Dr. A.R. Siders

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Science Friday · Why a paper about relocating coastal communities hit a nerve · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

These are levees, dune systems, things that try to put a barrier between a home and the water.

Then you've got accommodation, which is, say, elevating the homes.

The water can come and go, but it does less damage because your home, at least, maybe your car gets damaged, but not your house.

Then we have avoiding, which is let's not build in the places that we know are going to flood.

Let's not put new buildings there and new schools.

And then there's relocation, which is we have things there.

Maybe it made sense to build there in the past, but now because of the way the land is changing, the way the climate is changing, or the way the town wants to develop in the future, it no longer makes sense to have homes or businesses in this place, and we need to relocate them.

This gets tricky because everyone defines in a good way in a different way.

We've definitely done relocation.

We've definitely done it in lots of different ways.

And there are some places that have done it and have more people happy around it than others.

So when we look at examples that are done, I'm going to put well in air quotes here.

You look at things like Valmire, Illinois, or Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin, where they moved large sections of the town away from flood prone areas, but they still maintained their sense of community.

And I love the example of Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin here, because when they relocated their business district, they didn't just relocate it away from the river.

They also made it solar powered, which in like the early 80s in Wisconsin was really innovative at the time.

So they were moving towards something.

They were building towards a better future for their community, one that was more resilient, but also more affordable.

And they had a vision for the city that wasn't just I don't want to flood anymore.

It was something bigger.

And I think that's the piece that we so often miss is not what are we trying to prevent, but what are we trying to actively build?

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