"Who has the authority to decide whether, when, and where people should retreat? Who absorbs the loss of equity? And is the public willing to finance an exit from places where decades of policy encouraged residential growth?" On wildfire adaptation, in California and beyond:
When Fire ReturnsTwo wildfires ravaged the same California hills, 50 years apart. Can we continue to build, and rebuild, on land that will inevitably burn again?placesjournal.org