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...

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...