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Environmental Challenges and Prospects for Community Relocation in Houston and Port Arthur, Texas Proceedings of a Workshop (2022) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction and Background
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... , 1 The GRP was established in 2013 from criminal settlement funds from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and is intended to "advance and apply science, engineering, and public health knowledge to reduce risks from offshore oil spills and will enable the communities of the Gulf to better anticipate, mitigate, and recover from future disasters." For more information on the Gulf Research program see https://www.nationalacademies.org/gulf/about 1
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... (CIDA) , a local organization based in Port Arthur.5 These CBOs assisted the committee in identifying residents, local officials and leaders, and other experts to participate in the workshop activities concerning buyouts, other forms of strategic relocation, and perceptions of environmental risks and hazards in the Greater Houston area and Port Arthur, Texas.6 The workshop was designed to highlight diverse perspectives and multiple areas of 2 Additional details about the workshops are available at https://www.nationalacademies.
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... • Understanding managed retreat efforts taking place within the Gulf Coast region, including promising practices to preserve social cohesion and pro tect traditional and cultural practices as part of managed retreat planning, and what community stakeholders in the Gulf Coast region can learn from them. • Identifying policy and practical barriers to managed retreat, including issues relating to equity (e.g., who can claim access to various public benefits and services, how displaced peoples are received by and inte grated into another community)
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... Proceedings may not contain any consensus analysis or views of the committee on the underlying subject matter of the workshop. Proceedings may contain particular viewpoints attributed to individual participants or groups of participants in the workshop, if these attributions can be adequately documented and if the viewpoints are reasonable statements for inclusion in a National Academies proceedings.
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