2017’s Best Beach Towns to Live In
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Overall Rank |
City |
Total Score |
Effective |
Annual |
Difference |
Annual |
Adjusted |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Alaska | 5.69% | $3,066 | -46.85% | $4,237 | 6 | |
2 | Delaware | 6.02% | $3,246 | -43.74% | $3,830 | 1 | |
3 | Montana | 6.92% | $3,728 | -35.37% | $3,561 | 3 | |
4 | Wyoming | 7.45% | $4,015 | -30.40% | $4,312 | 2 | |
5 | Nevada | 7.72% | $4,161 | -27.86% | $4,028 | 7 |
- Timothy L. Hamilton Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Richmond
- Stacey Swearingen White Chair and Professor of Urban Planning at University of Kansas
- Sharon Moran Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Leader of the Environmental and Natural Resources Policy (ENRP) Doctoral Program at SUNY
- Sabrina McCormick Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at George Washington University
- Philip E. Graves Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado Boulder
- Maxine Burkett Global Fellow in the Environmental Change and Security Program at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars & Professor of Law at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
- Laura A. Bakkensen Assistant Professor in the School of Government and Public Policy at University of Arizona
- John (Jack) Williams Professor of Geography and Director of the Center for Climatic Research at University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Jessica Hellmann Director of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota on the Environment at the University of Minnesota
- Jason Scorse Director of the Center for the Blue Economy and Associate Professor & Chair of the International Environmental Policy Program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
- Gary Bauer Professor of Law in the Cooley Law School at Western Michigan University
- Dave Marcouiller Professor and State Extension Specialist in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at University of Wisconsin
- A. Dan Tarlock Professor of Law in the Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of Technology
- Austin Troy Professor and Chair of the Department of Planning and Design at the University of Colorado Denver
- Those subject to hurricanes or other strong storms (the worst impacts of sea level rise come from the enhanced exposure of coastal areas to flooding from storm surges);
- Areas where the land is sinking (sinking land plus rising ocean is a bad combination; see New Orleans);
- Areas of low topographic relief (i.e., Florida and much of the U.S. southeastern coastline);
- Areas without coastal barrier islands, salt marshes, or other natural barriers to storm surges (always best to have something between you and an incoming storm).
- Raise and toughen beachfront houses so that they can withstand storm surges.
- Invest in protection and restoration of coastal salt marshes and barrier islands, where possible. These are a low-cost natural barrier to storm surges.
- Develop long-range plans to move critical infrastructure (e.g., emergency services, hospitals) out of storm surge zones.
- Proximity to primary residence;
- Quality of the water body;
- Existing development and/or developability of adjacent land;
- Previous experience with the region in which the water body exists.
- Proximity to metropolitan area;
- Quality of natural amenities;
- Existing development and/or developability of adjacent lands.
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