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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Welcome Address (Eva-Maria Stange) -- Words of Welcome (Franz Häuser) -- Introduction to the Conference (Gerd Tetzlaff) -- Risk and Planet Earth: An Introduction (Anne Dölemeyer) -- Dealing with Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events (Irmgard Schwaetzer) -- Who's Afraid of Planet Earth? (Eduardo F.J. de Mulder) -- Future Challenges for Disaster Risk Reduction and Disaster Preparedness (Rudolf Seiters) -- Five Theses on Climate Change (Nico Stehr) -- Changing Knowledge about Disaster Recovery: Bridging Gaps between Research and Action in Light of Hurricane Katrina and other Policy-Forcing Events (James K. Mitchell) -- Global Disaster Response and Reconstruction: Stabilization versus Destabilization - Challenges of the Global Disaster Response to Reduce Vulnerability and Risk Following Disasters (Jörn Birkmann) -- Challenges and Opportunities of Climate Change Adaptation in High Risk Areas using the Example of the Mekong Delta, Vietnam (Matthias Garschagen) -- Higher Education for Disaster Risk Management in Developing Countries - Experiences of German Development Cooperation (Ria Hidajat) -- The Geography of Urbanization and the Evolution of Risk: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA (Richard Campanella) -- Social Vulnerability Assessment at County Level in Germany Concerning River-Floods (Alexander Fekete) -- Possible Changes in Flood Frequency in an Alpine Catchment (Christian Dobler) -- Estimation of Possible Damages due to Catastrophic Flooding for Long-Term Disaster Mitigation Planning (Saqib Ehsan, Walter Marx, Silke Wieprecht) -- Adaptation to Flood Risks through Legal Rulemaking - The German Federal Act to Improve Preventive Flood Control (APFC) and the European Flood Risks Directive (FRD) (Wolfgang Köck) -- List of Authors.