Allocating Resilience Planning Resources

Of the $141.2 million New Orleans secured through the Natural Disaster Resilience federal grant program, $6.3 million gets strategically invested in planning activities enriching our climate adaptation preparations beyond constructed interventions alone.

While most funds touch bricks-and-mortar flood defense projects imparting immediate neighborhood protection, continuously updated resilience planning forms the intellectual foundation guiding engineering investments wisely. Our planning budget sponsors research identifying emerging environmental threats, explores scenario response protocols, runs community pilot studies testing the efficacy of new methodologies like green infrastructure, and models optimal infrastructure configurations balancing complex social variables with economic realities across future decades.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Planning projects we oversee include:

• Groundwater and Subsidence Monitoring (Deltares)

• Species and Biodiversity Monitoring (Tulane)

• Financing Green Infrastructure (Trust for Public Land)

• Environmental and Social Benefits of Green Infrastructure (Trust for Public Land)

• District Planning (Waggonner & Ball)

• 2050 Vison Plan

• Gentilly 2050  A Vision Plan for the GRD Story Map Link

• Climate Smart Cities Decision Support Portal (Trust for Public Land)