Raritan River Initiatives
2016 Sustainable Raritan Award Recipients
Eight individuals and organizations received Sustainable Raritan River Awards at the 8th Annual Sustainable Raritan Conference and Awards Ceremony...
Coastal Sediment Archives Can Guide Resilience Planning
Coastal wetlands are beneficial to our natural and human ecosystems. They are incredibly important during intense weather events, like hurricanes,...
Dr. Ken Mitchell Describes History of Raritan Flooding at Annual Conference
The Raritan River Basin has a long history of flooding events. Communities along the river have documented high water over the past three...
Questionnaire Provides New Jersey Communities with Resilience Evaluation Tool
Many communities in New Jersey are facing problems from flooding whether or not they are along the coast. The New Jersey Department of Environmental...
Dr. Robert Chant Researches Raritan River Estuary Sediment Transport
Dr. Robert Chant, a professor of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, is researching sediment and...
8th Annual Sustainable Raritan River Conference
RU on the Raritan Conference Exploring an agenda for Rutgers’ stewardship of the Raritan River, basin and bay Friday, June 10, 2016, Douglass...
Two States: One Bay Conference Summary is Available
The Two States: One Bay conference, convened on June 12, 2015 by the Sustainable Raritan River Initiative and the New York-New Jersey Harbor &...
Herb and Lathrop to Co-Lead the Sustainable Raritan River Initiative
Dr. Richard Lathrop from the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and Jeanne Herb from the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and...
Rick Lathrop to hold new Johnson Family Chair and co-lead Sustainable Raritan River Initiative
The Rutgers Board of Governors has appointed Richard G. Lathrop Jr., professor of environmental monitoring at the School of Environmental and...
Recent Products
Transition Plan for the Return of Local Control to Jersey City Public Schools, Third Annual Report
This report is the third and potentially final report of the Department of Education’s (department) Comprehensive Accountability Office (CAO) concerning the final phase of the transition of the Jersey City Public Schools (district) from being a state supervised school...
Behaving or not? Explaining energy conservation via identity, values, and awareness in U.S. suburban homes
In this study, we compare electricity consumption of the suburban households with similar socio-economic, demographic, and geographic profiles to assess possible roles of social-psychological and behavioral factors. We examine the extent to which these factors...
AI in Planning: Opportunities and Challenges and How to Prepare
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been in development since the 1950s. However, due to the availability of big data and increased computing power, the AI market has grown substantially over the last decade and is expected to grow more than 20 percent annually over the...
Planning the Built Environment and Land Use Towards Deep Decarbonization of the United States
Many governments, businesses, and institutions are committing to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, a goal and process known as deep decarbonization. Achieving this goal in the United States requires a national, economy-wide transformation in energy production...