Damaging flood risk in the Portuguese municipalities

Abstract

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) [...]