How Can the Integration of Green Infrastructure in a Community Create a Long-term Economic Benefit?

This blog post was written by Victoria Thwaitees as part of the Spring 2018 UGA Urban Ecology class. Green infrastructure is a growing phenomenon in urban development across the nation. It is a sustainable integration of landscape architecture and ecology to create a better flow of materials and elements through a system. Green infrastructure initiatives enhance community safety and way of life. It can cultivate a vibrant community with economic benefits for a resident, business…

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How Does Local Knowledge Change Watershed Management?

This blog post was written by Rebecca Parsons as part of the Spring 2018 UGA Urban Ecology class. Picture a big decision being made about stormwater management in your city. What do you envision? A fancy boardroom in a government building, long and nondescript table, figures in suits gathered around it? While this is what many of us imagine, the picture of decision-making in cities across the nation, and across the world, is set to…

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