Paul Bates

Jul 15, 2024 | nature.com | Paul Bates |Jim Hall |Bruno Merz |Jaroslav Mysiak |Eric Tate |Jens de Bruijn

AbstractFlood adaptation measures such as levees, flood-proofing structures, nature-based solutions and flood insurance are essential to cope with the growing flood risk caused by climate change and urban development into flood-prone areas. However, many communities in flood zones are ill-protected because the implementation of adaptation measures is hindered by a variety of constraints to adaptation, including the cost, limitations on institutional capacity and societal inertia.

Dec 28, 2023 | abqjournal.com | Paul Bates

By Paul Bates / Albuquerque resident 4-day school weeks won't help educationIn response to Rebecca Biage's column of Dec. 17 titled "PED has tunnel vision on five-day school weeks," the one thing she seems to have left out is any data at all that indicates that her four-day school plan has any chance of improving education in New Mexico.

Jul 3, 2023 | nature.com | Paul Bates

Can flood hazards be predicted precisely and accurately at the scale of individual buildings? A consideration of the uncertainties in most inundation modelling suggests not. We also know which model structures tend to produce good results in practice, with large-scale validation studies1 showing that terrain-filling approaches (for example, Height Above Nearest Drainage or HAND) and one-dimensional hydraulic methods have limitations in unconfined floodplains.