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5 Building Resilience in the Gulf Region
5 Building Resilience in the Gulf Region
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. • Information developed by the Prince William Sound Regional Citizens' Advisory Council, based on experiences following the Exxon Valdez oil spill, provide important guidance to communities affected by the oil spills.
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said Alexandra Nolen, director of the Center to Elimi the critical intersection between human health and nate Health Disparities at the University of Texas Medi environment; cal Branch in Galveston. The underlying concept was to • Leading efforts in incorporating concepts of "health use disaster recovery planning as a way to restructure the in all policies" and health impact assessments into city's infrastructure and advance community health, us ongoing work; and ing a "health in all policies" approach.
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"We engaged about 60 city and county level of- of resilience and led to a broader conversation about ficials, planners, social services directors and commu- disaster planning." The work started with analyzing air nity leaders in a process of thinking creatively about the quality data -- the key concern expressed by community next time," Nolen said. "How could we have planned members -- then added a community-based participabetter to get child care back up and running more tory research approach to map social determinants of quickly after the storm?
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really don't cal issues related to the human impacts of disaster, in- want me to tell them about every paper that was ever cluding issues of how communities might be impacted written on that topic; they just want to know the five by disasters, how to communicate the health and social most important things they need to do." risks of those disasters to the broader public, and how community organizations can help the public adopt SEA GRANT AND THE GULF mitigation or adaptation strategies, particularly given REGION'S FISHING COMMUNITIES that the large effects of some changes in climate may show themselves only gradually. Fishing communities -- whether recreational or A key opportunity to better align health and resil- commercial -- in the Gulf region have been impacted ience is to bridge discussions of public health officials by a series of disasters over the past decade, said Rex with those of city planners, floodplain managers, may- Caffey, professor of natural resource economics at Louiors, public works officials, businesses, and the non-profit siana State University.
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There is an community] needs and be responsible for those, versus element of trust that we have through that network." a one-way communication." This is a huge challenge, In the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the but networks and organizations that are already embedLouisiana Sea Grant program helped form the Louisi- ded in communities throughout the Gulf, such as Sea ana Fishing Recovery Coalition, which then served as Grant programs, will be important partners in this work.
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In the Prince William Sound region, "a big part of having Joe Banta, senior project manager for the Prince a resilient community is having these people take care William Sound Regional Citizens' Advisory Council, of- of themselves," and that is what the 350 vessels are dofered an overview of how the Council has contributed ing, Banta said. Unfortunately, such an ongoing fishing to the recovery of communities affected by oil spills.
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ing the breakout discussion and should not be seen Leanne Truehart, from the National Alliance on as the consensus recommendations of the workshop Mental Illness, commented during the discussion that participants; nor are they necessarily actions that the she liked the idea of the peer listener training program, Gulf Research Program should undertake: because "nowhere in there does it say psychiatrist, therapist, [or] mental health." The stigma of mental illness • Improve understanding of the science of sciprevents many people from seeking help, and address- ence communication.
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other coastal communities affected by oil and gas pro- • Activities could support community ownership duction? and longevity of data: RFAs could promote lon gevity of data by providing funding for data visu As a summary of the breakout discussion, Linda alization and iterative meetings with community McCauley, Emory University, presented the list, below, members so that the presentation and interpretato all workshop participants.
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