flood risk
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In this Q&A, professor Benjamin Perrin and student Nathan Cheung discuss a new upper-level course studying whether robots need rights.
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Conserving nature can shield cities from floods
A UBC study finds that conserving just five per cent of watersheds (two per cent of Canada’s land) could shield more than half of urban floodplains, safeguarding millions.
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UBC researchers advocate for sustainable logging to safeguard against global flood risks
They synthesized decades of hydrology studies and found that many “severely and consistently underestimated” the impact of forest cover on flood risk.
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Clearcut logging leads to more frequent flooding, including extreme floods
Loss of forest cover is associated with more frequent extreme flooding, as well as more frequent floods of any size, according to new UBC research.
