**4. Conclusions**

Further investments and urban sprawl within the flood risk extent increases the risk of damage [11], and for this reason systematic coast damage evaluation is deemed necessary for managemen<sup>t</sup> reasons. In the Cyprus flood risk managemen<sup>t</sup> plans, cost damage is not analyzed in depth. Apart from the references to economic activities in the risk area, the economic damage is assessed at a qualitative level. Huizinga et al. (2017)'s technical report

is a grea<sup>t</sup> tool for cost damage assessment based on the economy of the national extent. In this approach, a database of the endangered residential buildings and their values were used for the calculation of the flood damage. Even though many of the empirical parameters of the damage indices were used with their default values, the inclusion of damage costs of 562 buildings was an important addition to the local application methodology. Although, with the data available, other models for calculating total flood damage could be used [12], the above application was preferred since the pilot area belonged to an EU country. Due to the time-consuming manual process of gathering the building data, only residential buildings were assessed through the study. With the immediate and collective provision of cadastral data for the entire floodplain area, it would be possible to assess other building categories with the same methodology (e.g., parks and commercial buildings).

**Author Contributions:** Conceptualization, A.C. and O.T.; methodology, A. ´ C.; software, A. ´ C.; vali- ´ dation, O.T.; formal analysis, O.T.; investigation, A.C. and O.T.; resources, A. ´ C.; data curation, O.T.; ´ writing—original draft preparation, A.C.; writing—review and editing, O.T.; visualization, A. ´ C.; ´ supervision, O.T.; project administration, A.C. and O.T. All authors have read and agreed to the ´ published version of the manuscript.

**Funding:** This research received no external funding.

**Institutional Review Board Statement:** Not applicable.

**Informed Consent Statement:** Not applicable.

**Data Availability Statement:** Restrictions apply to the availability of these data. Data was obtained from Cyprus cadastral platform, for policy reasons data can't be shared.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest.
