Engineering With Nature

Publications

A collection of journal and magazine articles, books, and technical reports featuring Engineering With Nature.

Sort By
Date Range
Select Dates
March 14, 2024
Charles B. van Rees, Darixa D. Hernández-Abrams, Matthew Shudtz, Roderick Lammers, James Byers, Brian P. Bledsoe, Matthew V. Bilskie, Jon Calabria, Matthew Chambers, Emily Dolatowski, Susana Ferreira, Laura Naslund, Donald R. Nelson, Nathan Nibbelink, Burton Suedel, Amanda Tritinger, C. Brock Woodson, S. Kyle McKay, and Seth J. Wenger
Civil infrastructure will be essential to face the interlinked existential threats of climate change and rising resource demands while ensuring a livable Anthropocene for all. However, conventional infrastructure planning largely neglects the contributions and maintenance of Earth’s ecological li...
March 14, 2024
Lauren V. Bosche, Dr. Dan Walker, Dr. Thomas A. Douglas, Ivana Kubat, Dr. Nicholas Cohn, Dr. Jeffrey King, and Jacquelyn Overbeck
The Engineering With Nature program is pleased to share the summary report for the “Collaborative Development of Natural and Nature-based Solutions for Coastal Resiliency in the Arctic and Adjacent Regions” workshop held in Reston, Virginia on October 24-25, 2023. The workshop assembled diverse i...
February 28, 2024
Megan A. Kelso, Austen E. Stovall, Borja G. Reguero, Franco Guillermo, and Michael W. Beck
Risks from natural hazards are growing due to climate change and habitat loss. Both insurance and nature-based solutions (NBS) can play important roles in reducing risks. Practitioners in the fields of risk management, insurance, and environmental management have many common goals for assessing r...
February 27, 2024
Luce Bassetti, Jason Bird, Christine Crespo, Rick Gorsira, Tom Leigh, Hollie Janson Schmidt, Cinamon Vann, Brett Wylie, Tia Yang, Kira Zender, Jennifer Loofbourrow (graphic designer)
The Department of Defense recognizes climate threats and their impacts on mission resilience and readiness. Hosted by Engineering With Nature (EWN®), a workshop in July 2023 explored threats at MacDill AFB, focusing on wind, erosion, flooding, sea-level rise, and wildfire. Agency experts presente...
February 15, 2024
Margaret H. Kurth, Candice D. Piercy, C. Rhett Jackson, Bertrand H. Lemasson, and Brian D. Harris
Design alternatives for traditional infrastructure are often compared in terms of expected–and often narrowly defined–costs and benefits to justify the selected plan. Taking a broader life cycle perspective in the benefit-cost evaluation process helps account for potentially rare, indirect, or ac...
January 25, 2024
Keith E. Schilling, Matthew T. Streeter, Elliot Anderson, Jennifer Merryman, Thomas Isenhart, Antonio Arenas-Amado, and Chuck Theiling
Few strategies are available to reduce nitrate-nitrogen (NO3-N) loads at larger landscape scales, but flood control reservoirs are known to reduce riverine loads. In this study, we evaluated the potential to increase nitrogen (N) loss at Lake Red Rock, a large reservoir located in central Iowa, b...
Loading More