Environmental "nonuse rights" warrant caution
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[Extract] Extreme precipitation across China, Europe, and the United States led to unprecedented flood disasters this year, with hundreds of people killed and billions of dollars in losses. Thousand-year flood events in China and Europe and a 100-year flood event in the United States devastated inland regions not typically subject to extreme floods (1). The flooding in China, largely in Henan province, affected more than 14 million people, killing over 300 and inundating 16 million hectares of crops with direct economic losses of US$20.69 billion and indirect costs magnitudes greater (2). While climate change has been viewed as the primary culprit of these disasters (3, 4), these inland regions’ extreme lack of preparedness for such flooding events compounded the losses (5).
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0036-8075
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Amer Assoc Advancement Science
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10.1126/science.abm4324