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Coastal loss and damage for small islands

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Quantifications of the impacts of sea-level rise in small island states are urgently needed. Focusing on flooding from sea-level rise, a study now estimates the impacts in terms of cost, land loss and population exposure across all small islands worldwide.

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Fig. 1: Three metrics of loss and damage from SLR-induced coastal flooding.

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  1. Climate Analytics, Berlin, Germany

    Rosanne Martyr-Koller & Carl-Friedrich Schleussner

  2. Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), Berlin, Germany

    Rosanne Martyr-Koller & Carl-Friedrich Schleussner

  3. Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Rosanne Martyr-Koller & Carl-Friedrich Schleussner

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Martyr-Koller, R., Schleussner, CF. Coastal loss and damage for small islands. Nat Sustain 6, 1508–1509 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-023-01244-z

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