Overview
- Focuses on Louisiana as the leading state in increasing extreme rain events and record flooding
- Explores the responses of Louisiana government officials, practitioners, scientists and engineers – be they successful or not -- as lessons for the other coastal areas of the United States
- Treats Louisiana as a test case for addressing social justice issues involved in resilient recovery
Part of the book series: Extreme Weather and Society (EWS)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Louisiana’s Risks Anticipating the Future Challenges to Other U.S. Coastal Communities
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Climate Adaptation Challenges and Solutions
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Relocation and Resettlement: An Extreme Adjustment
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Types/Locations of Communities and Their Responses to Extreme Weather: Urban
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Types/Locations of Communities and Their Responses to Extreme Weather: Suburban/Mid State
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Types/Locations of Communities and Their Responses to Extreme Weather: Rural
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Types/Locations of Communities and Their Responses to Extreme Weather: Coupled Coastal-Inland
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Keywords
- Coastal Resilience
- Social Justice
- Extreme Weather
- Natural Disaster
- Disaster Recovery
- Adaptation
- Severe Storm
- Climate Change management
- Coastal hazards
- Hurricane
- Katrina
- Flood
- Gentrification
- Social Justice
- Environmental Policy
- Water Policy
- Environmental Law
- Open Access
- climate change impacts
- coastal sciences
About this book
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
This book takes an in-depth look at Louisiana as a state which is ahead of the curve in terms of extreme weather events, both in frequency and magnitude, and in its responses to these challenges including recovery and enhancement of resiliency.
Louisiana faced a major tropical catastrophe in the 21st century, and experiences the fastest rising sea level. Weather specialists, including those concentrating on sea level rise acknowledge that what the state of Louisiana experiences is likely to happen to many more, and not necessarily restricted to coastal states. This book asks and attempts to answer what Louisiana public officials, scientists/engineers, and those from outside of the state who have been called in to help, have done to achieve resilient recovery. How well have these efforts fared to achieve their goals? What might these efforts offer as lessons for those states that will be likely to experience enhanced extreme weather? Can the challenges of inequality be truly addressed in recovery and resilience? How can the study of the Louisiana response as a case be blended with findings from later disasters such as New York/New Jersey (Hurricane Sandy) and more recent ones to improve understanding as well as best adaptation applications – federal, state and local?
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Louisiana's Response to Extreme Weather
Book Subtitle: A Coastal State's Adaptation Challenges and Successes
Editors: Shirley Laska
Series Title: Extreme Weather and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27205-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27204-3Published: 21 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27207-4Published: 11 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-27205-0Published: 12 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2367-3397
Series E-ISSN: 2367-3400
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 361
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: Natural Hazards, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Coastal Sciences, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights