Print Email Facebook Twitter HANZE: a pan-European database of exposure to natural hazards and damaging historical floods since 1870 Title HANZE: a pan-European database of exposure to natural hazards and damaging historical floods since 1870 Author Paprotny, D. (TU Delft Hydraulic Structures and Flood Risk) Morales Napoles, O. (TU Delft Hydraulic Structures and Flood Risk) Jonkman, Sebastiaan N. (TU Delft Hydraulic Structures and Flood Risk) Date 2018-01-11 Abstract The influence of social and economic change on the consequences of natural hazards has been a matter of much interest recently. However, there is a lack of comprehensive, high-resolution data on historical changes in land use, population or assets available to study this topic. Here, we present HANZE database, or ‘Historical Analysis of Natural Hazards in Europe’, which contains two parts: (1) HANZE-Exposure with maps for 37 countries and territories from 1870 to 2020 in 100 m resolution and (2) HANZE-Events, a compilation of past disasters with information on dates, locations and losses, currently limited to floods only. The database was constructed using high-resolution maps of present land use and population, a large compilation of historical statistics, and relatively disaggregation techniques and rule-based land-use reallocation schemes. Data encompassed in HANZE allow to ‘normalize’ information on losses due to natural hazards by taking into account inflation as well as changes in population, production and wealth. Database of past events currently contains 1564 records (1870–2016) of flash, river, coastal and compound floods. HANZE database is freely available at https://doi.org/10.4121/collection:HANZE To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a6f8d728-e413-4324-847e-7a7c301c8ef2 DOI https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-565-2018 ISSN 1866-3508 Source Earth System Science Data, 10 (1), 565-581 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2018 D. Paprotny, O. Morales Napoles, Sebastiaan N. Jonkman Files PDF essd_10_565_2018.pdf 2.3 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:a6f8d728-e413-4324-847e-7a7c301c8ef2/datastream/OBJ/view