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Prof. Nicholls, Robert
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He is an expert concerning impacts and adaptation to climate change in coastal areas, including assessment methods and has been involved in projects at local, national and international scales.

Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, more

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University of East Anglia; School of Environmental Sciences, more

Function: Professor of Climate Adaptation
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University of Southampton; Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, more

Innovative coastal technologies for safer European coasts in a changing climate, more

A1 Publications (23) [show]
Hanson, S.E.; Nicholls, R.J.; Calkoen, F.R.; le Cozannet, G.; Luijendijk, A.P. (2026). A geospatial database of coastal characteristics for erosion assessment of Europe's coastal floodplains. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. 26(4): 1685-1703. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/nhess-26-1685-2026, more Oelsmann, J.; Nicholls, R.J.; Lincke, D.; Marcos, M.; Shirzaei, M.; Sanchez, L.; Ohenhen, L.; Dettmering, D.; Hinkel, J.; Horton, B.P.; Seitz, F. (2026). Subsidence more than doubles sea-level rise today along densely populated coasts. Nature Comm. 17(1): 4382. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-72293-z, more Pasquier, U.; Nicholls, R.J.; le Cozannet, G.; Sayers, P.; Völz, V.; Hinkel, J.; Toimil, A.; Wolff, C. (2026). Structural accommodation as a coastal adaptation response to sea‐level rise: Lessons from Europe. Earth's Future 14(2): e2025EF006797. https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025ef006797, more Völz, V.; Hinkel, J.; Lincke, D.; Honsel, L.E.; Nicholls, R.J.; Thieblemont, R.; le Cozannet, G.; Sayers, P. (2026). The economically optimal mix and timing of coastal adaptation in Europe to 2150. Nature Comm. 17(1): 6249. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-74042-8, more Eslami, S.; Oude Essink, G.; Paszkowski, A.; Seeger, K.; Minderhoud, P.S.J.; Sloff, K.; Nicholls, R.J. (2025). A systems perspective for climate adaptation in deltas. Nat. Clim. Chang. 15(7): 687-691. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02368-0, more Wang, Y.; Ye, Y.; Nicholls, R.J.; Olsson, L.; van Vuuren, D.; Peterson, G.; He, Y.; Li, M.; Fan, J.; Scown, M. (2025). Managing development choices is essential to reduce coastal flood risk in China. Nat. Clim. Chang. 15(10): 1033-1034. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02418-7, more Wang, Y.; Ye, Y.; Nicholls, R.J.; Olsson, L.; Van Vuuren, D.P.; Peterson, G.; He, Y.; Li, M.; Fan, J.; Scown, M.W. (2025). Development policy affects coastal flood exposure in China more than sea-level rise. Nat. Clim. Chang. 15(10): 1071-1077. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02439-2, more Le Cozannet, G.; Nicholls, R.J.; Durand, G.; Slangen, A.B.A.; Lincke, D.; Chapuis, A. (2023). Adaptation to multi-meter sea-level rise should start now. Environ. Res. Lett. 18(9): 091001. https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acef3f, more Magnan, A.K.; Bell, R.; Duvat, V.K.E.; Ford, J.D.; Garschagen, M.; Haasnoot, M.; Lacambra, C.; Losada, I.J.; Mach, K.J.; Noblet, M.; Parthasaranthy, D.; Sanò, M.; Vincent, K.; Anisimov, A.; Hanson, S.; Malmström, A.; Nicholls, R.J.; Winter, G. (2023). Status of global coastal adaptation. Nat. Clim. Chang. 13(11): 1213-1221. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01834-x, more Turner, F.E.; Malagon Santos, V.; Edwards, T.L.; Slangen, A.B.A.; Nicholls, R.J.; Le Cozannet, G.; O’Neill, J.F.; Adhikari, M. (2023). Illustrative multi‐centennial projections of global mean sea‐level rise and their application. Earth's Future 11(12): e2023EF003550. https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2023ef003550, more Durand, G.; van den Broeke, M.R.; Le Cozannet, G.; Edwards, T.L.; Holland, P.R.; Jourdain, N.C.; Marzeion, B.; Mottram, R.; Nicholls, R.J.; Pattyn, F.; Paul, F.; Slangen, A.B.A.; Winkelmann, R.; Burgard, C.; van Calcar, C.J.; Barré, J.-B.; Bataille, A.; Chapuis, A. (2022). Sea-level rise: From global perspectives to local services. Front. Mar. Sci. 8: 709595. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.709595, more Bamunawala, J.; Ranasinghe, R.; Dastgheib, A.; Nicholls, R.J.; Murray, A.B.; Barnard, P.L.; Sirisena, T.A.J.G.; Duong, T.M.; Hulscher, S.J.M.H.; van der Spek, A. (2021). Twenty-first-century projections of shoreline change along inlet-interrupted coastlines. NPG Scientific Reports 11(1): 14038. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93221-9, more Lazarus, E.D.; Aldabet, S.; Hill, C.T.; Nicholls, R.J.; French, J.R.; Brown, S.; Tompkins, E.L.; Haigh, I.D.; Townend, I.H.; Penning-Rowsell, E.C. (2021). The UK needs an open data portal dedicated to coastal flood and erosion hazard risk and resilience. Anthropocene Coasts 4(1): 137-146. https://dx.doi.org/10.1139/anc-2020-0023, more Nicholls, R.J.; Lincke, D.; Hinkel, J.; Brown, S.; Vafeidis, A.T.; Meyssignac, B.; Hanson, S.E.; Merkens, J.-L.; Fang, J. (2021). A global analysis of subsidence, relative sea-level change and coastal flood exposure. Nat. Clim. Chang. 11(4): 338-342. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-00993-z, more Hinkel, J.; Aerts, J.C.H.J.; Brown, S.; Jiménez, J.A.; Lincke, D.; Nicholls, R.J.; Scussolini, P.; Sánchez-Arcilla, A.; Vafeidis, A.; Appeaning-Addo, K. (2018). The ability of societies to adapt to twenty-first-century sea-level rise. Nat. Clim. Chang. 8(7): 570-578. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0176-z, more Schuerch, M.; Spencer, T.; Temmerman, S.; Kirwan, M.L.; Wolff, C.; Lincke, D.; McOwen, C.J.; Pickering, M.D.; Reef, R.; Vafeidis, A.T.; Hinkel, J.; Nicholls, R.J.; Brown, S. (2018). Future response of global coastal wetlands to sea-level rise. Nature (Lond.) 561(7722): 231-234. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0476-5, more le Cozannet, G.; Nicholls, R.J.; Hinkel, J.; Sweet, W.V.; McInnes, K.L.; Van de Wal, R.S.E.; Slangen, A.B.A.; Lowe, J.A.; White, K.D. (2017). Sea Level Change and Coastal Climate Services: The Way Forward. J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 5(4): 49. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jmse5040049, more Wahl, T.; Haigh, I.D.; Nicholls, R.J.; Arns, A.; Dangendorf, S.; Hinkel, J.; Slangen, A.B.A. (2017). Understanding extreme sea levels for broad-scale coastal impact and adaptation analysis. Nature Comm. 8: 16075. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms16075, more Monbaliu, J.; Chen, Z.; Felts, D.; Ge, J.; Hissel, F.; Kappenberg, J.; Narayan, S.; Nicholls, R.J.; Ohle, N.; Schuster, D.; Sothmann, J.; Willems, P. (2014). Risk assessment of estuaries under climate change: lessons from Western Europe. Coast. Eng. 87: 32-49. https://hdl.handle.net/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2014.01.001, more Narayan, S.; Nicholls, R.J.; Clarke, D.; Hanson, S.; Reeve, D.; Horrillo-Caraballo, J.; le Cozannet, G.; Hissel, F.; Kowalska, B.; Parda, R.; Willems, P.; Ohle, N.; Zanuttigh, B.; Losada, I.; Ge, J.; Trifonova, E.; Penning-Rowsell, E.; Vanderlinden, J.P. (2014). The SPR systems model as a conceptual foundation for rapid integrated risk appraisals: Lessons from Europe. Coast. Eng. 87: 15-31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2013.10.021, more Weisse, R.; Bellafiore, D.; Menéndez, M.; Méndez, F.; Nicholls, R.J.; Umgiesser, G.; Willems, P. (2014). Changing extreme sea levels along European coasts. Coast. Eng. 87: 4-14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2013.10.017, more Zanuttigh, B.; Simcic, D.; Bagli, S.; Bozzeda, F.; Pietrantoni, L.; Zagonari, F.; Hoggart, S.; Nicholls, R.J. (2014). THESEUS decision support system for coastal risk management. Coast. Eng. 87: 218-239. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2013.11.013, more Kebede, A. S.; Nicholls, R. J.; Hanson, S.; Mokrech, M. (2012). Impacts of climate change and sea-level rise: a preliminary case study of Mombasa, Kenya. J. Coast. Res. 28(1A): 8-19. https://dx.doi.org/10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-10-00069.1, more
Book [show]
Burcharth, H.F.; Zanuttigh, B.; Thompson, R.C.; Nicholls, R.J.; Vanderlinden, J.P. (Ed.) (2015). Coastal risk management in a changing climate. Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann: Amsterdam. ISBN 978-0-12-397310-8. 670 pp., more
Book chapters (2) [show]
Woodroffe, C.D.; Nicholls, R.J.; Burkett, V.; Forbes, D.L. (2014). The impact of climate change on coastal ecosystems, in: Bowen, R.E. et al. (Ed.) Oceans and human health: Implications for society and well-being. pp. 141-176, more Brown, S.; Nicholls, R.J.; Woodroffe, C.D.; Hanson, S.; Hinkel, J.; Kebede, A. S.; Neumann, B.; Vafeidis, A.T. (2013). Sea-level rise impacts and responses: A global perspective, in: Finkl, C.W. (Ed.) Coastal hazards. Coastal Research Library, 6: pp. 117-149. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5234-4_5, more