Buy them out before they are built: evaluating the proactive acquisition of vacant land in flood-prone areas.

ABSTRACT: Rising flood damages have prompted local communities to implement buyout and property acquisition programmes to eliminate repetitive losses for at-risk properties. However, buyouts are often costly to implement and are reactionary solutions to flooding. This study quantifies the benefits of acquiring vacant private properties in flood-prone areas rather than acquiring such properties after they are built up. Using a geodesign framework that integrates concepts and analytical approaches derived from geographical, spatial and statistical-based disciplines, we analyse vacant properties with high development potential that intersect current and future floodplain areas in Houston (TX, USA). We use geospatial proximity analysis to select candidate properties, land-use prediction modelling to est

SUBMITTER: Atoba K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8653987 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature