How do local planners and government agencies make decisions to prevent flood damage in their communities when the existing data might not be accurate any more? Dr. Brett Sanders, flood researcher with the Blum Center, offers some insight into this critical question of the time. He explains how their research team’s high resolution Los Angeles flood risk map differs from the cruder, lower resolution national risk maps planners use and what the implications of that discrepancy are for the communities at risk.
Dr. Sanders on Weighing Data Differences in Flood Mitigation Decisions
