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The Blog Experience!

by richards • December 20, 2010 • 10 Comments

Please post comments about the experience of using the blog as a seminar device. Be specific and detailed, and add as many comments as you want. This is for me, and for other profs interested in using blogs for seminars.…

by richards • December 1, 2010 • 0 Comments

Higher Ground: A Report on Voluntary Buyouts in the Nation’s Floodplains For much of this century, the Nation has pursued a mostly singular course of attempting to control floods with structures — dams, levees, river channelizations, drainage works and manipulation…

by richards • November 25, 2010 • 0 Comments

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-water-delta-20101125,0,1440560.story

by richards • November 15, 2010 • 0 Comments

I would like to get more information about the financial side of New Orleans. From a pure financial perspective, is New Orleans the economic engine of Louisiana or a net drain on state finances? We have discussed that the port does not…

by richards • November 15, 2010 • 0 Comments

U.N. and World Bank Report Says Act Now or Pay Much More Later for Climate Disasters By NATHANIAL GRONEWOLD of ClimateWire Published: November 11, 2010 UNITED NATIONS — Annual monetary losses for natural disasters are expected to rise to $185…

by richards • November 15, 2010 • 0 Comments

Many people believe that river diversions can build land restore, or at least stabilize parts of the LA coast. We have discussed the sediment load problem, and the problem that you have to have full flood or the dirt just piles up…

by richards • November 15, 2010 • 0 Comments

Not looking good for South LA: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/science/earth/14ice.html?_r=1&ref=justin_gillis (It does mention earth orbit wobbles!)

by richards • November 11, 2010 • 0 Comments

http://www.lsu.edu/senate/Keaton%20Presentation%20on%20FY12%20Budget%20Shortfall.pptx More university funding info: http://www.lsu.edu/senate/

by richards • November 11, 2010 • 2 Comments

Better to be lucky than smart? ————————- U.S. Dodges Bullet in Busy Hurricane Season One of the most active hurricane seasons on record is coming to a close, although you might be forgiven for missing it if you live in the…

by richards • November 9, 2010 • 5 Comments

My objective for the class is get you to look at issues like global warming critically, not just as a knee-jerk conservative or liberal response to the politics. That pretty much all the scientists who are expert in the that…

by richards • November 5, 2010 • 1 Comment

http://www.supreme.courts.state.tx.us/historical/2010/nov/090387.htm

by richards • November 5, 2010 • 4 Comments

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2010/11/04/ac.obamas.india.trip.cost2.mov.cnn When you hear something that does not make good financial sense, your first response should be a skeptical one.

by richards • November 5, 2010 • 4 Comments

http://www.nola.com/katrina/index.ssf/2010/11/new_orleans_blighted_neigborho.html Citing statistics from a recent report of the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center it says the 53,000 abandoned addresses (including apartments and houses) make New Orleans the “most blighted city in the country” by some measures.

by richards • November 5, 2010 • 9 Comments

Why has global warming become such a politically charged term? What baggage has attached itself to this concept? Is there a better way to present the problem that does not trigger the knee-jerk opposition of global warming? As a start,…

by richards • November 4, 2010 • 5 Comments

http://www.tnr.com/article/environment-energy/magazine/77388/waterworld “This fall, construction is set to begin on a $4 million pop-up floodwall near the National Mall in Washington, D.C. It’s designed to be assembled quickly in the event that torrential rains cause the nearby Potomac River to spill into…

by richards • November 4, 2010 • 2 Comments

State still owes most of judgment from 1983 flood by MICHELLE MILLHOLLON Advocate Capitol News Bureau Bob McBride Jr. was 18 when flood waters in Tangipahoa Parish forced him to push his family and neighbors in a flat-bottom boat through…

by richards • October 27, 2010 • 0 Comments

http://www.dca.state.fl.us/fdcp/dcp/PDRP (archive) This looks surprisingly good. It even recommends including storm modeling and allowances for sea level rise due to global warming. It recommends that communities develop plans for rebuilding that include not allow rebuilding in high risk areas. Realistically,…

by richards • October 22, 2010 • 0 Comments

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/2010/RAND_RB9558.pdf

by richards • October 21, 2010 • 2 Comments

http://www.ifad.org/events/apr09/impact/pacific.pdf Interesting reading – this report finds that the Asia/Pacific region most vulnerable to climate change and ocean rise. If you read the report, there are many commonalities with Louisiana.

by richards • October 18, 2010 • 2 Comments

http://www.nola.com/katrina/index.ssf/2010/10/steep_costs_driving_push_for_l.html Even built to the higher standards, the lower delta levees have little chance of surviving a Katrina or Rita. Built to these lower standards, they will be easier to fund, almost completely useless, and will still destroy the levees…

by richards • October 14, 2010 • 0 Comments

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,721846,00.html#ref=nlint

by richards • October 14, 2010 • 0 Comments

Sometimes watching ice melt can be exciting: http://www.extremeicesurvey.org/ (Extreme Ice Survey site)

by richards • October 14, 2010 • 0 Comments

http://sites.law.lsu.edu/coast/2010/10/13/floridas-beaches-caught-between-the-ocean-and-a-hard-place/

by richards • October 14, 2010 • 1 Comment

http://www.iii.org/media/hottopics/insurance/reinsurance/ Good introduction to reinsurance.

by richards • October 13, 2010 • 2 Comments

http://lacoastpost.com/blog/?p=27421 Len Bahr, who is generally a believer in coastal restoration makes a very interesting point on his blog: even if it is physically possible to restore the coast, is it politically possible?

by richards • October 11, 2010 • 2 Comments

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/doug-saunders/inuit-of-greenland-have-weather-on-their-side/article1738883/X

by richards • October 11, 2010 • 2 Comments

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/10/05/executive-order-gulf-coast-ecosystem-restoration-task-force For the first time Gulf Coast projects will be aired in a broader forum than just the Corps and local politicians.

by richards • October 4, 2010 • 0 Comments

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/sep/30/charm-city-usa/ Excellent review, by a NO native and NO lover. For me, I was hoping for the Wire, South.

by richards • October 1, 2010 • 1 Comment

R. Eugene Turner, Doubt and the Values of an Ignorance-Based World View for Restoration: Coastal Louisiana Wetlands. Estuaries and Coasts (2009) 32:1054–1068. Also see: Missouri River Planning: Recognizing and Incorporating Sediment Management Historically, the flow of sediment in the Missouri…

by richards • October 1, 2010 • 1 Comment

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/09/missouri_river_helped_build_lo.html Louisiana coastal restoration planners can stop looking to the Missouri River as a means of increasing the wetland-building sediment carried by the Mississippi River, concludes a new National Research Council study released Tuesday.

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