Global evidence of rapid urban growth in flood zones since 1985.


Journal

Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Oct 2023
Historique:
received: 17 03 2022
accepted: 21 07 2023
medline: 23 10 2023
pubmed: 5 10 2023
entrez: 4 10 2023
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Disaster losses are increasing and evidence is mounting that climate change is driving up the probability of extreme natural shocks

Identifiants

pubmed: 37794266
doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06468-9
pii: 10.1038/s41586-023-06468-9
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

87-92

Informations de copyright

© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.

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Auteurs

Jun Rentschler (J)

The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA. jrentschler@worldbank.org.

Paolo Avner (P)

The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA.

Mattia Marconcini (M)

German Aerospace Center (DLR), Munich, Germany.
MindEarth, Biel, Switzerland.

Rui Su (R)

The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA.

Emanuele Strano (E)

MindEarth, Biel, Switzerland.

Michalis Vousdoukas (M)

Department of Marine Sciences, University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Greece.

Stéphane Hallegatte (S)

The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA.

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