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Flood Risk Reduction

Flood Risk Reduction is a disaster risk reduction strategy that specifically entails the implementation of structural, non-structural, and ecosystem-based measures to minimize the likelihood and consequences of flooding through the modification of hazard, exposure, and vulnerability within a given area.

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Global flood risk under climate change

Yukiko Hirabayashi, Mahendran Roobavannan, Sujan Koirala et al. · Nature Climate Change · 2013 · 3K citations

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Future flood losses in major coastal cities

Stéphane Hallegatte, Colin Green, Robert J. Nicholls et al. · Nature Climate Change · 2013 · 2.5K citations

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Increasing risk of great floods in a changing climate

P. C. D. Milly, R. T. Wetherald, K. A. Dunne et al. · Nature · 2002 · 1.8K citations

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Flood risk and climate change: global and regional perspectives

Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz, Shinjiro Kanae, Sonia I. Seneviratne et al. · Hydrological Sciences Journal · 2013 · 1.6K citations · Full text

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People at Risk of Flooding: Why Some Residents Take Precautionary Action While Others Do Not

Torsten Grothmann · Natural Hazards · 2006 · 1.3K citations

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Authors

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  1. JC
    Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

    56 publications · 11K citations

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  2. HK
    Heidi Kreibich

    GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Germany

    60 publications · 9.8K citations

    45

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  3. WJ
    W. J. Wouter Botzen

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

    57 publications · 8.1K citations

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  4. AH
    Annegret H. Thieken

    University of Potsdam, Germany

    49 publications · 8.1K citations

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  5. PJ
    Philip J. Ward

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

    34 publications · 7.8K citations

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Institutions

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  1. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    74 h-index

    352 publications

    59.8K citations

  2. GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences

    Potsdam, Germany

    57 h-index

    236 publications

    36.6K citations

  3. Delft University of Technology

    Delft, The Netherlands

    56 h-index

    260 publications

    17.9K citations

  4. Deltares

    Delft, The Netherlands

    55 h-index

    218 publications

    22K citations

  5. IHE Delft Institute for Water Education

    Delft, The Netherlands

    50 h-index

    233 publications

    20.6K citations

  6. Utrecht University

    Utrecht, The Netherlands

    48 h-index

    151 publications

    15.7K citations

  7. University of Bristol

    Bristol, United Kingdom

    44 h-index

    94 publications

    17.8K citations

  8. Middlesex University

    London, United Kingdom

    43 h-index

    137 publications

    14.7K citations

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  1. Natural Hazards

    332 publications · 27.4K citations

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  2. Journal of Hydrology

    173 publications · 18.3K citations

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  3. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

    269 publications · 16.3K citations

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  4. Natural hazards and earth system sciences

    143 publications · 13.4K citations

    59

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  5. The Science of The Total Environment

    89 publications · 9.9K citations

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