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| | Research in Civil & Environmental Engineering / Environmental Sciences - RAE 5* |
 | | On a global-scale, for both types of exposure, population growth, socio-economic growth and urbanization are the most important drivers of the overall increase in exposure. |
 | | The analysis reveals that 90% of the total estimated 2070s asset exposure in large port cities is concentrated in only eight nations (China, US, India, Japan, Netherlands, Thailand, Vietnam and Bangladesh). |
 | | For population, 90% of the exposure in the 2070s is contained in eleven countries (again, China, USA, India, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam and Bangladesh as well as Myanmar, Egypt, Nigeria and Indonesia). |
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