Climate Change and Public Health - Regime Types, Perception Patterns and Policy
Responses in International Comparison“
Research Project by Dr. Maximilian Jungmann, Heidelberg University
Executive Summary
In his doctoral thesis, Maximilian Jungmann analyzes how states adapt to climate change-related healthrisks. He compares the performance of more than 190 states with regards to their adaptation initiatives andseeks to understand the driving forces behind varying risk perceptions and different levels of adaptation.
Based on previous academic articles that compare the adaptation initiatives of states, such as Lesnikowskiet al. (2013) and Austin et al. (2016), the author has developed a refined analytical framework to examine
how states adapt to climate change-related health risks and created a global index, the Climate Change
Health Adaptation Index (CHAIn). To understand the underlying factors that influence states’ actions, acorrelation analysis, taking into account political and socioeconomic factors, has led to first insights thatwill further be tested in five case studies (Republic of Korea, Japan, Ireland, UK, Sri Lanka). The case studies
follow two objectives: 1) they provide insights into the different factors that influence perceptions andactions of states on climate change-related health risks, and 2) they are designed to show whether theCHAIn data is valid and the developed analytical framework is reliable or whether it needs to be furthermodified. Following the mixed methods design of the doctoral thesis, the drivers and barriers of healthadaptation that will be identified in the case studies will again be tested quantitatively. The results of thestudy will be published as a monograph in 2019. Various papers on adaptation to climate change-related
health risks in specific regions, such as East Asia, the Visegrad states, and the Eurasian Economic Union,
are currently underway and will be submitted to peer-reviewed journals in 2019.

Profile of Maximilian Jungmann
Maximilian Jungmann holds a PhD in Political Science from theUniversity of Heidelberg in Germany. He is the Executive
Manager of the Heidelberg Center for the Environment andlecturer at the Chair of International Relations and Foreign
Policy at the University of Heidelberg, as well as the Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology. He teaches classes on theinterdependencies between media, society, and politics, ontopics related to sustainable development and climate change,on scenario building in International Relations, on effective
working techniques, and the United Nations. In 2018, hefounded Momentum Novum, a social enterprise that offers

information, educational and advisory services on sustainable development. He currently acts as the CEO ofMomentum Novum where he leads a team of over 20 international individuals that seek to foster
sustainable development. He volunteers his time as a Climate Reality Leader and at the National ModelUnited Nations • New York, where he serves as Under-Secretary-General for the Conference ManagementDepartment. His main research areas are centered around climate change and health, sustainabledevelopment, futurology, media effects, and International Relations theories.

Selected Publications
Jungmann, Maximilian (2018): The 16+1 Cooperation and China-EU Relations - Window of Opportunity for
Sustainable Development?, China CEE Institute, Working Paper, No. 15, https://china-cee.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Work_paper-201815.pdf [6 September 2018].
Artmann, Stefan/Hassebrauck, Lukas/Jungmann, Maximilian (2017): Konferenzbericht zum Heidelberger
Dialog zur internationalen Sicherheit 2016: Epidemien und Pandemien als unkalkulierbares Risiko?
Regulierung von Gesundheit und Sicherheit in einer vernetzten Welt, in: Zeitschrift für Außen- undSicherheitspolitik, DOI: 10.1007/s12399-017-0607-3
Marcou, Pauline/Jungmann, Maximilian/Carrier, Vincent/Miller, Kaylin (2016): High-Level Political Forum on
Sustainable Development - Background Guide 2017, New York, http://nmun.org/ny17_downloads/BGGs/
NY17_BGG_HLPF.pdf [6 September 2018].
Artmann, Stefan/Conard, Louis/Hassebrauck, Lukas/Jungmann, Maximilian/Starkmann, Anna/Větrovcová,Martina (2016): Auf dem Weg zur globalen Verantwortung? Die deutsche Außenpolitik imWandel, in: Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik, DOI 10.1007/s12399-015-0549-6
Marcou, Pauline/Jungmann, Maximilian/Thorpe, Jeffrey, A. II/Keelan, Katie (2015): UN Environment
Programme - Background Guide 2016, New York, http://nmun.org/ny16_downloads/BGGs/
NY16_BGG_UNEP.pdf [6 September 2018].
Jungmann, Maximilian/Shively, Angela/Sandin, Kaitlin/Marcou, Pauline/Rudolph, Alexander/Erb, Kasey(2014): Security Council Background Guide 2015, New York, http://nmun.org/ny_archives/ny15_downloads/
BGGs/NY15_BGG_SC.pdf [6 September 2018].
Shively, Angela/Aurora, Rubai/Godoy, David/Jungmann, Maximilian (2013): UN High Commissioner for
Refugees Background Guide 2014, New York, http://www.nmun.org/ny_archives/ny14_downloads/BGGs/
NY2014_BGG_UNHCR.pdf [6 September 2018].