Without consultation, relocated people can experience significant financial and emotional distress as cultural and spiritual bonds to place and livelihoods are disrupted . However, in some places, where climate risks are acute, political acceptance for planned relocation is high  in Kiribati). Socio-cultural feasibility can be improved by participatory approaches and, where possible, moving within ancestral lands . In this case, voluntary planned relocation can represent the assertion of people living in an area to preserve land and community-based social, cultural and spiritual ties.
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