This project aims to develop the NJ Nature-Based Solutions Reference Document: a research-based and user-friendly resource for municipalities, planners, decision-makers, and others to turn to that summarizes the benefits and limitations of NBS based on the environment type, hazard, and planning horizon.

A statewide initiative focused on expanding access for people with disabilities to nature and outdoor recreation. 

This report provides insight into current buyout practices and impacts in New Jersey, including successes, challenges, and the barriers or facilitators to better coordination, planning, and outreach to accomplish buyout goals.

This research project hopes to document replicable elements of the initiative, as well as contribute to broader knowledge regarding policies, programs, and strategies to address disproportionate impacts of climate change-related hazards on the health of disadvantaged communities

Working collaboratively with the NJ Department of Environmental Protection to develop and improve data and tools to support statewide watershed planning and programs.

The guidance is designed to provide municipalities with background, methods and strategies that can be used to develop municipal Environmental Justice Action Plans.

This project seeks to empower communities to make better choices about the multi-dimensional challenge of protecting vulnerable elderly people during life-threatening summer heatwaves, while taking into account poor outdoor and indoor air quality (IAQ/OAQ).

Through its support of the New Jersey Climate Change Resource Center, EAC staff provided support …

This project studies how coastal storm and flood events affect municipal finances. Disasters may cause fiscal distress for local governments when revenues shrink and expenses grow, thereby affecting their ability to provide adequate local public services such as policing, public works, and education.

The new local guidance and data will be piloted with four New Jersey FEMA Community Disaster Resilience Zones (CDRZ) municipalities later in 2024.

The project will identify and translate “bright spots” of efforts outside the US that fundamentally intersect equity, climate change and health goals and outcomes to advance transformative policy, systems and environmental change.

The purpose of the site is to help promote public understanding regarding energy and its interaction with the economy and the environment.

The objective of this project is to collect, analyze, assimilate, frame, and communicate key issues that will compel the advancement of meaningful and systematic change in the state’s public health infrastructure and capacity.

This research, funded by Community Design for Health and Wellness, seeks to contribute to new understanding of the persuasive force of a technology that is coupled with the collective power of community-driven efforts in assessing, visualizing and ultimately solving societal problems that low-income households face.

Our Local Government Research group serves as an independent Comprehensive Accountability Office (CAO) that monitors and reports on each districts’ compliance using an Accountability Scorecard.

The Sustainable Raritan River Initiative (SRRI) produced Volume 1 of the State of the Raritan …

The NJ Green Building Manual is a resource tailored for NJ that provides economic and environmental best practices across the spectrum of green building categories including energy, emissions, water, waste, siting, transportation, and human health.

Contracted by the NJ Board of Public Utilities (BPU), Rutgers Center for Green Building is the statewide evaluator of the NJ Clean Energy Program.

Seven graduate students participated in this Fall 2017 studio through the Edward J. Bloustein School …

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Pollution Prevention Program provided EAC with a grant …

Using the outcomes from the New Jersey based science and technical advisory panel on coastal …

Water-dependent uses require sites that provide access to coastal waterways. This requirement also means that …

The NJ FRAMES Project is a resiliency planning initiative in the Two Rivers region of …

The BESCCH Project was managed by New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Office of Coastal …

The Mid-Atlantic Regional Planning Body (RPB) was established in 2013 through a Presidential Executive Order …

The combination of Hurricane Irene and Superstorm Sandy over such a short period of time …

State, local and federal decision makers throughout New Jersey are working to enhance the resilience of coastal communities and resources to hazards – including flooding driven by sea-level rise and coastal storms – that are increasing as a result of climate change.

In partnership with the Rutgers Climate Institute, the Georgetown Climate Center and the World Resources …

The U.S. Global Change Research Program calls climate change a “significant threat to the health …

The New Jersey Global Warming Response Act (NJSA 26:2C-43) calls for the development of a …

More and more, Americans are realizing that health and well-being are significantly influenced by social, …

The Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) is a collaborative effort among energy, environment and transportation …

From 2008 to 2015, EAC worked with the Department of Community Affairs (DCA) to develop a …

From 2011 through to 2016, EAC worked with The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior …

The degree of coordination among the municipalities and counties of the Raritan River Valley offers …

The National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (EPHT) brings together health and environment data from …

Woodbridge contracted with Bloustein’s EAC Group to continue their efforts for a more sustainable community …

By focusing on the demand for sea level rise and coastal flood risk information, this NJ Sea Grant project aims to improve the effectiveness of scientific communication.

As part of a project by the Water Resources Program at the New Jersey Agricultural …

This project focused on climate resiliency planning for Lacey Township and Lavallette Borough in Ocean …

Through funding by the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium as part of their 2014-16 Omnibus …

The FEMA New Jersey Urban Rivers Mitigation Research, Modeling and Implementation Project (often referred to …

After Superstorm Sandy, most New Jersey communities were struggling with their immediate recovery efforts and …

Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a fast-growing practice in the U.S. that provides practitioners and …

The Regional Plan Association is a nongovernmental urban research and advocacy organization that works to …

In partnership with the City of New Brunswick, The Trust for Public Land (TPL) and …

While climate change is likely to affect everyone, not all subgroups are equally affected.  Climate …

EAC staff assisted other Bloustein researchers in the Planning Healthy Communities Initiative in developing a …

EAC staff and students have served as technical consultants, providing data collection, mapping and survey research to support Lifelong Elizabeth, a community-led, city endorsed initiative that aims to make Elizabeth an age-friendly community that is a healthy place to grow old.

EAC staff supervised a masters planning studio project that analyzed health impacts of a potential …

A major local concern in highly urbanized regions worldwide is the effect of heat waves …

Rutgers Living Lab, New Brunswick campus, facilitates hands-on learning about the built environment.  Installed sensor …

If high-speed rail lines are constructed in the United States,  these are important investments need protection. This …

Congressional budget authorization language in 2014 directed the DOE to “retain a respected outside group …

Congressional budget authorization language in 2014 directed the DOE to “retain a respected outside group …

The loss of inland waterway infrastructure assets could have severe adverse societal and economic effects …

The transit environment, with large numbers of people in close contact with one another, can …

Successful response and recovery depend on frontline transit personnel communicating effectively within their organizations and …

Working with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Fish and Wildlife, the …

stablished by the Department on Energy in 2011, this 5-year initiative has the objective of reducing energy use in existing commercial buildings by 30% or more.

The “Self-Sufficient Urban Green Buildings” project, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), explored both …

In 2010, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) partnered to compete as Team New Jersey in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011 competition.

The Rutgers Center for Green Building (RCGB) has developed the Green Building Benefits and Occupant Satisfaction Survey (GB BOSS) to help green building stakeholders determine to what extent green building benefits are actually being realized and to advance understanding among the green building community about which building elements are responsible for these benefits.

The Rutgers Center for Green Building was retained by the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission (NJMC) to perform a Life Cycle Costing and an Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of the Observatory & Classroom building in Lyndhurst, NJ.

Combined Heat and Power cost-benefit analysis on individual applications in response to funding calls by the BPU and to evaluate a potential CHP portfolio standard.