Assessing Community Resilience to Coastal Hazards in the Lower Mississippi River Basin

Assessing Community Resilience to Coastal Hazards in the Lower Mississippi River Basin

This paper presents an assessment of community resilience to coastal hazards in the Lower Mississippi River Basin (LMRB) region in southeastern Louisiana. The assessment was conducted at the census block group scale. The specific purpose of this study was to provide a quantitative method to assess a...

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Main Authors: Heng Cai, Nina S.-N. Lam, Lei Zou, Yi Qiang, Kenan Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-01-01
Series:Water
Subjects:
community resilience
Lower Mississippi River Basin
the Resilience Inference Measurement (RIM) model
disaster recovery
coastal hazards
spatial analysis
multivariate statistics
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/8/2/46

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