Articles | Volume 24, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-1381-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-1381-2024
Research article
 | 
24 Apr 2024
Research article |  | 24 Apr 2024

The potential of global coastal flood risk reduction using various DRR measures

Eric Mortensen, Timothy Tiggeloven, Toon Haer, Bas van Bemmel, Dewi Le Bars, Sanne Muis, Dirk Eilander, Frederiek Sperna Weiland, Arno Bouwman, Willem Ligtvoet, and Philip J. Ward

Related authors

Accelerating compound flood risk assessments through active learning: A case study of Charleston County (USA)
Lucas Terlinden-Ruhl, Anaïs Couasnon, Dirk Eilander, Gijs G. Hendrickx, Patricia Mares-Nasarre, and José A. Á. Antolínez
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 1353–1375, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-1353-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-1353-2025, 2025
Short summary
Review article: Stocktaking of methods for assessing dynamic vulnerability in the context of flood hazard research
Julius Schlumberger, Tristian Stolte, Helena Margaret Garcia, Antonia Sebastian, Wiebke Jäger, Philip Ward, Marleen de Ruiter, Robert Šakić Trogrlić, Annegien Tijssen, and Mariana Madruga de Brito
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-850,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-850, 2025
This preprint is open for discussion and under review for Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS).
Short summary
Review article: A comprehensive review of compound flooding literature with a focus on coastal and estuarine regions
Joshua Green, Ivan D. Haigh, Niall Quinn, Jeff Neal, Thomas Wahl, Melissa Wood, Dirk Eilander, Marleen de Ruiter, Philip Ward, and Paula Camus
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 747–816, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-747-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-747-2025, 2025
Short summary
Computing Extreme Storm Surges in Europe Using Neural Networks
Tim H. J. Hermans, Chiheb Ben Hammouda, Simon Treu, Timothy Tiggeloven, Anaïs Couasnon, Julius J. M. Busecke, and Roderik S. W. van de Wal
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-196,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-196, 2025
This preprint is open for discussion and under review for Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS).
Short summary
Review article: Physical vulnerability database for critical infrastructure hazard risk assessments – a systematic review and data collection
Sadhana Nirandjan, Elco E. Koks, Mengqi Ye, Raghav Pant, Kees C. H. Van Ginkel, Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts, and Philip J. Ward
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 4341–4368, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-4341-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-4341-2024, 2024
Short summary

Related subject area

Sea, Ocean and Coastal Hazards
Accelerating compound flood risk assessments through active learning: A case study of Charleston County (USA)
Lucas Terlinden-Ruhl, Anaïs Couasnon, Dirk Eilander, Gijs G. Hendrickx, Patricia Mares-Nasarre, and José A. Á. Antolínez
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 1353–1375, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-1353-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-1353-2025, 2025
Short summary
Tsunami detection methods for ocean-bottom pressure gauges
Cesare Angeli, Alberto Armigliato, Martina Zanetti, Filippo Zaniboni, Fabrizio Romano, Hafize Başak Bayraktar, and Stefano Lorito
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 1169–1185, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-1169-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-1169-2025, 2025
Short summary
Using random forests to forecast daily extreme sea level occurrences at the Baltic Coast
Kai Bellinghausen, Birgit Hünicke, and Eduardo Zorita
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 1139–1162, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-1139-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-1139-2025, 2025
Short summary
Probabilistic tsunami hazard analysis of Batukaras, a tourism village in Indonesia
Wiwin Windupranata, Muhammad Wahyu Al Ghifari, Candida Aulia De Silva Nusantara, Marsyanisa Shafa, Intan Hayatiningsih, Iyan Eka Mulia, and Alqinthara Nuraghnia
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 1057–1069, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-1057-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-1057-2025, 2025
Short summary
Review article: A comprehensive review of compound flooding literature with a focus on coastal and estuarine regions
Joshua Green, Ivan D. Haigh, Niall Quinn, Jeff Neal, Thomas Wahl, Melissa Wood, Dirk Eilander, Marleen de Ruiter, Philip Ward, and Paula Camus
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 747–816, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-747-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-747-2025, 2025
Short summary

Cited articles

Aerts, J. C. J. H.: A review of cost estimates for flood adaptation, Water-Sui., 10, 1646, https://doi.org/10.3390/w10111646, 2018. 
Aerts, J. C. J. H., Lin, N., Botzen, W., Emanuel, K., and de Moel, H.: Low-Probability Flood Risk Modeling for New York City, Risk Anal., 33, 772–788, https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.12008, 2013. 
Aerts, J. C. J. H., Botzen, W. J. W., Emanuel, K., Lin, N., De Moel, H., and Michel-Kerjan, E. O.: Climate adaptation: Evaluating flood resilience strategies for coastal megacities, Science, 344, 473–475, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1248222, 2014. 
Andree, B. P. J. and Koomen, E.: Calibration of the 2UP model: Spinlab Research Memorandum SL-13, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, https://research.vu.nl/en/publications/calibration-of-the-2up-model (last access: April 2021), 2017. 
Barbier, E. B., Hacker, S. D., Kennedy, C., Koch, E. W., Stier, A. C., and Silliman, B. R.: The value of estuarine and coastal ecosystem services, Ecol. Monogr., 81, 169–193, 2011. 
Download
Short summary
Current levels of coastal flood risk are projected to increase in coming decades due to various reasons, e.g. sea-level rise, land subsidence, and coastal urbanization: action is needed to minimize this future risk. We evaluate dykes and coastal levees, foreshore vegetation, zoning restrictions, and dry-proofing on a global scale to estimate what levels of risk reductions are possible. We demonstrate that there are several potential adaptation pathways forward for certain areas of the world.
Share
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint