Increased flood risk from climate change requires adaptation, but future protection may leave communities with residual risk that is overlooked. Research now quantifies residual flood damage globally, highlighting the need to lower costs and time to deploy flood management infrastructure, particularly in vulnerable regions.
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Eisenberg, D. The need to consider residual risk. Nat. Clim. Chang. 11, 803–804 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01129-z
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