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EXAMPLES OF RELOCATION 81 feet high; furthermore, in some cases, sustainable design measures were incorporated into new structures. Planning for the possibility of relocation in advance of a disaster could allow communities to make the decision to relocate with more confidence while in the throes of disaster recovery and to create a more sustainable new community.
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82 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RELOCATION and serve as commemorative sites such as burial grounds, among others.2 Most generally, the ultimate goal of this process is to decrease suffering, the loss of life, and the loss of infrastructure in areas that have repeated flooding by relocating people, communities, and livelihoods to less flood-prone areas. Governments are increasingly utilizing buyouts as a tool for climate adaptation at the local, state, and regional levels (Greer et al., 2022)
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EXAMPLES OF RELOCATION 83 program is to increase coastal and riparian resilience, reduce sedi ment and erosion, and enhance hazard mitigation.4 • Because of the sole focus on property owners, to include a house or other buildings and the surrounding land in the exchange of ownership to the government, renters are neglected and renters' vulnerability to the impacts of climate change increases (Dundon & Camp, 2021)
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84 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RELOCATION plan for acquisition" (USACE, 2016, p.
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EXAMPLES OF RELOCATION 85 structural and nonstructural strategies for flood risk reduction (Jan Goossen, 2018)
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86 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RELOCATION Atoba et al., 2020; see Chapter 10)
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EXAMPLES OF RELOCATION 87 for Environmental Information, 2023)
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88 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RELOCATION was published, 600 homes (27% of the 2,200 substantially damaged homes that received assistance) were being bought out and the land returned to nature.
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EXAMPLES OF RELOCATION 89 The Ocean Breeze community on Staten Island faced challenges with buyouts after Hurricane Sandy, especially when those buyouts were executed through FEMA (Misdary, 2022)
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90 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RELOCATION providing grants to households to cover increasing insurance premiums and so help them to remain in their communities (New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, 2013, p.
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EXAMPLES OF RELOCATION 91 renovations. The community also worked with local apartment complexes to assist residents with waiting lists for relocation.
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92 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RELOCATION FIGURE 3-1 Erosion on the coast of Newtok in 2020. SOURCE: Ristroph, B
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EXAMPLES OF RELOCATION 93 in more detail the multitude of considerations that must be made when a community is selecting and obtaining a new town site, or when they are instead relocating into existing communities. A new town site was obtained in 2003, and in 2006 the Alaska Division of Community and Regional Affairs worked with the tribal leadership to form "the Newtok Planning Group to facilitate coordination assistance from agencies" (Bronen & Chapin, 2013; Ristroph, 2021, p.
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94 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RELOCATION FIGURE 3-2 The first few houses built in Mertarvik, the new site for Newtok Village. SOURCE: Ristroph, B
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