Why Climate Change Planning Will Be Cultural as Well as Physical


Queshuachaca Bridge, a rope bridge in Peru. Image © Gennady Stetsenko | Shutterstock

Queshuachaca Bridge, a rope bridge in Peru. Image © Gennady Stetsenko | Shutterstock

This article was originally published on Common Edge.

There is nothing like a crisis to bring people together. After Hurricane Katrina, more than 9,000 citizens participated in the development of the Unified New Orleans Plan that our firm Concordia coordinated in collaboration with 12 other planning teams. Now we’re working with another stellar group on a project called LA Safe, with the goal of creating a plan for residents of south Louisiana who will be among the first to experience the devastating impacts of sea-level rise.

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