building resilience workshop v schedule

Building Resilience Workshop V

Communities on the Edge

March 12-14, 2014

Lindy C. Boggs Conference Center

University of New Orleans

New Orleans, Louisiana

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WORKING DRAFT of Program Schedule: Last edits made on 02/28/2014

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

6:30 - 9 p.m. Opening Reception at Docville Farm in Violet, St. Bernard Parish

Thursday, March 13, 2014

8:15 9:00 Registration & Coffee

9:00 9:15 Welcome to Building Resilience Workshop V: Communities on the Edge

Kali Rapp

Jeana Wiser

9:15 9:45 Keynote: How Big Should My Water Wings Be

Speaker: Margaret Davidson, Acting Director, NOAA Office of Ocean and Coastal

Resource Management

Moderator: Elizabeth English

9:45 11:00 Panel: Louisianas Reality: Communities on the Edge

This panel will concentrate on the climate-related issues many coastal residents and

communities face and time-sensitive decisions to be madeto try to adapt and stay in their existing community, or relocate and rebuild. Louisianas coastal communities have been affected by repeated exposure to natural and human-caused hazards, and continue to deal

with an ever-growing exposure to the effects of subsidence, coastal erosion, and sea level rise,

combined with an increased frequency of storms. These communities include vulnerable

populations with limited resources to implement sizable adaptation measures and/or relocate

an entire community to a lower risk area.

Moderator: Cynthia Sarthou, Executive Director, Gulf Restoration Network

Panelists: John Lopez, Executive Director, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation

Bob Gough, Tribal Lawyer

Tim Osborn, NOAA

Sandra Gunner, Louisiana Resilience Assistance Program

Camille Manning-Broome, Senior Vice President, Center for Planning Excellence

Respondent: Margaret Davidson



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11:00-11:15 Break

11:15-12:45 Cry You One Interactive Performance and Story Circle

Cry You One is an evolving performance and online storytelling platform that journeys into the

heart of Louisianas disappearing wetlands. Pioneered by the New Orleans based companies ArtSpot and Mondo Bizarro, Cry You One celebrates the people and cultures of South Louisiana

while turning clear eyes on the crisis of our vanishing coast.

12:45-1:45 Lunch

1:45-2:15 Keynote: Assessing Community Resilience: What Matters and Where do you Start

Speaker: Susan Cutter, Distinguished Professor and Director, Hazards and Vulnerability

Research Institute, University of South Carolina

2:15-3:15 Panel Strong but At-Risk Communities: Importance of Culture

This panel will weigh the complexities of protecting, adapting or relocating and

struggling with achieving consensus. It will explore the symbiosis of people, place

attachment, and long-term livelihoods in the essential cultural heritage of our coastal

communities. What governmental policies and resources do we need to support such

difficult community decision-making processes?

Moderator: Jonathan Foret, Executive Director, South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center

Panelists: Pam Jenkins, Professor and Co-founder of UNO-CHART

Monique Verdin, Documentarian and Photographer, St. Bernard Parish

Telley Madina, Gulf Coast Policy Officer, Oxfam America

Brenda Dardar Robichaux, Houma Nations Tribal Leader

Cherri Foytlin, Journalist, Bridge the Gulf Project and Huffington Post, Rayne, LA

Respondent: Susan Cutter

3:15-3:30 Break



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3:30-4:00 Keynote: When FEMA Heads for the Hills: Climate Retreat, Disaster Recovery, and the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act

Speaker: Rob Verchick, Professor of Disaster Policy, College of Law, Loyola

University

Moderator: David Waggonner, Waggonner & Ball Architects

4:00-5:00 Panel Sustainable Solutions on Bridging the Gap between People, Government, and Insurance

This panel will consider the challenges of insuring a society against an increasingly frequent and

costly hazard, and how the communities are responding.

Moderator: Shirley Laska, Lowlander Center

Panelists: Pat Skinner, LSU Agriculture Center

Monica Farris, Director, UNO-CHART

Brad Case, Mitigation Manager, City of New Orleans

Tim Kerner, Mayor of Jean LaFitte

Respondent: Rob Verchick

5:00-5:15 Closing Comments

5:30-7:30 Reception Wine, Cheese, and Hors doeuvres

Friday, March 14, 2014

8:15 9:00 Registration & Coffee

9:00 9:15 Welcome

Jeana Wiser

Kali Rapp



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9:15 9:45 Keynote: Resilience is a relationship: Modernity, Neoliberalism, and Sociality in Disaster

Reconstruction

Speaker: Roberto Barrios, Associate Professor, Sociocultural Anthropology, Southern Illinois

Univ.

Moderator: Grasshopper Mendoza

9:45- 10:45 Panel How do we adapt and stay?

This panel discusses the difficult process of ensuring the safety of communities who

choose to stay and adapt. Current mitigation processes will be examined, along with

an exploration of future solutions that may increase the physical and community

resilience that would allow individuals to maintain their livelihoods in addition to their

homes.

Moderator: Doug Meffert, Executive Director, Audubon Louisiana

Panelists: Derk van Ree, Deltares, Netherlands

David Perkes, Gulf Coast Community Design Studio, MI

Tyronne Edwards, Zion Travelers Cooperative Center, Braithwaite, LA

Respondents: Roberto Barrios

Tim Kerner

10:45-11:00 Break

11:00 11:30 Keynote Comments

Speakers: Chris Zevenbergen, UNESCO-IHE, TTU Delft, Dura Vermeer, Netherlands

Bob Gough, Tribal Lawyer

Moderator: Rosina Philippe, Atakapa-Ishak Tribe

11:30-12:30 Panel Relocation Strategies and Obstacles

Relocation has and is happening to communities around the world. This panel will

present real-life examples that may inform the decisions that our coastal communities

face. The panel includes the examples of Tohoku, Japan, a 750 year old agricultural

community forced to move by the tsunami, and the Terrebonne Project, a Works

Progress Administration (WPA) resettlement community in Schriever, LA. The panel will

conclude with a world-wide overview of present issues of relocation and climate



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change.

Moderator: Kristina Peterson, Lowlander Center, Terrebonne Parish Resettlement Project, WPA

Panelists: Patty Ferguson, MacArthur Fellow, Tribal Lawyer, Point au Chen Tribe

Eric Des Marais, Univ. of Denver, Tohoku, Japan

Julie Maldonado, American Univ., National Climate Assessment

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:30 Panel Economic Impact: The Financial Examination to Accommodate or Retreat

This panel explores the economic barriers that we face in adapting or retreating. Panelists will

discuss issues of community, commerce, land rights, marginalization, and other aspects worthy

of this discussion. Why did previous efforts to adapt and mitigate versus plans to relocate

succeed or fail? Who are the players? What will it take to succeed in the future, and where does

the money come from?

Moderator: Jeff Williams, Director, Climate Consulting for Entergy Corporation

Panelists: Jeffrey Thomas, Thomas Strategies, LLC

Gen. Russell Honore, US Army (Ret.)

Chris Pulaski, Senior Planner and Zoning Administrator for Terrebonne Parish

2:30-3:30 Panel Building Creative Capital: Blending Innovative Strategies with Risk

Reduction Efforts

This panel explores dynamic solutions that have been unveiled in the past few years

utilizing unconventional methods with a more holistic and creative approach to

building resilience. Panelists will present their Innovative projects, such as resilience

mapping, crowd-sourcing, social media, communication solutions, and literary maps.

Moderator: Chris Zevenbergen, UNESCO, TU Delft, Dura Vermeer

Panelists: Rebecca Snedeker, Author, Unfathomable City

Jeff Carney, LSU Agriculture Center Sustainability Studio

Nicole Love, Coastal Resilience

Michelle Esposito, Sci-TEK



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Shannon Dosemagen, Co-founder, PublicLab.org

3:30-3:45 Break

3:45-4:15 Panel Board of Advisors

The Building Resilience Workshop V presents its Board of Advisors to discuss the

workshops highlights and action items based on the lessons we have learned from our participants and speakers. We will hear from the board on their achievements and

future goals, and explore the path of embedding solutions into our communities in

order to continue building resilience in coastal Louisiana and around the world.

Moderator: David Muth, National Wildlife Federation

Panelists: Members of the BRW Board of Advisors

Cyn Sarthou Brad Case

Chief Albert Naquin Derk van Ree

Mark Davis Boo Thomas

Shirley Laska Arthur Johnson

4:15-4:45 Participants Discussion with Board Members

The Board will respond to audience feedback, including comments and questions regarding

their experience at the workshop, and directives for future action.

4:45-5:00 Closing Remarks and Invitation to Dinner

6:308:30 Workshop Dinner

Bacchanal Wine Bar

Bywater, New Orleans

600 Poland Ave, New Orleans, LA 70117

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