EAC’s Matt Campo worked together with colleagues from Washington State Sea Grant and the American Planning Association’s Mazard Mitigation and Disaster Recovery Division (APA HMDR) to develop a 4-part webinar series on incorporating sea-level rise into urban planning decisions. The Planning Webcast series hosts the webinar recordings and supporting materials for free. The series included: […]
202, APA, APA HMDR, Campo, disaster recorvery, hazard mitigation, Sea Grant, SLR, urban planning, Webinar
The EAC Group’s Executive Director, Jeanne Herb, will give the keynote address at the 2021 New Jersey History and Historic Preservation Conference on June 17, 2021. The NJ History and Historic Preservation conference is the annual state-wide educational opportunity for history and historic preservation professionals and volunteers in the fields of architecture, planning, heritage site […]
conference, Herb, history, resilience NJHHPC
In this short video, Jeanne Herb, Executive Director of the EAC Group at Rutgers Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, describes the Coastal Climate Risk and Resilience (C2R2) Initiative, which is an innovate and interdisciplinary certificate program that trains gradate students to better integrate all the elements of coastal systems and become fluent communicators, […]
C2R2, Climate, coastal, graduate students, Herb, video
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 […]
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 […]
2021, continuing education, course, Health in All Policies, HiAP, Lowrie, Von Hagen
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, […]
conference session, Health in All Policies, Lowrie, Sustainable Jersey
Spanning over a 70-mile corridor, the Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park (D&R Canal Park) provides millions of New Jersey residents with invaluable access to a tract of pristine natural landscapes and a rich history directly from their (often literal) back door. The canal offers not only an aesthetic and recreational benefit to multiple New […]
2021, academics, D&R Canal, graduate students, Herb, planning, studio
EAC Group’s Jeanne Herb, in partnership with Grace Saba and Janine Barr, co-authored Opportunities to Address Ocean Acidification Impacts in New Jersey: An Outline of Options for the New Jersey Coastal Management program. The report was made possible with financial assistance through the NJDEP’s Coastal Management Program. Ocean acidification (OA) is the process by which […]
2020, Barr, Climate, coastal, Herb, ocean acidification, report, Saba
The New Jersey Department of Human Services announced it has awarded 18 grants to help communities across the state develop and/or implement inclusive initiatives that support the health and well-being of individuals with disabilities where they live, work, learn and play. The New Jersey Department of Human Services (DHS), Division of Disability Services (DDS) has […]
DDS, grants, IHC, inclusive healthy communities, NJDHS
The client for this fall 2020 Bloustein resilience studio course is the state OPA and the studio focus is on supporting OPA’s effort to incorporate resilience into the Plan Endorsement process pursuant to Executive Order 89. The studio will accomplish this objective by working with two towns in Monmouth County undergoing Plan Endorsement by supporting […]
Atlantic Highlands, Climate, Executive Order 89, Keansburg, studio