LA-SEER Center | LSU
Louisiana Social, Environmental, and Economic Resilience (LA-SEER) Center
A multidisciplinary hub dedicated to tackling Louisiana's escalating challenges from natural hazards and climate change through research and tool development as well as interdisciplinary collaboration and capacity building by training researchers and fostering partnerships. LA-SEER aims to advance science-driven risk and resilience management and planning. The center will build and engage the public in using integrative models and decision tools, leading to the creation of an LSU Risk Engine.
OBJECTIVES
Develop integrated, multi-hazard modeling tools to estimate social and environmental impacts of mitigation and adaptation decisions, linking outcomes to insurance markets, economic resilience, and health.
Collaborate with agencies and local decision-makers through a co-production platform to identify resilience challenges and design effective solutions.
Apply multi-disciplinary, place-based, and theoretical frameworks for data collection, risk assessment, and multi-scale resilience analysis, strengthening complex, interdependent systems.
Partner with communities and governments to co-produce resilience strategies and advance policies that enhance resilience (people, society, economy, and built environment) while reducing insurance costs.
Expected Outcomes of LA-SEER
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Strengthened collaboration, a shared knowledge base, and strategic partnerships will fuel more effective problem-solving for challenges in risk, social and environmental built resilience, and economics.
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Development of innovative risk assessment models providing quantitative insights into natural hazard risks.
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Advanced resilient policies, codes, and strategies will be formulated to optimize insurability, reduce costs, and enhance overall community resilience.