2026 Laurens M. Bouwer: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	54	3972	3799	272	266	183	14344

Overview

Laurens M. Bouwer is affiliated with the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a notable emphasis on global and planetary change, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, sociology and political science, atmospheric science, and environmental engineering.

The scientist's work spans several key topics including flood risk assessment and management, climate change and health impacts, scientific computing and data management, climate change adaptation and migration, air quality and health impacts, distributed and parallel computing systems, and disaster management and resilience.

Recent publications by Laurens M. Bouwer encompass:

Loss and Damage and limits to adaptation: recent IPCC insights and implications for climate science and policy, 2020, Sustainability Science
The existential risk space of climate change, 2022, Climatic Change
Floods have become less deadly: an analysis of global flood fatalities 1975-2022, 2024, Natural Hazards
Impacts on and damage to European forests from the 2018-2022 heat and drought events, 2025, Natural hazards and earth system sciences
Improved Transferability of Data-Driven Damage Models Through Sample Selection Bias Correction, 2020, Risk Analysis

Laurens M. Bouwer frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Diana Rechid, Christine Nam, Roland Ruhnke, So-Min Cheong, and Doris Dransch.

Publication venues commonly featuring their work include SSRN Electronic Journal, Natural hazards and earth system sciences, Environmental Research, Water, and Open Access Government.

In addition to journal articles, Laurens M. Bouwer has contributed to book publications, notably with Springer Nature (Netherlands) in 2022 for the book "Integrating Data Science and Earth Science."

Best Publications

EURO-CORDEX : new high-resolution climate change projections for European impact research

Daniela Jacob;Juliane Petersen;Bastian Eggert;Antoinette Alias

2817
Citations
Flood risk and climate change: global and regional perspectives

Zbigniew W Kundzewicz;Shinjiro Kanae;Sonia I Seneviratne;John W Handmer

1627
Citations
Increasing stress on disaster-risk finance due to large floods

Brenden Jongman;Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler;Luc Feyen;Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts

693
Citations
Have disaster losses increased due to anthropogenic climate change

Laurens M. Bouwer

635
Citations
Review article: assessing the costs of natural hazards - state of the art and knowledge gaps

V. Meyer;N. Becker;V. Markantonis;R. Schwarze

483
Citations
Floods and climate: emerging perspectives for flood risk assessment and management

B. Merz;J. Aerts;K. Arnbjerg-Nielsen;M. Baldi

410
Citations
Changes in impacts of climate extremes: Human systems and ecosystems

John Handmer;Yasushi Honda;Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz;Nigel Arnell

362
Citations
FLOPROS: an evolving global database of flood protection standards

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

333
Citations
Adaptation to flood risk: Results of international paired flood event studies

Heidi Kreibich;Giuliano Di Baldassarre;Sergiy Vorogushyn;Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts

284
Citations
Confronting disaster losses

Laurens M. Bouwer;Ryan P. Crompton;Eberhard Faust;Peter Höppe

265
Citations
Changes in future flood risk due to climate and development in a Dutch polder area

Laurens M. Bouwer;Philip Bubeck;Jeroen C.J.H. Aerts

254
Citations
Financing climate change adaptation

Laurens M. Bouwer;Jeroen C.J.H. Aerts

232
Citations
Understanding trends and projections of disaster losses and climate change: Is vulnerability the missing link?

Reinhard Mechler;Laurens M. Bouwer

231
Citations
Projections of Future Extreme Weather Losses Under Changes in Climate and Exposure

Laurens M. Bouwer

205
Citations
Climate change and increased risk for the insurance sector: a global perspective and an assessment for the Netherlands

W. J. W. Botzen;J. C. J. M. van den Bergh;J. C. J. M. van den Bergh;L. M. Bouwer

200
Citations
Managing unnatural disaster risk from climate extremes

Reinhard Mechler;Reinhard Mechler;Laurens M. Bouwer;Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer;Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler

182
Citations
A multi-hazard regional level impact assessment for Europe combining indicators of climatic and non-climatic change

Tobias Lung;Carlo Lavalle;Roland Hiederer;Alessandro Dosio

181
Citations
How insurance can support climate resilience

Swenja Surminski;Laurens M. Bouwer;Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer

181
Citations
Ocean circulation and iceberg discharge in the glacial North Atlantic: Inferences from unmixing of sediment size distributions

Maarten A. Prins;Laurens M. Bouwer;Christiaan J. Beets;Simon R. Troelstra

179
Citations
Loss and Damage from Climate Change: Concepts, Methods and Policy Options

Reinhard Mechler;Laurens M. Bouwer;Thomas Schinko;Swenja Surminski

162
Citations
Costing natural hazards

Heidi Kreibich;Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh;Laurens M. Bouwer;Philip Bubeck

147
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Heidi Kreibich Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences

W. J. Wouter Botzen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Reinhard Mechler International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Annegret H. Thieken University of Potsdam

Jan E. Vermaat Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Dave Huitema Wageningen University & Research

Frans Berkhout King's College London

J.C.J.M. van den Bergh Autonomous University of Barcelona

Hans de Moel Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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