Tag: resilience
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Center for Coastal Climate Resilience: Going Global
From Brazil to France to California, the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience (CCCR) is advancing global conversations on climate and coastal resilience via innovative communications: COP30 (Belém, Brazil) In November, CCCR leaders will attend the UN Climate Change Conference COP30, a conference that will spotlight Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) and Nature-based Solutions (NbS). These strategies will…
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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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N-EWN at Climate Week NYC: Resilience in Action
We’re thrilled to see resilience taking stage at Climate Week NYC, thanks to our awesome partners in attendance! Check out links to register for each of these events below. Monday, September 22:8:00am – Field Session: Nature-Inclusive Design for Constructability & Climate Resiliency (In person), hosted by ECOncretehttps://econcretetech.com/blogcat/ny-climate-week-waterfront-field-sessions/ Tuesday, September 23:2:30pm – Built to Last: Designing…
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Restoring Peace: RES on enhancing the resilience of the Peace River
Florida faces a $136 billion challenge: building the water infrastructure needed to manage flooding, restore wetlands, protect the water supply, and adapt to sea level rise. Public-private partnerships (P3s) are emerging as vital tools in meeting these environmental goals, with restoration efforts in Polk County leading the way. On 400 acres of historic ranchland at…
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Partner Takeover: University of Florida Center for Coastal Solutions
The Center for Coastal Solutions (CCS) in the UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering develops and delivers the best available science and technology for use by decision makers to improve water quality, restore ecosystems and build coastal resilience. The CCS focuses on driving impacts in three program areas: 1) optimizing water quality investment and management…
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The Natrx Platform: Comprehensive Nature-Based Resilience
The future of nature-based solutions requires more than great infrastructure — it requires a system. The Natrx platform is designed to integrate assessment, implementation, and long-term measurement into one seamless approach to shoreline and watershed resilience. It starts with Natrx Assess, which uses remote sensing and AI to map erosion risks and vulnerabilities across landscapes…
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ExoForms™: Coastal Resilience That Builds Over Time
ExoForms™ help shape a new generation of adaptive infrastructure, offering shoreline protection that integrates seamlessly with natural systems and evolves into lasting, living habitats. Designed for coastal, estuarine, and marine environments, ExoForms™ provide immediate energy dissipation and erosion control while encouraging sediment capture, marine life colonization, and long-term ecosystem benefits. Their modular design allows them…
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NCCOS Helps Military with Long-term Resiliency at Coastal Installations
With coastal military installations increasingly impacted by surrounding urban areas, climate change, and sea level rise, DOD is implementing ecosystem-based management to achieve long-term resiliency at its facilities. To help protect U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina from more frequent flooding, NOAA NCCOS scientists implemented nature-based ecosystem and shoreline management practices. This…
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Introducing Partner Takeovers: UGA Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems
As of spring 2025, we have 37 of the coolest organizations in the country as N-EWN partners—and they have even cooler things to say. Starting this spring, we’re going to hand the mic directly to each of our amazing partners. Introducing Partner Takeovers, where our social media and news stories will be run by a…
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Todd Bridges to discuss resilience and sustainability at Dalton State College
Join Keep Dalton-Whitfield Beautiful (KDWB) on Thursday, September 12 for a talk by Dr. Todd Bridges, Professor of Practice at UGA’s Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems and founder of USACE’s Engineering With Nature® (EWN®) program. The talk, titled “Building Resilience for the People and the Planet,” will discuss how innovative nature-based solutions can directly benefit communities. In response to…