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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.

Imprint Santa Monica, Calif. : Rand Gulf States Policy Institute, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 82 pages) : illustrations, maps.
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
data file rda
Series Technical report
Technical report (Rand Corporation) ; TR-1266-CPRA.
Note Print version record.
Funding Sponsored by the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-82).
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."
Contents Introduction -- Model description and assumptions -- Analytic procedures -- Analyses to develop the master plan -- Conclusions -- Appendix. Expert-adjusted alternatives.
Language English.
Subject Shore protection -- Louisiana.
Coastal zone management -- Louisiana.
Coastal ecology -- Louisiana.
Rivage -- Protection -- Louisiane.
Littoral -- Aménagement -- Louisiane.
Écologie littorale -- Louisiane.
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 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxMfGD6vC6PfXqvVQHjYP
Added Author Sharon, Christopher, author.
Knopman, Debra S., author.
Louisiana. Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority.
Rand Gulf States Policy Institute.
Other Form: Print version: Groves, David G. Planning tool to support Louisiana's decisionmaking on coastal protection and restoration. Santa Monica, Calif. : Rand Corporation, 2012 (DLC) 2012947921 (OCoLC)812067857
ISBN 9780833077288 (electronic bk.)
0833077287 (electronic bk.)
9780833077301 (electronic bk.)
0833077309 (electronic bk.)
0833076981
9780833076984
Report No. RAND/TR-1266-CPRA
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DEBSZ 421287691
GBVCP 1008657948
GBVCP 804170606
NLGGC 36363956X
AU@ 000052905932
DEBBG BV044177743
DEBSZ 397626525
NZ1 15025562
AU@ 000054191103

 
    
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