With the onset of climate change resulting in more frequent hazard events and coastal
inundation, communities are considering buyouts as a tool for climate adaptation. Despite a …

Global climate change poses significant risks to coastal and riverine communities. Managed
retreat, the purposeful movement of people and infrastructure out of vulnerable floodplains …

Retreat from some areas will become unavoidable under intensifying climate change.
Existing deployments of managed retreat are at small scale compared to potential future …

As managed retreat programs expand across the globe, there is an urgent need to assess
whether these programs are reducing exposure to climatic hazards, enhancing adaptive …

This paper reviews and classifies forms of environmental relocation, including retreat,
migration, and resettlement, which are increasingly being considered and promoted as …

Managed retreat—the purposeful, coordinated movement of people and assets out of harm's
way—is a controversial and often overlooked adaptation tool but also a potentially …

Federal housing recovery policy bounds many of the decisions made by households after a
disaster. Within this policy domain, home buyout programs are increasingly used to …

Property buyout is one of the most frequently preferred flood mitigation applications by
decision-makers for long-term risk reduction. Due to its high-level funding requirements as a …

Communities are changing the way they manage flood risk as a result of climate change
which increases both the flood hazard intensity and frequency and therefore results in more …

Floodplain buyouts—the acquisition and removal of flood-damaged homes—have become
increasingly important in federal disaster policy. However, there has been little research on …