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Received: 1 October 2024

Accepted: 26 April 2025

First Online: 14 May 2025

Declarations

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: As researchers of two Dutch universities, all our work abides by the Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity. This code stipulates that researchers must act in an honest, scrupulous, transparent, independent and responsible manner throughout their scientific work. Considering that our team, and thus our institutional embedding, are spread across three faculties from two different universities, we have opted for a decentralized and stepped ethical design. This approach means that each WP applies for ethical clearance separately at the relevant Research Ethics Review Committee (RERC) of their faculty or university. In accordance with accepted academic practice in the Netherlands, ethical clearance is generally sought for empirical studies only and always prior to the start of the data collection. Within our wider project, ethical clearance has been received from Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, EUR (RERC reference ETH2223-0381) and the TU Delft Human Research Ethics Committee (ID 122466). Particular care will be taken of how our research might potentially intervene in the risk behaviour or perceptions of the actors with whom we engage throughout the project. Flooding events are known to produce emotions that linger over time, including the likelihood of developing post-traumatic stress disorder []. Besides, we may unintentionally confront people with their risk of flooding, thereby, fuelling anxiety among such people. To minimise the risk of such interactions, a team of ethicists will advise us during the entire course of our project.

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: The authors declare no competing interests.