Yale Environment 360: On a recent morning in Asser Levy Playground, on Manhattan’s East Side, a group of retirees traded serves on a handball court adjacent to a recently completed 10-foot-high floodw…
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Our study shows that natural infrastructure to address heavy rainfall has a 2:1 payback for New York City.…
Blue-Green INfrastructurE: A New business case for nyc
October 2023 - Just two weeks after massive flooding in New York City closed schools, halted subways and left the City at a standstill, Rebui…
ABC: New York City is among the most densely populated coastal communities in the world preparing for an inevitable rise in sea levels, which scientists said will amplify flooding crises from events s…
ESI Climate Justice Program Public Launch; Keynote Roundtable: Building an Infrastructure of Climate Justice—Energy Democracy, Disaster Displacement, and Mobilizing for Increasing Climate Risk in New …
CNA: New York City authorities are building a living reef housing a billion oysters on the south shore of Staten Island.
NEW YORK: A decade after Hurricane Sandy descended on the east coast of the US,…
Storms that feel extreme now will become more frequent and more intense. The New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC) anticipates that by the end of the century, the city could experience as much …
6sqft: A decade ago, an Atlantic hurricane-turned-superstorm named Sandy caught ready-for-anything New York City completely off guard as it raged up the East Coast from the Caribbean to Canada. On Oct…
Theory and Society: Provides an explanation for how increased public participation can paradoxically translate into limited democratic decision-making in urban settings. Using an in-depth case study o…