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. […]
2019, Auermuller, Climate, coastal, Findley, Herb, NJDEP, NOAA, report, resilience, socially vulnerable
Rutgers experts, including Jeanne Herb of the Environmental Analysis and Communications Group, provide sound science and evidence-based recommendations on how to be more resilient to climate change-related impacts in four essays. Read their recommendations here and access online resilience tools that can help New Jersey, counties, towns, businesses and residents adapt to climate change-related impacts. […]
2019, Climate, coastal, Herb, resilience, Rising Tide
Two-thirds of New Jerseyans are concerned about the impact that climate change will have on them, according to the latest Rutgers-Eagleton Poll conducted in collaboration with the New Jersey Climate Change Alliance at Rutgers University. The Alliance is facilitated by Rutgers University through the Rutgers Climate Institute and the Environmental Analysis and Communications Group at […]
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Jeanne Herb was interviewed by Jill Horner of Comcast News on April 18, 2019 about the lessons on health and climate change equity that Jeanne brought back from a recent trip to Cuba with the Robert Wood Johnson Culture of Health Leaders Program. View the video here: https://comcastnewsmakers.com/Videos/2019/4/22/NJ190418-2
2019, Climate, Comcast, Cuba, equity, Herb, interview, RWJ Culture of Health
The Fourth National Climate Assessment identified the NJ Climate Adaptation Alliance as a key program to develop and implement climate adaptation strategies that assist Northeast municipalities, counties and states in efforts to build resilience to environmental changes and adapt to a changing climate (Chapter 18, Executive Summary). The NJ Climate Adaptation Alliance is co-facilitated by the […]
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Compiled by EAC’s Dr. Karen Lowrie, (Managing Editor of Risk Analysis) and Dr. Louis Anthony (Tony) Cox, this special virtual issue of Risk Analysis, prepared a year after Harvey and in the wake of Florence, offers insights on how best to anticipate, communicate, manage, mitigate, respond to, recover from, and learn from such disasters. The […]
2018, Climate, hurricane, Lowrie, risk, Risk Analysis
EAC team members will work on an interdisciplinary team at Rutgers to integrate an existing suite of coastal hazards mapping tools into a unified platform. This new platform will integrate the latest climate science, exposure assessment techniques, and best practices in resilience planning. The project will include stakeholder engagement to identify suggested improvements to the new […]
Climate, coastal, Herb, platform, resilience, tools, Whytlaw
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Pollution Prevention Program provided EAC with a grant to use geospatial analytical tools to analyze publicly available state and federal environmental data, along with data regarding current and projected flood hazards and changing climate conditions, to inform state and federal program’s operations, local resilience planning and public awareness […]
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Bloustein School joins Sustainable Jersey and New Jersey League of Conservation Voters in hosting Mayor’s Climate Summit Learn more about it here: http://www.sustainablejersey.com/events-trainings/nj-mayors-climate-summit/ Photo credit: Event co-hosts with First Lady Tammy Murphy from SustainableJersey.com
Climate, Herb, mayor, Summit, Sustainable Jersey