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Damage and protection cost curves for coastal floods within the 600 largest European cities

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/persons/resource/boris.prahl

Prahl,  Boris F.
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research;

/persons/resource/markus.boettle

Boettle,  Markus
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research;

/persons/resource/luis.costa

Costa,  Luís
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research;

/persons/resource/Juergen.Kropp

Kropp,  Jürgen P.
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research;

/persons/resource/Diego.Rybski

Rybski,  Diego
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research;

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Prahl, B. F., Boettle, M., Costa, L., Kropp, J. P., Rybski, D. (2018): Damage and protection cost curves for coastal floods within the 600 largest European cities. - Scientific Data, 5, 180034.
https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.34


Cite as: https://publications.pik-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_22340
Abstract
The economic assessment of the impacts of storm surges and sea-level rise in coastal cities requires high-level information on the damage and protection costs associated with varying flood heights. We provide a systematically and consistently calculated dataset of macroscale damage and protection cost curves for the 600 largest European coastal cities opening the perspective for a wide range of applications. Offering the first comprehensive dataset to include the costs of dike protection, we provide the underpinning information to run comparative assessments of costs and benefits of coastal adaptation. Aggregate cost curves for coastal flooding at the city-level are commonly regarded as by-products of impact assessments and are generally not published as a standalone dataset. Hence, our work also aims at initiating a more critical discussion on the availability and derivation of cost curves.