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Ain’t There No More: Louisiana’s Disappearing Coastal Plain (America’s Third Coast Series)

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Winner of the 2018 Louisiana Literary Award given by the Louisiana Library Association

For centuries, outlanders have openly denigrated Louisiana’s coastal wetlands residents and their stubborn refusal to abandon the region’s fragile prairies tremblants regardless of repeated natural and, more recently, man-made disasters. Yet, the cumulative environmental knowledge these wetlands survivors have gained through painful experiences over the course of two centuries holds invaluable keys to the successful adaptation of up to date coastal communities all over the globe. As Hurricane Sandy recently demonstrated, coastal peoples all over the place face rising sea levels, disastrous coastal erosion, and, inevitably, difficult way of life choices.

Along the Bayou State’s coast the most insidious challenges are man-made. Since channelization of the Mississippi River in the wake of the 1927 flood, which diverted sediments and nutrients from the wetlands, coastal Louisiana has lost to erosion, subsidence, and rising sea levels a land mass kind of twice the size of Connecticut. State and national policymakers were unable to reverse this environmental catastrophe until Hurricane Katrina focused a harsh spotlight on the human consequences of eight decades of neglect. Yet, even today, the welfare of Louisiana’s coastal plain residents remains, at best, an afterthought in state and national policy discussions.

For coastal families, the Gulf water lapping at the doorstep makes this morass on no account a scholarly debate over abstract problems. Ain’t There No More renders an easily read history filled with new insights and possibilities. Rare, in the past unpublished images documenting a disappearing way of living accompany the narrative. The authors bring nearly a century of combined experience to distilling research and telling this story in a way invaluable to Louisianans, to policymakers, and to all those concerned with rising sea levels and in quest of a long-term solution.

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