Planning tool to support Louisiana's decisionmaking on coastal protection and restoration: technical description
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Main Author: Groves, David G. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Monica, Calif. Rand Gulf States Policy Institute 2012
Series:Technical report (Rand Corporation) TR-1266-CPRA.
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-82)
"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."
Introduction -- Model Description and Assumptions -- Analytic Procedures -- Analyses to Develop the Master Plan -- Conclusions -- Appendix. Expert-Adjusted Alternatives
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 82 p.)
ISBN:0833076981
0833077287
0833077309
9780833076984
9780833077288
9780833077301

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