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Climate Change Negotiation Role-Play: Flooding in Milton Collectively Managing Climate Change Risks

Title:

Climate Change Negotiation Role-Play: Flooding in Milton Collectively Managing Climate Change Risks
Publication Type
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Miscellaneous
Year of Publication
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2013

Authors:

Lawrence Susskind
Danya Rumore
Publication Language
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eng
Abstract
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Seven-person, multi-issue facilitated negotiation among local government, community, business, and environmental representatives trying to reach agreement on a strategy for managing climate change risks in a mid-size coastal city.
Citation Key
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62

Flooding in Milton is a seven-person, multi-issue facilitated negotiation among local government, community, business, and environmental representatives trying to reach agreement on a strategy for managing climate change risks in a mid-size coastal city.

The game focuses on managing increased probability of river flooding through hard and soft infrastructure solutions, as well as land use planning. . It is one of four exercises developed as part of the New England Climate Adaptation Project.* The Milton game highlights potential financing strategies for various flood risk adaptation options, as well as dilemmas surrounding new commercial and residential development on undeveloped, flood-prone land along rivers.