Sentences with phrase «managed retreat»

That's the reason why [managed retreat] should be a last resort.

The presentation also referenced managed retreat, or taking down shoreline structures and letting the beach move east naturally.

Ewing thinks this type of managed retreat will become more common as people start to understand the onerous cost of relentless nourishment.

study, Hino and her coauthors estimated around 1.3 million people had been relocated through managed retreat in response to natural hazards over the past three decades.

Mach's current research focuses on complicated adaptation strategies that require tradeoffs, such as managed retreat, a coastal management strategy in which people are moved away from encroaching shorelines.

The case for managed retreat stretches far beyond Essex.

The head of English Nature's coastal group, Geoff Radley, says the organisation's target is to generate 250 hectares of new salt marsh through managed retreat of Britain's coast each year.

The danger, he fears, is that the outrage many people feel about «giving land back to the sea» will prevent managed retreat ever being embarked upon.

The MAFF, horrified at the potential bills for rebuilding sea defences and under pressure from the Treasury to impose cost - benefit rules for expenditure on coastal defences, is increasingly enthusiastic about managed retreat.

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In a Nature Climate Change study, Hino and her coauthors estimated around 1.3 million people had been relocated through managed retreat in response to natural hazards over the past three decades.

The authority refused to provide a copy to New Scientist, though English Nature, an enthusiastic advocate of managed retreat, provided all but the secret annexe.

Other states (e.g., Hawai'i, North Carolina) are choosing instead to adopt strict setback requirements based on past and future sea level rises, and while not conferring the same long - term benefits as managed retreat, nevertheless represent a step in the right direction.

Meanwhile English Nature and the NRA have combined to commission reports into the options for managed retreat.

While some academics are now openly pushing for a «managed retreat» from vulnerable coasts, property developers are still putting plenty of new high rises along beaches.

10.45 pm Martin Parsons on CentreRight: A new Conservative government must reverse «managed retreat» policies around our coast

Mr Benn is responsible for the Environment Agency whose «managed retreat» policies propose abandoning to the sea thousands of acres of farmland that have for centuries been defended or even reclaimed from the sea.

Ian Hart, operations manager at the Anglian offices of the NRA, says there are five possible sites for a large - scale experiment but argues that managed retreat is at «the tentative hypothesis stage».

The talk now among coastal engineers is of setting back sea walls in a «managed retreat», and of giving the coast back to nature.

A national survey for English Nature and the NRA conducted by Jan Brooke, project leader of engineering consultant Posford Duvivier, includes an annexe identifying more than 40 sites for experiments in managed retreat.

Sediment is the key to managed retreat and all forms of soft coastal defence.

Managed retreat is the latest in a range of options known as «soft engineering», a term used to distinguish them from the «hard engineering» of sea walls.

In 1991, English Nature, the government's main conservation agency, began a small but potentially important experiment in «managed retreat» of the coastline at Northey Island, a small patch of salt marsh and grazing pasture owned by the National Trust in Essex's Blackwater estuary.

Hino, M. et al. (2017) Managed retreat as a response to natural hazard risk, Nature Climate Change, doi: 10.1038 / nclimate3252

Klaus Jacob, an earth scientist at Columbia University whose home just north of the city up the Hudson River was flooded by the surge from Hurricane Sandy, has been calling the necessary urban design approach «managed retreat» (Reed Noss of the University of Central Florida has been making the same argument in the context of wildlife conservation).

In a guest post for Carbon Brief last year, Miyuki Hino, a doctoral student at Stanford University, outlined how novel approaches to adapting to climate risks, such as «managed retreat», may in some cases prove necessary or preferable to infrastructure changes as climate impacts begin to hit.

for Carbon Brief last year, Miyuki Hino, a doctoral student at Stanford University, outlined how novel approaches to adapting to climate risks, such as «managed retreat», may in some cases prove necessary or preferable to infrastructure changes as climate impacts begin to hit.

Are there statewide policies to implement relocation («managed retreat») or policies that consider relocation a viable option?

Likewise, Texas, Rhode Island, Maine, and South Carolina's coastal zones all benefit from a degree of rolling setbacks, a policy akin to managed retreat that allows private coastal property owners to develop their land, but prohibits the erection of seawalls and barriers once sea levels begin to threaten the structures.

The same scenario has played out at Surfer's Point in Ventura, California, where the first phase of a managed retreat project has been implemented to effectively relocate a parking lot and bike path.

Yet managed retreat is a hotly contested issue among private property owners, who stand to lose not only millions of dollars in property value, but even their homes.

Managed retreat can also be extremely costly to state and local municipalities, and when considering such coastal cities as Miami, Los Angeles, and New York City, seems highly unfeasible.

The only real long - term option for coastal areas facing significant threats from sea level rise is thus adoption of a managed retreat policy, whereby homes and development are moved away from the shoreline so as to allow natural oceanic processes to run their course.

It is obvious, then, why the managed retreat option has been slow to catch on at either the state or national level.

However, the managed retreat strategy in this case is a fantastic example of how adapting to a changing coastline can be done, meeting both economic and environmental interests.

We focus on strengthening land use planning documents to incorporate adaptation measures such as «set backs», managed retreat, and other mechanisms that will support resilient beaches.

We don't have the same kind of funding source on the adaptation side, but we certainly need to use the funds we have, and potentially explore new funds, for actions ranging from upper watershed ecosystem restoration, to more green infrastructure to minimize flooding in urban areas, to managed retreat for crucial infrastructure.