Flooding + Storms

• Inland from the Coast: A multi-scalar approach to regional climate change responses

  Gathering and disseminating local ecological knowledge about landscape functionality Providing high quality, accessible information on current and future environmental conditions to influence community decision-making Evaluating past events to support adaptation...
  Research, Capacity Building, Visual Communication, Community Planning
• A New Changing Course: From the Last Naturally Active to a New Naturally Active and Sustainable Mississippi Delta

  Formalize a new framework to promote safe and sustainable development in coastal Louisiana Reinitiate a functioning delta by reactivating to some extent all major distributaries Redesign a new New Orleans...
  Research
• The Baker Canal Corridor Project

  The Baker Canal Corridor Project will create a culturally sensitive collaborative that brings environmental projects, entrepreneurship, research and education to communities in a manner that encourages a comprehensive understanding and...
  Research
• Inhabiting Risk: A Dual Framework of Insurable Alternatives for a Changing Environment

  Develop speculative, insurable building models that engage economic and technical challenges in high risk communities. Document and add physical building conditions such as elevation, structural systems, materials, and construction assemblies...
  Research
• Influences on Household and Community-Level Mitigation Efforts and Adaptations to Coastal Hazards in Louisiana

  The research seeks to provide insights into the conditions under which residents and local officials of south Louisiana communities are more likely to implement mitigation and adaptation measures in response...
  Research
• WA | VE: Waterway Information for Vessels Smartphone App

  Develop the technology for commercial fishermen to access various datasets through one viewing platform on their mobile device. Outside of hurricane season the app provides additionally relevant information about waterways...
  Research
• Earth Blocks: Feasibility Study for Low-Cost Hurricane-Resistant Buildings

  Demonstrate the feasibility of CSEB (Compressed Stabilized Earth Blocks) systems as hurricane-resistant low-cost housing, through the design of a proof-of-concept CSEB house on Louisiana’s coast. This proof-of- concept design includes...
  Research
• Tactical Extreme Scenario Trial [TEST]

  The Tactical Extreme Scenario Trial [TEST] investigates variations of designed responses to transformation amongst a retreating coastline. Can migration patterns be influenced by and participate with infrastructure design requirements through...
  Research
• Fort Proctor: A Conditional Preservation
  Design Speculation
• Mayors’ Institute on City Design

  The Mayors’ Institute was intended to address the following challenges: how can design create a path for the American City to become resilient to an increasingly dynamic environment? Moreover, can...
  Community Planning
• River to Bayou: Restoration and Resilience – The Central Wetland Unit and the Lower 9th Ward

  A team of architecture, landscape architecture, coastal ecology, economics, and engineering faculty and students designed new strategies for the Lower 9th Ward’s future. The project also engaged in community outreach...
  Community Planning
• Louisiana Community Resilience Institute

  The project goals include 1) build upon the foundation of LRAP; 2) help the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) to connect community and large scale environmental planning; 3)...
  Community Planning
• Louisiana Resiliency Assistance Program (LRAP)

  LRAP was founded and developed by the CSS with the state’s Office of Community Development – Disaster Recovery Unit (OCD-DRU) and with funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and...
  Community Planning
• Vulnerability and Resilience in Threatened Coastal Louisiana Communities

  This study examines the hypothesis that a large part of individual and community resilience results from strong but dispersed spatial networks that link people socially and economically across the broader...
  Community Planning
• Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) Visualization and Communication Program

  The program is intended to educate and foster an understanding of CPRA’s efforts to implement a complex system of coastal community sustaining and restoration measures that will ensure the reduction...
  Visual Communication