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Paper outlines pathways to equitable flood adaptation
Many flood adaptation measures exacerbate existing environmental injustices. A new UGA-coauthored perspective suggests strategies to break the cycle. While parts of New York and New Jersey were “building back better” after Superstorm Sandy, residents of flood-prone public housing in Rockaway, Queens, were left without heat or running water for years. A perspective published in Nature Water in February […]
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Meet our IRIS Affiliates: Qiong Wang
Today we’d like to introduce one of our newer IRIS affiliates, Qiong Wang, an Assistant Professor in the College of Environment and Design, through a Q&A on her research. Qiong joined IRIS in the spring of 2025–and one year later, her team’s project, AI-Driven Decision Support Platform for Smart Disaster Resilience Planning, was selected for […]
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Students reimagine retired school buildings to revitalize Georgia small towns
What do you do with an empty building? These students want to give vacant spaces new life. A crew of engineering and landscape architecture students in last fall’s Sustainable Buildings Design course had a unique final project: designing new futures for disused school buildings. These adaptive re-use projects focused on retired elementary schools in Tennille […]
