Fig. 5: Population exposed to flooding for the present day and future change in population exposure. | Nature Communications

Fig. 5: Population exposed to flooding for the present day and future change in population exposure.

From: The role of climate and population change in global flood exposure and vulnerability

Fig. 5: Population exposed to flooding for the present day and future change in population exposure.

Population exposed to flooding (people/km2) in (a) the present day and (b) the change in population exposed to flooding between 2020 and 2100. All results for the 100-year flood climate scenario SSP2-4.5. Political boundaries from Runfola et al. (2020) geoBoundaries: A global database of political administrative boundaries. PLoS ONE 15(4): e0231866. (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231866) published under CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). Figure made with GeoPandas package, Kelsey Jordahl, Joris Van den Bossche, Martin Fleischmann, Jacob Wasserman, James McBride, Jeffrey Gerard, … François Leblanc. (2020, July 15). geopandas/geopandas: v0.8.1 (Version v0.8.1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3946761.

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