In many camps, the philosophy around infrastructure development has changed. How we conceive of the built environment is increasingly taking into consideration the natural environment for more holistic, sustainable, long-term ...
This past July, Florida Governor Rick Scott declared a state of emergency. Invasive and toxic blue-green algae had created a crisis in the ecological health of many residential waterways in ...
We live in a world that’s increasingly filled with plastic — a substance that sticks around for a very long time. A plastic bottle, for example, can take 450 to ...
Recently, a group of AECOM employees, including myself, Andrew Knipp and Craig Holloway, spent time volunteering in Chacayá, Guatemala, a small, Mayan village where coffee farming is the predominant industry. ...
This year’s World Water Development Report (WWDR 2018) emphasizes the power and potential of “nature-based solutions” (NBS) to respond to the challenges of modern-day water management across all sectors, but in ...
We live at an incredible juncture in the history of water management — we are facing new water-supply challenges, a growing world that is more globally connected than ever, and ...
The Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) has recorded approximately 14,000 brownfield sites (former industrial use), yet we continue to see new development on greenfield sites (not previously developed). Why are ...
