In episode 99 of\xa0America Adapts, host Doug Parsons talks with Rob Moore, the Director of the Water and Climate Team at NRDC, the Natural Resources Defense Council. Doug and Rob talk about flooding and the bureaucratic inertia of flood management. They also discuss the psychology of rebuilding in flood zones. Rob also explains attempts to reform federal flood policies and the challenges of finding funding to help people with buy outs. Also: nature based solutions to flooding; being an adaptation professional; organizational approaches to climate mitigation and adaptation and much more!
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Rob Moore\u2019s Staff page at NRDC:
https://www.nrdc.org/experts/rob-moore
https://www.nrdc.org/experts/rob-moore/flood-insurance-debate-begins
https://twitter.com/RobMooreNRDC/status/1070385652007612416
https://www.nrdc.org/experts/joel-scata/house-moves-vote-flood-insurance-reform\xa0
Seeking Higher Ground: how to break the cycle of repeated flooding with climate smart flood reforms
Blog on same:\xa0 https://www.nrdc.org/experts/rob-moore/seeking-higher-ground-climate-smart-solutions-flooding
Buyouts as part of a strategy for managed retreat/climate adaptation
Going Under:\xa0 how long wait times for post-flood buyouts leave homeowners underwater (report we released a few weeks ago showing that FEMA assistance for a buyout take about 5 years to reach a person whose home\u2019s flooded).\xa0
https://www.nrdc.org/experts/anna-weber\xa0 (Anna, the lead author of the report above) also did a short series of case studies on buyout around the country.\xa0
2017 Video:\xa0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FeCkHZBd-M#action=share
2019 Q&A:\xa0 https://www.nrdc.org/stories/how-long-does-it-take-get-fema-buyout-flooded-homehttps://www.guernicamag.com/four-storytellers-tackle-climate-change/
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Strategies to Address Climate Change Risk in Low- and Moderate-income Communities - Volume 14, Issue 1
https://www.frbsf.org/community-development/publications/community-development-investment-review/2019/october/strategies-to-address-climate-change-low-moderate-income-communities/
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