Engineering With Nature: An Atlas

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Abstract:

The Engineering With Nature EWN initiative formally began in 2010 within the US Army Corps of Engineers. EWN is the intentional alignment of natural and engineering processes to efficiently and sustainably deliver economic, environmental, and social benefits through collaboration. The initiative is building upon good past practices while advancing current and future capabilities that support more sustainable water resources practices, projects, and outcomes. Over the years, EWN has grown to include a number of partner organizations and collaborators in the US and abroad. This book highlights successful projects and the contexts in which these projects were developed it also introduces the reader to the wide range of organizations advancing worldwide progress in this field today. Through its striking project photographs and its brief narrative descriptions, the book gives interested readers and practitioners alike a tangible sense of the potential to engineer with nature.

Author(s):
Bridges, Todd S. ; Bourne, Ellen M. ; King, Jeff K. ; Kuzmitski, Holly K. ; Moynihan, Emily B. ; Suedel, Burton C.
Author Organization(s):
Army Engineer Research Development Center VICKSBURG United States
Descriptive Note:
Technical Report
Pagination:
0280

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DOCUMENT & CONTEXTUAL SUMMARY

Distribution:
Approved For Public Release
Distribution Statement:
Approved For Public Release;

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Collection: TR
Identifying Numbers
Report Number(s):
ERDC/EL SR-18-8
Project Number(s):
468913
 Subject Terms
Joint Capability Areas:
JCA_5_Command and Control; JCA_4.6_Engineering; JCA_4.6.1_General Engineering; JCA_5.3_Planning; JCA_5.2_Understand; JCA_5.2.3_Share Knowledge and Situational Awareness; JCA_4.7.2_Installation Services; JCA_4.7_Base and Installations Support; JCA_5.3.2_Apply Situational Understanding; JCA_5.3.3_Develop Strategy; JCA_4.3_Maintain; JCA_5.3.4_Develop Courses of Action; JCA_5.3.5_Analyze Courses of Action; JCA_1.2.3_Educating; JCA_5.6.1_Assess Compliance with Guidance; JCA_5.6_Monitor; JCA_4.1_Deployment and Distribution; JCA_1.3.1_Personnel and Family Support; JCA_JCA_4.1.2_Sustain the Force; JCA_5.2.2_Develop Knowledge and Situational Awareness; JCA_1.2.6_Concepts
Modernization Areas:
Space
Communities of Interest:
Ground and Sea Platforms
Descriptor(s):
Beaches, Environmental engineering, Environmental monitoring, Environmental management, Flood plains, army corps of engineers, Infrastructure, Economics, Islands, Levees, Reefs, Technology transfer, Wetlands, dredging, environmental restoration and remediation, inlets (waterways), vegetation, habitats, case studies
Field(s)/Group(s):
Civil Engineering, Ecology, Environmental Health and Safety
Keyword(s):
Environmentalism, Infrastructure (Economics), sand dunes, ewn (Engineering With Nature), atlas, dredged materials
Report Date:
2018 Oct 23
Creation Date:
2019 Oct 01