Storm Gloria: causes and consequences Authors Francesca Segura Beltran Universitat de València Abstract Between 19th and 22nd January 2020, Storm Gloria severely affected the Mediterranean coastline, particularly Catalonia, the Region of Valencia, and the Balearic Islands. Formed by the merger of two storms, the way it stalled, and its duration turned it into a high-energy episode that caused heavy, intense rainfall, heavy snowstorms, river flooding and an exceptional maritime storm. It caused numerous economic losses all over, affecting both inland regions and the coast, the latter more severely. The consequences cannot be attributed to climate change but instead are the direct consequence of the anthropic occupation of high-risk areas, and therefore of poor or non-existent land-use planning. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Downloads PDF (Català) Issue No. 12 (2022) Section Interventions License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On publishing articles to the journal Catalan Social Sciences Review (CSSR), authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Philosophy and Social Sciences Section (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles published in Catalan Social Sciences Review (CSSR).Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.Philosophy and Social Sciences Section declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.Catalan Social Sciences Review (CSSR) is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.
