What Proportion of the World Is Expected to Be Displaced Due to Climate Change Within the Next 100 Years?

This blog post was written by Allison Krausman as part of the Spring 2018 UGA Urban Ecology class. According to the United Nations, displacement is the process in which people are forced to move from their homes, environments, and place of work. There can be a variety of reasons for forced removal ranging from natural disasters, extreme scarcity of natural resources such as food and water, development, economic changes, and armed conflict. Displacement can come…

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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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