Trends in flood losses in Europe over the past 150 years
Flooding may cause loss of life and economic damage, therefore temporal changes need assessment. Here, the authors show that since 1870 there has been an increase in area inundated by floods in Europe, but a reduction in fatalities and economic losses, although caution that smaller floods remain und...
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| author | Dominik Paprotny Antonia Sebastian Oswaldo Morales-Nápoles Sebastiaan N. Jonkman |
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| description | Flooding may cause loss of life and economic damage, therefore temporal changes need assessment. Here, the authors show that since 1870 there has been an increase in area inundated by floods in Europe, but a reduction in fatalities and economic losses, although caution that smaller floods remain underreported. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-4acf6830eeb04c8485065cac9ca37dc02025-08-28T15:29:16ZengNature PortfolioNature Communications2041-17232018-05-019111210.1038/s41467-018-04253-1Trends in flood losses in Europe over the past 150 yearsDominik Paprotny0Antonia Sebastian1Oswaldo Morales-Nápoles2Sebastiaan N. Jonkman3Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of TechnologyDepartment of Hydraulic Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of TechnologyDepartment of Hydraulic Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of TechnologyDepartment of Hydraulic Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of TechnologyFlooding may cause loss of life and economic damage, therefore temporal changes need assessment. Here, the authors show that since 1870 there has been an increase in area inundated by floods in Europe, but a reduction in fatalities and economic losses, although caution that smaller floods remain underreported.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04253-1open climate campaign |
| spellingShingle | Dominik Paprotny Antonia Sebastian Oswaldo Morales-Nápoles Sebastiaan N. Jonkman Trends in flood losses in Europe over the past 150 years open climate campaign |
| title | Trends in flood losses in Europe over the past 150 years |
| title_full | Trends in flood losses in Europe over the past 150 years |
| title_fullStr | Trends in flood losses in Europe over the past 150 years |
| title_full_unstemmed | Trends in flood losses in Europe over the past 150 years |
| title_short | Trends in flood losses in Europe over the past 150 years |
| title_sort | trends in flood losses in europe over the past 150 years |
| topic | open climate campaign |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04253-1 |
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