Get to know N-EWN
A community of researchers, practitioners, and educators working together to advance the practice of natural infrastructure.
We work across four main branches
In order to help facilitate the widespread adoption of natural infrastructure practices across the United States, we’ve identified four main areas that need additional work:
Developing methods and standards
New tools, techniques and guidance are needed to effectively plan, design, construct and operate natural infrastructure at different scales
Assessing benefits and costs
Natural infrastructure provides communities with a broad array of economic, environmental and social benefits. Improved approaches are needed to evaluate, quantify and forecast these benefits to support planning and decision making
Monitoring performance and outcomes
Technically sound, efficient and applicable methods are needed to track natural infrastructure performance over time, develop the evidence base for future designs, ensure compliance with policy and inform project operations and adaptive management
Integrating people and policy
Providing infrastructure that supports human wellbeing and equitably meets the needs of diverse communities requires integration of human values, attitudes, beliefs, perceptions and policies with modern communication and collaboration practices
Combining a diversity of on-the-ground experience with interdisciplinary teams.
The N-EWN community is made up of over 30 partners from industry, academia and the non-profit sector.
What N-EWN’s been up to:
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Biohabitats: Nature-based Planning for the High Line Canal Corridor
Biohabitats is completing a 15-month long collaborative conservation effort for High Line Canal Conservancy with 15 jurisdictional Canal Collaborative partners—including Denver Water, and Mile High Flood District—to find common goals and stewardship practices to develop a Natural Resources Management Plan for 860 acres and 71 miles of the High Line Canal corridor. The Plan protects…
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Live from New York, it’s NYC Climate Week: NYC Mayor’s Office and Arcadis host Climate Resilience Plan Pop-Up
In town for NYC Climate Week? Check out this pop-up on the FiDi & Seaport Climate Resilience Plan, co-hosted by some of our partners at NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice and Arcadis! The Financial District and Seaport Climate Resilience Plan aims to protect NYC from climate change while enhancing the waterfront, creating…
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Partner Takeover: Biohabitats
At Biohabitats, we provide nature-based solutions that help create a resilient world of abundant biodiversity, clean water, and community wellbeing, and we are honored to be a part of the Network for Engineering with Nature (N-EWN). N-EWN constantly brings us into conversation with its unique network of vested organizations creating a resilient future. Biohabitats often…
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