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After hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the US Gulf coast in 2005, the State of Louisiana has adopted a systems approach to sustainable and resilient coastal management. The flagship product of their work is Louisiana’s Comprehensive Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast, a 50-year plan to protect coastal communities from surge-based flooding, land loss, and environmental degradation. Uniquely in American politics, each updated edition of the $50-billion plan has been unanimously approved by the state legislature.

This talk will discuss Louisiana’s integrated, transdisciplinary planning process, highlighting the practical complexities and tradeoffs associated with providing state-of-the-art risk modeling and decision support on a small budget and tight timeline. We will show how the state has emerged as a world leader in adaptive planning for integrated coastal management and invite discussion of how their experiences could be applied locally here.

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