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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Graduate Student Ed Stowe featured by River Basin Center
A new story featured partially N-EWN funded research that UGA graduate student Edward Stowe did on the impacts of development on freshwater fish–and whether offsets intended to compensate for harm were effective. Article written by Cheryth Youngmann. Read the full story here!
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Don’t miss it: Improving Biological Surveys with Environmental DNA, N-EWN Knowledge Seminar
The Network for Engineering With Nature® invites you to the July N-EWN Knowledge Series: A Continuing Education Series about Engineering with Nature with Nathaniel Marshall, PhD Improving Biological Surveys with Environmental DNA on July 20, 2023, 12:30-1:30pm ET on Zoom Webinar Registration Dr. Nathaniel Marshall is an Environmental Scientist with expertise in environmental genomic applications. Nate…
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An Overview Of Natural Infrastructure – An ASCE Webinar
Nature-based solutions (NbS) hold great promise as techniques for addressing multiple crises related to aging infrastructure, biodiversity decline, and climate adaptation. Generally speaking, these solutions use natural processes to provide infrastructure outcomes while also including environmental and social co-benefits. The Fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly of the United Nations Environment Programme adopted…
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