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Optimize Urban Environments Through Design, Green Technology, and Community Engagement

Optimize Urban Environments Through Design, Green Technology, and Community Engagement

  • Improve the design and performance of built environments to optimize resource use and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
  • Encourage development, access, and adoption of green technology.
  • Build capacity for communities to meet self-identified needs related to nutritious food, clean water and air, safe shelter, and other social justice issues.
  • Establish a broad coalition of stakeholders to tackle issues and problems related to urban environments.
  • Train and prepare the environmental and agricultural workforce for the unique challenges and complexities of urban environments.

Featured Work

Looking Beyond the Built Environment

ENST Professor Reimagines Campus Green Space

Innovative idea to create an edible forest

AGNR Cornerstone Event

AGNR Cornerstone Event 2022

View Award Winning AGNR Research

Stormwater Management

UMD Research Shows Three Distinct Attitudes Toward Improving Stormwater Management

Old centralized way of managing stormwater needs to change

EPA RainWorks Challenge

UMD Team Takes 1st Place and Honorable Mention in EPA’s National Campus RainWorks Challenge

Student teams redesign the flow of water and people through campus

Protecting Wildlife By Design

Studying How to Make Buildings More Bird-Friendly

ENST Lecturer Leads Efforts for Safer Campus Conditions

Green Infrastructure

Adding Up Costs to Enroll in Stormwater Management Incentive Programs

UMD research estimates the dollar value of hurdles to homeowners enrolling
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