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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 538, Issue -, Pages 445-457Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.08.068
Keywords
Flood risk; Adaptation; Global modeling; Urbanization; Climate change impacts; Indonesia
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Funding
- European research project RISES-AM [603396]
- Dutch research program Knowledge for Climate and Delta Alliance research project (Jakarta Climate Adaptation Tools) [HSINT02a]
- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) in the form of a VENI grant [863-11-011]
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [1229429] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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An accurate understanding of flood risk and its drivers is crucial for effective risk management. Detailed risk projections, including uncertainties, are however rarely available, particularly in developing countries. This paper presents a method that integrates recent advances in global-scale modeling of flood hazard and land change, which enables the probabilistic analysis of future trends in national-scale flood risk. We demonstrate its application to Indonesia. We develop 1000 spatially-explicit projections of urban expansion from 2000 to 2030 that account for uncertainty associated with population and economic growth projections, as well as uncertainty in where urban land change may occur. The projections show that the urban extent increases by 215%-357% (5th and 95th percentiles). Urban expansion is particularly rapid on Java, which accounts for 79% of the national increase. From 2000 to 2030, increases in exposure will elevate flood risk by, on average, 76% and 120% for river and coastal floods. While sea level rise will further increase the exposure-induced trend by 19%-37%, the response of river floods to climate change is highly uncertain. However, as urban expansion is the main driver of future risk, the implementation of adaptation measures is increasingly urgent, regardless of the wide uncertainty in climate projections. Using probabilistic urban projections, we show that spatial planning can be a very effective adaptation strategy. Our study emphasizes that global data can be used successfully for probabilistic risk assessment in data-scarce countries. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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