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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What Is the Relationship Between Climate Change and Flooding?

This blog post was written by Hunter Cutts as part of the Spring 2018 UGA Urban Ecology class. Sea level rise has been documented since the early 20th century and continues to be one of the most visible and talked about results of global warming. Hundreds of millions of people in the United States live in coastal areas that are vulnerable to flooding at the current sea level, and will become even more vulnerable as…

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