We all rely on services provided by nature, often in ways we don’t fully recognize. Earth Economics identifies and quantifies those benefits to ensure they are included in the decision-making process at all levels, so communities can mitigate risk...

Healthy, well-vegetated coastlines are resilient coastlines, able to withstand daily pressures and quickly recover from storm events. Unfortunately, many of our coastlines are not healthy and seem to require ever greater measures for stabilization...

Engineering With Nature (EWN®) and Natural and Nature-Based Features (NNBF) is a principal component to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) inland fluvial watershed, Flood Risk Management (FRM), Regional Sediment Management (RSM), and Ecosyst...

Current engineering practices and regulations for vegetation on levees primarily use non-native, annual or perennial turf grasses. These plants typically have thin, fibrous, shallow roots, require regular labor-intensive mowing, and provide little...

Since 2003, the City of Norfolk in Virginia has been investigating coastal/estuarine/river erosion issues, compound urban coastal flooding issues, developing long-range resilience plans, and constructing infrastructure projects to improve its dive...

The City of Austin Watershed Protection Department (WPD) is charged with protecting the lives and property of City of Austin residents from flooding, erosion, and water pollution. To that end, WPD has developed watershed models to answer a va...

Widely considered a model for climate-adaptive nature-based infrastructure, Living Breakwaters is a $107 million project that provides a layered approach to resilience and risk reduction—enhancing physical, ecological and social resilience along t...

The central theme of this presentation, “The Proposed Future of Planning for USACE Water Resources Investments”, focuses on the evolution of Federal objectives since the proposed practices for economics analysis in 1950 to the most recently propos...

When it comes to planning and constructing coastal and marine infrastructure, promoting nature-inclusive design has multiple financial, structural and ecological benefits. Through project case studies, we’ll explore different applications of scien...

There is an increasing opportunity and number of EWN® projects seeking support to use remotely sensed data and geospatial methodologies to help quantify environmental benefits. Remote sensing approaches are expected to be instrumental in illustrat...