Keeping our heads above water: Spatially heterogenous social vulnerabilities and cliamte adaptation

Fluvial flooding, represented with a light-blue shading on the map, 142 interests primarily the course and estuaries of the Shannon river in central Ireland, of the Laune river in 143 the south-west, of the Barrow river and Liffey river in the centre and east, and of the Lough Conn and Moy 144 river in the north-west. [...] We compute the areas of each sub-geometry F(i,k), and then we derive the 224 percentage of grid cell k’s area that is covered by the flood sub-geometry F(i,k) as the ratio between the 225 area of F(i,k) and the area of the grid cell11. [...] Nevertheless, we can assess the performance of the procedure by using it to estimate the electoral 241 divisions’ population and compare the result to the values reported in the census. [...] The distribution of flood hazard maps mirrors 426 the flood extents displyed in Figure 1, with the higher hazard areas and main hot spots located on the course 427 and estuary of the Shannon river, on the high course of the Barrow river, on the north-eastern coast in the 428 cities of Dublin and Dundalk, on the western coast on the estuary of the Feale river and in the city of Galway, 429 and in t. [...] Already an increase to e = 1.5 leads to a change in 506 composition of the hot spots, with the one on the south-eastern coast, in the Wexford area, becoming wider 507 and more significant; those in Galway and in the upper course of the Shannon river disappearing; and an new 508 one emerging on the western coast.