After the floods, the distressing but necessary case for managed retreat
- Written by Antonia Settle, Academic (McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow), The University of Melbourne
From Brisbane to Sydney, many thousands of Australians have been reliving a devastating experience they hoped – in 2021, 2020, 2017, 2015, 2013, 2012 or 2010/11 – would never happen to them again.
For some suburbs built on the flood plains of the Nepean River in western Sydney, for example, these floods are their third in two years.
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