Life cycle assessment of green–grey coastal flood protection infrastructure: a case study from New Orleans
Rahaf Hasan,
Lauren McPhillips,
Gordon Warn
et al.
Abstract:The study compared the life cycle environmental impacts of three coastal flood management strategies: grey infrastructure (levee), green-grey infrastructure (levee and oyster reef), and a do-nothing scenario, considering the flood damage of a single flooding event in the absence of protection infrastructure. A case study was adopted from a New Orleans, Louisiana residential area to facilitate the comparison. Hazus software, design guidelines, reports, existing projects, and literature were utilized as foregrou… Show more
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