ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Flood Adaptation under Climate Change with the European Socio-Hydrological Model
European riverine and coastal floodplains are highly managed systems, where different human actions can both increase or decrease flood risk. For instance, the “levee effect” could reduce the effectiveness of structural flood protection by encouraging exposure growth and lack of individual precaution, increasing impacts when a severe flood eventually overwhelms the dikes. On the other hand, frequent flooding has been shown to reduce vulnerability through adoption of local precautionary measures (“adaptation effect”). Current European projections of future flood risk under climate change do not consider these types of effects and other dynamic interactions in floodplains. Though such…
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