building resilience workshop v schedule
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The two-day Building Resilience Workshop V begins on Thursday morning, March 13, 2014, with the theme “Communities on the Edge." Speakers from across the world are meeting at the University of New Orleans' Lindy Boggs Auditorium in part discuss coastal communities residents' dilemma in deciding whether to adapt and stay in their existing communities or relocate and rebuild.TRANSCRIPT
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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