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Buying out flood-risk properties; implications for policy and practice

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Professor Joshua Behr and Professor Carol Considine of Old Dominion University describe how their 2020 paper on buying out parcels of flood-risk land was produced, and discuss implications for policy elsewhere. The transcript of the session is available here.

  • Professor Carol Considine
  • Professor Joshua Behr

Links relevant in the USA:

  • Maryland island struggles to survive impact of rising sea level, erosion

Some additional links of interest (with thanks to Robin Campbell of Arup:

  • Managed Realignment Review, Defra 2002
  • Coastal and estuarine managed realignment design issues, UK Goverment, 2004
  • "Taking Managed Realignment Forward as a Policy Option for Coastal Management in England and Wales" 2006, CIWEM
  • "Adapting to coastal erosion - evaluation of rollback and leaseback schemes in coastal change pathfinder projects", UK Government, 2015
  • "Managed realignment in Europe: a synthesis of methods, achievements, and challenges", Bournemouth University, 2017
  • East Sussex Council Draft Coastal Adaptation Supplementary Planning Document
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