Expertise

  • Social Sciences

    • Economic and Social Development
    • Climate Change
    • Squatter Settlement
    • Collaboration
    • Europe
    • Rural Areas
    • Interactivity
    • Germany

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Dr. Johannes Flacke is Associate Professor for Spatial Planning and Decision Support Systems at the University of Twente in Enschede, the Nethelands. He holds a Diploma degree in Geography (1994) from Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany and received his PhD in Geosciences at the Ruhr-University Bochum in 2002 with a dissertation on information systems promoting sustainable land use based on spatial indicators. Before joining ITC at the University of Twente  in 2007 he worked as a postdoc researcher at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, TU Dortmund University.

Dr. Johannes Flacke has over 20 years of theoretical and practical experience in urban and regional planning in the global north and south and the development and use of geo-information and planning support systems. Fields of application have been urban land use planning, informal settlements, health and environmental inequalities, sustainable land management, climate change adaptation, hazard and risk management, and poverty alleviation and targeting. His research focuses on the transformation of urban areas into sustainable and resilient places for all. Main research interests are currently informed spatial decision making for urban planning in the global south, climate change adaptation planning at the local level, the application of collaborative spatial decision support systems in urban planning and micro-level modelling of urban dynamics.

Publications

2026

Closing the planning-implementation gap: Mapping interactions within and between climate actions and their contexts (2026)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC). Martínez Görbig, G.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036573788Participatory mapping with people with disabilities (2026)In A Research Agenda for Participatory Mapping and PPGIS: Mapping with People. Edward Elgar. Flacke, J., Köckler, H., Brüggemann, J., Walter-Klose, C., Vittinghoff, M. & Pfeffer, K.https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035322978Facilitating self-recovery: Defining communities for collaborative learning across behavioral, spatial and social boundaries (2026)[Working paper › Preprint]. Social Science Research Network (SSRN). Naik, G., Hendriks, E. & Flacke, J.https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6985089Code and Dataset for Social Side Effects Analysis (2026)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. 4TU.Centre for Research Data. Martínez Görbig, G., Susani, A., Flacke, J., Efthymiou-Charalampopoulou, N., Sliuzas, R. & Reckien, D.https://doi.org/10.4121/98349ee1-e581-4433-a460-25ddca225b36Working Datasets & Training Data for IDAMME Development (2026)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. 4TU.Centre for Research Data. Martínez Görbig, G., Flacke, J., Keller, M., Pflugradt, N., Sliuzas, R. & Reckien, D.https://doi.org/10.4121/a01df1cc-16cf-4507-8414-4e0d570f2306.v1Tools to negotiate the sustainability transition at the local level (2026)[Contribution to conference › Paper] Livable Cities Barcelona 2025. Reckien, D., Pflugradt, N., Hezel, B., Riemenschneider, M., Shayegh, S., Görbig, G. M., Ghaddar, T., Walter, C., Vignola, S. B., Iralde, N. S. I., Susani, A., Oliveras, R. C., Lecocq, E. M., Kazmierczak, K., Skomar, A., Hertzsch, W., Schwarzfurtner-Lutnik, K., Gralke, T., Radziszewska, W., … Kropp, J.https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.20381674Data and Code: The Side Effects of Climate Mitigation Measures: A Multilevel Analysis of Citizen Experiences in Barcelona and Vienna (2026)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. Martínez Görbig, G., Flacke, J., Reckien, D. & Sliuzas, R.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19568362Data and Code: The side effects of climate mitigation measures: A multilevel analysis of citizen experiences in Barcelona and Vienna (2026)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. Martínez Görbig, G., Flacke, J., Reckien, D. & Sliuzas, R.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19568363Barriers identified in the LOCALISED tools co-creation process (2026)[Contribution to conference › Paper] Livable Cities Lisbon 2025. Walter, C., Vignola, S. B., Görbig, G. M., Iralde, N. S. I., Susani, A., Riemenschneider, M., Oliveras, R. C., Lecocq, E. M., Kazmierczak, K., Skomar, A., Hertzsch, W., Schwarzfurtner-Lutnik, K., Gralke, T., Hezel, B., Radziszewska, W., Verstraete, J., Vendidandi, K., Shayegh, S., Coppola, G., … Pascual, J.https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.20113791Designing a serious collaborative learning game for flood- resistant housing reconstruction in Nepal (2026)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] International Conference on Resilient Systems, ICRS 2026. Naik, G., Flacke, J. & Hendriks, E.

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Courses academic year 2026/2027

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Courses academic year 2025/2026

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Langezijds (building no. 19), room 1416
Hallenweg 8
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

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