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Declining vulnerability to river floods and the global benefits of adaptation

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Jongman, Brenden, Winsemius, Hessel C., Aerts, Jeroen C. J. H., Coughlan de Perez, Erin, van Aalst, Maarten K., Kron, Wolfgang, Ward, Philip J.·2015·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Abstract

Significance: Understanding the vulnerability of societies around the world is crucial for understanding historical trends in flood risk and for producing accurate projections of fatalities and losses. We reproduced historical river flood occurrence using daily climate data for the period 1980–2010 and quantified the natural and socioeconomic contributions to flood risk trends. We show that the fatalities and losses as a share of the exposed population and gross domestic product are decreasing with rising income. We also show that there is a tendency of convergence in vulnerability levels between low- and high-income countries. Projections based on a wide range of climate change and socioeconomic development scenarios demonstrate that amplified adaptation efforts have the potential to largely contain losses from future floods.

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Authors
Jongman, B., Winsemius, H. C., Aerts, J. C. J. H., Coughlan de Perez, E., van Aalst, M. K., Kron, W., & Ward, P. J.
Venue
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Published
2015-04-20
Volume
112
Issue
18
Pages
E2271-80
ISSN
  • 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
  • 1091-6490
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W2088486912
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454
References
3
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23.64
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journal article
Language
en
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Jongman, B., Winsemius, H. C., Aerts, J. C. J. H., Coughlan de Perez, E., van Aalst, M. K., Kron, W., & Ward, P. J. (2015). Declining vulnerability to river floods and the global benefits of adaptation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1414439112

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