An “Restoring the Manalapan Brook Watershed”, a series of videos produced by the Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County, examines...
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Coastal Community Resilience: an overview of strategies, tools and science
Coastal Community Resilience: an overview of strategies, tools and scienceCoastal Community Resilience: an overview of strategies, tools and science...
Op-Ed: Getting New Jersey’s Business Incentive Programs ‘Just Right’
The recent report on the state’s business incentive programs by the state comptroller had a positive effect; that’s exactly what comptroller reports...
Rutgers Partners with Raritan Headwaters Association to Study Microplastics in the Raritan River
The study of microplastics and their negative effects as water pollutants has led to multiple opportunities for research and partnership. Through...
Rutgers 2030 Master Plan Public Access Planning Studio
Seven graduate students participated in this Fall 2017 studio through the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy to analyze two...
Mini-grant enhances weather and climate data collection in the Raritan
Be it drought, flood, excessive heat or cold, climate variability and change, or simply the more “normal” day-to-day conditions in the basin, it is...
Cybersecurity and Technology Management Guidance for Local Government
Over the last few years, the center has worked with the NJ Municipal Excess Liability Fund and other organizations to develop guidance on managing...
Discards and Fishery Dynamics Data to Inform Raritan Bay Recreational Summer Flounder Fishery Management Policy
Summer flounder (Paralichtys dentatus) is a key species for New Jersey’s fisheries, including being the most commonly captured species by...
New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance receives Annual Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award
The New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance was one of eleven recipients of the 19th Annual Governor's Environmental Excellence Awards given in...
Temporal Heavy Metal Distribution and Bioaccumulation in the Lower Raritan River
With the surge of urbanization and industrialization, the Raritan River, and particularly its 15-mile long lower portion, has experienced profound...
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Hometown Dashboard: Smart Cities Technologies for Improving Quality of Life
Hometown Dashboard is a proposed set of smart city technologies for improving Quality of Life (QoL) in small towns and cities, which often cannot afford custom apps and in-house smart-community capabilities. This platform – the Hometown Dashboard – establishes 3-way...
Change of Occupancy Building Code Change Proposal
RECON Forecast August 2020 – NJ’s Pandemic Recovery and the Revised State Budget
R/ECON’s New Jersey forecast for August 2020 reveals a state still recovering from an economic lockdown caused the COVID-19 pandemic. Global, national, and state forecasts have experienced significant downward revision for 2020 employment growth.Those revisions cut...
An integrated model of the real estate market responses to coastal flooding
Understanding and improving how humans adapt to climate change are priorities in our research community, and coastal settlements are good places to study adaptation. Severe storm events and sea-level rise are threatening coastal communities with increasing levels of...