TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hudson, Paul
A1  - Botzen, W. J. Wouter
A1  - Poussin, Jennifer
A1  - Aerts, Jeroen C. J. H.
T1  - Impacts of flooding and flood preparedness on subjective well-being
BT  - a monetisation of the tangible and intangible impacts
JF  - Journal of Happiness Studies
N2  - Flood disasters severely impact human subjective well-being (SWB). Nevertheless, few studies have examined the influence of flood events on individual well-being and how such impacts may be limited by flood protection measures. This study estimates the long term impacts on individual subjective well-being of flood experiences, individual subjective flood risk perceptions, and household flood preparedness decisions. These effects are monetised and placed in context through a comparison with impacts of other adverse events on well-being. We collected data from households in flood-prone areas in France. The results indicate that experiencing a flood has a large negative impact on subjective well-being that is incompletely attenuated over time. Moreover, individuals do not need to be directly affected by floods to suffer SWB losses since subjective well-being is lower for those who expect their flood risk to increase or who have seen a neighbour being flooded. Floodplain inhabitants who prepared for flooding by elevating their home have a higher subjective well-being. A monetisation of the aforementioned well-being impacts shows that a flood requires Euro150,000 in immediate compensation to attenuate SWB losses. The decomposition of the monetised impacts of flood experience into tangible losses and intangible effects on SWB shows that intangible effects are about twice as large as the tangible direct monetary flood losses. Investments in flood protection infrastructure may be under funded if the intangible SWB benefits of flood protection are not taken into account.
KW  - Flooding
KW  - Subjective well-being
KW  - Intangible losses
KW  - Tangible losses
KW  - Climate change
KW  - Adaptation
KW  - Climate change adaptation
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-017-9916-4
SN  - 1389-4978
SN  - 1573-7780
VL  - 20
IS  - 2
SP  - 665
EP  - 682
PB  - Springer Science
CY  - Dordrecht
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lawrence, Mark
A1  - Schäfer, Stefan
A1  - Muri, Helene
A1  - Scott, Vivian
A1  - Oschlies, Andreas
A1  - Vaughan, Naomi E.
A1  - Boucher, Olivier
A1  - Schmidt, Hauke
A1  - Haywood, Jim
A1  - Scheffran, Jürgen
T1  - Evaluating climate geoengineering proposals in the context of the Paris Agreement temperature goals
JF  - Nature Communications
N2  - Current mitigation efforts and existing future commitments are inadequate to accomplish the Paris Agreement temperature goals. In light of this, research and debate are intensifying on the possibilities of additionally employing proposed climate geoengineering technologies, either through atmospheric carbon dioxide removal or farther-reaching interventions altering the Earth’s radiative energy budget. Although research indicates that several techniques may eventually have the physical potential to contribute to limiting climate change, all are in early stages of development, involve substantial uncertainties and risks, and raise ethical and governance dilemmas. Based on present knowledge, climate geoengineering techniques cannot be relied on to significantly contribute to meeting the Paris Agreement temperature goals.
KW  - Atmospheric chemistry
KW  - Atmospheric dynamics
KW  - Atmospheric science
KW  - Climate change
KW  - Environmental impact
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05938-3
SN  - 2041-1723
VL  - 9
PB  - Nature Publ. Group
CY  - London
ER  -