Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Ranking port cities with high exposure and vulnerability to climate extremes : exposure estimates

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Ranking port cities with high exposure and vulnerability to climate extremes : exposure estimates / R. J. Nicholls... [et al.]. — Paris : OECD, 2007

(Environment Working Papers ; 1)

This global screening study makes a first estimate of the exposure of the worlds large port cities to coastal flooding due to storm surge and damage due to high winds. This assessment also investigates how climate change is likely to impact each port citys exposure to coastal flooding by the 2070s, alongside subsidence and population growth and urbanisation. The study provides a much more comprehensive analysis than earlier assessments, focusing on the 136 port cities around the world that have more than one million inhabitants in 2005

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