Report
Strengthening Coastal Planning
Feb 19, 2014
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is making nearly $1 billion available to states that have recently experienced a presidentially declared major disaster. Louisiana submitted a Natural Disaster Resilience Competition application for funds to reduce the flood risk of storm surge by elevating residential structures in three areas. RAND provided a quantitative analysis of baseline flood risks and different allocations of funds.
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Through the Natural Disaster Resilience Competition, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is making nearly $1 billion available to states that have recently experienced a presidentially declared major disaster. The State of Louisiana submitted an application to the Natural Disaster Resilience Competition that proposes using provided funds to elevate residential structures in Plaquemines, Lafourche, and Terrebonne parishes to reduce the risk of future flooding from storm surge. They asked RAND to help develop this proposal by performing a quantitative analysis of the baseline flood risks and different allocations of funds for mitigation across the three parishes. The results show that nonstructural work in Terrebonne and Plaquemines parishes offers the most risk mitigation, and that the State's recommended allocations provide higher benefits than costs for all three parishes.
Chapter One
Introduction
Chapter Two
Methods
Chapter Three
Evaluation of Nonstructural Project Benefits and Costs
Chapter Four
Decision Support
Chapter Five
Findings
Chapter Six
Discussion
Appendix
Tabular Results by Block Group
The research reported here was prepared for the State of Louisiana Office of Community Development with the Louisiana Coastal Protection Authority and Water Institute of the Gulf and conducted by the Infrastructure Resilience and Environmental Policy Program, a part of RAND Justice, Infrastructure, and Environment.
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