Abstract
Through the use of existing models and tools, the parish-level resilience to natural hazards was determined for central Louisiana (US) parishes subject to flooding, hurricanes, and other potential natural climatic events. Through consultation with state officials and local community groups, candidate environmental justice (EJ) and social justice (SJ) communities were selected to develop resilience capacity enhancement plans to address potential adverse parish and community outcomes of natural hazard events. Through community engagement workshops strategies for resilience capacity enhancement were determined and plans for their implementation were developed. Continuing studies will monitor the success of their strategy implementations and will assess the transferability of the approach to other candidate communities.
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
COMMUNITY, RESILIENCE, CAPACITY BUILDING, NATURAL HAZARDS
