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Adaptations of Coastal Cities to Global Warming, Sea Level Rise, Climate Change and Endemic Hazards pp 27–34Cite as

Coastal City Flooding

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Flooding is a natural hazard that can be a not-too-threatening event or a deadly one. In more violent events, floodwaters may move in great volumes, driven by gravity, and rage through highly and densely populated regions or rural areas killing and injuring people, destroying homes, roads, bridges and other infrastructure, and crops as the waters follow a pathway out of the flood zone. Flooding can also be an anthropogenic caused hazard.

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  1. George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA

    Frederic R. Siegel

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Siegel, F.R. (2020). Coastal City Flooding. In: Adaptations of Coastal Cities to Global Warming, Sea Level Rise, Climate Change and Endemic Hazards. SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22669-5_4

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