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- Title
License to Extract: How Louisiana's Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast is Sinking It.
- Authors
Randolph, Ned
- Abstract
This article explores the deployment of Louisiana's highly touted $50 billion, fifty-year Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast, which is often characterized as saving Louisiana's Working Coast of disappearing marshlands that are home to several major industry sectors, along with migratory flyways, seafood estuaries, and two million residents. As a concept, the Working Coast attempts to signify the importance of Louisiana's coastal zone to the nation's economy in order to justify expensive restoration projects. By complicating the euphemism and the extractive logic it signifies, I hope to show that the state's current approach to slow the disappearance of its coastline in fact rationalizes the very practices sinking it. The Working Coast reifies the state's fragile marshlands through metrics that can only be realized through continued extraction.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LOUISIANA; SUSTAINABLE development; COASTAL zone management; MARSH conservation; GOVERNMENT aid; RESTORATION ecology; COASTS
- Publication
Lateral (2469-4053), 2018, Vol 7, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
2469-4053
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.25158/L7.2.8