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Relocation for Resilience: Protecting Homes and Businesses from Climate Change
This is a companion piece to Retrofit for Resilience: Protecting Homes and Businesses from Climate Change. In the United States, relocation as a method of flood-risk negation has a lengthy history dating back to Tennessee in the 1930s. Towns would purchase properties out from owners in order to install dams that would ideally mitigate further water damage from heavy storms.
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