NPCC4: Climate change and New York City's flood risk
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This chapter of the New York City Panel on Climate Change 4 (NPCC4) report provides a comprehensive description of the different types of flood hazards (pluvial, fluvial, coastal, groundwater, and compound) facing New York City and provides climatological context that can be utilized, along with climate change projections, to support flood risk management (FRM). Previous NPCC reports documented coastal flood hazards and presented trends in historical and future precipitation and sea level but did not comprehensively assess all the city's flood hazards. Previous NPCC reports also discussed the implications of floods on infrastructure and the city's residents but did not review the impacts of flooding on the city's natural and nature‐based systems (NNBSs). This—the NPCC's first report focused on all drivers of flooding—describes and profiles historical examples of each type of flood and summarizes previous and ongoing research regarding exposure, vulnerability, and risk management, including with NNBS and nonstructural measures.
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These lower-valued properties often retain disproportionately higher property tax assessments relative to their actual market values, thus increasing the financial burden on low-income people.
“It is worth noting that these lower-valued properties often retain disproportionately higher property tax assessments relative to their actual market values, thus increasing the financial burden on low-income people.152,153”
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NPCC4: Advancing climate justice in climate adaptation strategies for New York City
Foster, S. R., Baptista, A., Nguyen, K. H., Tchen, J., Tedesco, M., & Leichenko, R. (2024) · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1111/nyas.15148 · Cited by 26 · see citing works
NPCC4: Concepts and tools for envisioning New York City's futures
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Foster, S. R., Baptista, A., Nguyen, K. H., Tchen, J., Tedesco, M., & Leichenko, R. (2024) · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1111/nyas.15148 · Cited by 26 · see citing works
“193 Additionally,notallareasthatflood arewithin FEMA-designated floodplains (see NPCC4, Rosenzweig et al. 194 ).”
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- Authors
- Rosenzweig, B., Montalto, F. A., Orton, P., Kaatz, J., Maher, N., Kleyman, J., Chen, Z., Sanderson, E., Adhikari, N., McPhearson, T., & Herreros‐Cantis, P.
- Affiliations
- Sarah Lawrence College (US)
- Drexel University (US)
- Stevens Institute of Technology (US)
- Arcadis New York New York USA
- The Nature Conservancy (US)
- New York Botanical Garden (US)
- The New School (US)
- Basque Center for Climate Change Leioa Spain
- Corresponding author
- Rosenzweig, Bernice
- Montalto, Franco A.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2024-08-19
- Volume
- 1539
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 127-184
- ISSN
- 0077-8923 (ISSN-L)
- 1749-6632
- OpenAlex
- W4401687504
- Cited by
- 33
- References
- 9
- Citations by year
- 2026: 15 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 6
- FWCI
- 5.83
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Earth-Surface Processes › Coastal and Marine Dynamics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
- Keywords
- climate change, flood risk, New York City, pluvial flooding, river flooding, coastal flooding, groundwater flooding, compound flooding, flood risk management, nature-based solutions, exposure and vulnerability, sea level rise, precipitation trends
- MeSH terms
- Humans, New York City, Risk Management, Floods, Climate Change
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