Sea-level rise and human migration

ME Hauer, E Fussell, V Mueller, M Burkett… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Anthropogenic sea-level rise (SLR) is predicted to impact, and, in many cases, displace, a
large proportion of the population via inundation and heightened SLR-related hazards. With …

Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health

N Watts, WN Adger, P Agnolucci, J Blackstock, P Byass… - The lancet, 2015‏ - thelancet.com
Executive summary The 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change has been
formed to map out the impacts of climate change, and the necessary policy responses, in …

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

L Reimann, AT Vafeidis, LE Honsel - Cambridge Prisms: Coastal …, 2023‏ - cambridge.org
Coastal areas are subject to hazards that can result in severe impacts due to the high
concentration of people and assets in exposed locations. While climate-induced sea-level …

[HTML][HTML] Saline soils worldwide: Identifying the most promising areas for saline agriculture

K Negacz, Ž Malek, A de Vos, P Vellinga - Journal of arid environments, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Salinization poses a major challenge for modern agriculture with considerable areas being
salt-affected worldwide. However, these lands can be cultivated by applying saline …

Future of the human climate niche

C Xu, TA Kohler, TM Lenton, JC Svenning… - Proceedings of the …, 2020‏ - pnas.org
All species have an environmental niche, and despite technological advances, humans are
unlikely to be an exception. Here, we demonstrate that for millennia, human populations …

Ice sheet contributions to future sea-level rise from structured expert judgment

JL Bamber, M Oppenheimer, RE Kopp… - Proceedings of the …, 2019‏ - pnas.org
Despite considerable advances in process understanding, numerical modeling, and the
observational record of ice sheet contributions to global mean sea-level rise (SLR) since the …

Sea-level rise exponentially increases coastal flood frequency

M Taherkhani, S Vitousek, PL Barnard, N Frazer… - Scientific reports, 2020‏ - nature.com
Sea-level rise will radically redefine the coastline of the 21st century. For many coastal
regions, projections of global sea-level rise by the year 2100 (eg, 0.5–2 meters) are …

Managed retreat as a response to natural hazard risk

M Hino, CB Field, KJ Mach - Nature climate change, 2017‏ - nature.com
Managed retreat is a potentially important climate change adaptation option, providing an
alternative to structural protection or accommodation measures to manage natural hazard …

Millions projected to be at risk from sea-level rise in the continental United States

ME Hauer, JM Evans, DR Mishra - Nature Climate Change, 2016‏ - nature.com
Sea-level rise (SLR) is one of the most apparent climate change stressors facing human
society. Although it is known that many people at present inhabit areas vulnerable to SLR …

The land ice contribution to sea level during the satellite era

JL Bamber, RM Westaway, B Marzeion… - Environmental …, 2018‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Since 1992, there has been a revolution in our ability to quantify the land ice contribution to
sea level rise using a variety of satellite missions and technologies. Each mission has …