Friedrich Gabel

Society, Culture and Technological Change

Friedrich Gabel studied philosophy, education and applied ethics at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena. He finished in 2013 with his master thesis on “Opportunities and Risks of Modern Biotechnology in the Case of Marker-Based Clinical Studies”. Since 2014, he has been working as a research associate at the IZEW.

Areas of Expertise

Justice
Disaster ethics
Disaster bioethics
Security and exclusion
Security and disability

Career

Since 2020	Member of the editorial board of the IZEW blog BreathingTime.
Since october 2017	PhD project funded by the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
Since 2016	PhD project at Karlsruher Institute of Technology (KIT) with the title: “Disability and Disaster Relief – A Critical Examination on the Idea of Disability Used in Current Concepts of Disaster Relief”.
Since 2014	Research associate at IZEW.
Since 2014	Involvement in the "Civil Security" graduate network supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Since 2019 member of the network's core team.
2013	Completion of Master's Degree in Applied Ethics Master thesis: “Opportunities and Risks of Modern Biotechnology in the Case of Marker-Based Clinical Studies” .
	Studies of philosophy, education and applied ethics at the Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena.

Publications

Books

Gabel, F. (2014):
Chancen und Probleme moderner Biotechnologie: Forschungsbericht über Biomarkerbasierte klinische Studien, Societas Verlagsgesellschaft, Jena.

Articles and Book Chapters (peer-reviewed)

Orru K., Hansson S., Gabel F., Tammpu, P., Krüger, M., Savadori, L., Meyer, S. F., Torpan, S., Jukarainen, P., Schieffelers, A., Lovasz, G., Rhinard, M. (2021):
Approaches to 'vulnerability' in eight European disaster management systems, Disasters (online ahead of print), DOI: 10.1111/disa.12481, URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33760259/ (peer reviewed)
Krüger M./ Gabel F. (2021):
From Lisbon to Sendai: Responsibilities in International Disaster Management. In: Hansen-Magnusson M and Vetterlein A (eds.): The Routledge Handbook on Responsibility in International Relations. London, New York: Routledge. (forthcoming)
Hansson, S.; Orru, K.; Siibak, A.; Bäck, A.; Krüger, M.; Gabel, F.; Morsut, C. (2020):
Communication-related vulnerability to disasters: A heuristic framework, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Volume 51, accessible via: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101931 (peer-reviewed)
Kuran, C. H. A.; Morsut, C.; Kruke, B. I.; Krüger, M.; Segnestam, L.; Orru, K.; Naevestad, T. O.; Airola, M.; Keränen, J.; Gabel, F.; Hansson, S.; Torpan, S. (2020):
Vulnerability and vulnerable groups from an intersectionality perspective, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Volume 50, accessible via: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101826 (peer-reviewed)

Articles and Book Chapters (without peer-review)

Gabel, F. (2019):
Chancen dynamischer Konzeptionen von Vulnerabilität für den Katastrophenschutz, In: Marco Krüger und Matthias Max (eds.): Resilienz im Katastrophenfall. Konzepte zur Stärkung von Pflege- und Hilfsbedürftigen im Bevölkerungsschutz, 1. Auflage, Bielefeld: transcript (Gesellschaft der Unterschiede, 46), S. 77–96.
Gabel, F. (2018):
Sicherheitsethische Fragen bei den Simpsons, In: Cordula Brand und Simon Meisch (eds.): Ethik in Serie. Eine Festschrift zu Ehren von Uta Müller, Unter Mitarbeit von Uta Müller, 2. Auflage, Tübingen Library Publishing (Materialien zur Ethik in den Wissenschaften, Band 13), Tübingen, S. 287–298, verfügbar unter: https://publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10900/83372/Brand-Meisch_Ethik%20in%20Serie_web.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y.
Gabel, F./ Kröber, B. (2017):
Eine Brise Nachhaltigkeit bitte! Strategien zur Vorsorge eines gesellschaftlichen Burn-Out durch das Streben nach vollkommener Sicherheit, in: Brand, C./ Heesen, J./ Kröber, B./ Müller, U./ Potthast, T. (eds.): Ethik in den Kulturen - Kulturen in der Ethik. Eine Festschrift für Regina Ammicht Quinn, S. 387-396.

Recommandations

Landesfeuerwehrverband Niedersachsen (2020) (unter Mitarbeit von Friedrich Gabel):
Handreichung zur Brandschutzaufklärung mit Menschen mit Behinderung, verfügbar unter: https://www.lfv-nds.de/lfv-service/shop/
Gabel, F. / Krüger, M. (2020):
Leitfaden für eine ethisch reflektierte Krisenkommunikation - Eine Analyse wertbezogener Spannungsfelder in der Krisenkommunikation (Materialien zur Ethik in den Wissenschaften, Band 15), Tübingen, verfügbar unter: https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/81680.
Ammicht Quinn, R./Bescherer, P./ Gabel, F./ Krahmer, A. (2017):
Leitlinien für eine gerechte Verteilung von Sicherheit in der Stadt, Tübingen Library Publishing (Materialien zur Ethik in den Wissenschaften, Band 14), Tübingen, verfügbar unter: http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-28071 .

Others

Gabel, F. (2019):
Im Katastrophenfall: Über Klimawandel, Katastrophenschutz und Behinderung, In: Junge Welt, 27.11.2019
Gabel, F./ Eckert, J./ Drews, P./ Hieronymus, J. (eds.) (2017):
Ergebnisbericht - Zweiter Workshop des Graduierten-Netzwerks "Zivile Sicherheit" zum Thema: "Was ist gute zivile Sicherheitsforschung?" vom 25./26. November 2016 in Stuttgart, verfügbar unter: http://www.sifo.de/files/Ergebnisbericht_2.Workshop_Graduierten-Netzwerk_Zivile%20Sicherheit.pdf.
Gabel, F. (2016):
Sicherheit und Gerechtigkeit: Kriminalprävention vor dem Hintergrund des Anstiegs der Zahl von Asylbewerber_innen im Jahr 2015, in: Ammicht Quinn, Regina et al.: Gutachten für den 21. Deutschen Präventionstag am 6./7. Juni 2016 in Magdeburg: Prävention und Freiheit – Zur Notwendigkeit eines Ethik-Diskurses, DPT (eds.), verfügbar unter: www.praeventionstag.de/nano.cms/news/details/1895 (German: Security and justice: crime prevention against the background of an increased number of refugees in 2015).

Lectures

2021	(Chair) Roundtable on "Why Disaster Ethics Matter: Perspectives on Vulnerabilities and the Responsibilities to reduce them." - NEEDS 5 Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies (online, September 2021)
2019	On ethical and social implications of using (sex-, age-, disability-disaggregated) data for disaster risk reduction (NEEDS 4, Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies, Uppsala, June 2019).
2017	Enablement, a missing link of disaster relief. On disaster relief for people with disabilies. - NEEDS2 Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies (Kopenhagen, May 2017).
2016	Situational Disability: Rethinking disaster relief strategies for disabled people – ALTER Conference on Inclusion, Participation and Human Rights in Disability Research (Stockholm, July 2016).
2015	Life at the Limit: Care Recipients, Caretakers and Relief Workers in Disaster Situations – NEEDS Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies (Copenhagen, December 2015).
	Urban Life and the Value of Insecurity: Citizens Participation and (In)Security in the post-political Age – IZEW Conference on the Value of (In-Security) (Tübingen, July 2015).

Teaching

Workshop (in German): Ethics in Disasters; 6h Training for members of disaster management on dealing with ethical issues in humanitarian aid, 11.09.2021

Seminar (in German): Disasters in Sociology and Ethics, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Lehrstuhl für Bevölkerungsschutz, Katastrophenhilfe und Objektsicherheit (in cooperation with Dr. Tim Lukas, Dr. Patricia Schütte, Malte Schönefeld).

Completed projects

VERSS (06/2014 - 09/2017) | On a just distribution of Security in Cities | Funded by: Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
KOPHIS (02/2016 - 04/2019) | Strengthening the context of people in need of care and/or help - Linking Security Authorities and Organisations, Care Infrastructure and Civil-Societal Networks | Funded by: Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
HEIMDALL (05/2017 - 10/2020) | Multi-Hazard Cooperative Management Tool for Data Exchange, Response Planning and Scenario Building | Funded by: EU-H2020.