Publications

Costa L., & Moreau V., (2019) The emissions benefits of European integration, Environemental Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab3738. [download]

Krummenauer, L., Prahl B., Costa, L., Holsten, A., Walter, C., and Kropp, J.P.,  Global drivers of minimum mortality temperatures in cities, Science of the Total Environment, 2019 [accepted]

Weng, W., Costa, L., Luedeke, M. K. B. and Zemp, D. C. (2019) Aerial river management by smart cross-border reforestation, Land Use Policy, 84, 105-113, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.03.010, [download]

Costa, L., Kropp J.P.,  Estimating investments in knowledge and planning activities for adaptation in developing countries: an empirical approach, Climate and Development, DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2018.1562865, 2019 [download]

Prahl BF, Boettle M, Costa L, Kropp JP, Rybski D. Damage and protection cost curves for coastal floods within the 600 largest European cities. Scientific data. 2018 [download]

Pradhan, P,  Costa L., Rybski D., Lucht W. and Kropp J.P. A systematic study of sustainable development goal (SDG) interactions. Earth's Future 5, no. 11, 1169-1179. 2017 [download]

Costa, L., Kropp J.P., Harmeling, S.,  Assessing the costs of adaption to climate change in developing countries, Report for the Umweltbundesamt, Germany, February, 2014, [download] [download]

Roebeling P. C., Costa  L., Magalhães-Filho L.,  Tekken V., Ecosystem service value losses from coastal erosion in Europe: historical trends and future projections. Journal of Coastal Conservation. 2013 [download]

Costa, L., Kropp J.P., Linking components of vulnerability in theoretic frameworks and case studies. Sustainability Sciences. 2011 [download]

Costa L ,Rybski, D., Kropp J.P., A human development framework for CO2 reductions,  PLoS ONE 6(12) 2011 [download]

Costa L, Thonicke K., Poulter B., Badeck F. Sensitivity of Portuguese forest fires to climatic, human and landscape factors: Sub-national differences between extreme fire years and decadal averages. Regional Environmental Change, 2010 [download]

Costa L, V. Tekken and J. Kropp, Threat of sea-level rise: Costs and benefits of adaptation in the European Union Coastal Countries, Journal of Coastal Research, 2009 [download]

Thomas Hickler, Katrin Vohland, Paul A. Miller, Benjamin Smith, Luis Costa , Jane Feehan, Thomas Giesecke, Stefan Fronzek, Timothy R. Carter, Wolfgang Cramer, Ingolf Kühn, Martin T. Sykes, Projecting the future distribution of European potential vegetation zones with a generalized, tree-species based dynamic vegetation model, Global Change Biology, 2012 [download]

Hickler, T., K. Vohland, Costa L , P. Miller, B. Smith, J. Feehan, and M. Sykes. 2010. Vegetation on the move – where do conservation aims have to be re-defined?  In J. Settele, L. Penev, T. Georgiev, R. Grabaum, V. Grobelnik, V. Hammen, S. Klotz and I. Kühn [eds.], Atlas of Biodiversity Risk. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia-Moscow.

Markus Wrobel, Luís Costa, Tabea Lissner, Marta Moneo Laín, Tobias Weiss and Juergen Kropp, A review of user interface conventions in web applications for climate change information, Interaction Design for Environmental Information Systems, International Congress on Environmental Modeling and Software, 2010

Costa L., Badeck F., Thonicke K. Sensitivity of Portuguese Forest Fires to Land Use and Climatic Factors, Proceeding of the 4th International Wildfire Conference, Sevilha 2000. [download]