Highlights•Managed retreat or relocation is not inherently transformative.•Transformation
requires consideration of who is transformed and in what ways.•Transformative retreat …

Increases in extreme weather events have caused extensive flooding across the United
States. In response, federal, state, and local governments have broadened their flood …

Managed retreat—the purposeful, coordinated movement of people and assets out of harm's
way—is a controversial and often overlooked adaptation tool but also a potentially …

This article provides a stocktake of the adaptation literature between 2013 and 2019 to
better understand how adaptation responses affect risk under the particularly challenging …

Green infrastructure is being pulled in divergent directions. As climate impacts intensify,
advocates are promoting larger, ecosystem-scale strategies to help mitigate flood risks. Yet …

Floods continue to hit many countries, both less developed and industrialized, bringing
human suffering and immense economic damage (see floodobservatory. colorado. edu/) …

Justice theory is intended to guide practical choices, but justice theories struggle to inform
many decisions that must be made in climate change adaptation practice. This paper …

Voluntary property buyouts have been the most prevalent form of managed retreat in the
USA to date. Tens of thousands of households have sold their flood-prone homes to the …

Understanding why and where decision-makers choose to use different climate change
adaptation strategies remains an important theoretical and practical question for coastal …

With the onset of climate change resulting in more frequent hazard events and coastal
inundation, communities are considering buyouts as a tool for climate adaptation. Despite a …