The M.I.T. Department of Urban Studies and Planning will host a workshop in September for M.I.T. students focused on the role of justice and equity in planning climate change induced indigenous resettlement.

Lowlander founder Shirley Laska’s new book, Louisiana’s Response to Extreme Weather is scheduled for publication this fall.

Lowlander member Alessandra Jerolleman’s new book: Disaster Recovery Through the Lens of Justice is now available. Read the synopsis below:

Through the Lowlander Center’s partnership with the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, the Lowlander Center and its members have attended several gatherings and contributed to UUSC publications.

Many of the people from the coastal area, the Tribes we collaborate with and the Lowlander Center members have been participants, supporters and leaders within the Rising Voices community.

Victoria, partner/collaborator with the Lowlander Center on the Climigration Dialogues and the Coastal- Inland dialogues, is awarded the Kaplan Innovation Grant for the Rising Tides innitiative.

Lowlander’s collaboration with the architecture, landscape and planning departments at all Louisiana colleges around the state who have such programs  is entering its third year. 

While Lowlander members were attending the 44th annual meeting of the Natural Hazards Workshop sponsored by the Univ. of Colorado’s Natural Hazards Center, recontact was made with the faculty and staff of the Texas A&M Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center and their community collaborators.

Lowlander Center’s Shirley Laska appeared on the Delta Dispatches radio program to speak about Participatory Action Research (PAR), Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), and her forth-coming book.