{"id":18876,"date":"2024-01-26T13:22:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T19:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewn.erdc.dren.mil\/?post_type=engagements&p=18876"},"modified":"2025-02-25T12:13:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T18:13:29","slug":"spotlighting-nature-based-solutions-at-asce-inspire-2023-conference","status":"publish","type":"engagements","link":"https:\/\/ewn.erdc.dren.mil\/engagements\/event\/spotlighting-nature-based-solutions-at-asce-inspire-2023-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlighting Nature-Based Solutions at ASCE INSPIRE 2023 Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A number of partners from the Network for Engineering With Nature were represented at the American Society for Civil Engineers\u2019 INSPIRE Conference<\/a> November 16-18, 2023, in Arlington, VA. Under the theme ‘Infrastructure Innovation & Adaptation for a Sustainable and Resilient World,’ the conference provided a platform for experts to showcase their groundbreaking work related to Nature-based Solutions (NbS), quantifying tools, and training\/education. Many of our affiliates gave presentations, shared posters, or spoke in workshops and panels. Check out this list of topics shared by our partners from across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Colton Shaw presenting \u2018Increasing Accessibility of Riparian Assessment Tools with the Web Application for Riparian Models (WARM)\u2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Workshop on Nature-Based Solutions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Instructors: Brian Bledsoe, Dan Walker, Emily Corwin, Tori Tomiczek and Lydia Olander<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Workshop on NbS was designed to determine what guidance is needed to support sound engineering design, to develop manuals of practice, performance standards, and training curricula on the topic of natural and nature-based infrastructure solutions. These solutions are deployed in a network\/systems context to ensure appropriate and effective applications that work together with conventional infrastructure to strengthen the overall infrastructure system. Natural and nature-based infrastructure includes river floodplains, setback levees, forested water supply, watersheds, freshwater and coastal wetlands, living shorelines, dune and beach systems, living breakwaters and reefs, as well as landscape level interactions among these features and with conventional infrastructure. Nature based solutions (NbS) are planning, design, environmental management and engineering practices that weave natural features or processes into the built environment to promote adaptation and resilience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panels<\/h4>\n\n\n\n