Repetitive floods intensify outmigration and climate gentrification in coastal cities

Climate jostlings intensify

Angela Merkel, freshly re-elected as German chancellor, and thus the elected leader with the longest political life-expectancy, lost no time in making clear who’s really in charge of the European Union these days. First she met up with French president Nicolas Sarkozy to drive the last nails into the crumbling coffin of Tony Blair’s ambition to become EU ‘president’. Without even mentioning Bla...

Damage and protection cost curves for coastal floods within the 600 largest European cities

The economic assessment of the impacts of storm surges and sea-level rise in coastal cities requires high-level information on the damage and protection costs associated with varying flood heights. We provide a systematically and consistently calculated dataset of macroscale damage and protection cost curves for the 600 largest European coastal cities opening the perspective for a wide range of...

Urban Land Markets and Disasters: Floods in Argentina’s Cities

• The role played by the state as a land market regulator in urban areas with natural vulnerability to flooding; as a producer of urban land and housing; and as a builder of defenses against flooding. • Impacts on the land market of flooding and built defenses as well as access to urban land for different population sectors; land value increases and decreases in urban areas according to floodin...

Will Extratropical Storms Intensify in a Warmer Climate?

Extratropical cyclones and how they may change in a warmer climate have been investigated in detail with a high-resolution version of the ECHAM5 global climate model. A spectral resolution of T213 (63 km) is used for two 32-yr periods at the end of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and integrated for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) A1B scenario. Extremes of pressure,...

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