Nicola Ranger

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a first estimate of the exposure of the world's large port cities (population exceeding one million inhabitants in 2005) to coastal flooding due to sea-level rise and storm surge now and in the 2070s, taking into account scenarios of socioeconomic and climate changes.

TL;DR: In this paper, a simplified catastrophe risk assessment is presented to calculate the direct costs of storm surges under scenarios of sea level rise, coupled with an economic input-output (IO) model.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate an approach to assess future risks and quantify the benefits of adaptation options at a city-scale, with application to flood risk in Mumbai, and demonstrate that by the 2080s, in a SRES A2 scenario, an 'upper bound' climate scenario could see the likelihood of a 2005-like event more than double.

TL;DR: The Thames Estuary 2100 Project (TE2100) as mentioned in this paper was one of the first major infrastructure projects to explicitly recognize and address the issue of the deep uncertainty in climate projections throughout the planning process.

TL;DR: The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released a report that concluded that even if nations meet the pledges made under the Copenhagen Accord for 2020, the world could still experience a warming of between 2.5 to 5°C above pre-industrial levels by 2100, depending on how quickly greenhouse emissions are reduced post 2020 as mentioned in this paper.