| Summary: | Riverine floods are responsible for significant human and material losses. Climate change scenarios pose additional challenges to flood susceptibility and risk assessment (Kundzewicz et al., 2014; Winsemius et al., 2015). While in recent decades the increases in global flood damage have mainly been driven by population and economic activity growth in flood-prone areas, climate change projections launch a high level of uncertainty about future impacts, showing, however, that flood protection standards can play a relevant part in mitigating such effects (Winsemius et al., 2015) [...]
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