Development of flood exposure in the Netherlands during the 20th and 21st century.

In this paper, the authors combine spatially explicit historical, present, and future land-use data with detailed information on the maximum flood inundation in the Netherlands to show that the total amount of urban area that can potentially become inundated due to floods from the sea or main rivers has increased six-fold during the 20th century, and may double again during the 21st century.