Coastal Restoration as Contested Terrain
Climate Change and the Political Economy of Risk Reduction in Louisiana
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12134366 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kevin Fox Gotham (0000-0003-2571-0300, Department of Sociology Tulane University 220C Newcomb Hall New Orleans Louisiana 70118, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | S1 |
| Pages | 787-806 |
| Publication date | 2016-06-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Forum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0884-8971 • E-ISSN: 1573-7861 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/socf.12273 |
| OpenAlex | W2415416132 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 66 |
Although many studies have examined the effects of structural factors and institutional interests on risk estimation practices, little is known about the political dynamics surrounding divergent responses to risk reduction measures. This article examines the political economy of risk reduction, using a case study of Louisiana's coastal restoration planning and decision‐making process. Specifically, the article draws on documentary evidence, long‐term ethnographic field observations, and semistructured interviews to investigate the proliferation of risk conflicts and disputes surrounding the 2012 Louisiana Comprehensive Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast, the latest long‐term risk‐reduction plan to slow coastal erosion and achieve a sustainable coast. As I point out, coastal restoration in Louisiana is contested terrain where a variety of contentious groups struggle to influence and control debates over climate change risk and coastal erosion risk reduction. By examining the proliferation of contested risk definitions and risk reduction strategies in Louisiana, I aim to provide new insight into the organizational and institutional forces that shape positions on risk, the political‐economic forces that create and allocate risk, and the social construction of community identity and culture through risk debates
Climate change · Climate risk · Coastal erosion · Disaster risk reduction · Economics · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Erosion · Geography · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Risk management · Sociology · Coastal and Marine Dynamics · Coastal and Marine Management · Flood Risk Assessment and Management · Law · Ecology
Dissonance between framing & acting for climate justice
Institutionalizing Coastal Restoration in Louisiana After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
The risky business of real estate developers
Non-Decision Power and Political Opportunity
Applying a framework of environmental and climate change adaptation to evaluate government intervention in coastal Louisiana
Is adaptation planning effective and for whom? The case of Louisiana’s 2017 Comprehensive Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast
Climate Change SOS
Pro‐Market Policies and Major Industrial Disasters—A Dangerous Combination
Introduction to Special Issue
The Discourse of the Ecological Precariat
Translating Spirituality
Life after Hurricane Katrina
Making and Mastering Violent Environments
Getting Into Deep Water
The Green Elephants in the Room
Scarier than another storm
The treadmill of protection
Interpretations of calamity from the viewpoint of human ecology
Risk Society
Community at Risk
The Challenger Launch Decision
Crisis Cities
Global Risk Governance
The Economics of Climate Change
The Social Roots of Risk
Urban Fortunes
Global sea level linked to global temperature
The social construction of communities
Risk, Environment and Modernity
The mutual constitution of risk and inequalities
Modernity and Self-Identity
Acceptable Risk
Discriminating Risk
The Next Catastrophe
Unanticipated Gains
Disasters by Design
Tricks of the Trade
Taxes, subsidies, and insurance as drivers of United States coastal development
Metatheoretical foundations for post-normal risk
Climate Change Mitigation and the Collective Action Problem
Drought, Risk, and Institutional Politics in the American Southwest
Governing climate change
Risk society
Regulating Risk
This Must Be the Place
Disclaimers
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Uncertainty, Risk, and Trust
The Social Production of Toxic Uncertainty
Risk Society and Contested Illness
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
Acceptable Risk? Making Decisions in a Toxic Environment
Political Opportunity, Community Identity, and the Emergence of a Local Anti-Expressway Movement
The Origins of Nuclear Power
How many cases do I need
The City as a Growth Machine
Living in the world risk society
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,7 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2023 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |