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To Be Equitable, US Urban Green Infrastructure Planning Must Transform
… Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies and The New School’s Urban Systems Lab , is the most comprehensive review to … planning principles. Rain garden in a vacant lot in Baltimore's McElderry Park neighborhood that includes a …
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Strategies for achieving equitable green infrastructure in US urban planning
… Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies and the New School’s Urban Systems Lab analyzed 122 green infrastructure plans … every major biome and included: Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Louisville, Miami, … of different stakeholders. Featured projects look at vacant lot restoration, Complete Streets, and green …
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Team Cary: Elsa Anderson
… path to ecology, overcoming early challenges, what she’s studying at Cary, and advice for early-career scientists. … My PhD focused on social-ecological questions connecting vacant lots, plants, and the community perspective. What … working on synthesis questions, using data collected by the Baltimore Ecosystem Study. My current focus is a project …
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In Baltimore, lower income neighborhoods have bigger mosquitoes
In Baltimore, lower income neighborhoods have bigger mosquitoes … of Maryland - College Park, collecting mosquito larvae in a vacant lot in Baltimore. Credit: Shannon LaDeau. October … risk of contracting mosquito-borne illnesses. There’s a pressing need to address infrastructure abandonment and …
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Fifty-year-old law proves we can address environmental challenges
… hear so many grim stories about the environment that it’s easy to forget that we can solve large, complex … can improve the environment, and offers useful lessons for solving pressing problems like climate change. I will … see that things were bad. I was born in 1955, and I spent a lot of time as a kid in the 60s and 70s on the polluted …
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Cary Institute’s Steward Pickett Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Cary Institute’s Steward Pickett Elected to the National Academy of … and global applications. His field sites have included: vacant lots in urban Baltimore, primary forests in western Pennsylvania, …
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Transforming urban systems: Toward sustainability
… Earth. The UN estimates that by 2050, 68% of the world’s population will reside in urban areas. In the inaugural … case studies were detailed: extreme urban heat, the role of vacant land in urban areas, green stormwater infrastructure, … of American urban ecology, notes that “The long-term Baltimore Ecosystem Study has uniquely prepared this group …
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Urban greening success could be as simple as scattering seeds
… an effective way to establish native plant communities in vacant urban lots. The study was recently published in the … and eliminate affordable housing. New York’s High Line, a disused train line turned park, is an example … campus. Four test gardens were established on a vacant lot adjacent to a parking garage; the others were sited on …
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West Nile virus infection risk is higher in less affluent neighborhoods in Baltimore, MD
… infection risk is higher in less affluent neighborhoods in Baltimore, MD Study finds abundance of infected … disease is a growing threat in cities throughout the US. Vacant lots and abandoned buildings can create environmental … from: the National Science Foundation, the US Army’s Long Term Health Education and Training Program, the …
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Low-income Baltimore blocks host bigger, more dangerous mosquitoes
Low-income Baltimore blocks host bigger, more dangerous mosquitoes … past five decades mosquito populations in parts of the U.S. have skyrocketed by a factor of 10—a situation with … a bit, but it is still far higher than it was in 2005. Vacant land areas are another problem: Philadelphia alone …
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