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The Flood Threat Response in South Louisiana

by Windell A. Curole, South Lafourche Levee District, Galliano, United States,



Document Type: Proceeding Paper

Part of: Coastal Zone '93

Abstract:

The flood threat to the people of Louisiana is ever present. Responses to reducing the flood threat have been relocation, structural and regulatory. All of these responses effect the surrounding environment in a South Louisiana woodland community.

Subject Headings: Floods | Risk management | Natural disasters | Insurance | Hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones | Forests | Ecological restoration | Louisiana | United States

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