ESPM 50AC - Midterm 1 | Questions and Verified Solutions | Latest Update 2024/2025 | Graded A+

ESPM 50AC - Midterm 1 | Questions and Verified Solutions | Latest Update 2024/2025 | Graded A+ Site - Answer - a physical location. a way of understanding/seeing a place in terms of environmental qualities ex. NO has a great situation and a bad site. (site: low lying, alluvial soils in the floodplain) Situation - Answer - the relative socioeconomic advantages of a place (compared to other places) ex. NO has a great situation and a bad site. (situation: NO's valuable geopolitical and military position at the mouth of the Mississippi.) Southeastern Louisiana Wetland - Answer - ~"Idea of mitigating risk of disaster by conserving wetlands was overlooked by planners" -alluvial soils 'recharged' in annual floods of the Mississippi. -deltaic lobes -NO has (mostly) freshwater as well as saltwater wetlands. -freshwater wetlands can't tolerate long-term inundation by saltwtr.-wetlands absorb storm surge. ex. 1-2 miles of wetland -> 1 ft of storm surge or flood water -in NO itself, everything except the natural levees would have been wetlands. more conservation would have meant less impact Levees - Answer - ~"Levees are a way to reconciling the incongruity / disparity between site and situation" ~Ari Kelman: "...Katrina demonstrated, it's impossible to separate social and environmental issues in this city." Kelman argues for "...a network of human and nonhuman intermingled, straddling the nature/culture divide." (not a separate N and S with levees only/instrumental approach) -2 kinds: natural & artificial -Natural: created by flooding of the