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  • 33% of the world’s sandy coastlines are hardened by human-made structures, hindering natural retreat as sea levels rise. By 2100, up to 26% may face severe beach loss, while emission reductions could lower this to 21%.

    • Khin Nawarat
    • Johan Reyns
    • Roshanka Ranasinghe
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 15, P: 1-8

  • There lacks a European cost-benefit analysis of possible protective measures against rising seas. Here the authors used a probabilistic data and modeling framework to estimate costs and benefits of coastal protection measures and found that at least 83% of flood damages could be avoided by dyke improvements along a third of the European coastline.

    • Michalis I. Vousdoukas
    • Lorenzo Mentaschi
    • Luc Feyen
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 11, P: 1-11

  • Climate change is the main driver for future coastal flood risk in Europe. However, in the absence of increased flood protection, damages may rise by two to three orders of magnitude by the end of the century.

    • Michalis I. Vousdoukas
    • Lorenzo Mentaschi
    • Luc Feyen
    Research
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 8, P: 776-780

  • Combining previous estimates in a multimethod approach, extreme sea levels are assessed under global warming levels of 1.5–5 °C at over 7,000 coastal sites worldwide. By 2100 or before, about 50% of locations exhibit present-day 100-year extreme sea levels at least once per year, even at 1.5 °C of warming.

    • Claudia Tebaldi
    • Roshanka Ranasinghe
    • Lorenzo Mentaschi
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 11, P: 746-751

  • Analysis of high-resolution annual data shows that global human settlements have expanded continuously and rapidly into flood zones, with those in the most hazardous zones increasing by 122% from 1985 to 2015.

    • Jun Rentschler
    • Paolo Avner
    • Stéphane Hallegatte
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 622, P: 87-92

  • Climate change-induced sea-level rise and coastal extremes pose serious threats to Small Island Developing States (SIDS). This study provides a coastal flood risk assessment for SIDS globally and reveals the need for timely adaptation.

    • Michalis I. Vousdoukas
    • Panagiotis Athanasiou
    • Luc Feyen
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Sustainability
    Volume: 6, P: 1552-1564

  • Many heritage sites are threatened by rising sea levels under climate change as they lie within the coastal zone. A continental assessment of exposure of 284 African heritage sites shows that 20% of sites are currently at risk, which more than triples under moderate and high emission scenarios.

    • Michalis I. Vousdoukas
    • Joanne Clarke
    • Nicholas P. Simpson
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 12, P: 256-262

  • As sea levels rise, coasts are being increasingly  threatened by overtopping caused by the combination of sea level rise, storm surge and wave runup. Here the authors find that global coastal overtopping has increased by over 50% in the last two decades, and under a RCP 8.5 scenario this could increase up to 50 times by 2100 compared to today.

    • Rafael Almar
    • Roshanka Ranasinghe
    • Elodie Kestenare
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 12, P: 1-9

  • Erosion is a major problem facing sandy beaches that will probably worsen with climate change and sea-level rise. Half the world’s beaches, many of which are in densely populated areas, could disappear by the end of the century under current trends; mitigation could lessen retreat by 40%.

    • Michalis I. Vousdoukas
    • Roshanka Ranasinghe
    • Luc Feyen
    Research
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 10, P: 260-263