Adaptive Governance Initiative

Assisting agencies in understanding their relationship to the coastal crisis; developing tools and strategies to help integrate coastal change data into decision making; leveraging partnerships to maximize investment benefits; and establishing a framework for proactive, climate adaptive governance for Louisiana.

Governor John Bel Edwards signing Executive Order JBE 20-19 on Coastal Resilience

Making coastal resilience a priority

Executive Order JBE 2020-19 reiterates that coastal resilience is a priority for the state of Louisiana. It establishes a context for why this Initiative is so necessary and outlines what our state’s government is doing in response to coastal change. It expresses a vision for all agencies to use the “full breadth of tools, expertise, and missions” to build resilience on our coast.

Click this link to read the full text of Executive Order JBE 2020-19.

Resilience Coordinator Resources

We are working with the Resilience Coordinators to develop tools that advance state agency adaptation and resilience in Louisiana. Materials from previous meetings can be found at the links below.

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