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Rebuilding the
Louisiana Coast
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Recovery from hurricanes Katrina and Rita will dominate
public works in Louisiana for the foreseeable future. The city of New Orleans, the region’s
industries, and coastal communities exist within a landscape mosaic of
barrier islands, salt marshes and freshwater swamps. Rebuilding the Louisiana coast must
anticipate the ongoing and dynamic changes in this mosaic, which was the
focus of wetland restoration efforts before the storms.
Restoring coastal ecosystems will play an important role
in rebuilding the Louisiana coast.
The scope of rebuilding spans the entire Louisiana coast. Existing restoration activities, i.e.
CWPPRA, the Coast 2050 Plan, and LCA plan, already operate at this
scale. But, compared with these
activities, rebuilding will target social and economic goals to a much
greater degree.
Rebuilding the Louisiana coast requires resource
managers to expand their objectives for restoration activities. Rebuilding means providing protection
from future storms, restoring communities and building infrastructure to
support economic activity.
Resource managers now must gather data and perform analyses that
evaluate these benefits – in addition to restoring coastal ecosystems.
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Bartell, S. et al. The
Effect Coastal Restoration on Flood Risk in Terrebonne Parish, Chapter
21. In, R.R. Twilley (ed.), Coastal Louisiana Ecosystem Assessment and
Restoration (CLEAR) Model of Louisiana Coastal Area (LCA) Comprehensive
Ecosystem Restoration Plan. Volume II: Tasks 9-15.
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Steyer,
G. D. et al. Adaptive
Environmental Assessment And Management: A Draft Framework, Chapter 22.
In, R.R. Twilley. (ed.), Coastal Louisiana Ecosystem Assessment and
Restoration (CLEAR) Model of Louisiana Coastal Area (LCA) Comprehensive
Ecosystem Restoration Plan. Volume II: Tasks 9-15.
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Habib, E., et al. Uncertainty
Analysis of the CLEAR Ecosystem Model: Issues, Needs, and Future
Directions, Chapter 17. In, R.R. Twilley (ed.), Coastal Louisiana
Ecosystem Assessment and Restoration (CLEAR) Model of Louisiana Coastal
Area (LCA) Comprehensive Ecosystem Restoration Plan. Volume II: Tasks 9-15.
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Nuttle, W. LCA
Box Model Calculations, Chapter 7. In, R.R. Twilley (ed.), Coastal
Louisiana Ecosystem Assessment and Restoration (CLEAR) Model of Louisiana
Coastal Area (LCA) Comprehensive Ecosystem Restoration Plan. Volume I: Tasks
1-8.
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Research
Publications
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Boesch,
D.F., M.N. Josselyn, A.J. Mehta, J. T. Morris, W.K. Nuttle, C.A.
Simestad, and D.J.P. Swift, Scientific assessment of coastal wetland loss, restoration
and management in Louisiana. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No.
20. (download the
Executive Summary)
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Links
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A New Framework for Planning the
Future of Coastal Louisiana after the Hurricanes of 2005. Working
Group for Post-Hurricane Planning for the Louisiana Coast, January 26,
2006.
Preliminary
Report on the Performance of the New Orleans Levee Systems in Hurricane
Katrina on August 29, 2005. (large pdf file) Preliminary
findings from field investigations and associated studies performed by
teams from the University of California at Berkeley and the American
Society of Civil Engineers, as well as a number of cooperating engineers
and scientists, shortly after the hurricane. Report by R. Seed et al., Report No. UCB/CITRIS – 05/01,
November 17, 2005.
Scientific
American: Protecting New Orleans [ ENGINEERING ]. Hurricanes Katrina and
Rita devastated the Gulf Coast. The storm season starts again this
June--and every June. Can coastal communities ever be safeguarded?
Multiple
Lines of Defense Strategy to Sustain Coastal Louisiana, Lopez,
J. for Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, 2006. (request
copy from the author, link to Times
Picayune article)
Conceptual
Ecological Model workshop. Coordinated by LSU’s CLEAR
project, November 2005. (link
to Conceptual Ecological Model newsletter)
Coastal
Louisiana Ecosystem Assessment and Restoration (CLEAR) project at
Louisiana State University. (link
to CLEAR technical reports Volume
1, 2003; Volume
2, 2004)
Hurricanes
Katrina and Rita and the Coastal Louisiana Ecosystem Restoration. Congressional Research
Service (CRS), 2005.
Starting Point. Louisiana Recovery
Authority 2005. Report on workshop to establish guiding principles
for recovery from hurricanes Katrina and Rita (link to LRA website).
Evaluate the
Degree to which the Preliminary Findings on the Failure of the Levees are
being Incorporated into the Restoration of Hurricane Protection, Hearing
by the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, 2005. November 17, 2005.
The
Role of Social Science Research in Disaster Preparedness and Response. Laska, S. Testimony to
U.S. House of Representatives Science Committee Subcommittee on Research,
November 10, 2005.
Expert
Views On Hurricane And Flood Protection And Water Resources Planning For A
Rebuilt Gulf Coast. Hearing
by the U.S House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure, October 20 and 27, 2005.
Drawing Louisiana's New Map:
Addressing Land Loss in Coastal Louisiana. National Research Council, National Academies
Press, Washington, DC, 2005.
Hurricane Katrina
Special Feature. National
Wetlands Research Center, U.S Geological Survey.
HURRICANE
PAM EXERCISE. Center
for the Study of Public Health Impacts of Hurricanes, Louisiana State
University, July 2004.
Report
of the Coastal Louisiana Technical Summit, New Orleans, Louisiana, October
16-17 2003. Galloway, G.E. for Task Committee on America’s
Wetland, ASCE, 2004. Available as ASCE
publication
Coast 2050: Toward a
Sustainable Coastal Louisiana. Louisiana Coastal Wetlands Conservation
and Restoration Task Force and the Wetlands Conservation and Restoration
Authority, Louisiana Department of Natural Resources. Baton Rouge, La. 161
p.
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