Understanding Homeowners' Preferences and Motivations towards Public-Private Flood Protection

Climate change is intensifying severe weather and flood hazards, putting riverfront residents at growing risk. Although existing public flood defences like dikes and nature-based solutions offer protection, recent events like those in Limburg in 2021 highlight the need to address flood risk at the homeowner level. With the expectation that...

Flood resilience of coastal communities in Jakarta - Indonesia: An exploratory agent-based study on emergence of flood adaptation and migration behaviour under various socio-environmental policy conditions

Climate change is happening and has an increasingly great impact on nature, ecosystems, biodiversity and human society. To reduce adverse consequences of hazards for current and future generations, one must understand how adaptation behavior of civil societies could develop itself over time, interact with its environment and effect its ecosystem...

Private Flood Adaptation and Social Networks: Using Agent-based Modelling to Explore the Effects of Private Flood Adaptation Policies in Presence of Social Networks and Information Diffusion

Climate is changing. It is widely accepted that irrespective of the emission reductions efforts, adaptation to the already committed climate change is a must in the coming decades. Flooding is one of the most devastating climate-induced hazards, calling for adaptation across scales: from government-led adaptation (e.g. dikes), to personal...

Role of household climate change adaptation in reducing coastal flood risk: The case of Shanghai

Climate change intensifies the frequency and severity of floods - the most devastating and costly climate-induced hazard. Government adaptations such as dikes or beach nourishments are important, yet insufficient in the face of worsening hazards. They reduce the hazard probability, but the local actions at the household level determine the...