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From page 157... ... CURRENT REALITIES OF THE GULF COAST 157 Current and Projected Flood Risk The Coastal County Snapshots from NOAA46 reveal a high vulnerability to flooding in both Lafourche and Terrebonne Parishes, with over 90 percent of their land within the designated 100-year floodplain (see Box 5-14) Read the entire page →
From page 158... ... 158 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RELOCATION BOX 5-15 Community Testimonial: Community Members Understand the Risks, but Still Plan to Stay "I've seen the Coastal Master Plan and I've worked on it in a community set ting, looking at it, over the last three that they've had for the community. And if you look at it, in all three of the stages of light, moderate, and severe, and what they've shown for Terrebonne and Lafourche Parish, you know, in that 50-year plan, we're not here with the tidal surge. Read the entire page →
From page 159... ... CURRENT REALITIES OF THE GULF COAST 159 components: a natural hazard risk component (EAL50) , a consequence enhancing component (social vulnerability51) Read the entire page →
From page 160... ... 160 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RELOCATION FIGURE 5-5 National Risk Index, Lafourche and Terrebonne Parishes, Louisiana. Read the entire page →
From page 161... ... CURRENT REALITIES OF THE GULF COAST 161 BOX 5-16 Community Testimonial: Response to Hurricanes "We've all just experienced Hurricane Ida, and it was a very, very hard time for all of us here, and still is. Still very difficult. Read the entire page →
From page 162... ... 162 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RELOCATION BOX 5-17 Community Testimonial: Locals Are Used to Flooding, but Hurricane Ida Brought Damaging Winds, Exposing Community Vulnerabilities "Now, the difference, for us, in past hurricanes, everybody knew what to do. So, you had a flood, and you cut out four feet of your walls, and you wainscoted it, and you moved on, because Cajun men knew how to fix their homes. Read the entire page →
From page 163... ... CURRENT REALITIES OF THE GULF COAST 163 BOX 5-18 Community Testimonial: Planning for Protecting Culture Lags Behind Planning for Protecting Land "In Louisiana we've talked about the coastal Master Plan. We are ahead of the game in restoring land because we've been thinking about that for a long time. Read the entire page →
From page 164... ... 164 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RELOCATION BOX 5-19 Community Testimonial: Cascading Problems -- Housing and Transportation "The only thing we wanted was guidance from our mayor […] but then he was absent […] Read the entire page →
From page 165... ... CURRENT REALITIES OF THE GULF COAST 165 than 1 percent of homes in Port Arthur, valued at $689,230 and housing 18 residents, will be chronically inundated. This risk is expected to escalate to include 62 homes (still less than 1% of the total) Read the entire page →
From page 166... ... 166 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RELOCATION BOX 5-21 Community Testimonial: Emissions-Related Health Concerns "I'm a person who is quite sensitive to emissions that are in the air because there are times at night when I wake up my nose is runny, I'm coughing, I'm sneezing, [but] I know my house is clean. Read the entire page →
From page 167... ... CURRENT REALITIES OF THE GULF COAST 167 FIGURE 5-6 National Risk Index, Jefferson County, Texas. Read the entire page →
From page 168... ... 168 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RELOCATION BOX 5-22 Community Testimonial: Residents Have Few Choices "There was one woman who got ripped off by contractors. She was trying to rebuild a home and her husband needed a breathing machine just to survive […] Read the entire page →
From page 169... ... CURRENT REALITIES OF THE GULF COAST 169 DATA AVAILABILITY ACROSS PROFILES Data availability was not uniform across the places that were profiled above. Smaller communities completely lacked or had gaps in publicly available information. Read the entire page →
From page 170... ... 170 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RELOCATION community profile add to these insights, and it is the hope of the committee that these profiles illuminate important aspects of this complex topic. In the committee's judgment, it is critical for policy makers and community stakeholders to understand and acknowledge the following: 1. Read the entire page →
From page 171... ... CURRENT REALITIES OF THE GULF COAST 171 Conclusion 5-3: The combination of increasing population, growth of urban areas, economic activity, and infrastructure investment make the Gulf Coast even more susceptible to the impacts of extreme weather and sea level rise than decades ago. Conclusion 5-4: If decisions about relocation are to be community driven, data that influence those decisions need to be transparent to residents, accessible, and up to date. Read the entire page →
From page 173... ... 6 Sustaining Community Well-Being: Physical, Mental, and Social Health This chapter discusses the following: • Definitions and frameworks for a holistic approach to well-being, including capacities for subjective well-being and capabilities for action • Pre-existing, continuous, and new impacts to well-being, includ ing mental health impacts, in the context of climate change and displacement • Enhancement of well-being through task sharing and nurture effects • Relocation in the context of social capital and place attachment INTRODUCTION Previous chapters presented an overview of historical and current injustices (e.g., enslavement, isolation, political disenfranchisement) Read the entire page →
From page 174... ... 174 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RELOCATION and adapt to the additional stresses of the potential need to relocate (as well as other responses) Read the entire page →
From page 175... ... SUSTAINING COMMUNITY WELL-BEING 175 prioritizing well-being helps to understand, navigate, and prioritize mental and psychological health, and to identify tools to enhance resilience, social capital, community cohesion, and collective efficacy. Many of these tools reside within cultural legacies; Indigenous sovereignty; and attachment to, reciprocity with, and relationship to place -- all of which exist within the context of increasing climatic extremes, uncertainty, displacement, and relocation processes. Read the entire page →
From page 176... ... 176 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RELOCATION Climate change presents a multitude of challenges to the well-being of individuals and communities. A holistic view shows how community well-being and adaptive capacities to respond to climate threats are undermined by pre-existing social and economic health inequities resulting from historical racial and social discrimination and marginalization, as discussed in Chapters 4 and 5. Read the entire page →
From page 177... ... SUSTAINING COMMUNITY WELL-BEING 177 FIGURE 6-1 Conceptual diagram illustrating the exposure pathways by which climate change affects human health. SOURCE: Crimmins, A., Balbus, J., Gamble, J Read the entire page →
From page 178... ... 178 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RELOCATION places and institutions that together advance a collaborative and crosssector approach to well-being. The seven vital conditions included in the framework are reliable transportation, thriving natural world, basic needs for health and safety, humane housing, meaningful work and wealth, and lifelong learning, with belonging and civic muscle at the center.5 Together, the seven vital conditions and the WIN template for community action were the foundation for a federal comprehensive strategy, the Federal Plan for Equitable Long-Term Recovery and Resilience (Federal Plan for ELTRR) Read the entire page →
From page 179... ... SUSTAINING COMMUNITY WELL-BEING 179 FIGURE 6-2 The CDC's Framework, BRACE. Read the entire page →
From page 180... ... 180 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RELOCATION Another resource that provides a community well-being perspective on health and climate change is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Read the entire page →
From page 181... ... SUSTAINING COMMUNITY WELL-BEING 181 emotional states -- essentially, to create conditions that allow for the improvement of how people are feeling. Conditions within this domain have critical health implications, underpinning socioemo tional states including despair, optimism, emotional validation and support, distress, and trust (or lack of it) Read the entire page →
From page 182... ... 182 COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RELOCATION emphasizing the importance of a community's existing social capabilities (e.g., socioemotional bonding, trust, reciprocal engagement) and capacities for actions (e.g., social capital and cohesion, collective efficacy, shared sense of place) Read the entire page →

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... CURRENT REALITIES OF THE GULF COAST 157 Current and Projected Flood Risk The Coastal County Snapshots from NOAA46 reveal a high vulnerability to flooding in both Lafourche and Terrebonne Parishes, with over 90 percent of their land within the designated 100-year floodplain (see Box 5-14)