Tag: UGA
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July 2022 Knowledge Series: Consideration of Natural Infrastructure for Flood Hazard Reduction: in a numerical modeling framework
Matthew Bilskie, University of Georgia Using science and engineering to produce operational efficiencies, using natural processes to maximize benefit, increasing the value provided by projects to include social, environmental and economic benefits, using collaborative processes to organize, engage and focus interests, stakeholders and partners. Watch the recording here. The N-EWN Knowledge Series offers 1 Continuing…
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June 2022 Knowledge Series: Economic Valuation of Nature-Based Infrastructure
Ben Blachly, Susana Ferreira, Yukiko Hashida, Grace Anne Ingham, Craig E Landry & Anna Perry The common method used to calculate Benefit-cost analysis does not incorporate the often-times greater long-term benefits of natural infrastructure (NI) over conventional approaches, putting the selection of NI at a disadvantage. Several groups are moving toward an ecosystem services approach to identifying benefits that people obtain…
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May 2022 Knowledge Series: Toolkit for ERDC’s Coastal Storm (CSTORM) Modeling System
Amanda Tritinger, USACE & Matthew Bilskie, UGA Currently, incorporating EWN-based flood protection and restoration designs into storm surge and wave numerical modeling systems is a time-consuming and laborious process. Leveraging codes from the developed Coastal STORM (CSTORM) model framework, this research develops an EWN CSTORM toolkit that can be implemented to streamline the inclusion of EWN…
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March 2022 Knowledge Series: Refining a Vision for Future Synergy Between Infrastructure and Biodiversity Conservation
Charles van Rees, UGA This webinar focuses on the relationship between Biodiversity and its conservation and Infrastructure and related disciplines, why this is important for today’s challenges, what this relationship looks like, how it has changed, and what it will look like in the future. Dr. Charles B. van Rees addresses what we can do…
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November 2021 Knowledge Series: Operationalizing Equity for Integrated Water Resources
Don Nelson, UGA Advancing social equity has been implicitly and explicitly central to international water resources policy for decades. However, water resources planning sometimes fail to fully embrace this crucial concept. Inclusion of equity within water resources infrastructure is often inhibited by an incomplete conceptual understanding of equity, a perceived lack of quantitative and qualitative…
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October 2021 Knowledge Series: Living Shoreline Policy
Shana Jones & Scott Pippin, UGA Adapting shoreline stabilization infrastructure and approaches to sea-level rise will require measures that improve federal, state, and local governance mechanisms; promote nature-based management practices; and change property owner behavior that affects coastal areas. This presentation focuses on shoreline stabilization law and policy, specifically the ocean-facing and estuarine protection laws in…