By A.R Siders
U.S. towns are building new housing and infrastructure in their floodplains – but not as much as expected, and the tools to stop it may be more routine than we imagined.
Those are the key takeaways from two new papers: one in Oxford Open Climate Change OUP Academic (Siders et al.) today and one in Earth’s Future last week (Agopian et al). The findings could change how advocates, floodplain managers, and a new administration, think about policy reforms for flood risk management.
