This report by Innovation Network for Communities and Climate Resilience Consulting identifies eight distinct strategies cities are using to pay for large-scale climate-resilience projects, mostly to address sea level rise and flooding. These strategies amount to an initial approach—Playbook 1.0—for deciding who will pay what and…
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This research report provides city government and civic leaders with new reasons to consider the use of managed retreat as a way to strengthen their cities’ climate resilience. As mounting destruction by rising seas, hurricanes, and wildfires drives the dangers of climate change deeper into public…
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Americans depend on our country’s transportation, energy and water supply systems. This infrastructure is under increasing stress as coastal storms, wildfires, drought and sea level rise. And there are countless questions on how to gain the political will, as well as the funds and financing for…
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August 28, 2018 | Adaptive Futures, Climate Adaptation, Innovation Network for Communities, Managed Retreat
Update on an INC project-in-progress (supported by the Summit Foundation) with 3 questions for readers What is the prospect of managed retreat becoming a prevailing practice among US cities that are faced with likely unmanageable future climate impacts? As we continue to study this question, we’ve developed…
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The Internet provides many websites that rate the “livability” of cities around the U.S. and the world: “The Top 100 Best Places to Live in America,” “America’s 50 Best Cities,” “Where Are the Best and Worst Cities to Retire,” and many others. They compare many indicators…
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Update for an INC project – Feedback welcome! For several months John and I have been studying what’s known and done about “managed retreat,” to understand how US cities might be prompted to adopt this ignored strategy for climate adaptation. We’ve developed some initial ideas, a…
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