Amy Lesen, PhD, Professor of Environmental Leadership and Participatory Change in the Graduate School of Leadership and Change, has been invited by The State of Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) to be a Regional Workgroup member to develop the 2029 Coastal Master Plan. The Master Plan’s aims are to develop Louisiana initiatives that will reduce storm surge-based flood risk to communities, provide habitat for commercial and recreational activities, and reinforce infrastructure critical to the working coast.
Lesen will work collaboratively with the workgroup to strive to reach a common understanding of priorities and identify potential solutions for each coastal region. Lesen’s selection in this important initiative was based on her extensive work on climate, environmental, and health justice. Her work on the interrelatedness between environmental and human social dynamics in coastal cities and communities and how those systems are influenced by climate and environmental change will make a significant contribution to the Coastal Master Plan.
Read more about Lesen and her work here.
