Sara Lindersson
Postdoctoral position at Department of Earth Sciences; Program for Air, Water and Landscape Sciences; Environmental Analysis
- E-mail:
- sara.lindersson@geo.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Geocentrum, Villavägen 16
752 36 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Villavägen 16
752 36 UPPSALA
- ORCID:
- 0000-0001-9359-6218
Short presentation
Sara Lindersson conducts quantitative and international studies at the intersection of disaster research, social vulnerability and data science.
Sara's primary affiliations are with CNDS and climes, both housed within the Department of Earth Sciences. Her research is also tied to a project about climate-resilient development the Department of Government.
Keywords
- disaster impacts
- natural hazards
- social vulnerability
- climate change
- climate extremes
- extreme weather
- equity
- public health and development
Research
Sara's research focuses on three interconnected areas:
- Analysing and improving the usability of international disaster impact databases.
- Investigating how socioeconomic inequalities shape humanitarian consequences from climate extremes.
- Assessing if, and under what conditions, disasters tend to catalyse more climate-resilient development.

Publications
Selection of publications
The wider the gap between rich and poor the higher the flood mortality
Part of Nature Sustainability, 2023
- DOI for The wider the gap between rich and poor the higher the flood mortality
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Part of WIREs Water, 2020
- DOI for A review of freely accessible global datasets for the study of floods, droughts and their interactions with human societies
- Download full text (pdf) of A review of freely accessible global datasets for the study of floods, droughts and their interactions with human societies
Recent publications
Panta Rhei: a decade of progress in research on change in hydrology and society
Part of Hydrological Sciences Journal, p. 1210-1236, 2025
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A review of open data for studying global groundwater in social–ecological systems
Part of Environmental Research Letters, 2025
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Plural climate storylines to foster just urban futures
Part of Nature Cities, p. 732-740, 2024
A comparison of global flood models using Sentinel-1 and a change detection approach
Part of Natural Hazards, 2024
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The use of global data to uncover how humans shape flood and drought risk
2023
All publications
Articles in journal
Panta Rhei: a decade of progress in research on change in hydrology and society
Part of Hydrological Sciences Journal, p. 1210-1236, 2025
- DOI for Panta Rhei: a decade of progress in research on change in hydrology and society
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A review of open data for studying global groundwater in social–ecological systems
Part of Environmental Research Letters, 2025
- DOI for A review of open data for studying global groundwater in social–ecological systems
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Plural climate storylines to foster just urban futures
Part of Nature Cities, p. 732-740, 2024
A comparison of global flood models using Sentinel-1 and a change detection approach
Part of Natural Hazards, 2024
- DOI for A comparison of global flood models using Sentinel-1 and a change detection approach
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The wider the gap between rich and poor the higher the flood mortality
Part of Nature Sustainability, 2023
- DOI for The wider the gap between rich and poor the higher the flood mortality
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Integrating Multiple Research Methods to Unravel the Complexity of Human-Water Systems
Part of AGU Advances, 2021
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Part of Water resources research, 2021
Global riverine flood risk - how do hydrogeomorphic floodplain maps compare to flood hazard maps?
Part of Natural hazards and earth system sciences, p. 2921-2948, 2021
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Articles, review/survey
Part of WIREs Water, 2020
- DOI for A review of freely accessible global datasets for the study of floods, droughts and their interactions with human societies
- Download full text (pdf) of A review of freely accessible global datasets for the study of floods, droughts and their interactions with human societies