Mapping Flood Impacts on Mortality at European Territories of the Mediterranean Region within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Framework
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Data and Methods
2.1. Study Area
2.2. Data
2.3. Analysis
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Type | Title | Source | Time Coverage |
---|---|---|---|
I.D. | EM-DAT | Guha-Sapir et al. [31] | 1900–2023 |
I.D. | Global Active Archive of Large Flood Events of Dartmouth Flood Observatory | Brakenridge [32] | 1985–2023 |
I.D. | Hanze-E | Paprotny et al. [33] | 1870–2016 |
I.D. | European Past Floods (EPF) | EEA [43] | 1980–2015 |
I.D. | FFEM-DB | Papagiannaki et al. [8] | 1980–2020 |
I.D. | Eastern Mediterranean High Mortality flood database | Diakakis et al. [36] | 1880–2021 |
C. R. (Cyprus) | Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment Report for Cyprus | WDD [44] | 1880–2015 |
C. S. (Greece) | A database of high-impact weather events in Greece | Papagiannaki et al. [45] | 2001–2023 |
C. S. (Greece) | Flood fatalities in Greece | Diakakis and Deligiannakis [27] | 1960–2023 |
C. R. (Italy) | Annuario dei dati ambientali | ISPRA [46] | 2003–2023 |
C. R. (Italy) | Historical climatology of storm events in the mediterranean: A case study of damaging hydrological events in Calabria, Southern Italy | Petrucci and Pasqua [47] | 1951–2014 |
C. S. (Portugal) | DISASTER: a GIS database on hydro-geomorphologic disasters in Portugal | Zêzere et al. [48] | 1865–2014 |
C. S. (Croatia) | Analysis of Short-Term Rainfall Characteristics Related to the Pluvial Floods in the City of Zagreb | Kovačić [49] | 2007–2017 |
C. R. (Malta) | Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment | Malta Energy and Water Authority [50] | 1979–2012 |
C. S. (Malta) | multi-hazard historical catalogue for the city-island-stateof Malta | Main et al. [51] | Selected events |
C. S. (South France) | Mortality of floods in the south of France (in French) | Boissier [52] | Selected events |
NUTS2 Region Code | Poisson Coefficient | p-Value |
---|---|---|
EL30 | 0.0313 | 0.003 |
EL61 | 0.1050 | 0.000 |
EL65 | 0.0520 | 0.028 |
PT17 | −0.2740 | 0.000 |
PT30 | 0.0367 | 0.002 |
FRK1 | −0.2335 | 0.002 |
FRL0 | 0.0170 | 0.013 |
FRK2 | −0.0780 | 0.000 |
FRJ1 | 0.0177 | 0.002 |
ES12 | 0.0900 | 0.004 |
ES13 | −0.0950 | 0.037 |
ES21 | −0.2330 | 0.000 |
ES24 | −0.0229 | 0.000 |
ES53 | 0.0510 | 0.008 |
ES30 | −0.0650 | 0.004 |
ES51 | −0.0375 | 0.000 |
ES52 | −0.0730 | 0.000 |
ITC1 | −0.0320 | 0.000 |
ITC4 | −0.0590 | 0.000 |
ITF4 | 0.0320 | 0.048 |
ITF5 | 0.0636 | 0.055 |
ITF6 | 0.0290 | 0.016 |
ITG1 | 0.0210 | 0.011 |
ITG2 | 0.0554 | 0.000 |
ITH2 | −0.1700 | 0.000 |
ITH3 | 0.0410 | 0.039 |
ITH5 | 0.1200 | 0.000 |
ITI3 | 0.0884 | 0.009 |
ITI4 | −0.0456 | 0.030 |
ES61 | −0.0180 | 0.088 |
EL43 | 0.0550 | 0.054 |
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Stamos, I.; Diakakis, M. Mapping Flood Impacts on Mortality at European Territories of the Mediterranean Region within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Framework. Water 2024, 16, 2470. https://doi.org/10.3390/w16172470
Stamos I, Diakakis M. Mapping Flood Impacts on Mortality at European Territories of the Mediterranean Region within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Framework. Water. 2024; 16(17):2470. https://doi.org/10.3390/w16172470
Chicago/Turabian StyleStamos, Iraklis, and Michalis Diakakis. 2024. "Mapping Flood Impacts on Mortality at European Territories of the Mediterranean Region within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Framework" Water 16, no. 17: 2470. https://doi.org/10.3390/w16172470