Equitable buyouts? Learning from state, county, and local floodplain management programs
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Climate change-exacerbated flooding has renewed interest in property buyouts as a pillar of managed retreat from coastal zones and floodplains in the United States. However, federal buyout programs are widely critiqued for being inaccessible and inequitable. To learn whether and how subnational buyout programs overcome these limitations, we examined five leading US state, county, and local buyout programs to see what they teach us about redesigning future federal policies. Our mixed-methods research used interviews and document analysis to develop case studies, juxtaposed subnational strategies against a review of critiques of federal buyouts, and focus group discussions with subnational buyout managers and experts to identify limitations of their programs. We find that subnational programs can be more inclusive and better respond to resident needs as compared to existing federal programs due to their access to dedicated, non-federal funding and their standing institutional status, which allows them to learn and evolve over time. Nevertheless, these programs lack coordination with and control over agencies that permit development and produce affordable housing. This gives buyout programs limited power in shaping the overall equity of who lives in floodplains and who has access to affordable, resilient housing after a buyout. Their experiences suggest federal programs can support managed retreat nationwide by increasing support for institutional and staff capacity at state and county levels, encouraging efforts to bridge institutional silos at subnational levels, and holistically mainstream climate considerations into regional floodplain development, affordable housing production, and flood risk mitigation.
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- Authors
- Shi, L., Fisher, A., Brenner, R. M., Greiner-Safi, A., Shepard, C., & Vanucchi, J.
- Affiliations
- Cornell University (US)
- The Nature Conservancy (US)
- Corresponding author
- Shi, Linda
- Venue
- Climatic Change
- Published
- 2022-10
- Volume
- 174
- Issue
- 3-4
- Pages
- 29-29
- ISSN
- 0165-0009 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-1480
- PMC
- PMC9607794
- OpenAlex
- W4308186549
- Cited by
- 45
- References
- 47
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 19 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 10
- FWCI
- 3.49
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Climatic Change (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, Cornell University (Innovation for Impact Grant)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Disaster Management and Resilience
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Keywords
- managed retreat, floodplain management, equity, coastal flooding, climate change, affordable housing, institutional capacity, institutional silos, flood risk mitigation
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