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How do we manage the retreat of communities hit by climate change?

18 Sep 2019 Robert P Crease
Taken from the October 2019 issue of Physics World, where it appeared under the headline "On the retreat".

This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story.

If your life and livelihood were threatened by rising sea levels, where would you go and who would help? Robert P Crease reports from a conference on the difficulties of “managed retreat”

flooding in Netrokona, Bangladesh
Rising problem: how do we manage the retreat of communities hit by climate change so they can move away from endangered areas in time? (Courtesy: iStock/Bhattacharjee)
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Robert P Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, US and writes the monthly Critical Point column for Physics World, robertpcrease.com, e-mail robert.crease@stonybrook.edu. His latest book is The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
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