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Can a single region in Florida show the state how to adapt to climate change?

  • Written by Karen Vella, Senior Lecturer in Property and Planning, Queensland University of Technology
imageA 2009 flood, worsened by a high tide, in Miami. maxstrz/flickr, CC BY

With every passing year, Southeast Florida faces more pressure to adapt to climate change. The region already experiences the effects of climate change, such as flooding on sunny days during the highest tides of the year, the failure of flood control canals, rapid beach erosion...

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