Flooding has emerged as one of the most destructive natural disasters, with damages and disruptions escalating over recent decades due to climate change and urbanisation. Researchers from the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Bristol are emphasising the need to abandon outdated methods of flood hazard mapping, specifically a technique known as “bathtub modelling.” Read More

“If you invest in the beach and the sand protects the railroad, then the railroad protects the toe of the slope at Casa Romantica,” said Brett Sanders, a UC Irvine professor of civil and environmental engineering. “But then you have to think about the instability of the slope itself.