Inequitable patterns of US flood risk in the Anthropocene

OEJ Wing, W Lehman, PD Bates, CC Sampson… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Current flood risk mapping, relying on historical observations, fails to account for increasing
threat under climate change. Incorporating recent developments in inundation modelling …

Unpriced climate risk and the potential consequences of overvaluation in US housing markets

JD Gourevitch, C Kousky, Y Liao, C Nolte… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Climate change impacts threaten the stability of the US housing market. In response to
growing concerns that increasing costs of flooding are not fully captured in property values …

Flood hazard potential reveals global floodplain settlement patterns

L Devitt, J Neal, G Coxon, J Savage… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Flooding is one of the most common natural hazards, causing disastrous impacts worldwide.
Stress-testing the global human-Earth system to understand the sensitivity of floodplains and …

[HTML][HTML] Brief communication: Impact forecasting could substantially improve the emergency management of deadly floods: case study July 2021 floods in Germany

H Apel, S Vorogushyn, B Merz - Natural Hazards and Earth …, 2022 - nhess.copernicus.org
Floods affect more people than any other natural hazard; thus flood warning and disaster
management are of utmost importance. However, the operational hydrological forecasts do …

A globally applicable framework for compound flood hazard modeling

D Eilander, A Couasnon, T Leijnse… - … hazards and earth …, 2023 - nhess.copernicus.org
Coastal river deltas are susceptible to flooding from pluvial, fluvial, and coastal flood drivers.
Compound floods, which result from the co-occurrence of two or more of these drivers …

The role of global data sets for riverine flood risk management at national scales

MV Bernhofen, S Cooper, M Trigg… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last two decades, several data sets have been developed to assess flood risk at the
global scale. In recent years, some of these data sets have become detailed enough to be …

Federally overlooked flood risk inequities in Houston, Texas: Novel insights based on dasymetric mapping and state-of-the-Art flood modeling

AB Flores, TW Collins, SE Grineski… - Annals of the …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In the United States, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) delineates 100-
year flood zones to define risks, regulate flood insurance premiums, and inform flood …

Urbanizing the floodplain: global changes of imperviousness in flood-prone areas

KM Andreadis, OEJ Wing, E Colven… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Cities have historically developed close to rivers and coasts, increasing human exposure to
flooding. That exposure is exacerbated by changes in climate and population, and by urban …

[HTML][HTML] Potential benefits in remapping the special flood hazard area: evidence from the US housing market

AB Pollack, DH Wrenn, C Nolte, IS Wing - Journal of Housing Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
A typical US homebuyer's understanding of whether a property faces flood risk is based on
whether the property is located inside the National Flood Insurance Program's (NFIP) …

Satellite video remote sensing for flood model validation

C Masafu, R Williams - Water Resources Research, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Satellite‐based optical video sensors are poised as the next frontier in remote sensing.
Satellite video offers the unique advantage of capturing the transient dynamics of floods with …