State of Disaster : A Historical Geography of Louisiana's Land Loss Crisis /

"Efforts to restore and protect portions of its coastal marshes, nearly always without regard for the people displaced by these efforts. With a huge budget and noble intentions, an entire state agency is dedicated to the grand enterprise of restoring the coast. Yet it has deliberately neglected...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Colten, Craig E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Louisiana. > Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority.
Coastal zone management > Government policy > Louisiana.
Louisiana > Population.
Louisiana > Environmental conditions.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Louisiana's coastal societies : adaptation and resilience
  • Changing environmental management strategies
  • Cartographic revelations : mapping land loss
  • The public in public works : reworking the Mississippi river
  • The public in public works : coping with the coastal crisis
  • Conclusions : the erasure of coastal people.

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