Governments need research and guidelines to help them to move towns and villages threatened by global warming, argue David López-Carr and Jessica Marter-Kenyon.
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López-Carr, D., Marter-Kenyon, J. Human adaptation: Manage climate-induced resettlement. Nature 517, 265–267 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/517265a
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