Articles | Volume 15, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-1215-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-1215-2015
Research article
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15 Jun 2015
Research article |  | 15 Jun 2015

Estimating the long-term historic evolution of exposure to flooding of coastal populations

A. J. Stevens, D. Clarke, R. J. Nicholls, and M. P. Wadey

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Using census data, historic maps and hydrodynamic modelling, this paper presents a methodology for assessing how the exposure of people to flooding has changed over the last 200 years at the local level in the UK. The method is applied to two case studies at Portsea and Hayling Islands in the UK's Solent region. The analysis shows that for the case studies, population rise has, to date, had a much greater influence on exposure than sea level rise.
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