Economic motivation for raising coastal flood defenses in Europe

There lacks a European cost-benefit analysis of possible protective measures against rising seas. Here the authors used a probabilistic data and modeling framework to estimate costs and benefits of coastal protection measures and found that at least 83% of flood damages could be avoided by dyke impr...

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Autores principales:	Michalis I. Vousdoukas, Lorenzo Mentaschi, Jochen Hinkel, Philip J. Ward, Ignazio Mongelli, Juan-Carlos Ciscar, Luc Feyen
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2020
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:556fb11b40664333aeeeb2414fd158b32021-12-02T14:42:12ZEconomic motivation for raising coastal flood defenses in Europe10.1038/s41467-020-15665-32041-1723https://doaj.org/article/556fb11b40664333aeeeb2414fd158b32020-05-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15665-3https://doaj.org/toc/2041-1723There lacks a European cost-benefit analysis of possible protective measures against rising seas. Here the authors used a probabilistic data and modeling framework to estimate costs and benefits of coastal protection measures and found that at least 83% of flood damages could be avoided by dyke improvements along a third of the European coastline.Michalis I. VousdoukasLorenzo MentaschiJochen HinkelPhilip J. WardIgnazio MongelliJuan-Carlos CiscarLuc FeyenNature PortfolioarticleScienceQENNature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2020)
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spellingShingle	Science Q Michalis I. Vousdoukas Lorenzo Mentaschi Jochen Hinkel Philip J. Ward Ignazio Mongelli Juan-Carlos Ciscar Luc Feyen Economic motivation for raising coastal flood defenses in Europe
description	There lacks a European cost-benefit analysis of possible protective measures against rising seas. Here the authors used a probabilistic data and modeling framework to estimate costs and benefits of coastal protection measures and found that at least 83% of flood damages could be avoided by dyke improvements along a third of the European coastline.
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title	Economic motivation for raising coastal flood defenses in Europe
title_short	Economic motivation for raising coastal flood defenses in Europe
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Economic motivation for raising coastal flood defenses in Europe

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