Bruno Merz

Jul 15, 2024 | nature.com | Paul Bates |Jim Hall |Bruno Merz |Jaroslav Mysiak |Eric Tate |Jens de Bruijn

AbstractFlood adaptation measures such as levees, flood-proofing structures, nature-based solutions and flood insurance are essential to cope with the growing flood risk caused by climate change and urban development into flood-prone areas. However, many communities in flood zones are ill-protected because the implementation of adaptation measures is hindered by a variety of constraints to adaptation, including the cost, limitations on institutional capacity and societal inertia.

Nov 6, 2023 | nature.com | Miriam Bertola |Günter Blöschl |Marco Borga |Attilio Castellarin |Pierluigi Claps |Eleonora Dallan | +40 more

AbstractMegafloods that far exceed previously observed records often take citizens and experts by surprise, resulting in extremely severe damage and loss of life. Existing methods based on local and regional information rarely go beyond national borders and cannot predict these floods well because of limited data on megafloods, and because flood generation processes of extremes differ from those of smaller, more frequently observed events.