Required Readings

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 "2006 Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration," Preliminary Technical Report to United State Congress, July 2006

Additional References

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America by John M. Barry, Simon and Schuster, 1997

"Performance Evaluation of the New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Protection System," Final Report of the Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force (IPET), June 2006

The Control of Nature by John McPhee, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989.