Managed urban retreat: the trouble with crisis narratives

In response to narratives of the mass movement people triggered by climate change, a number “managed retreat” models have been proposed as policy options, especially for densely populated urban areas in Global South. Reviewing case study from Mongla, secondary city southwestern Bangladesh, we argue that “crisis narrative” unhelpfully informs current discourses “climate migration”, and oversimplify complex realities, creating risk makers design managed retreat interventions are poorly informed maladaptive they may be accepted too uncritically, take overly technical forms, exacerbate rather than reduce faced those purportedly intended assist.