Disastrous floods have caused millions of fatalities in the twentieth century, tens of billions of
dollars of direct economic loss each year and serious disruption to global trade. In this …

Our current 1.1° C warmer world is already affecting natural and human systems in Europe
(very high confidence1). Since AR5, there has been a substantial increase in detected or …

Abstract Purpose of Review This review (1) describes the intersecting literature on climate
change adaptation (CCA) and uncertainty (N= 562), and (2) synthesizes the findings of …

Cities worldwide face climate change and other complex challenges and strive to become
more resilient to the shocks and stresses that these bring. The notion of urban (climate) …

While greenhouse gas emissions in Europe have reduced in recent years, there is still a
considerable gap between the current situation and where we need be to limit global …

The concept of resilience has been increasingly adopted on the European Union's (EU)
policy agenda as a principle for agro‐food policy‐making. However, resilience is an …

River flooding and urbanization are processes of different character that take place
worldwide. As the latter tends to make the consequences of the former worse, together with …

This exploratory study takes a closer look at the flood Risk Management (RM) system at a
municipality level. The current practices of RM in municipalities follow to a large extent, a …

Adaptive planning, as opposed to the conventional 'predict-and-act'approach, has emerged
as a paradigm to increase the resilience of our built environment and infrastructure systems …

Cities in Southeast Asia face various institutional barriers to cope with climate and water-
related challenges. Several international programs for urban flood resilience therefore stress …