News & Events
Jeanne Herb to serve as Interim Administrative Director of new regional climate resilience hub
Advancing its mission and leadership role to improve climate risk management critical to societal well-being, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey will lead a multi-university Megalopolitan Coastal Transformation Hub (MACH) made possible by a grant through the National Science Foundation’s Coastlines and People (CoPe) Program with expected total...
USDOE, NJBPU provide sustainability planning resources for resilient municipal microgrids
Download report: Development of Local Government Resilient Microgrids The New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Center for Resilient Design announces the launch of microgrids.io, a web-based resource focused on planning and developing sustainable, resilient local government microgrids locally and nationally. Local government microgrids, also known as “town...
Foundations for Access and Inclusion in your Community Two-Day Training
The New Jersey Division of Disability Services provided a two-day training by the National Center for Health, Physical Activity and Disability (NCHPAD) to lay the foundation for providing access and inclusion in your communities. The virtual training covered disability education, identifying barriers, assessment, implementation, and more. The two-day...
Coffee Klatch – Working at the Municipal Level
Bring your cup of coffee or tea and join the conversation... Join us on Monday, July 26, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm for our inaugural Inclusive Healthy Communities Coffee Klatch! We heard loud and clear from all of you that you would like to have more opportunities to engage with your fellow IHC grantees. To help facilitate this, we are setting up a series...
EAC’s work in C2R2 highlighted in Rutgers Magazine
Read about EAC's participation in the Rutgers Coastal Climate Risk and Resilience Training Program in the current edition of Rutgers Magazine. Learn more here.
Workshop on Effective Communications for IHC Grantees and Partners
Communications consultant John Gattuso, Gattuso Media Design, conducted a dynamic workshop on effective communications for your Inclusive Healthy Communities grant program via Zoom on Thursday, July 15, 2021. Topics included creating a communications plan, framing your message, developing content, and establishing an efficient communications practice. ...
Matt Campo works with colleagues to develop webinar series incorporating SLR into urban planning decisions
EAC's Matt Campo worked together with colleagues from Washington State Sea Grant and the American Planning Association's Mazard Mitigation and Disaster Recovery Division (APA HMDR) to develop a 4-part webinar series on incorporating sea-level rise into urban planning decisions. The Planning Webcast series hosts the webinar recordings and supporting...
EAC Executive Director Jeanne Herb to give keynote at NJ History and Historic Preservation Conference
The EAC Group's Executive Director, Jeanne Herb, will give the keynote address at the 2021 New Jersey History and Historic Preservation Conference on June 17, 2021. The NJ History and Historic Preservation conference is the annual state-wide educational opportunity for history and historic preservation professionals and volunteers in the fields of...
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 Coastal Climate Risk and Resilience (C2R2) Initiative, which is an innovate and interdisciplinary certificate program that trains gradate students to better integrate all the elements of coastal systems and become...
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, NJ. Working with the Elizabeth Development Company, Dr. Lowrie is helping to prepare neighborhood revitalization plans for the Midtown District and for the Elizabethport/New Point Rd. neighborhood as part of the...
Recent Products
Estimating lung deposition of fungal spores using actual airborne spore concentrations and physiological data
Exposure to bioaerosols has been implicated in adverse respiratory symptoms, infectious diseases, and bioterrorism. Although these particles have been measured within residential and occupational settings in multiple studies, the deposition of bioaerosol particles...
Englewood Health Department Resident Health Needs and Program Recommendations
This report summarizes the findings of three phases of research conducted as part of the Healthy Communities Network grant awarded to the City of Englewood Health Department. The intent of the research was to determine what Englewood residents describe as their...
HIA Training for Professionals: How a university-based center can help to build awareness and capacity
When a group of faculty and research staff from various subfields of planning at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University in New Jersey got together in 2012 around their common interest in fostering healthy communities, they...
Communicating about Contaminated Site Cleanup using Coordinated and Consistent Metrics
Over $500 billion has gone toward cleanup of large contaminated sites owned and/or operated by the U.S. Federal Government over the past 30 years. Nevertheless, some stakeholders worry about the risks associated with what they perceive as a slow process of cleanup, as...