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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For a week an iceberg as tall as the Statue of Liberty filled the villagers of Innaarsuit, Greenland, with existential dread. Photo: Magnus Kristensen/Ritzau Scanpix/Reuters Climate Change and the Giant Iceberg Off Greenland’s Shore By Carolyn Kormann “For a week, an iceberg as colossal as it is…
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After climate-driven devastation hits a community–storm & sea surges, river flooding, earthquakes, wildfires–a lot gets said about where development should never have been allowed to occur because the risks were too great–and a lot gets decided about rebuilding as much as possible to make things just…
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January 7, 2018 | Cities, Climate Adaptation, Equity, Innovation Network for Communities, Reports, Sea Level Rise
In a scan of the climate adaptation plans, strategies, and actions of dozens of U.S. cities, INC developed a new framework for understanding what it takes to plan and implement adaptation and how to further develop the emerging field of practice for urban adaptation. We identified…
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There is not the slightest doubt that beachfront development will retreat on a massive scale, though widespread recognition of this and serious planning for it are lacking. . . . The sooner we recognize the truth about nature’s intentions at the shoreline, the better. Neither time…
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October 19, 2017 | Cities, Climate Adaptation, Innovation Network for Communities, Managed Retreat, Sea Level Rise, Urban Climate Innovation
We’re starting a new project, with support of the Summit Foundation–to look more closely at the challenge of “managed retreat” by cities vulnerable to sea level rise and other climate impacts. Your thoughts and examples welcome. There is not the slightest doubt that beachfront development…
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