France

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This study shows a notable rise in river discharge linked to Mediterranean cyclones, and how they contributed to some of the most destructive floods recorded in Corsica, by analyzing cyclone tracks, streamflow data, and flood-related damage records.
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This study is assessing the role of anthropogenic climate change in the occurrence of prolonged extreme climate conditions favourable for the development of summer 2022 Landes wildfires.
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French citizens feel most vulnerable to extreme weather, cybersecurity and terrorism, showing an average level of disaster awareness, preparedness and trust in authorities compared to other EU countries, with media being their primary information source.
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The aim of this report is to investigate the potential for harnessing key features of Transformative Innovation to improve the design and the implementation of Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) strategies, based on empirical analyses.
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This article examines recognition of differences in the capacity of people to deal with floods in Flood Risk Management (FRM) in England (United Kingdom), Finland, Flanders (Belgium) and France. Flood risks worldwide are increasing due to climate change.
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In this paper, researchers search for the most extreme heatwaves in Ile-de-France that are physically plausible, under climate change scenarios, for the decades around 2024.
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Les projections montrent une exacerbation de la vulnérabilité au feu dans les zones qui étaient déjà particulièrement touchées, mais aussi une extension de l’aléa prenant en écharpe le Sud-Est, le Sud-Ouest, le Centre-Ouest et l’Ouest, et le Sud-Est.
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This paper provides quantitative evidence on the geography of regional readiness to tackle climate change using data from France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Spain.

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