Research project

RISES-AM-EU FP7-R. Nicholls

Research groups:

Energy and Climate Change Group
Lead researchers:

Professor Robert Nicholls
Research funder:

European Union
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Robert Nicholls

Professor in Coastal Engineering

Research interests

long-term coastal engineering and management
the issues of coastal impacts and adaptation to climate change, with an emphasis on sea-level rise
the assessment of the future of deltaic areas, which are the most threatened coastal setting in the coming century

Connect with Robert

Email: R.J.Nicholls@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Energy and Climate Change Group

The research group seeks engineering solutions for reliable, affordable and sustainable energy stemming from renewable resources.

Research outputs

Coastal flooding in the Maldives: an assessment of historic events and their implications

Matthew Wadey, Sally Brown, Robert Nicholls & Ivan Haigh, 2017, Natural Hazards, 89(1), 131–159

DOI: 10.1007/s11069-017-2957-5

Type: article

A comparison of two global datasets of extreme sea levels and resulting flood exposure

Sanne Muis, Martin Verlaan, Robert Nicholls, Sally Brown, Jochen Hinkel, Daniel Lincke, Athanasios T Vafeidis, Paolo Scussolini, Hessel C Winsemius & Philip J Ward, 2017, Earth's Future

DOI: 10.1002/2016EF000430