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...
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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...
Influence of biogeochemistry on the availability of toxic metals in iron-replete New Jersey sediment
Dr. Philip Sontag and Professor Katherine Dawson collaborated on a mini-grant project to understand the biogeochemical cycles of trace metal...
Government officials not acting fiduciarily responsible
Prior to the pandemic in mid-March, NAIOP NJ had planned to convene several experts to examine New Jersey’s fiscal challenges, controlling costs at...
New Jersey Supreme Court hears GOP bid to block proposed borrowing
Repubican opponents of New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s proposal to borrow up to $9.9 billion for offsetting COVID-19-related revenue losses was argued...
Op-Ed: What Should Happen If State Supreme Court OKs Emergency Debt Issuance
The constitutionality of the new law authorizing state debt without voter approval is about to be reviewed by the New Jersey Supreme Court. At issue...
In tight times, towns must embrace shared services | Editorial
State and local revenues have cratered since New Jersey was slammed by the coronavirus, and the need to cut costs by sharing municipal services has...
EAC Group’s Jeanne Herb featured in The Pew Charitable Trusts’ Coastal Habitat Learning Series
Jeanne Herb of the Bloustein School's EAC Group will be a speaker on the upcoming Pew Charitable Trusts' Coastal Habitat Learning Series. Ms. Herb...
Tax relief on home renovations in Belleville? It could be happening
Marc Pfeiffer, the assistant director of the Bloustein Local Government Research Center at Rutgers University, said the increase in taxes would go...
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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Advancing Shared Solutions to Intersect Climate Action and Health Equity: Opportunities for NJ to advance health equity-informed climate solutions
The American Public Health Association has declared climate change a public health emergency and, nationally, climate change experts, public health practitioners, and leaders of communities at the frontline of climate impacts point to how climate change exacerbates...
Advanced Clean Truck Rule Health Impact Assessment
Karen Lowrie led a rapid Health Impact Analysis study, submitted as a report in 2021 under the Public Comment period for the proposed DEP rule on Advanced Clean Trucks. The report offers a “health lens” through which to view some of the potential impacts of...
Co-production of Community-based Air Quality Education Intervention to Reduce Exposures for Health Promotion and Environmental Justice
This workshop shares knowledge and strategies related to building just communities and accessing just technologies in context of a 4-year campaign to co-produce a series of air quality interventions at a US Census low-income affordable housing site in Elizabeth, NJ,...
Residential Indoor Air Quality Interventions through a Social-Ecological Systems Lens: A Systematic Review
Indoor air quality (IAQ) is an important consideration for health and well-being as people spend most of their time indoors. Multi-disciplinary interest in IAQ is growing, resulting in more empirical research, especially in affordable housing settings, given...