Sinking land plus rising seas are putting hundreds of millions of people at risk.
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Indonesia’s capital Jakarta will face escalating flood costs by 2050.
Sea levels are rising, while deltas are being starved of sediment by upstream dams.
Delta cities in both rich and poor countries face uphill, and potentially costly, battle in containing risk from flooding.
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Professor of Climate Adaptation, University of East Anglia
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University visitor, University of Southampton
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Postdoctoral Researcher at Environmental Crossroads Initiative, City University of New York
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Professor of Physical Geography, University of Southampton
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Researcher in Geociences, Utrecht University
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Lecturer of Civil Engineering, Universitas Pertamina
