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  • Environmental Engineering
  • Risk Management

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  • Deep uncertainty, stemming from model and parameter disagreement, challenges accurate Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) mass loss projections.
  • Uncertainty in sea level rise projections complicates long-lived coastal protection strategies, potentially reducing their effectiveness over time.
  • This poses risks to coastal populations and infrastructure due to inadequate safety margins.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a flood damage allowance framework for determining necessary flood protection heights.
  • To ensure a specified level of financial risk is maintained under deep uncertainty.
  • To integrate decision-maker preferences and AIS stability views into coastal protection planning.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a flood damage allowance framework considering planning horizons, protection strategies, and AIS stability.
  • Utilized a case study of Manhattan, fixing population and built environment, to illustrate framework application.
  • Calculated damage allowances based on plausible AIS melt scenarios under varying greenhouse gas emissions.

Main Results:

  • Flood protection effectiveness is sensitive to the upper limit of AIS contributions to sea level rise under high emissions.
  • The framework enables calculation of a range of damage allowances based on multiple AIS melt scenarios.
  • Financial risk targets, like expected flood damage, facilitate calculation of avoided flood damages (benefits).

Conclusions:

  • The developed framework provides a method to quantify flood protection needs under deep uncertainty.
  • Calculated benefits can be integrated into financial decision-making tools like benefit-cost analysis.
  • This approach aids in optimizing coastal protection investments against uncertain future sea level rise.