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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
55
Citations
14457
World Ranking
3792
National Ranking
97

Best Publications

  • Lost food, wasted resources: global food supply chain losses and their impacts on freshwater, cropland, and fertiliser use

    M.S. Kummu;de H. Moel;M. Porkka;S. Siebert

  • The world’s road to water scarcity: shortage and stress in the 20th century and pathways towards sustainability

    M. Kummu;J. H. A. Guillaume;J. H. A. Guillaume;H. de Moel;S. Eisner

  • Evaluating Flood Resilience Strategies for Coastal Megacities

    Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts;W. J. Wouter Botzen;Kerry Emanuel;Ning Lin

  • Flood maps in Europe – methods, availability and use

    H. de Moel;J. van Alphen;J. C. J. H. Aerts

  • Is physical water scarcity a new phenomenon? Global assessment of water shortage over the last two millennia

    Matti Kummu;Philip J Ward;Hans de Moel;Olli Varis

  • Effect of uncertainty in land use, damage models and inundation depth on flood damage estimates

    H. de Moel;J. C. J. H. Aerts

  • Flood risk assessments at different spatial scales.

    H. De Moel;B. Jongman;H. Kreibich;B. Merz

  • How Close Do We Live to Water? A Global Analysis of Population Distance to Freshwater Bodies

    Matti Kummu;Hans de Moel;Philip J. Ward;Olli Varis

  • Future changes in Mekong River hydrology: impact of climate change and reservoir operation on discharge

    H. Lauri;de H. Moel;P.J. Ward;T.A. Räsänen

  • FLOPROS: an evolving global database of flood protection standards

    Paolo Scussolini;Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts;Brenden Jongman;Laurens M. Bouwer

  • Over the hills and further away from coast: global geospatial patterns of human and environment over the 20th-21st centuries

    Matti Kummu;Hans de Moel;Gianluigi Salvucci;Daniel Viviroli

  • Human impact parameterizations in global hydrological models improve estimates of monthly discharges and hydrological extremes : A multi-model validation study

    T I E Veldkamp;T I E Veldkamp;F Zhao;P J Ward;H de Moel

  • A review of damage-reducing measures to manage fluvial flood risks in a changing climate

    H. Kreibich;Ph. Bubeck;M. van Vliet;H. de Moel

  • Generation of a global synthetic tropical cyclone hazard dataset using STORM.

    Nadia Bloemendaal;Ivan D. Haigh;Hans de Moel;Sanne Muis

  • Development of flood exposure in the Netherlands during the 20th and 21st century

    Hans de Moel;Jeroen C.J.H. Aerts;Eric Koomen

  • Integrated Direct and Indirect Flood Risk Modeling: Development and Sensitivity Analysis

    E. E. Koks;M. Bočkarjova;H. de Moel;Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts

  • Adaptive flood risk management planning based on a comprehensive flood risk conceptualisation

    Frans Klijn;Hiedi Kreibich;Hans De Moel;Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell

  • Future flood risk estimates along the river Rhine

    A. H. te Linde;P. Bubeck;J. E. C. Dekkers;H. de Moel

  • Economic damages from Hurricane Sandy attributable to sea level rise caused by anthropogenic climate change

    Benjamin H. Strauss;Philip M. Orton;Klaus Bittermann;Maya K. Buchanan

  • Global-scale benefit-cost analysis of coastal flood adaptation to different flood risk drivers using structural measures

    Timothy Tiggeloven;Hans de Moel;Hessel C. Winsemius;Dirk Eilander

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts
Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
W. J. Wouter Botzen
W. J. Wouter Botzen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Philip J. Ward
Philip J. Ward Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Laurens M. Bouwer
Laurens M. Bouwer Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Frank Peeters
Frank Peeters University of Konstanz
Gerald Ganssen
Gerald Ganssen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Richard E. Zeebe
Richard E. Zeebe University of Hawaii at Manoa
Geert-Jan A. Brummer
Geert-Jan A. Brummer Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Dick Kroon
Dick Kroon University of Edinburgh
Simon J A Jung
Simon J A Jung University of Edinburgh

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