Tag: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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Interdisciplinary team introduces Engineering With Nature® Practice Guides series
Our N-EWN partners across industry, governmental, academic and nonprofit sectors talk a lot about Engineering With Nature®, but it’s not always clear what that means or how to incorporate EWN principles within engineering projects. This team from an interdisciplinary crew of our partners is working to address that with a new series of practice guides…
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Workshop: The Great Lakes Engineering With Nature Playbook
It’s Day 3 of Anchor QEA’s N-EWN media week. Today we highlight the February 2025 Great Lakes Engineering With Nature (EWN) Playbook in-person workshop, borne from our ongoing support to the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Chicago, Buffalo, and Detroit Districts as part of the Great Lakes…
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USACE experts to host Engineering With Nature Workshop at State of the Coast 2025 this month
Are you attending State of the Coast in New Orleans this month? Would you like to deepen your understanding of natural infrastructure and its role in building resilient, sustainable systems? Join us for an immersive short course hosted by the Network for Engineering With Nature. This course brings together leading experts from across USACE, ERDC…
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EWN introduces 8 new natural infrastructure research projects
The Engineering With Nature® website is full of information on the innovative collaborations between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other natural infrastructure organizations around the world. The newest resource on the website is their updated Active Research Archive, which hosts informational pages for eight impressive projects in the nature-based solutions space. Check them…
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Partner Takeover: USACE Engineering With Nature
Our next Partner Takeover is our second founding partner, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Engineering With Nature® initiative! EWN is proud to be a founding partner of the Network for Engineering With Nature (N-EWN), launched in 2019 to accelerate the implementation of natural infrastructure through collaborative science, tools, and training. Founded by USACE in…
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The American Society of Civil Engineers endorses the use of nature-based solutions as crucial tool in combatting climate change in new policy statement
In a recent policy statement, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) endorsed the use of nature-based solutions (NbS) as a crucial tool for addressing the threat of climate change and bolstering community and ecological resilience. ASCE’s recognition of NbS as a crucial tool in future infrastructure projects is an important step toward accelerating global adoption:…
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USACE and UC Santa Cruz Researchers Collaborate on NbS and Risk Management Recommendations
A new handbook reviewing risk management in nature-based solutions (NbS) evaluates connections between NbS, risk science and insurance, asserting that natural resources and NbS projects are undervalued in risk assessment. The authors call for further integration among these fields through interdisciplinary collaboration. The team identifies 15 recommendations to further integrate NbS into risk science and…
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Webinar: Feedback for USACE’s proposed updates to agency-specific procedures
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has published a new draft of agency-specific procedures for implementing Principles, Requirements, and Guidelines for Federal Investments in Water Resources. The public is invited to comment until April 15. View the full rulemaking docket here. A team of affiliates from the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems at the…
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EWN Podcast S7 E4: Catching Up With Todd Bridges – Failing At Retirement But Advancing NBS
This month, the EWN podcast got the original gang back together: Host Sarah Thorne was joined by cohost and EWN National Lead Jeff King and their colleague and friend Todd Bridges. Bridges retired last year from a 30-year career at USACE where he was Senior Research Scientist for Environmental Science and the “inspiration behind the…
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N-EWN Goes to Washington: National Policy Forum on Nature-based Solutions
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Leaders from public, private and governmental organizations met at the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine on February 7-8, 2024 to discuss policy and development of nature-based solutions (NbS). The first National Policy Forum was held to provide opportunities for policymakers, regulatory bodies, and practitioners to discuss the necessary policy reforms…