Dr. Karen Lowrie leads planning team for City of Elizabeth revitalization projects
Karen Lowrie, Ph.D., is leading EAC’s work on the planning team for two different neighborhood revitalization projects in the City of Elizabeth, NJ. Working with the Elizabeth Development Company, Dr. Lowrie is helping to prepare neighborhood revitalization plans for the Midtown District and for the Elizabethport/New Point Rd. neighborhood as part of the state DCA […]
Dr. Karen Lowrie to co-lead Health in All Policies Continuing Education Training Course
Karen Lowrie, Ph.D. at the Environmental Analysis & Communications Group and Leigh Ann Von Hagen, AICP/PP at the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center (both at Rutgers’ Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy) will co-lead “Health in All Policies (HiAP)”, an on-line course offered through Rutgers Continuing Education that is recommended for practitioners and policymakers […]
Dr. Karen Lowrie discusses Health in All Policies at the 2021 New Jersey Sustainability Summit
Dr. Karen Lowrie of the EAC Group presented a session on “Health in All Policies: Integrating Health into Decision-Making” as part of the New Jersey Sustainability Summit on May 20, 2021. Dr. Lowrie’s presentation was part of a panel on the new Gold Star Standard in Health for Sustainable Jersey. Other panelists were Charles Latini, […]
HIA Training for Professionals: How a university-based center can help to build awareness and capacity
Lowrie, Karen W., Von Hagen, Leigh Ann. “HIA Training for Professionals: How a University-based Center Can Help to Build Awareness and Capacity.” Chronicles of Health Impact Assessment, 3(2), 27-31, November 2018.
Communicating about Contaminated Site Cleanup using Coordinated and Consistent Metrics
Lowrie, K., Mayer, H. and Greenberg, M. (2020), Communicating about Contaminated Site Cleanup using Coordinated and Consistent Metrics: Opportunity and Challenge for the U.S. Department of Energy. Risk Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.13611
Environmental Justice and Social Injustice: Ethnic, Racial, Economic and Other Marginalized People and Communities
Burger, Johanna, Michael Greenberg and Karen Lowrie, editors. July 9, 2020. Environmental Justice and Social Injustice: Ethnic, Racial, Economic and Other Marginalized People and Communities. Risk Analysis Journal. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/(ISSN)1539-6924.environmental-justice-social-injustice This virtual issue provides a compendium of papers from the 1980’s through the present that examine some of the risks and disadvantages that people and communities […]
New Risk Analysis virtual issue on Environmental Justice
This virtual issue provides a compendium of papers from the 1980’s through the present that examine some of the risks and disadvantages that people and communities experience as a result of environmental injustices. Environmental injustice is one form of social injustice that refers to the disproportionate exposure of some individuals and groups to environmental hazards […]
Nuclear Power, Weapons and Waste Management: A 40-year Retrospective
Greenberg, M., J. Burger and K. Lowrie, eds. (2020). “Nuclear Power, Weapons and Waste Management: A 40-year Retrospective,” Risk Analysis virtual issue, available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)1539-6924.nuclear-power-weapons-and-waste-management Photo Credit: Dr. Joanna Burger, Rutgers University
A Seat at the Table: Integrating the needs and challenges of underrepresented and socially vulnerable populations into coastal hazards planning in New Jersey
Herb, Jeanne, Lowrie, Karen, Auermuller, Lisa Findley, Patricia. (2019). A seat at the table: Integrating the needs and challenges of underrepresented and socially vulnerable populations into coastal hazards planning in New Jersey. Submitted to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Bureau of Climate Resilience. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ. […]