Coastal communities ‘may need to build back to better places’ away from flood zones, warns Environment Agency
“We’re going to have to keep assessing whether we can, as a whole, as a country, afford to protect different parts of the landscape," says EA chief Emma Howard Boyd - suggesting the some communities will beed to relocate to "better places" with lower flood risks.
Coastal communities may have to move, warns Environment Agency in stark flood risk assessment
'In some cases, the scale of flooding or coastal change may be so significant [that it] may mean potentially moving communities out of harm’s way in the longer term'
‘It is inevitable that at some point some of our communities will have to move back from the coast,’ warns Environment Agency chief
"Climate change is happening now, and its impacts will continue to worsen.
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