Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Member of the Leibniz Association, Potsdam 14473, Germany.
Department of Geo- and Environmental Sciences, University of Potsdam, Potsdam 14469, Germany.
Sci Data. 2018 Mar 20;5:180034. doi: 10.1038/sdata.2018.34.
The economic assessment of the impacts of storm surges and sea-level rise in coastal cities requires high-level information on the damage and protection costs associated with varying flood heights. We provide a systematically and consistently calculated dataset of macroscale damage and protection cost curves for the 600 largest European coastal cities opening the perspective for a wide range of applications. Offering the first comprehensive dataset to include the costs of dike protection, we provide the underpinning information to run comparative assessments of costs and benefits of coastal adaptation. Aggregate cost curves for coastal flooding at the city-level are commonly regarded as by-products of impact assessments and are generally not published as a standalone dataset. Hence, our work also aims at initiating a more critical discussion on the availability and derivation of cost curves.
沿海城市的风暴潮和海平面上升影响的经济评估需要与不同洪水高度相关的损害和保护成本的高级别信息。我们提供了 600 个最大的欧洲沿海城市的大规模损害和保护成本曲线的系统和一致计算数据集，为广泛的应用开辟了视角。提供了第一个包含堤坝保护成本的综合数据集，我们提供了基础信息，以便对沿海适应的成本和效益进行比较评估。城市层面沿海洪水的综合成本曲线通常被视为影响评估的副产品，通常不作为独立数据集发布。因此，我们的工作还旨在更批判性地讨论成本曲线的可用性和推导。
