EDITORIAL article Front. Sustain. Cities, 12 June 2023Sec. Cities in the Global South Volume 5 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2023.1204093

This paper presents a first estimate of the exposure of the world’s large port cities (population exceeding one million inhabitants in 2005) to coastal flooding due to sea-level rise and storm surge now and in the 2070s, taking into account scenarios of socio-economic and climate changes. The analysis suggests that about 40 million people (0.6% of the global population or roughly 1 in 10 of the...