THE DESIGN OF RESILIENT COASTAL COMMUNITIES AND ECOSYSTEMS RESPONDING TO CLIMATE CHANGES

Abstract

In recent years, challenges of storms, land loss and sea level rise are getting more and more serious in the coastal areas. Since its founding in 2009, the Coastal Sustainability Studio (CSS) of Louisiana State University has been trying to use innovative approaches to foster resilient coastal communities and ecosystems. This interview focuses on CSS’s way of building teams, transdisciplinary collaboration, and their practices on large-scale planning in coastal areas, etc. As is stated by Jeffery Carney, director of CSS, climate change is increasingly recognized as a huge factor in coastal community design and is affecting inland regions as well, which has become a global issue to be seriously concerned. Carney also suggests that it is the duty of landscape architects to put the complexities of the ecosystem into a human context. Only with the application of systems thinking and with collaboration with a diverse team, can we realize design and development in productive and responsible ways.

Keywords

Coastal Sustainability Studio / Coastal Restoration / Coastal Ecosystem Preservation / Climate Changes / Collaboration

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2017 Higher Education Press