The Complications and Consequences of a Managed Retreat Law
Managed retreat, the relocation of households out of harm's way, was tried in New Zealand on an unusually large scale after the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, shifting almost 20,000 people in a well-compensated program of managed retreat. This presentation will focus on the empirical evidence about the economic and mental-health effects of this managed retreat on… Continue reading The Complications and Consequences of a Managed Retreat Law