My work focuses on how urban planning can contribute to disaster risk reduction. My educational background combines knowledge of town planning (BSc, UniSA, Australia), urban surveys and human settlement analysis (MSc, ITC, Netherlands) and geographical sciences (PhD Utrecht University, Netherlands). Much of my career has been devoted to research, education and capacity building on urban planning in the majority world, with a specific focus on mapping and modelling informal urban development to improve the quality of life of their residents. Since 2010 the focus has broadened to include work on urban planning for disaster risk reduction.
Expertise
Social Sciences
- Economic and Social Development
- Squatter Settlement
- Slums
- Rwanda
- Climate Change
- Uganda
Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Urban Growth
- Urban Development
Organisations
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/10.3990/1.9789036573788Exploring fire management strategies at the wildland-urban interface with an agent-based model framework (2026)Environmental management, 76. Article 288. Christ, S., Sliuzas, R. & Schwarz, N.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-026-02561-7Code 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.v1Data 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.19568363Empirical insights on the adaptation planning-implementation gap from the Global Covenant of Mayors European signatories (2026)npj Urban Sustainability, 6(1). Article 66. Martínez Görbig, G., Flacke, J., Treville, A., Sliuzas, R. & Reckien, D.https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-026-00365-6Resilience and risk mitigation: Making the case for working across silos and cross-case learning (2026)In The Routledge Companion to Comparative International Planning (pp. 254-273) (Routledge Companions). Routledge. Sliuzas, R. V., Greiving, S., Galderisi, A., Sapountzaki, K. & Johnson, C.https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003299004-24A hierarchical cross-departmental agent-based approach to explore the impacts of policy interplay on land use dynamics (2026)Computers, environment and urban systems, 123. Article 102355. Gao, J., Gong, J., Schwarz, N. & Sliuzas, R.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2025.102355
2025
Enhancing community understanding on the cascading effects of critical infrastructure service failure via interactive learning (2025)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC). Purwar, D.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036567985
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