Safeguarding Coastal Restoration Investments

PAR launched a new initiative providing ongoing fiscal oversight of the state’s spending on coastal restoration and protection and its job impacts. PAR has identified issues concerning fiscal policy, transparency and the decision making process but will not cover environmental or engineering evaluations.

The New Louisiana Purchase: Building Trust with Sound Coastal Investment Policies

This report focuses on the financial, budgeting, planning and contracting aspects of state coastal management rather than on environmental issues and specific restoration projects. PAR has ben working with a diverse group of stakeholders to develop this area of research and recommendations, including business, environmental and education groups and government agencies. PAR’s researchers have conducted extensive interviews, document reviews and collaborative forums. This report provides information about many of those stakeholders and their resources available to the public.

Tracking Coastal Progress: Knowledge is Power

As an independent policy group, The Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana (PAR) keeps a watchful eye on the state’s governance and financing of coastal solutions and educates the public about the problems and progress. PAR also works to give citizens the tools they need to understand the issues facing our coast. PAR educational videos, one that explains the how the Master Plan is devised and the other showing how coastal projects are developed and approved, are now available to the public. These succinct videos give citizens an understanding of how key coastal decisions are made.

PAR Recent Commentaries Related to Coastal Funds

Tackling our Debts, January 2022

The views and research in these reports are not PAR’s, but are linked as an information service.

Other Resources: Research and Analysis
The Data Center: Coastal Reports

Greater New Orleans, Inc: Analysis of Coastal Restoration Workforce Assets, Challenges, and Opportunities in South Louisiana