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Editorial
. 2025 Feb 12:70:1608236.
doi: 10.3389/ijph.2025.1608236. eCollection 2025.

The 2024 Spain Floods: A Call for Resilience and the Duty of Memory

Periklis Charalampous  1   2   3 , Niko Speybroeck  1 , Joris A F van Loenhout  1   3 , Gurvan Pluen  1 , Damien Delforge  1
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Editorial

The 2024 Spain Floods: A Call for Resilience and the Duty of Memory

Periklis Charalampous et al. Int J Public Health. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT); Spain; climate change; disaster loss database; disaster preparedness; disaster risk reduction; emergency health; floods.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they do not have any conflicts of interest.

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Top-10 deadliest flood events in Europe, 1900–2024, from the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) [3].
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