In order to effectively counteract changing environmental conditions, the causes for climate change need to be reduced and emerging climate change effects responded to in a preventive and intensive manner.
The ZSK brings together the topics of urban and landscape planning, architecture, engineering and ecology in 17 subprojects (seven running and ten finished). The Centre aims to bring together the wide range of skills in TUM’s natural science, social science and engineering disciplines as well as other Bavarian research institutions for interdisciplinary research approaches.
The ZSK was funded between 2013-2024 by the Bavarian Ministry of the Environment and Consumer Protection (StMUV) and coordinated at the Technical University of Munich. Currently the funding is provided by the TU Munich.
The ZSK is coordinated by the coordination office (Eleonora Franceschi, M.Sc.) and a five-member committee from various universities:
- Prof. Dr. Stephan Pauleit (Chair for Strategic Landscape Planning and Management, TUM)
- Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Ludwig (Professorship for Green Technologies in Landscape Architecture, TUM)
- Prof. Dr. Johannes Kollmann (Chair of Restoration Ecology, TUM)
- Prof. Dr. Simone Linke (Urban planning and landscape, University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf)
- Prof. Dr. Heiko Paeth (Institute of Geography and Geology, Working group Climatology - Team Climate, University of Würzburg)
