Publication Date:
2007-03-24
Description:
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita showed the vulnerability of coastal communities and how human activities that caused deterioration of the Mississippi Deltaic Plain (MDP) exacerbated this vulnerability. The MDP formed by dynamic interactions between river and coast at various temporal and spatial scales, and human activity has reduced these interactions at all scales. Restoration efforts aim to re-establish this dynamic interaction, with emphasis on reconnecting the river to the deltaic plain. Science must guide MDP restoration, which will provide insights into delta restoration elsewhere and generally into coasts facing climate change in times of resource scarcity.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Day, John W Jr -- Boesch, Donald F -- Clairain, Ellis J -- Kemp, G Paul -- Laska, Shirley B -- Mitsch, William J -- Orth, Kenneth -- Mashriqui, Hassan -- Reed, Denise J -- Shabman, Leonard -- Simenstad, Charles A -- Streever, Bill J -- Twilley, Robert R -- Watson, Chester C -- Wells, John T -- Whigham, Dennis F -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2007 Mar 23;315(5819):1679-84.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA. johnday@lsu.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17379799" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
*Disasters
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*Ecosystem
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*Engineering
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*Environment
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Geography
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Geologic Sediments
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Humans
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Louisiana
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Mississippi
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*Rivers
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Soil
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*Wetlands
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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