EAC's Matt Campo worked together with colleagues from Washington State Sea Grant and the American Planning Association's Mazard Mitigation and...
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Jeanne Herb discusses Rutgers Coastal Climate Risk and Resilience Initiative in short video
In this short video, Jeanne Herb, Executive Director of the EAC Group at Rutgers Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, describes the...
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,...
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...
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...
Spring 2021 Graduate Planning Studio explores the D&R Canal Master Plan
Spanning over a 70-mile corridor, the Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park (D&R Canal Park) provides millions of New Jersey residents with...
All Grantees Kick-Off Meeting
In many ways, the IHC grant program is a highly innovative initiative that seeks to undertake upfront and lasting engagement of people with...
Coastal Climate Resilience Studio Course: Integrating Climate Change Resilience into the New Jersey State Planning Commission Plan Endorsement Process
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...
Rutgers’ Bloustein School to manage DDS IHC Grant Program
The New Jersey Department of Human Services Division of Disability Services (DDS) has engaged the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public...
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...
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Tech Fitness for Local Elected Officials and Administrators
These articles were designed to help local government leaders develop “tech fitness” for their organizations. The idea of tech fitness is to ensure that organizations can meet expectations for technologically driven services, which today, include most government...
AI in Local Government, Helpful or Harmful?
Chatbots are software programs that use natural language processing to have conversations with people. Also called conversational agents, they can answer questions, provide recommendations, and complete tasks. Leading companies like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, and...
TECH UPDATES: What Municipal CAOs Need to Know, Part 1: Tech Fitness and Cyber Hygiene
There are two basic elements of technology that every municipality must have. Most places already do this, but it doesn’t hurt to highlight them. The first is an expert to advise you and your governing body on technology issues. As with other experts you hire—a police...
Monitoring summertime indoor overheating and pollutant risks and natural ventilation patterns of seniors in public housing.
Abstract Indoor heat and air pollution pose concurrent threats to human health and wellbeing, and their effects are more pronounced for vulnerable individuals. This study investigates exposures to summertime indoor overheating and airborne particulate matter (PM2.5)...