Congratulations to the New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance for winning the Coastal and Ocean Champion Award from the Monmouth University Urban...
Environmental Analysis & Communications
EAC’s Dr. Lowrie to lead Age-Friendly Planning Studio focused on Farley Towers in Elizabeth
In the Fall of 2018, EAC's Dr. Karen Lowrie is leading a class of MCRP students in a studio class that focuses on Farley Towers, a senior living...
EAC Team to help integrate coastal hazards mapping tools into unified platform
EAC team members will work on an interdisciplinary team at Rutgers to integrate an existing suite of coastal hazards mapping tools into a unified...
EAC’s Dr. Whytlaw developed/teaches GIS Applications in Marine Science and Policy class to Monmouth University students
EAC's Dr. Whytlaw has developed and teaches a GIS Applications in Marine Science and Policy class to Monmouth University students. The course has...
EAC Karen Lowrie co-facilitates PHCI workshop in southern NJ
Karen Lowrie co-facilitated a workshop on May 9 at the Rutgers Atlantic Cape campus with Leigh Ann Von Hagen as part of the Planning Health...
See NJSpotlight opinion piece on making New Jersey the healthiest state
Read Jeanne Herb's Op-Ed in NJSpotlight on achieving health equity in New Jersey. Follow this link.
EAC Assists with Groundbreaking Joint Land Use Study at NWS Earle
A Joint Land Use Study (JLUS) is a cooperative planning effort between local governments and military installations. Working with the County of...
New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance Launches Social Media Campaign
The New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance – facilitated by Rutgers University–New Brunswick – has launched a social media campaign to enhance...
EAC Conducts Health Impact Assessment Training for Housing and Community Development of New Jersey
Karen Lowrie of EAC, together with Planning Healthy Communities Initiatives (PHCI) colleague Leigh Ann Von Hagen of the Voorhees Transportation...
Join EAC for HIA: Incorporating Health into Planning & Decision-Making – Feb 23
Join EAC for an upcoming training course, Health Impact Assessment: Incorporating Health into Planning and Decision-Making, offered through the...
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Comparing ambient and personal measurements of exposure to urban heat stress
This paper reports on a field study of personal exposures to summer heat stress in Elizabeth, NJ, USA, a medium-sized city that hosts an international airport, a shipping port, a petrochemical refinery complex, and a major transportation corridor in a densely...
Tenant Perspectives on Building Electrification in Affordable Housing
Low-and Moderate-Income (LMI) tenants are at risk of being left behind in the clean energy transition. While building electrification's environmental and health benefits are evident, it can pose accessibility challenges for LMI residents, who already bear a...
Assessing the Public Health Impacts: A Comprehensive Analysis of Health Externalities Related to Power Grid Expansion Plans
Power grid expansion decisions often are made based on models that minimize market costs, ignoring externalities that may have significant harmful financial and societal impacts. Such approaches portray an incomplete assessment of the effects of potential...
New Jersey’s Energy-Efficiency Workforce Needs, Infrastructure, and Equity Assessment
Governor Phil Murphy’s Executive Order 315 in 2023 set a goal of ensuring 100% of energy sold in New Jersey comes from clean sources by 2035, and implementing strategic recommendations in the New Jersey Council on the Green Economy’s report Green Jobs for a...