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Louisiana's Response to Extreme Weather : A Coastal State's Adaptation Challenges and Successes.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Laska, Shirley.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2019.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Extreme Weather and Society Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Foreword
  • Reference
  • Preface
  • A State Case: Louisiana Social Science Resources for Climate Change Adaptation
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1: Introduction to the Book: "Ahead of the Curve"
  • 1.1 Louisiana: A Whole State with Extreme Weather Challenges
  • 1.2 The Louisiana Case: Extreme Weather and Climate Change Experiences
  • 1.3 Framing Climate Change-Induced Extreme Weather Adaptation
  • 1.3.1 Louisiana Adaptation Innovations and Proposed Early Climate Change Response
  • 1.3.2 Today's Reality of Climate Change Adaptation
  • 1.3.3 Exceptional Recovery for Essential Resilience
  • 1.4 "Placing" the Chapters into Exceptional Recovery/Essential Resilience Framework
  • 1.5 Subnational Adaptation Management: What Each Level of Government Might Best Contribute to the Exceptional Recovery Process and Essential Resilience Outcome?
  • 1.5.1 Qualities of the Government Levels That Challenge/Benefit Adaptation
  • 1.5.2 Avoiding Harm While Improving Federal/State/Local Adaptation Configurations
  • 1.5.3 Speed of Recognizing Importance of Subnational Climate Change Response
  • Appendix: Sources of Descriptions of New State and City Adaptation Programs (Numbers Coincide with Numbers on Table 1.1 on Page 9)
  • References
  • Part I: Louisiana's Risks Anticipating the Future Challenges to Other U.S. Coastal Communities
  • Chapter 2: Managing Risks in Louisiana's Rapidly Changing Coastal Zone
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Geological and Human Development
  • 2.2.1 Creation and Evolution of Coastal Landscapes
  • 2.2.2 Human Settlement and Its Risks
  • 2.2.3 Broader Coastal Deterioration
  • 2.3 Extreme Weather Risks
  • 2.3.1 South Louisiana's Climate
  • 2.3.2 Tropical Cyclones
  • 2.4 Flood Protection and Its Limits
  • 2.4.1 Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers
  • 2.4.2 Greater New Orleans
  • 2.4.3 Exurban Coastal Regions.
  • 2.5 Coastal Protection and Restoration Planning
  • 2.5.1 Evolution of Comprehensive Planning
  • 2.5.2 Louisiana's Comprehensive Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast
  • 2.5.3 Nonstructural Adaptation and Relocation
  • 2.5.4 Implementation and Controversies
  • 2.6 Climate Change as a Threat Multiplier
  • 2.6.1 Change Is Happening: Human-Caused and Dangerous
  • 2.6.2 Avoiding the Unmanageable
  • 2.7 Implications for Social Resilience
  • 2.7.1 Transient and Secular Disasters
  • 2.7.2 Role of Natural Systems in Resilience
  • 2.7.3 Limiting Climate Change Inseparable from Adaptation
  • 2.7.4 Defend, Adapt, or Relocate?
  • 2.7.5 Coastal Louisiana as a Harbinger
  • References
  • Part II: Climate Adaptation Challenges and Solutions
  • Chapter 3: Connecting the Dots: The Origins, Evolutions, and Implications of the Map that Changed Post-Katrina Recovery Planning in New Orleans
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Literature and Theoretical Context
  • 3.2.1 Land Use Planning for Hazard Mitigation
  • 3.2.2 Climate Change Adaptation Through Land Use Planning
  • 3.2.3 Planning Representation, Maps, and the Shaping of Social and Spatial Reality
  • 3.3 Methods
  • 3.4 Analysis
  • 3.4.1 The ULI Plan: "New Orleans, Louisiana: A Strategy for Rebuilding"
  • 3.4.2 The BNOBC Plan: "Action Plan for New Orleans: The New American City"
  • 3.4.3 The Times-Picayune Map: The Green Dots
  • 3.5 Discussion
  • 3.5.1 The Mapmakers
  • 3.5.2 Reinterpretations
  • 3.5.3 Map Receivers
  • 3.6 The Lasting Impacts of the Green Dot Map
  • 3.7 Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 4: Antagonisms of Adaptation: Climate Change Adaptation Measures in New Orleans and New York City
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Risk, Resilience, Mitigation, and Adaptation
  • 4.3 Global Climate Change Risk in New York City and New Orleans
  • 4.4 Long-Term Sustainability Challenges Facing New York City and New Orleans.
  • 4.5 Contradictory Roles of the Federal Government
  • 4.6 Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 5: Adapting to a Smaller Coast: Restoration, Protection, and Social Justice in Coastal Louisiana
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Historical Evolution of Coastal Restoration Planning in Louisiana
  • 5.2.1 Pre-Katrina: From Piecemeal Projects to Broad-Scale Ecological Planning
  • 5.2.2 Post-Katrina: Establishing CPRA and Louisiana's Coastal Master Plan
  • 5.3 Shifting Costs and Benefits of Protection and Restoration: Coastal Planning as a Matter of Social Justice
  • 5.3.1 Distributive Justice
  • 5.3.2 Procedural Justice
  • 5.3.3 Contextual Justice
  • 5.4 Public Participation in Coastal Planning
  • 5.5 More Meetings and Public Participation, More Justice?
  • 5.6 Mapping a Path Forward
  • 5.6.1 Local Knowledge Mapping
  • 5.6.2 Social Return on Investment
  • 5.6.3 Competency Groups
  • 5.7 Conclusion
  • References
  • Part III: Relocation and Resettlement: An Extreme Adjustment
  • Chapter 6: Community Resettlement in Louisiana: Learning from Histories of Horror and Hope
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Context of Recent State-Level Resettlement Planning
  • 6.3 Ahistorical Adaptation
  • 6.4 Historicizing Isle de Jean Charles Resettlement Planning
  • 6.4.1 Extraction, Exclusion, and Injustice
  • 6.4.2 Ongoing Displacement and the Complex Notion of Community
  • 6.4.3 Reshaping Louisiana's Coastal Frontier: From Doctrine of Discovery to Climate Catastrophe
  • 6.4.4 Between Recognition and Retreat
  • 6.4.5 Reframing Resettlement
  • 6.5 Beyond Beneficiaries: Resourcing Community and Tribal-Driven Resettlements
  • 6.6 Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 7: Sojourners in a New Land: Hope and Adaptive Traditions
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 "Wicked Problems" and Racial Divides
  • 7.3 Development Impacts on Rural Lifeway
  • 7.4 Carrying Capacity of Coastal and Inland Communities.
  • 7.4.1 Health as Indicator
  • 7.4.2 Water Quality
  • 7.4.3 Resilience and Tipping Points
  • 7.5 Desperate Times Call for Creative Measures
  • 7.6 Counter-Narrative Frameworks and Problem-Solving Approaches
  • 7.6.1 Faith-Inspired Models for Change
  • Faith Influenced Land Trusts to Address Social and Environmental Justice
  • 7.7 Folk Traditions as Rallying Points
  • 7.7.1 Power of Cultural Festivals
  • 7.8 Cross-Boundary Work: Trust and Relationship Building
  • 7.9 Conclusions
  • References
  • Part IV: Types/Locations of Communities and Their Responses to Extreme Weather: Urban
  • Chapter 8: Post-disaster Development Dilemmas: Advancing Landscapes of Social Justice in a Neoliberal Post-disaster Landscape
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 Neoliberal Disaster Landscapes
  • 8.2.1 Neoliberal Ideology and Urban Planning in Post-Katrina New Orleans
  • 8.2.2 Post-Katrina Development Outcomes
  • 8.3 Racial Landscapes, Racial Processes, and Racialization
  • 8.3.1 An Historically Racialized Landscape
  • 8.3.2 Newly Racialized Landscapes
  • 8.3.3 Racialized Space as Development Dilemma
  • 8.4 Unjust and Unequal Environmental Development
  • 8.4.1 A History of Environmental Vulnerability in New Orleans
  • 8.4.2 Race and Environmental Justice in Post-Katrina New Orleans
  • 8.4.3 Post-disaster Redevelopment and Environmental Justice
  • 8.5 Discussion: Cumulative and Compounding Dilemmas
  • 8.6 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 9: Reimagining Housing: Affordability Crisis and Its Role in Disaster Resilience and Recovery
  • 9.1 Introduction
  • 9.2 From Theory to Praxis
  • 9.3 A Housing Affordability Crisis in the Shadow of Katrina
  • 9.4 Building a Broad-Based Regime from the Ground Up
  • 9.4.1 A Lesson from the Battle for Public Housing
  • 9.4.2 The Start of Something Different
  • 9.4.3 Toward a Broad-Based Regime
  • 9.4.4 Work on the Buy-In
  • 9.5 Recommendations.
  • 9.6 Discussion
  • 9.7 Conclusion
  • 9.8 Postscript
  • References
  • Part V: Types/Locations of Communities and Their Responses to Extreme Weather: Suburban/Mid State
  • Chapter 10: The 2016 Unexpected Mid-State Louisiana Flood: With Special Focus on the Different Rescue and Recovery Responses It Engendered
  • 10.1 Introduction
  • 10.2 The Setting for a Perfect Storm
  • 10.3 Response Challenges and Innovations: The Growth of Organized Civilian Rescuers
  • 10.4 Housing Recovery Challenges and Policy Innovations
  • 10.5 Moving the US Forward
  • References
  • Part VI: Types/Locations of Communities and Their Responses to Extreme Weather: Rural
  • Chapter 11: Challenges of Post-Disaster Recovery in Rural Areas
  • 11.1 Introduction
  • 11.2 Literature Review
  • 11.2.1 Is There a Difference Between Rural and Urban Areas?
  • 11.2.2 Challenges Faced by Rural Communities
  • 11.2.3 Constraints to Planning
  • 11.2.4 Social Capital
  • 11.2.5 Vulnerability
  • 11.2.6 Local and State Responsibilities: The Role of Federalism in Rural Recovery
  • 11.2.7 Cooperation and Networks
  • 11.3 2016 Louisiana Flooding
  • 11.4 Conclusion and Recommendations
  • References
  • Part VII: Types/Locations of Communities and Their Responses to Extreme Weather: Coupled Coastal-Inland
  • Chapter 12: Regional Resilience: Building Adaptive Capacity and Community Well-Being Across Louisiana's Dynamic Coastal-Inland Continuum
  • 12.1 Introduction
  • 12.2 Literature on Resilience Thinking for Community Resilience and Adaptation
  • 12.3 Louisiana's Comprehensive Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast
  • 12.4 National Disaster Resilience Competition: Sowing the Seeds for Adaptive Planning and Community Design in Coastal Louisiana
  • 12.4.1 Louisiana's Strategic Adaptations for Future Environments (LA SAFE)
  • 12.4.2 Gentilly Resilience District.
  • 12.5 Inland from the Coast: Providing Opportunities for Coupled Coastal-Inland Resilience Thinking.

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