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Insurance company AXA XL visits UGA in the spirit of interdisciplinary collaboration
With increasingly extreme weather, building resilient communities is a top priority across the nation. However, the factors that make a community or ecosystem resilient are often extremely complex, and require an interdisciplinary approach to understand and cultivate. Further, barriers like public perception of natural infrastructure, how city planners and practitioners value the co-benefits of natural […]
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IRIS research on plastic waste streams featured in Packaging Europe
IRIS affiliates Felix Santiago Collazo and Jenna Jambeck’s research on plastic waste in the ocean was recently featured by the publication Packaging Europe, which is an organization dedicated to understanding the packaging needs of society and highlighting innovative ways to promote sustainability. The article specifically referred to a tool that Santiago Collazo and Jambeck are […]
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PEW Flood Prepared Communities visits Athens
We’re so excited to welcome PEW Flood Prepared Communities to the University of Georgia Campus today, to learn about their team, showcase the latest IRIS research on flood hazard modeling, natural infrastructure, and operationalizing equitable delivery of flood risk reduction.