Proactive Planning for Community Relocation

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From HSNewswire: Proactively Planning for Community Relocation Before and After Climate Disasters.

“Between 1980 and mid-2023, 232 billion-dollar disasters occurred in the U.S. Gulf Coast region, with the number of disasters doubling annually since 2018. As the frequency, intensity, and destructiveness of climate change-driven disasters increase, accompanied by an increase in recovery costs, more experts are calling for a managed retreat of entire communities from disaster-prone areas to safer ground.”

See also this earlier article on the topic: Planning for Disaster-Induced Relocation of Communities, by Balakrishnan Balachandran,Robert B. Olshansky, & Laurie A. Johnson
Published online: 24 Nov 2021. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01944363.2021.1978855

2 thoughts on “Proactive Planning for Community Relocation”

  1. Claire,
    On this topic, I don’t recall whether we had previously brought our paper to your attention. The paper is “Planning for disaster-induced relocation of communities” in the Journal of the American Planning Association.
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01944363.2021.1978855

    I have attached a pdf version for you.

    Rob

    Robert B. Olshansky, FAICP, Professor Emeritus
    Dept. of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    1.217.649.4452 (mobile), robo@illinois.edurobo@illinois.edu
    Visiting Professor, Dept of City & Regional Planning, UC Berkeley, robo@berkeley.edu

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