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Planning tool to support Louisiana's decisionmaking on coastal protection and restoration : technical description /
"Coastal Louisiana's built and natural environment faces risks from catastrophic tropical storms. Concurrently, the region is experiencing a dramatic conversion of coastal land and associated habitats to open water and a loss of important services provided by such ecosystems. Louisiana...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Auteurs principaux: | , , |
| Collectivités auteurs: | , |
| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Santa Monica, Calif. :
Rand Gulf States Policy Institute,
2012.
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| Collection: | Technical report (Rand Corporation) ;
TR-1266-CPRA. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | "Coastal Louisiana's built and natural environment faces risks from catastrophic tropical storms. Concurrently, the region is experiencing a dramatic conversion of coastal land and associated habitats to open water and a loss of important services provided by such ecosystems. Louisiana's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) engaged in a detailed modeling, simulation, and analysis exercise, the results of which informed Louisiana's Comprehensive Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast. The Master Plan defines a set of coastal risk-reduction and restoration projects to be implemented in the coming decades to reduce hurricane flood risk to coastal communities and restore the Louisiana coast. Risk-reduction and restoration projects were selected to provide the greatest level of risk-reduction and land-building benefits under a given budget constraint while being consistent with other objectives and principles of the Master Plan. A RAND project team, with the guidance of CPRA and other members of the Master Plan Delivery Team, developed a computer-based decision-support tool, called the CPRA Planning Tool. The Planning Tool provided technical analysis that supported the development of the Master Plan through CPRA and community-based deliberations. This document seeks to provide an accessible technical description of the Planning Tool and associated analyses used to develop the Master Plan." |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xxi, 82 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-82). |
| ISBN: | 9780833077288 0833077287 9780833077301 0833077309 |