Approximately one in five adults in New Jersey has a disability, and people with disabilities face a variety of barriers to outdoor recreational experiences. The Environmental Analysis and Communications Group, with funding from NJSPL, is investigating state policies focusing on innovative programs and practices.
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EAC
New EAC Grant Will Help Find Worldwide “Bright Spots” that Influence PSE Change
EAC’s Executive Director Jeanne Herb and Tisha Holmes of Florida State University embarked on a project funded by the Global Ideas for U.S. Solutions Team at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).
New Jersey State Policy Lab: Addressing the State’s Needs Effectively, Innovatively, and Equitably
Elizabeth Cooner, Executive Director of the New Jersey State Policy Lab talks about the Lab’s mission of conducting rigorous evidence-based research to help inform New Jersey’s policymakers on solutions to important policy questions that are effective, innovative, and always have a focus on equity.
Building Better Communities: Bloustein’s Environmental Analysis and Communications Group
Jeanne Herb gives the history of EAC and an overview of its vision of community-based environmental planning, its connection to health and equity, and their growing focus on the intersection of environment and people in both the natural and built environments.
Inclusive Healthy Communities Grant Program Funding Opportunity
The grant program seeks to advance practice, systems and environmental changes to enhance healthy community outcomes for people with disabilities who also may experience societal discrimination as a result of, but not limited to age, race, socioeconomic or immigration status, and/or sexual orientation.
New Report: Public Health Observations and Attitudes in New Jersey
New Jersey ranks 31st in the nation in state funding for public health and 51st in grant funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
New Jersey not on target to reach greenhouse gas goal by 2050
But it stops short of making specific recommendations while examining a range of policies that other states are trying in an effort to reduce their carbon footprints, as well as many strategies frequently debated among New Jersey policymakers. “The good news in New...
Moore Foundation grants $1.2 million to to support progress on mid-atlantic ocean data portal
The Monmouth University Urban Coast Institute (UCI) has received a $1.2 million Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation grant to continue the development of the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Data Portal (portal.midatlanticocean.org), a free, state-of-the-art mapping and information...
Five Northeast states, DC to develop potential market-based policies to cut greenhouse gas emissions from transportation
On November 24 the Georgetown Climate Center (GCC) released a report prepared by the GCC with Cambridge Systematics regarding opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector in the northeast and mid-Atlantic. The report, “Reducing...
Update to New Jersey's Statewide Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory
Researchers at the Rutgers Climate Institute and the Bloustein School have issued updates to New Jersey's estimated total greenhouse gas emissions as reported in New Jersey's Statewide Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory, last issued in 2012 for year 2009. This update,...
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Career Virtual Drop-ins
VirtualBloustein Career Development Specialists Cheryl Egan and Andrea Garrido will be in a Zoom Room on Monday's beginning January 22, 2024 (excluding holidays and spring break) to answer questions, provide […]
Bloustein Research Seminar Series: The place-based turn in U.S. federal policy (1990-2019): Implications for gentrification, racial stratification, & spatial inequality
Bloustein School, Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesPresented by Emily Parker, Assistant Professor, Rutgers Bloustein School. This venue will enable our faculty to share research, build community, and extend our networks. Pizza will be served. The goal […]
Virtual Information Session: Graduate Program in Public Informatics
VirtualYou are cordially invited to join us at this virtual informational session for the - Bloustein School's spring 2024 virtual information sessions for our Master of Public Informatics (MPI) degree […]
Virtual Information Session: Master of City and Regional Planning
VirtualYou are cordially invited to join us at this virtual informational session for the Rutgers - Bloustein School's Master of City and Regional Planning (MCRP) program during the SPRING 2024 […]
16th Annual Krueckeberg Doctoral Conference in Urban Studies, Urban Planning, and Public Policy
Bloustein School, Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, United StatesThe Bloustein School will present the 16th Annual Krueckeberg Doctoral Conference in Urban Studies, Urban Planning, and Public Policy on Friday, April 5, 2024. The conference is organized by doctoral […]