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Podcast: American Shoreline Podcast Network
Episode: Road to Nowhere - the Legal Issues Behind Climate Adaptation| Coastal Conundrum
Description: Adapting to sea level rise is a challenging business and it's made harder by our complicated legal system. Â An important discussion today on the Coastal Conundrum Podcast.
Coastal local governments are working to develop plans  and strategies to adapt to rising seas and increase resilience of community infrastructure, especially roads. Many plans involve protecting, elevating, realigning and even abandoning coastal roads.  However, implementing adaptation strategies can be stymied by the current complex and often conflicting legal framework of duties, immunities, and takings law surrounding those decisions.
Join host Bill O'Beirne and his guests Shana Jones and...