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Title

Planning tool to support Louisiana's decisionmaking on coastal protection and restoration : technical description / David G. Groves, Christopher Sharon, Debra Knopman.

Author

Groves, David G.

Publication

Santa Monica CA : Rand Corporation, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Knopman, Debra S.
• Louisiana. Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority.
• Rand Gulf States Policy Institute.
• Rand Infrastructure, Safety, and Environment (Organization)
• Sharon, Christopher.

Description

xxi, 82 p. : ill., maps; 28 cm.

Summary

Coastal Louisiana⁰́₉s 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. Louisiana⁰́₉s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) engaged in a detailed modeling, simulation, and analysis exercise, the results of which informed Louisiana⁰́₉s 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.

Series Statement

Technical report ; TR-1266-CPRA

Uniform Title

Technical report (Rand Corporation) ; TR-1266-CPRA.

Subject

• Coastal ecology > Louisiana
• Coastal zone management > Louisiana
• Shore protection > Louisiana

Note

• "A study by RAND Infrastructure, Safety, and Environment."--Cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-82).

Funding (note)

• Sponsored by the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Model Description and Assumptions -- Analytic Procedures -- Analyses to Develop the Master Plan -- Conclusions -- Appendix. Expert-Adjusted Alternatives.

ISBN

• 0833076981
• 9780833076984

LCCN

^^2012947921

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library