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Athanasios T. Vafeidis

Athanasios T. Vafeidis

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
48
Citations
13995
World Ranking
5415
National Ranking
361

Overview

Athanasios T. Vafeidis is affiliated with Kiel University in Germany and conducts research primarily in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their scholarly work spans several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Oceanography, and Ecology.

The scientist's research focuses on several key topics such as Coastal and Marine Dynamics, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration, and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes.

Recent publications by Athanasios T. Vafeidis include:

  • A global analysis of subsidence, relative sea-level change and coastal flood exposure (2021, Nature Climate Change)
  • Population development as a driver of coastal risk: Current trends and future pathways (2023, Cambridge Prisms Coastal Futures)
  • The blue carbon wealth of nations (2021, Nature Climate Change)
  • Non-linear interaction modulates global extreme sea levels, coastal flood exposure, and impacts (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Uncertainty and Bias in Global to Regional Scale Assessments of Current and Future Coastal Flood Risk (2021, Earth's Future)

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications, Communications Earth & Environment, and Cambridge Prisms Coastal Futures.

Athanasios T. Vafeidis collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including Claudia Wolff, Joshua Kiesel, Jochen Hinkel, Robert J. Nicholls, and Daniël Lincke. The number of co-authored publications with each ranges from 10 to 13.

Best Publications

  • Future coastal population growth and exposure to sea-level rise and coastal flooding--a global assessment.

    Barbara Neumann;Athanasios T. Vafeidis;Juliane Zimmermann;Robert J. Nicholls

  • Coastal flood damage and adaptation costs under 21st century sea-level rise

    Jochen Hinkel;Daniel Lincke;Athanasios T. Vafeidis;Mahé Perrette

  • Future response of global coastal wetlands to sea-level rise

    Mark Schuerch;Mark Schuerch;Thomas Spencer;Stijn Temmerman;Matthew L Kirwan

  • A global analysis of subsidence, relative sea-level change and coastal flood exposure

    Robert J. Nicholls;Daniel Lincke;Jochen Hinkel;Sally Brown

  • A New Global Coastal Database for Impact and Vulnerability Analysis to Sea-Level Rise

    Athanasios T. Vafeidis;Robert J. Nicholls;Loraine McFadden;Richard S. J. Tol

  • Global coastal wetland change under sea-level rise and related stresses: The DIVA Wetland Change Model

    Thomas Spencer;Mark Schuerch;Robert J. Nicholls;Jochen Hinkel

  • Mediterranean UNESCO World Heritage at risk from coastal flooding and erosion due to sea-level rise

    Lena Reimann;Athanasios T. Vafeidis;Sally Brown;Sally Brown;Jochen Hinkel

  • Gridded population projections for the coastal zone under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways

    Jan Ludolf Merkens;Lena Reimann;Jochen Hinkel;Athanasios T. Vafeidis

  • The ability of societies to adapt to twenty-first-century sea-level rise

    Jochen Hinkel;Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts;Sally Brown;Jose A. Jiménez

  • A global analysis of erosion of sandy beaches and sea-level rise: An application of DIVA

    Jochen Hinkel;Robert James Nicholls;Richard S.J. Tol;Richard S.J. Tol;Zheng B. Wang

  • A multi-criteria approach for assessing urban flood resilience in Tehran, Iran

    Mahsa Moghadas;Asad Asadzadeh;Athanasios Vafeidis;Alexander Fekete

  • Population development as a driver of coastal risk: Current trends and future pathways

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  • The blue carbon wealth of nations

    Christine Bertram;Martin Quaas;Thorsten B.H. Reusch;Athanasios T. Vafeidis

  • Assessing risk of and adaptation to sea-level rise in the European Union: An application of DIVA

    Jochen Hinkel;Robert J. Nicholls;Athanasios T. Vafeidis;Richard S.J. Tol;Richard S.J. Tol

  • Exploring data-related uncertainties in analyses of land area and population in the “Low-Elevation Coastal Zone” (LECZ)

    Michal Lichter;Athanasios T. Vafeidis;Robert J. Nicholls;Gunilla Kaiser

  • Global and regional exposure to large rises in sea-level: a sensitivity analysis

    D. Anthoff;R.J. Nicholls;R.S.J. Tol;A.T. Vafeidis

  • Investigating compound flooding in an estuary using hydrodynamic modelling: a case study from the Shoalhaven River, Australia

    Kristian Kumbier;Kristian Kumbier;Rafael Cabral Carvalho;Athanasios T Vafeidis;Colin D Woodroffe

  • Global estimates of the impact of a collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet: an application of FUND

    Robert J. Nicholls;Richard S. J. Tol;Richard S. J. Tol;Richard S. J. Tol;Athanasios T. Vafeidis

  • Non-linear interaction modulates global extreme sea levels, coastal flood exposure, and impacts.

    Arne Arns;Thomas Wahl;Claudia Wolff;Athanasios T. Vafeidis

  • Shifting perspectives on coastal impacts and adaptation

    Sally Brown;Robert J. Nicholls;Susan Hanson;Geoff Brundrit

  • What motivates coastal households to adapt pro-actively to sea-level rise and increasing flood risk?

    Jana Koerth;Athanasios T. Vafeidis;Jochen Hinkel;Horst Sterr

  • Generic adaptation pathways for coastal archetypes under uncertain sea-level rise

    Marjolijn Haasnoot;Sally Brown;Sally Brown;Paolo Scussolini;Jose A. Jimenez

  • Adaptation to Five Metres of Sea Level Rise

    Richard S. J. Tol;Maria Bohn;Thomas E. Downing;Marie‐Laure Guillerminet

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Nicholls
Robert J. Nicholls University of East Anglia
Jochen Hinkel
Jochen Hinkel Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Richard S. J. Tol
Richard S. J. Tol University of Sussex
Tom Spencer
Tom Spencer University of Cambridge
Richard J.T. Klein
Richard J.T. Klein Stockholm Environment Institute
Ivan D. Haigh
Ivan D. Haigh University of Southampton
Karsten Reise
Karsten Reise Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Colin D. Woodroffe
Colin D. Woodroffe University of Wollongong
Stijn Temmerman
Stijn Temmerman University of Antwerp
Thomas J. Spencer
Thomas J. Spencer Massachusetts General Hospital

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