Resilience and Sustainability of the Mississippi River Delta as a Coupled Natural-Human System

• Main Author: Yi Jun Xu (Ed.) (auth)
• Other Authors: Nina Siu-Ngan Lam (Ed.) (auth), Kam-biu Liu (Ed.) (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2018
• Subjects: Environmental economics; Sustainability; Mississippi River Delta; River deltas; Coupled Natural-Human Systems; Resilience
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The Mississippi River Delta is home to more than two million people and is a hub for energy, transportation, and petrochemical industry of national importance in the United States. It is also home to 40% of coastal wetlands in the contiguous United States, which provide natural habitats for hundreds...