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When we try to plan for the future, we often, ironically, look to the past. If you want to purchase a home, for example, you might check to see if it’s in a flood zone. But FEMA flood maps, used as a way to identify an area’s flood risk, are actually based on historical storm data, and don’t take climate change into account.
In Hawaii, one county is changing how it plans for the future by actually looking at future projections. Kaua’i County, which is made up of the islands of Kaua’i, Ni’ihau, Lehua, and Ka’ula, has adopted an ordinance requiring newly built or renovated structures to be elevated to a certain level, based on projections about how much the sea level will rise.
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