Pralle discusses updating county flood maps in Cortland Standard

November 4, 2020

Cortland Standard

Sarah Pralle

Political Science Department

Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Center for Environmental Policy and Administration

Flood Insurance

Natural Disasters

New York State

Cortland Standard

Sarah Pralle

The Cortland County flood map "might show a reasonable flood risk today, but since we don’t make those investment decisions with ramifications far into the future, the maps don’t really help us plan for a different climate," says Sarah Pralle, associate professor of political science. "When we look at flood maps now, the conversations are about the insurance cost," Pralle says. Instead, "we have to get to the point where we talk about these things as risks and how to mitigate these things as well." Read more in the Cortland Standard article, "What Cortland County’s flood map does, and doesn’t, show." 11/04/20