Coastal
Hazards Mitigation: Models for Katrina and Rita Recovery
October
17, 2005 Seminar:
Continuing
to address the needs of south Louisiana residents in the wake
of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Louisiana Sea Grant College
Program hosted a seminar on reducing risks from coastal hazards
on Oct. 17, 2005. This half-day seminar, attended by more than
70 people, complemented the Presidents' Forum on Meeting Coastal
Challenges series and provides the groundwork for more in depth
discussion of ideas that will be covered at the next Presidents'
Forum.
Dennis Hwang,
an internationally recognized coastal zone management expert and
attorney from Hawaii, was the featured seminar speaker. Other
panelists providing a Louisiana perspective on coastal mitigation
planning included Don Davis, Administrator, Governor’s Applied
Coastal Research and Development Program; Rod Emmer, Executive
Director, Louisiana Floodplain Management Association; and Al
Levron, Terrebonne Parish Director of Public Works.
Hwang, who
has been working in the field of coastal zone management for more
than 20 years, is the author of the Hawaii
Coastal Hazard Mitigation Guidebook. He is also a member
of a team working on the recovery and rebuilding of Indonesia
following the December 2004 tsunami, and he is working with the
government of Indonesia on strategies for recovery and natural
hazard mitigation.
Presentations:
(The presentations below are in Adobe PDF format
for download.)
