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Traci Birch

Assistant Professor
Louisiana State University
tbirch@lsu.edu

Inland from the Coast: A Multi-Scalar Approach to Regional Climate Change Responses

Risks from sea-level rise, land subsidence, and extreme weather are not limited to coastal areas but threaten entire inland-coastal regions. This project takes a multi-scalar, multi-disciplinary approach to river flood modeling, health and well-being research, and applied community design to improve flood recovery and long-term resilience across the greater Baton Rouge inland-coastal region. The team links university researchers with engineers, building and landscape architects, planners, policymakers, and community members to improve understanding of inland-coastal environmental conditions and vulnerabilities, determine indicators of community health and well-being, and develop design and planning best practices for reducing risk and increasing adaptive capacity. While the project is focused on helping the greater Baton Rouge region emerge more resilient from the devastating 2016 floods, the resulting framework will be applicable to inland-coastal regions across the Gulf Coast and beyond.

Thriving Communities 3
National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine: Gulf Research Program

LSU’s Coastal Ecosystem Design Studio (CEDS)

Gulf Futures Design Studio Program
National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine: Gulf Research Program
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Changing Geographies of Flood Mitigation Polices: A Case Study of Central, LA

Creators: Mukerji, Ria
Publisher: National Forum on Socioeconomic Research in Coastal Systems
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Measuring Individual Community Capacity, Resilience, and Recovery Relative to Population Age in Three Louisiana Coastal Parishes

Creators: Zhu, Haojie and Aimee Moles
Publisher: Annual LSU Life Course and Aging Center Spring Symposium
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Floodplain Management: Law and Policy Concerns

Creators: Pace, Niki
Publisher: American Planning Association Louisiana Chapter Annual Conference
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Inland from the Coast: A Multi-Scalar Approach to Regional Climate Change Responses

Creators: Traci, Birch
Publisher: Robert Wood Johnson Sharing Knowledge to Build a Culture of Health Conference
css.lsu.edu
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Deep-seeded and Uprooted: Colorblind Resiliency Planning as Gentrification

Creators: Traci, Birch
Publisher: American Association of Geographers
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The Hungry River: Designing a Future for the Amite River’s Former Sand and Gravel Mines

Creators: Hammons, Hayden, Taylor Jacobson, Nguyet Nguyen, Elizabeth Peterson, Tanvi Shah, et al.
Publisher: Routledge of the Taylor Francis Group
www.researchgate.net
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Spring Up! Denham Springs Masterplan

Creators: Black, Josh, Peihong Han, Chadd Hippensteel, Xiaoman Ji, Sophic Lott, et al.
Publisher: Routledge of the Taylor Francis Group
resiliency.lsu.edu
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Assessment of Remote Sensing Products and Hydrologic Simulation of the 2016 Louisiana Flood in the Amite River Basin

Creators: Gao, Shu, Matt Bilskie, Scott Hagen, and DeWitt Braud
Publisher: Routledge of the Taylor Francis Group
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
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Increasing Resilience to Current and Future Flooding through the Integration of Hydrologic and Storm Surge Models

Creators: Gao, Shu, Matt Bilskie, Scott Hagen, and Felix Santiago-Collazo
Publisher: Routledge of the Taylor Francis Group
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
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Delta Urbanism: Aligning Adaptation with the Protection and Restoration Paradigm in Coastal Louisiana

Creators: Birch, Traci and Jeff Carney
Publisher: Routledge of the Taylor Francis Group
www.tandfonline.com
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Regional Resilience: Building adaptive capacity and community wellbeing across Louisiana’s dynamic ­­­coastal-inland continuum

Creators: Birch, Traci and Jeff Carney
Publisher: Routledge of the Taylor Francis Group
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