Greater Baton Rouge Business Report | LSU Researchers Develop Tool to Balance Flood Mitigation With Urban Redevelopment

"Researchers with LSU’s College of the Coast & Environment have developed a new tool aimed at helping Baton Rouge city planners boost flood resilience while also tackling blight. The Flood Resilient Redevelopment tool is a GIS map that allows users to view available parcels of land in the parishes bordering the Amite River alongside rankings of their flood risk, walkability and ability to retain runoff, among other factors.

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Crespo developed the tool alongside LSU’s Thomas Douthat and Clint Willson in partnership with Build Baton Rouge, the Capital Region Planning Commission and the Georgetown Climate Center. Their work was funded by the National Academy of Science’s Gulf Research Program."

Read the full story by Dillon Lowe in the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report.