Pathologies of Porosity
Looming Transitions Along the Mississippi River Ship Channel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22018279 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joshua Alan Lewis (0000-0002-8170-1364, Tulane University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2023-08-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Planning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2183-7635 • E-ISSN: 2183-7635 |
| Publisher | Cogitatio (PUBLISHER • PT) |
| DOI | 10.17645/up.v8i3.6954 |
| OpenAlex | W4386073936 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 34 |
This article explores recent developments along the Mississippi River Ship Channel, the Mississippi River Delta, and the port city territory of New Orleans, US. The lower reaches of the Mississippi River through which the ship channel is maintained have become increasingly porous over the past decade, as flooding events have triggered or expanded multiple breaches or crevasses along the river’s eastern bank. This increasing porosity has generated debates between political and economic assemblages favoring different approaches to navigation management, flood control, and ecosystem restoration. The tensions and contradictions facing delta residents, planners, managers, and engineers come down to a question of hydrological porosity in the Mississippi River Delta, both in the river’s navigation channel itself, but also in the estuarine basins that extend from its banks towards the Gulf of Mexico. This article describes how over the past several decades different modes of porosity have emerged in scientific and public discourse around water management. The science and politics of these competing modes of porosity animate a great deal of environmental decision-making in the region today. The article’s analytical framework bridges research focused on the theme of porosity in port city territories, the political ecology of infrastructure standards, and management pathologies in ecosystem management
Archaeology · Delta · Environmental resource management · Estuary · Flood control · Flood myth · Geography · Political science · Politics · Telecommunications · Coastal and Marine Dynamics · Engineering · Environmental Science · Flood Risk Assessment and Management · Law · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Geology · Oceanography
The Geography of Transport Systems
Profiling risk and sustainability in coastal deltas of the world
Command and Control and the Pathology of Natural Resource Management
Reconstruction of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
Interdependent Infrastructure as Linked Social, Ecological, and Technological Systems (Setss) to Address Lock‐in and Enhance Resilience
Port City Porosity
Rising Tide
The (In)Dispensability of Environmental Justice Communities
Land loss due to human-altered sediment budget in the Mississippi River Delta
The ecobiopolitics of environmental mitigation
Hurricane Katrina and the Paradoxes of Government Disaster Policy
Good Sediment
The pathology of command and control
Toward a political ecology of infrastructure standards
The development of manufactured flood risk
Technological Zones
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |