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Browsing by Subject "Louisiana"

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    Assessing Hydrologic Connectivity using Water Temperature, Wax Lake Delta, Louisiana
    (2018-09) Evans, Nicholas
    We take a reduced complexity approach to assessing the advective factors that contribute to the hydrologic connectivity between a primary distributary channel and interdistributary island on the Wax Lake Delta of coastal Louisiana. We deployed a relatively inexpensive, open-source data logging platform to collect high quality continuous water temperature, water depth, air temperature, and shortwave solar radiation from a portion of Wax Lake Delta from February 18 through May 19, 2015. We use this field data to create a reference model of predicted water temperature at the data logging locations at the site. Based on comparison of that model with the water temperature observations, we find that different regions of the island have differing degrees of hydrologic connectivity to the primary distributary channel.
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    Ecologies, Economies, and Resilience: State Restoration Imaginaries & Vietnamese/American Fishing Futures in Southeast Louisiana
    (2019-08) Kang, Simi
    This project lies at the intersection of Asian American studies, critical refugee studies, environmental injustice and racism, and engages community-level interventions into restoration policy and practice in Southeast Louisiana. Over the last 15 years, coastal land loss and vulnerability to disaster has been at the center of how government officials, residents, and everyone in between talk about coastal Louisiana’s future. Significantly, where residents are often told these environmental ills are ‘natural’ and thus difficult to apprehend, their origins are quite clear. Land subsidence (or sinking), which is typical of the marshland that forms Louisiana’s coast, is spurred on by federally supported oil extraction, natural gas exploration, and shipping canals, which all cut up and hasten the dissolution of the already subsiding and porous coast. Damming, leveeing, and other infrastructure management along the Mississippi River make residents even more vulnerable to climate-change-induced flooding and storms. All of these decision-maker-produced ills make the daily lives of folks who rely on the health of the Gulf and the coast not just difficult, but increasingly impossible. This is particularly the case for Vietnamese/Americans, who decision-makers continue to racialize as refugees well equipped at surviving upheaval. As a result of this refugee racialization, Vietnamese/Americans are at once rendered more ‘resilient’ to the above disasters and erased from mitigation and support efforts as resilient refugees, or exemplary survivors of disaster who, in addition to their particular aptitude for assimilating U.S. culture and values into their families and communities, are adept at incorporating disaster policy and coastal regulatory practices into their daily lives. In spite of this, as perpetual refugees, they may never be fully “American.”
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    Measuring the Effect of Small Business Employment on the Growth in Mississippi and Louisiana Communities
    (2016) Gao, Zhengzheng
    We want to take a closer look at how these jobs provided by small businesses to the local communities affecting economic growth of Mississippi and Louisiana counties. The objective of this study is to measure the effect of small business employment on the economic growth of Mississippi and Louisiana communities, where economic growth is measured by the growth rate of per capita personal income between 2010 and 2012 after adjusting for inflation. Empirical tests involving a Solow-type growth model will be estimated. Small business employment is measured by the total employment of enterprise with 0 to 19, and 20 to 99 employees. Small business ownership is measured by the number of firms and establishments that employ 0 to 19, and 20 to 99employees. These variables are designed to measure the economic impacts of small business employment, and combing small business employment with small business ownership on economic growth in Mississippi and Louisiana counties. A positive effect of small business employment factors on economic growth shows that pro- economic development small business policies are associated with an improvement in the economic well-being of Mississippi and Louisiana communities. This result would suggest that policies tailored to promote small business formation, which provide jobs to local communities have been beneficial to these communities. On the other hand, a negative impact would suggest changes in the policies tailored in enhancing small business formation as these may not be benefiting the poor by providing jobs. The findings of this study will provide much needed input to policy makers and community leaders from an economic perspective which may help them make timely adjustments to their current policies to achieve the desired economic development objectives.