Regional economic analysis of flood defence heights at the German Baltic Sea coast: A multi-method cost-benefit approach for flood prevention

Regional economic analysis of flood defence heights at the German Baltic Sea coast: A multi-method cost-benefit approach for flood prevention

Mean and extreme sea-level uncertainties, as well as uncertainty about future flood exposure, hinder the risk-based optimisation of flood protection investments. To deal with these uncertainties, cost-benefit analysis (CBA) and methods for robust decision-making can be combined. This paper sequentia...

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Main Authors: Thomas van der Pol, Jochen Hinkel, Jan Merkens, Leigh MacPherson, Athanasios T. Vafeidis, Arne Arns, Sönke Dangendorf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-01-01
Series:Climate Risk Management
Subjects:
Climate change adaptation
Cost-benefit analysis
Flood protection
Robust decision-making
Info-gap
Regret
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212096321000188

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