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European Coastal Flood Risk

Collection: LISCOAST : Large Scale Integrated Sea-level and Coastal Assessment Tool 

Description

In this study we present the results of the coastal flood risk assessment for Europe until the end of the 21st century, by incorporating the impacts of global warming and the different socio-economic development scenarios. The effect of climate change at the extreme total sea level is the main trigger of the increasing coastal inundation and the related losses at the coastal zone. In the absence of further investments on coastal flood protection, the present Expected Annual Damage (EAD) is projected to increase by 2 to 3 orders of magnitude by the end of the century, while the current Expected Annual Number of People Exposed to coastal flooding (EAPE) is projected to reach up to 3.65 million people by that time.

Contact

Email
jrc-liscoast-project (at) ec.europa.eu

Contributors

How to cite

Vousdoukas, Michail; Mentaschi, Lorenzo; Voukouvalas, Evangelos; Bianchi, Alessandra; Dottori, Francesco; Feyen, Luc (2018): European Coastal Flood Risk. European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] doi: 10.2905/jrc-liscoast-10009 PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/jrc-liscoast-10009

Keywords

Annual Number of People Exposed Climate Change coastal flooding Expected Annual Damage sea level rise storm surges waves

Data access

Expected Annual People Affected
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  • Ensemble median Expected Annual Population Exposed (expressed in thousand people) from coastal flooding for Europe and per country for the baseline (2000) and for 2050 and 2100 under RCP4.5-SSP1 (Sustainability), RCP8.5-SSP3 (Fragmented world), and RCP8.5-SSP5 (Fossil fuel based development).

Expected Annual Damage
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  • Ensemble median Expected Annual Damage (expressed in billion €) from coastal flooding for Europe and per country for the baseline (2000) and for 2050 and 2100 under RCP4.5-SSP1 (Sustainability), RCP8.5-SSP3 (Fragmented world), and RCP8.5-SSP5 (Fossil fuel based development).

Expected Annual Damage per GDP
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No limitations 
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  • Ensemble median Expected Annual Damage (expressed as a share of GDP) from coastal flooding for Europe and per country for the baseline (2000) and for 2050 and 2100 under RCP4.5-SSP1 (Sustainability), RCP8.5-SSP3 (Fragmented world), and RCP8.5-SSP5 (Fossil fuel based development).

Geographic areas

Europe

Temporal coverage

From date To date
1980-12-31 2099-12-31

Additional information

Published by
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Created date
2018-12-14
Modified date
2018-12-20
Issued date
2018-04-04
Landing page
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/ 
Language(s)
English
Data theme(s)
Environment, Science and technology
Update frequency
irregular
Identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/jrc-liscoast-10009
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