The influence of climate change on flood risks in France – first estimates and uncertainty analysis

This paper proposes a methodology to project the possible evolution of river flood damages due to climate change, and applies it to mainland France. Its main contributions are (i) to demonstrate a methodology to investigate the full causal chain from global climate change to local economic flood los...

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Main Authors: P. Dumas, S. Hallegatte, P. Quintana-Seguì, E. Martin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2013-03-01
Series:Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Online Access:http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/13/809/2013/nhess-13-809-2013.pdf