Stephen Barnes, R. King Milling (chair of the Governor's Advisory Commission on Coastal Protection, Restoration, and Conservation and member of the RAND Gulf States Executive Advisory Committee), and Craig Bond.

Photo by Elizabeth Thornton/RANDStephen Barnes, R. King Milling (chair of the Governor’s Advisory Commission on Coastal Protection, Restoration, and Conservation and member of the RAND Gulf States Executive Advisory Committee), and Craig Bond.

RAND’s Craig Bond and LSU’s Stephen Barnes presented findings from their evaluation of the economic effects of coastal land loss at the Governor’s Advisory Commission on Coastal Protection, Restoration, and Conservation meeting in New Orleans on December 2, 2015. Their new report, Economic Evaluation of Land Loss in Louisiana, is intended to guide coastal management decisions in the Gulf States region.

Learn more at http://www.rand.org/jie/centers/water-climate-resilience/news/louisiana-land-loss.html