Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning Kelsea Best was featured on News5 in an article exploring the growing threat of climate isolation. Climate isolation is a term used to describe the isolation communities may experience as a result of climate change and rising sea levels that could disrupt roads and transportation corridors. New research shows that the flooding and climate isolation risk may be greater for some communities than for others.

“It’s not associated with a hurricane or a natural disaster. That maybe gets more attention,” says Kelsea Best, an assistant professor at Ohio State University, focusing on civil, environmental and geodetic engineering and city and regional planning.

Best, along with researchers in New Zealand and at the University of Maryland, looked at how sea level rise might impact communities beyond just the flooding of structures.

“This idea that direct inundation, or direct flooding of people and properties, isn’t really getting the whole story of how sea level rise is likely to impact communities,” she said.

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