Escherichia coli outbreak in 2011. Management Learning, 45 (5), 593–608. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507612473562

Pastrana Huguet, J., Eschenbacher, S., Gavari Starkie, E. I., Grau Vila, C., Kitagawa, K., Lacher, S., Navarro González, M. I., Rohs, M., Stolzenburg, K., Svennevig, H., & Williams, S.-J. (2026). Disaster and Climate Education (DCE). Reflections from the 2025 European Symposium of the Disaster and Climate Education Network. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19727206

Schaum, S. et al. (2024): Cooperation between Water Management and Disaster Risk Reduction—Findings from the 6th German-Dutch Workshop. In: Korrespondenz Wasserwirtschaft, Issue 2 | 2024, pp. 78–79,

Crisis and civil protection education. Education in civil protection in transition, Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance, Ahrweiler, 3.11.2023 (Matthias Rohs)

Disaster protection as an object of educational processes, Forum on Civil Protection Education, Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance, Ahrweiler, 26.10.2023 (Sophie Lacher)

Adult education as a contribution to sustainable disaster prevention. An empirical study on information and learning opportunities for flood protection. Section conference on adult education of the German Society for Educational Science, Munich, 12.09.2023 (Sophie Lacher, Matthias Rohs)

Zivilschutz in der Erwachsenen-/Weiterbildung - Erträge und Desiderate eines vernachlässigten Forschungsfeldes, Fachkongress "Forschung für den Bevölkerungsschutz, Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe, Bonn, 12.01.2023 (Matthias Rohs, Sophie Lacher)

No high performance without routines: Organizing work in highly dynamic environments, Miltenyi Biotec GmbH, 2017 (Anja Danner-Schröder)

Organization and leadership under stability and dynamics, flow consulting GmbH, 2017 (Anja Danner-Schröder)

On the importance of routines and their application in operational situations, management seminar - management of fire departments, 2016 (Anja Danner-Schröder)

Potential for improvement in fire department training, Fire Service Academy Hamburg, 2014 (D. Geiger & Anja Danner-Schröder)

Routines in disaster management - opportunities and challenges for the THW, Technisches Hilfswerk, 2012 (Anja Danner-Schröder, A. & D. Geiger)