Managed Retreat?

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Develop insight into the challenges involved in evaluating managed retreat in response to sea level rise.
• Understand techniques to help navigate the adaptation planning process.
• Develop a better understanding of the local and regional scales of adaptation planning.

MORE SESSION DETAILS

Explore the ins and outs of managed retreat — implementing a progressive landward realignment of shoreline structures and activities that responds to sea level rise hazards and impacts. It is one way of adapting to climate change. With planned, orderly managed retreat, the idea is to maintain resilience (e.g., asset function, community economy, etc.) rather than succumb to event-driven crisis responses.
While logical, managed retreat is also controversial. Moving coastal activities, structures, and people out of harm’s way over time is a sensitive policy discussion expanding across the country. Managed retreat also presents an ambitious and difficult implementation task with significant (financial, political, and legal) implications for communities, utility managers and private property owners. California coastal planning policy requires consideration of future sea levels, and consideration of managed retreat along with protection, accommodation, and hybrid strategies.

This course is approved to offer 1.25 PDH|HSW (ASLA)

Session Speakers

Chris Kern
Speaker
City and County of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Dwight Worden
Speaker
City of Del Mar
Del Mar, CA

Jack Liebster
Speaker
Corte Madera, CA

robert T. battalio
Session Organizer and Moderator
Environmental Science Associates
san francisco, CA