strategic-retreat

Differential disadvantages in the distribution of federal aid across three decades of voluntary buyouts in the United States

Voluntary home buyout programs have gained increasing popularity as a natural hazard mitigation tool over the past couple decades. However, a strong emphasis on the monetary value of disaster mitigation leaves open the possibility of inequity in …

Quantifying the Benefits of Home Buyouts for Mitigating Flood Damages

With increasing costs of floods across the globe, interest has grown in using managed retreat strategies, such as home buyouts, for flood mitigation. For years, national-level estimates of the benefits of flood mitigation investments in the United …