managed retreat

English

Noun

managed retreat (plural managed retreats)

  1. The coordinated ending of coastal development; abandonment, demolition, and relocation of human-made structures; and migration of people away from a shoreline that is allowed to migrate inland.
    • 1991 October 14, Fiona McWilliam, “Major crack-down on established defences”, in Construction Weekly‎, volume 4, number 38, page 15:
      Other methods under investigation, for situations where managed retreat is not an option, include building up offshore banks […]
    • 2011 October 27, Marty Sharpe, “Residents may have to quit Haumoana homes”, in Stuff‎, retrieved 2021-09-03:
      The groyne proposal was put forward by a group of residents opposed to managed retreat.
    • 2017 April 18, “Sunken Pleasure”, in Scientific American:
      Ewing thinks this type of managed retreat will become more common as people start to understand the onerous cost of relentless nourishment.
  • managed realignment, coastal realignment

Further reading
  • “Managed Retreat”, in Beachapedia‎, Surfrider Foundation, 2019 October 10, retrieved 2021-09-03
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