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INTRODUCTION 33 of the relocation and resettlement process. The Climigration Network13 published a guidebook, informed by interviews with community members from across the United States, that breaks down the term's connotations: "Managed" implies top-down processes suggesting power dynamics and feelings of powerlessness over outcomes.
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34 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RELOCATION • the originating community is at the center of decision making about relocation and needs for well-being; • policy and material supports are provided for optimally enlarging a community's option for a safe landing in the receiving community or relocation destination; and • supports are provided for the receiving community, including land use planning, economic investments, and social resilience. The committee also found that the term "managed retreat" captured too narrow of an array of relocation circumstances because it implies a rare case of wholesale community relocation from point A to point B at a discreet point in time rather than the diversity of circumstances described above (e.g., single home, sovereign tribal lands, incremental migrations)
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INTRODUCTION 35 and Hurricanes Laura and Delta (both in 2020) in southwestern Louisiana.
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36 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RELOCATION Studio,17 has positioned his work as an alternative to a strict adherence to managed retreat. Rather, through deep community engagement and empowerment, he has focused on helping low- and moderate-income individuals become more resilient in-place by designing safer homes and communities that account for flood risk.
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INTRODUCTION 37 adaptive governance takes as its guiding principle the imperative to adjust and evolve across multiple organizational levels and geographic scales (Folke et al., 2005)
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38 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RELOCATION THE STUDY PROCESS The committee put considerable emphasis on ways to hear from and interact with residents of the Gulf region, traveling to five locations to hold hybrid public workshops (see Box 1-2)
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INTRODUCTION 39 BOX 1-2 Committee Outreach Activities • Hybrid workshops in Houston and Port Arthur, Texas, June 2022 • Hybrid workshop in St. Petersburg, Florida, July 2022 • Hybrid workshops in Thibodaux and Houma, Louisiana, July 2022, including a site visit to southeastern Louisiana with stops at Isle de Jean Charles Marina, Chauvin Art and Sculpture Garden, and the new settlement for the Isle de Jean Charles Community in Schriever, Terrebonne Parish • Virtual Roundtable -- Perspectives and Approaches to Property Acquisitions: Challenges and Lessons Learned, December 2022 • Public Call for Perspectives: Managed Retreat in the U.S.
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40 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RELOCATION (Carey, 2020) , as did the term "managed retreat" (Bromhead, 2022; Mulkern, 2021)
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INTRODUCTION 41 Region that will continue to compel relocation (Chapter 2) ; and concludes with a historical account of U.S.
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42 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RELOCATION households, local and state governments, and other community stakeholders might face when navigating the relocation process considering the framework laid out in Chapter 9, including the role of insurance, benefitcost analysis, and household eligibility, among others, with specific attention to the buyout process alongside other relocation strategies. Finally, the committee's recommendations are highlighted in the final chapter (Chapter 11)
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2 The Scale of the Threat This chapter discusses the following: • The physical environment of the U.S. Gulf Coast Region and en vironmental hazards, including climate changes (e.g., rising tem peratures, changing precipitation)
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44 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RELOCATION to be comprehended in ways other than quantitatively. Moreover, instead of populations withdrawing from environmentally high-risk areas, many places in the Gulf region are increasing in population as individuals, businesses, and government continue to invest in high-risk areas, where the frequency and scale of climate-related disasters are on the rise.
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FIGURE 2-1 Gulf of Mexico region showing basic current patterns in the Gulf of Mexico, including the Loop Current. SOURCE: Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary.
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46 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RELOCATION sinking of land due to compression of sediments, removal of groundwater or other subsurface fluids, or geologic processes such as faulting or isostatic adjustment (a section on subsidence is further below)
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FIGURE 2-2 U.S. 2022 billion-dollar weather and climate disasters.
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48 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RELOCATION FIGURE 2-3 Coastal Flood Risk Index for tribal communities. NOTES: FEMA obtains tribal community data from two sources: (1)
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THE SCALE OF THE THREAT 49 FIGURE 2-4 Coastal Hazard Risk Index for Gulf Coast communities. SOURCE: Committee generated from data at https://hazards.fema.gov/nri/dataresources in the U.S.
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50 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RELOCATION FIGURE 2-5 Social Vulnerability Index score for Gulf Coast communities. SOURCE: Committee generated from data at https://hazards.fema.gov/nri/dataresources TABLE 2-1 Days Over 95F (Historic and Projected)
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FIGURE 2-6 Orleans Parish days with maximum temperature above 95F.
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52 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RELOCATION (National Weather Service, 2022)
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THE SCALE OF THE THREAT 53 FIGURE 2-7 Projected change in daily, 20-year extreme precipitation. SOURCE: Easterling, D
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54 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RELOCATION a potential increase in the "frequency, intensity, and/or size of [tropical cyclones] by the end of the 21st century" (Marsooli et al., 2019, p.
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THE SCALE OF THE THREAT 55 FIGURE 2-8 Fluvial (riverine) flood risk.
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56 This application is designed for use on desktop computers and tablets in landscape mode. Gulf Coast, USA Sea Level Rise Viewer WATER LEVEL 10ft Sea Level 9ft Rise 8ft Local Scenarios 7ft Mapping Confidence 6ft 5ft Marsh Migration 4ft Vulnerability 3ft High Tide 2ft Flooding 1ft 1ft + Current − MHHW UNITS ?
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57 floodexposure/#-9725012,3188145,7z/eyJiIjoiZGFyayJ9 SOURCE: Office for Coastal Management.
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58 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RELOCATION is significantly different in the Gulf and Southeast coasts (McLaughlin et al., 2018; Yin, 2023) and appears to be accelerating beyond model assumptions (Dangendorf et al., 2023)
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