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Director Brian Bledsoe featured by Pew Trusts: How the University of Georgia Champions Nature’s Ability to Reduce Climate Impacts
Originally published here by the Pew Charitable Trusts. When most people hear “infrastructure,” they picture roads, buildings, and other human-made structures. But experts at the University of Georgia’s Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems (IRIS) also use the term to describe natural features that offer direct and indirect benefits to communities and ecosystems, from forests to […]
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Fear and hope at the heart of new IRIS publication: Innovating Through Nature-Positive Engineering
For centuries, Western civilization has engineered infrastructure that contains and controls nature. In a recent article, IRIS researchers argue that this dated perspective has gotten us into trouble. In order to survive and hopefully thrive through the many challenges modern society faces, we must work with nature. The article, “Innovating through Nature-Positive Engineering: How Can […]
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Make a Dam Decision: Facilitating Dam Removals Through New Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis Tool
Originally published here by the Network for Engineering With Nature. Dams across the United States are aging, with the cost to repair or remove all known deficient non-federal dams estimated at over $1.5 billion. Even for functioning dams, there may still be a number of reasons to remove them, from emissions reduction to flood risk […]
