Flood protection and vulnerability estimates for Europe, 1950-2020

<p>This dataset provides estimates of flood protection levels and flood vulnerability at scale of 1422 subnational regions of 42 European countries over the period 1950&ndash;2020. Estimates are based on a set of vine-copula models quantified with data on flood impacts from the HANZE catalogue.</p> <p>The dataset contains two ZIP files with a total of five shapefiles, each containing a "Code" column with the code of the subnational region (based mainly on EU's NUTS3, v2010 classification) and other column estimates per each year between 1950 and 2020.</p> <ul> <li>NUTS3_Flood_Protection_coast: estimated flood protection level from coastal floods, as average return period in years between occurrence of significant flood impacts;</li> <li>NUTS3_Flood_Protection_riverine: as above, but for riverine floods;</li> <li>NUTS3_Vulnerability_Fat_comb: estimated actual fatalities from an hypothetical average flood, as % of potential impact under assumption of a static depth-fatality function and no flood protection within region (S-shaped function shown in Jonkman et al. 2008,&nbsp;<a title="Jonkman2008" href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-008-9227-5">https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-008-9227-5</a>)</li> <li>NUTS3_Vulnerability_Pop_aff: estimated actual population affected from an hypothetical average flood, as % of exposed population under assumption of no flood protection within region</li> <li>NUTS3_Vulnerability_Eco_less: estimated actual direct economic loss (damage to assets) from an hypothetical average flood, as % of potential impact under assumption of static depth-damage functions (from Huizinga et al. 2017,&nbsp;<a title="Huizinga2017" href="https://doi.org/10.2760/16510">https://doi.org/10.2760/16510</a>) and no flood protection within region.</li> </ul> <p>Detailed methodology is explained in the underlying publication. Code and data to reproduce the results are also available on Zenodo (see "Related works").</p> <p>Data can be also viewed on <a title="Natural Hazards" href="https://naturalhazards.eu/">https://naturalhazards.eu/</a></p>