Complexities of Resilience: Adaptation and Change within Human Communities of Coastal Louisiana

摘要: Coastal ecosystems and particularly deltaic coastal are among the most productive in world, this certainly is true of Louisiana. Residents have a long history fishing, hunting, cattle raising, farming, which means that they drawn on diversity natural resources engaged seasonal round activities has limited their vulnerability to loss associated with any one activity. Such resilience residents Louisiana increasingly challenged by number factors outside control such as sea-level rise, increased strength tropical storms, subsidence, wetlands due these other factors. Local storehouse ecological knowledge based generations living storms but facing need make decisions about strategic retreat from coast. Strong emotional ties link people land water well cultural communities. We document how process adapting changing conditions identify four different approaches might be taken future.