Managed Retreat
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Managed retreat is a body of work focused on moving infrastructure and housing away from eroding shorelines in response to sea level rise or coastal retreat. The ability to move assets away from shorelines may have a strong effect on willingness to restore sediment supply on shorelines.
Notes[edit]
- Setbacks may not include room to later move a building.
- Individual septic systems on shorelines may increase difficulty of mooving.
- Can revolving loan programs reduce barriers to moving a house?
- How do local codes incentivize or fail to incentivize
- How will landowners respond to sea level rise.
- How does Shoreline Management Act implementation succeed or fail to address managed retreat.
- Beach management using measured bluff recession rates may provide a basis for analysis.
- The Beach Strategies for Nearshore Restoration and Protection in Puget Sound has useful analysis, not yet applied to planning for managed retreat.