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Author Groves, David G., author

Title Planning tool to support Louisiana's decisionmaking on coastal protection and restoration : technical description / David G. Groves, Christopher Sharon, Debra Knopman
Published Santa Monica, Calif. : Rand Gulf States Policy Institute, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 82 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Technical report
Technical report (Rand Corporation) ; TR-1266-CPRA.
Contents Introduction -- Model description and assumptions -- Analytic procedures -- Analyses to develop the master plan -- Conclusions -- Appendix. Expert-adjusted alternatives
Summary "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."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-82)
Notes Sponsored by the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana
English
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Subject Shore protection -- Louisiana
Coastal zone management -- Louisiana
Coastal ecology -- Louisiana
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Hydraulics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Coastal ecology
Coastal zone management
Shore protection
Louisiana
Form Electronic book
Author Sharon, Christopher, author
Knopman, Debra S., author
Louisiana. Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority.
Rand Gulf States Policy Institute.
LC no. 2012947921
ISBN 9780833077288
0833077287
9780833077301
0833077309