Climate change compensation

Tombs, Benjamin Dudley; France-Hudson, Ben

doi:10.26686/pq.v14i4.5149

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“…However, property acquisition is difficult to achieve without a mechanism (or budget) to acquire land, unless public works are involved and the PWA is invoked. Nonetheless, there is legal uncertainty regarding whether land can be compulsorily acquired under the PWA for the creation of reserves, or whether land is only able to be purchased by agreement [20,61]. In the case study of Matatā, Whakatāne District Council received legal advice that the PWA could not be used for managed retreat and subsequent reserve conversion, but, to confuse things further, the Resource Legislation Amendment Act 2017 (s 85(3A)(a)(ii)) suggests otherwise.…”

Section: The New Zealand Governance Setting For Managed Retreat: a Grmentioning

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The Uncertainty Contagion: Revealing the Interrelated, Cascading Uncertainties of Managed Retreat

2020

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Managed retreat presents a dilemma for at-risk communities, and the planning practitioners and decisionmakers working to address natural hazard and climate change risks. The dilemma boils down to the countervailing imperatives of moving out of harm’s way versus retaining ties to community and place. While there are growing calls for its use, managed retreat remains challenging in practice—across diverse settings. The approach has been tested with varied success in a number of countries, but significant uncertainties remain, such as regarding who ‘manages’ it, when and how it should occur, at whose cost, and to where? Drawing upon a case study of managed retreat in New Zealand, this research uncovers intersecting and compounding arenas of uncertainty regarding the approach, responsibilities, legality, funding, politics and logistics of managed retreat. Where uncertainty is present in one domain, it spreads into others creating a cascading series of political, personal and professional risks that impact trust in science and authority and affect people’s lives and risk exposure. In revealing these mutually dependent dimensions of uncertainty, we argue there is merit in refocusing attention away from policy deficits, barrier approaches or technical assessments as a means to provide ‘certainty’, to instead focus on the relations between forms of knowledge and coordinating interactions between the diverse arenas: scientific, governance, financial, political and socio-cultural; otherwise uncertainty can spread like a contagion, making inaction more likely.

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Section: The New Zealand Governance Setting For Managed Retreat: a Grmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Uncertainty Contagion: Revealing the Interrelated, Cascading Uncertainties of Managed Retreat

2020

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“…There are competing principles and considerations regarding whether residents who will lose their property through managed retreat should be compensated and, if so, on what basis, to what extent and by what means [10,39,40]. Internationally, the level of, and eligibility for, public compensation varies greatly: in some cases, property owners are fully compensated based on a (pre-disaster) fair market value; in other cases, compensation provides for full replacement of a house/ apartment in a similar, but low-risk, neighbourhood; in yet other cases, such as the UK, there is little or no compensation currently available [41].…”

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Implementing Pre-Emptive Managed Retreat: Constraints and Novel Insights

Lawrence

Boston

Bell

et al. 2020

Curr Clim Change Rep

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Purpose of Review Managed retreat will be inevitable where other adaptation options, such as protective structures or building restrictions, provide only temporary respite or are otherwise uneconomic, technically impractical or both. Here, we focus on the implementation of pre-emptive managed retreat, providing examples of how it can be sequenced, socialised and given the governance enablers necessary for implementation. Recent Findings Ongoing sea-level rise during the twenty-first century and beyond poses huge adaptation challenges, especially for low-lying coastal and floodplain settlements. Settlements are already functionally disrupted from repetitive non-extreme flooding and research shows that sea-level rise will impact far more people, far sooner than previously thought, as more powerful storms, heavy rainfall and rising groundwater coincide with higher tides. To date, most examples of managed retreat have been post-disaster responses following damage and disruption. Pre-emptive managed retreat, by contrast, has yet to become a well-accepted and widely practised adaptation response. Nevertheless, there are increasing examples of research and practice on how pre-emptive managed retreat can be designed, sequenced and implemented alongside other forms of adaptation within anticipatory forms of governance. Summary The current state of knowledge about managed retreat is reviewed and critical insights and lessons for governance and policy-making are given. Several novel examples from New Zealand are presented to address some of the implementation gaps. Goals and principles are enunciated to inform long-term adaptation strategies.

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