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https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-30352| Publication type: | Article in scientific journal |
| Type of review: | Peer review (publication) |
| Title: | The global long-term effects of storm surge flooding on human settlements in coastal areas |
| Authors: | Kunze, Sven Strobl, Eric A. |
| et. al: | No |
| DOI: | 10.1088/1748-9326/ad18df 10.21256/zhaw-30352 |
| Published in: | Environmental Research Letters |
| Volume(Issue): | 19 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Page(s): | 024016 |
| Issue Date: | 23-Jan-2024 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | IOP Publishing |
| ISSN: | 1748-9326 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Storm surge; Tropical cyclone; Panel data; Extreme event; Coastal settlement; Econometrics |
| Subject (DDC): | 363: Environmental and security problems 551: Geology and hydrology |
| Abstract: | People in low-lying coastal areas live under the great threat of damage due to coastal flooding from tropical cyclones. Understanding how coastal population settlements react to such events is of high importance for society to consider future adaptation strategies. Here we generate a new global hydrodynamic data set on tropical cyclone-generated storm surge flooding for the period 1851–2020. By combining this data with spatial data on human populations, we analyze the influence of the depth of storm surge flooding on the rural, urban, and total populations in low elevation coastal zones from 1941–2010. We find that in response to a one standard deviation increase in storm surge flooding depth (0.43 m), the exposed population in a 10x10 km low elevation coastal zone decreases by around 970 individuals on average per decade. This reduction corresponds to 9% of the average population living in an exposed grid cell. Tropical cyclone generated wind speed and rainfall do not influence the relocation of coastal populations. The majority of the threatened population lives in Eastern, South–Eastern, and Southern Asia. We show that the exposed coastal population appears to have adapted over time by reducing its exposure in recent decades. This finding applies to all regions other than North America, Oceania, and Western Asia. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/30352 |
| Related research data: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10417500 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | CC BY 4.0: Attribution 4.0 International |
| Departement: | Life Sciences and Facility Management |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Natural Resource Sciences (IUNR) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen Life Sciences und Facility Management |
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Kunze, S., & Strobl, E. A. (2024). The global long-term effects of storm surge flooding on human settlements in coastal areas. Environmental Research Letters, 19(2), 24016. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad18df
Kunze, S. and Strobl, E.A. (2024) ‘The global long-term effects of storm surge flooding on human settlements in coastal areas’, Environmental Research Letters, 19(2), p. 024016. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad18df.
S. Kunze and E. A. Strobl, “The global long-term effects of storm surge flooding on human settlements in coastal areas,” Environmental Research Letters, vol. 19, no. 2, p. 024016, Jan. 2024, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad18df.
KUNZE, Sven und Eric A. STROBL, 2024. The global long-term effects of storm surge flooding on human settlements in coastal areas. Environmental Research Letters. 23 Januar 2024. Bd. 19, Nr. 2, S. 024016. DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/ad18df
Kunze, Sven, and Eric A. Strobl. 2024. “The Global Long-Term Effects of Storm Surge Flooding on Human Settlements in Coastal Areas.” Environmental Research Letters 19 (2): 24016. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad18df.
Kunze, Sven, and Eric A. Strobl. “The Global Long-Term Effects of Storm Surge Flooding on Human Settlements in Coastal Areas.” Environmental Research Letters, vol. 19, no. 2, Jan. 2024, p. 24016, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad18df.
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