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Restoration of the Mississippi Delta: Lessons from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

Published:2007-03-23 Issue:5819 Volume:315 Page:1679-1684
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Day John W.¹²³⁴⁵,Boesch Donald F.¹²³⁴⁵,Clairain Ellis J.¹²³⁴⁵,Kemp G. Paul¹²³⁴⁵,Laska Shirley B.¹²³⁴⁵,Mitsch William J.¹²³⁴⁵,Orth Kenneth¹²³⁴⁵,Mashriqui Hassan¹²³⁴⁵,Reed Denise J.¹²³⁴⁵,Shabman Leonard¹²³⁴⁵,Simenstad Charles A.¹²³⁴⁵,Streever Bill J.¹²³⁴⁵,Twilley Robert R.¹²³⁴⁵,Watson Chester C.¹²³⁴⁵,Wells John T.¹²³⁴⁵,Whigham Dennis F.¹²³⁴⁵

Affiliation:

1. Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA.

2. University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Post Office Box 775, Cambridge, MD 21613, USA.

3. Engineer Research and Development Center, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, MS 39180, USA.

4. The Hurricane Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA.

5. Department of Sociology, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148, USA.

Abstract

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita showed the vulnerability of coastal communities and how human activities that caused deterioration of the Mississippi Deltaic Plain (MDP) exacerbated this vulnerability. The MDP formed by dynamic interactions between river and coast at various temporal and spatial scales, and human activity has reduced these interactions at all scales. Restoration efforts aim to re-establish this dynamic interaction, with emphasis on reconnecting the river to the deltaic plain. Science must guide MDP restoration, which will provide insights into delta restoration elsewhere and generally into coasts facing climate change in times of resource scarcity.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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