{"id":23817,"date":"2019-09-03T16:07:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T15:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=23817"},"modified":"2019-09-02T17:53:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T16:53:56","slug":"after-ihbcnottingham2019-closed-the-debate-extends-with-the-new-york-times-orderly-retreat-and-what-should-communities-do-as-sea-levels-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=23817","title":{"rendered":"After #IHBCNottingham2019 closed, the debate extends\u2026 with the New York Times \u2018orderly retreat\u2019 and \u2018What should communities do as\u2026 sea-levels rise?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"website\"The New York Times<\/em> has featured wider \u2018discussion of orderly, strategic retreat from areas at risk\u2019, specifically in the face of climate change.<\/h3>\n

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New York Times<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n

A paper published\u2026 in the journal Science<\/em> makes a case that, sometimes, retreating from nature instead of fighting it can actually open up new opportunities for communities. \u2018There\u2019s a definite rhetoric of, \u2018We\u2019re going to build it back better. We\u2019re going to win. We\u2019re going to beat this. Something technological is going to come and it\u2019s going to save us,\u2019 \u2018 said A.R. Siders, an assistant professor with the disaster research center at the University of Delaware and lead author of the paper. \u2018It\u2019s like, let\u2019s step back and think for a minute,\u2019 she said. \u2018You\u2019re in a fight with the ocean. You\u2019re fighting to hold the ocean in place. Maybe that\u2019s not the battle we want to pick.\u2019<\/p>\n

In fact, people have often retreated after catastrophic weather events. New Orleans, for example, lost roughly half of its population after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and the city\u2019s population is still only 85 percent of what it was before the storm. But those retreats have generally been ad hoc, not managed, and not necessarily done with broader social interests in mind.<\/p>\n

\u2026 The new paper lays out ways communities could practice managed retreats that would address their broader needs. Lack of access to reliable climate-hazard maps, for example, makes it difficult to make informed choices about risk. Such maps must be improved and updated regularly, the paper said.<\/p>\n

\u2026 Dr. Siders pointed to Soldiers Grove, Wis., a town of about 500 that, after one too many floods, moved itself out of the flood plain\u2026.<\/p>\n

\u2026 \u2018Retreat, in practice, depends at least as much on sort of social, economic, cultural geography,\u2019 Dr. Koslov said. \u2018It\u2019s not that everywhere should retreat,\u2019 Dr. Siders said. \u2018It\u2019s that retreat should be an option. It should be a real viable option on the table that some places will need to use.\u2019<\/p>\n

Read more….<\/a><\/p>\n

See #IHBCNottingham2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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