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UGA researchers tackle compound environmental risks and their economic and equity implications in coastal Georgia
Professors of engineering and environmental economics from the University of Georgia are working with Georgia Sea Grant and the City of Brunswick to address compound risks of flooding and contamination. The new project aims to identify and characterize coastal inundation risk, which is compounded with contamination risk from point and non-point sources of pollution.
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Introducing IRIS’s New Research by Topic Feature
IRIS stakeholders and visitors looking to explore our affiliates’ research can now explore our Research by Topic page, designed to show highlighted projects, publications and news for a variety of focus topics.
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New publication: Life cycle analysis of natural infrastructure projects
This article was originally shared by the Network for Engineering With Nature. Find more here. It can be difficult to directly compare natural (or “green”) infrastructure to traditional (“gray”) infrastructure. Practitioners from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) identified “uncertainty and discomfort in planning life cycle management activities” as one of the most significant…
