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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
85
Citations
29541
World Ranking
738
National Ranking
19

Best Publications

  • Future climate risk from compound events

    Jakob Zscheischler;Seth Westra;Bart J. J. M. van den Hurk;Bart J. J. M. van den Hurk;Sonia I. Seneviratne

  • 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

  • Global drivers of future river flood risk

    Hessel C. Winsemius;Jeroen C.J.H. Aerts;Ludovicus P.H. van Beek;Marc F.P. Bierkens

  • Global exposure to river and coastal flooding: Long term trends and changes

    Brenden Jongman;Philip J. Ward;Jeroen C.J.H. Aerts

  • Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH)–a community perspective

    Günter Blöschl;Marc F.P. Bierkens;Antonio Chambel;Christophe Cudennec

  • 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

  • A global reanalysis of storm surges and extreme sea levels

    Sanne Muis;Martin Verlaan;Hessel C. Winsemius;Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts

  • Increasing stress on disaster-risk finance due to large floods

    Brenden Jongman;Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler;Luc Feyen;Jeroen 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

  • The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management

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  • Natural populations of Trypanosoma cruzi, the agent of Chagas disease, have a complex multiclonal structure

    Michel Tibayrenc;Philip Ward;Andres Moya;Francisco J. Ayala

  • Comparative flood damage model assessment: towards a European approach

    B. Jongman;H. Kreibich;H. Apel;J. I. Barredo

  • Water scarcity hotspots travel downstream due to human interventions in the 20th and 21st century

    T.I.E. Veldkamp;T.I.E. Veldkamp;Y. Wada;J.C.J.H. Aerts;J.C.J.H. Aerts;P. Döll

  • A framework for global river flood risk assessments

    H. C. Winsemius;L. P. H. Van Beek;B. Jongman;P. J. Ward

  • Declining vulnerability to river floods and the global benefits of adaptation

    Brenden Jongman;Hessel C. Winsemius;Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts;Erin Coughlan de Perez;Erin Coughlan de Perez

  • Assessing flood risk at the global scale: model setup, results, and sensitivity

    Ph.J. Ward;B. Jongman;F.C. Sperna Weiland;A. Bouwman

  • 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

  • Disaster risk, climate change, and poverty: assessing the global exposure of poor people to floods and droughts

    Hessel C. Winsemius;Brenden Jongman;Ted I.E. Veldkamp;Stephane Hallegatte

  • Floods and climate: emerging perspectives for flood risk assessment and management

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

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts
Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Hessel Winsemius
Hessel Winsemius Delft University of Technology
Hans de Moel
Hans de Moel Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Matti Kummu
Matti Kummu Aalto University
W. J. Wouter Botzen
W. J. Wouter Botzen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Dai Yamazaki
Dai Yamazaki University of Tokyo
Ivan D. Haigh
Ivan D. Haigh University of Southampton
Hans Renssen
Hans Renssen University of South-Eastern Norway
Thomas Wahl
Thomas Wahl University of Central Florida
Yoshihide Wada
Yoshihide Wada King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

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