Environmental Community Action, Inc. (ECO-Action) helps vulnerable communities in Georgia prevent, confront, and resolve environmental health threats. Collaborating with local universities and others, ECO-Action has been using green infrastructure to address frequent flooding. ECO-Action partnered with Earth Economics to analyze the public economic benefits of the proposed Green Infrastructure Conceptual Plans. Analysis focuses on the stormwater management benefits of 1) greenways, 2) street trees, and 3) cisterns and vaults.
In flood-prone areas of New Orleans, community-based organizations have been increasing stormwater retention capacity through a community-based approach focused on tree planting and green infrastructure installations. Earth Economics (EE) with the Greater Tremé Consortium, Healthy Community Services, and Upper 9th Ward analyzed the value of existing and planned green infrastructure installations to provide data-driven evidence for engagement with the City of New Orleans and prospective funders to increase installations of community-driven solutions. This technical report and fact sheet present the findings.
The Hunts Point community is proactively looking to reintroduce nature-based solutions to help reduce pressing environmental challenges, like persistent flooding, while also providing broad community benefits like access to parks and recreation, better air quality, and protection from extreme heat. Nature-based solutions have proven to be cost-effective for many resilience challenges throughout the world, often providing a high return-on-investment as measured through public and private benefits.
Nature and natural infrastructure are critical assets in strengthening cities’ resilience to a broad range of shocks and stresses.
A primer for water leaders on how to debt-finance distributed infrastructure projects and consumer rebates.
