Scientific articles and reports mentioning ENHANCE

Four scientific articles and reports mentioning ENHANCE were listed:

1. “Evaluating Flood Resilience Strategies for Coastal Megacities”, Science, 2014. The paper compared levees, storm-surge barriers, flood-proofing, insurance and beach nourishment for New York City. ENHANCE coordinator Jeroen Aerts discussed it in an interview.
2. “Managing unnatural disaster risk from climate extremes”, Nature Climate Change, 2014, by Mechler et al. Swenja Surminski cited it in the third Letter from Sendai on risk layering, the idea of matching different instruments to different levels of risk.
3. “Cost estimates for flood resilience and protection strategies in New York City”, a report hosted by the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) in Amsterdam, the coordinating partner of ENHANCE.
4. “Increasing stress on disaster-risk finance due to large floods”, Nature Climate Change, 2014, by Jongman et al.

The four share a theme. Two concern New York, used as an example of a coastal megacity whose lessons carry over to European cities. The other two concern money: how risk from climate extremes should be managed, and how large floods strain the funds that pay for recovery. The last of these bears directly on instruments such as the EU Solidarity Fund, the subject of the Romania case study.

All four appeared in 2014, while the ENHANCE case studies were still under way, and several of their authors were project partners: Aerts at IVM, Mechler at IIASA. ENHANCE’s own reports are described in the document library.