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Keeping Louisiana

How the state’s new climate adaptation plan changes everything

By Virginia Hanusik

Confronting Climate Change, Louisiana Shifts Toward Retreat

As coastal communities succumb to sea-level rise, managing population migration and decline has become a new focus in the state

By Sophie Kasakove

Report: Louisiana coastal residents agree they face ‘existential’ crisis

By Bob Marshall

Louisiana Takes Adaptation Seriously — Evidence of a Tipping Point in Belief in Climate Change?

The public-private partnership Louisiana Strategies for Future Environments just released a report so stark in its conclusions that, were it not for all of the maps and figures its contains, one would have assumed that it had to be written in a blue state such as Massachusetts or California, rather than deep red Louisiana

Levees Won’t Save Louisiana from a Climate “Existential Crisis”

A stark new report lays out the ways the state will need to adapt, beyond traditional engineering approaches

By Thomas Frank

Louisiana Unveils Ambitious Plan to Help People Get Out of the Way of Climate Change

By Christopher Flavelle and Mira Rojanasakul

Louisiana Releases Climate Adaptation Strategies Created Through LA SAFE Program’s Regional Approach to Resilience

State closes purchase of land for Isle de Jean Charles climate refugees

By Faimon A. Roberts III

Confronting the Costs of Coastal Land Loss

By Laura Maggi

Coping With Loss

Louisiana’s Strategic Adaptations for Future Environments adapts to the reality of a vanishing coast

By Emilie Bahr, AICP

Don’t Label Them Climate Change Refugees, Says a Louisiana Planner, They’re Pioneers

An essay on Isle de Jean Charles

By Mathew D. Sanders, AICP

Episode 82:
Resilience’s Frontline

A conversation between Eric Cesal and Mathew Sanders

Editor’s Opinion: Why I Like These Four Flood Projects

Editor lauds LA SAFE projects

By Keith Magill

Louisiana Unveils ‘Flood Resilience’ Projects in Six Coastal Parishes

Gov. John Bel Edwards announces LA SAFE projects

By Travis Lux

10 Projects Across Southeast Louisiana to Get Money Under Flood-Risk Program

By Faimon A. Roberts III

State Is Buying Isle de Jean Charles Relocation Site for $11.7 Million

By Mark Schleifstein

How to Save a Town From Rising Waters

Louisiana’s Isle de Jean Charles Resettlement Project is the only government-funded climate relocation in the country--and a test for more to come

By Michael Isaac Stein

Opinion: This Was the Year Louisiana Started Taking Back Our Coast

By Steve Cochran

Louisiana, Sinking Fast, Prepares to Empty Out Its Coastal Plain

By Christopher Flavelle

State Chooses Site Near Thibodaux to Relocate Isle de Jean Charles Climate Refugees

By Faimon A. Roberts III

The New Cartographers

Coastal communities in Plaquemines Parish plot the future with LA SAFE

By Monica Barra

Our Opinion: A Noble Goal is Guiding the Process

‘It’s Not Going To Be All Right’

In flood-prone coastal Louisiana, towns have started to ask a question Texans may face soon: When should we all just leave?

By Annie Snider

As This Town Slips Into Sea, a $48 Million Rescue Runs Into Obstacles

By Christopher Flavelle

To Save Louisiana’s Coast, a Lot of Science and Engineering -- and a Bit of Khmer

By Sara Sneath

Our Views: Community Plans for the Coast

Governor Edwards Announces Launch of Adaptation Planning Effort at International Conference

Resettling the First American ‘Climate Refugees’

A $48 million grant for Isle de Jean Charles, La., is the first allocation of federal tax dollars to move an entire community struggling with the effects of climate change

By Coral Davenport
and Campbell Robertson