Effects of Climate Change on Exposure to Coastal Flooding in Latin America and the Caribbean.

ABSTRACT: This study considers and compares several of the most important factors contributing to coastal flooding in Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) while accounting for the variations of these factors with location and time. The study assesses the populations, the land areas and the built capital exposed at present and at the middle and end of the 21st century for a set of scenarios that include both climatic and non-climatic drivers. Climatic drivers include global mean sea level, natural modes of climate variability such as El Niño, natural subsidence, and extreme sea levels resulting from the combination of projected local sea-level rise, storm surges and wave setup. Population is the only human-related driver accounted for in the future. Without adaptation, more than 4 million inhabitan

SUBMITTER: Reguero BG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4503776 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature