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From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Two LSU researchers are taking what might be the most comprehensive approach ever to determine how some coastal communities bounce back from disaster. The end goal of the project, which is in the early stages of a two-year grant, is to be able to develop and use an index of coastal community resilience to educate and inform decision and policy makers about ways to increase resilience in weaker areas. "Right now, we're focused on Louisiana, but once the index is developed it could easily be applied to any other coastal communities in the world," said Nina Lam, professor and chair of environmental studies at LSU and one of the primary researchers involved in the study. Margaret Reams, associate dean of the School of the Coast and Environment at LSU, and Lam have teamed together with financial support from the United States Minerals Management Service to develop an index of coastal community resilience. "You can speculate, but you can never know. But science is built by little bits and pieces of findings. The resulting social-ecological resilience index will include measures of environmental conditions, socio-economic attributes, patterns of political participation and population movement within Louisiana communities. Robert Twilley, associate vice chancellor of research and economic development at LSU, director of the Coastal Systems and Society Initiative and professor of coastal sciences, is working with researchers in India to help the country deal with the impending consequences of climate change while reducing its carbon output. For more information on the coastal resiliency research project or on any of LSU's current coastal efforts, please contact Ashley Berthelot at 225-578-3870 or aberth4@lsu.edu.
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