ABSTRACT
Large-scale structural and non-structural measures are needed to reduce coastal climate risk, while still allowing people to connect to natural and cultural systems. This chapter highlights the Bucktown Harbor Living Shoreline in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, directly adjacent to the City of New Orleans, to illustrate how layering defensive measures on waterfront designs with people as the central focus can create multi-functional environments that reduce risk, improve habitat, and increase the amount of usable space. The plan shows that supplementing levee protections with naturalized edges creates new methods of integrated flood protection that can influence the future development of levees, flood control, and other coastal protection features around the Gulf Coast, the US, and the world.
