A Closer Look at Flooding and Financial Risk in Eastern North Carolina
By Hope Thomson Hope Thomson is a recent MPH graduate from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is currently a Graduate Research Assistant with the NC Policy Collaboratory. Hurricane Impacts in Eastern North Carolina I threw the … Read more
Exploring the Potential of Dual Use Solar in Mitigating Financial Risk
By Rosa Cuppari Rosa Cuppari is a Master’s student in the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering and a Graduate Research Assistant at the UNC Center on Financial Risk in Environmental Systems. It would take between 7 and … Read more
Are Floodplain Buyouts a Smart Investment for Local Governments?
By David Salvesen and Christian Kamrath David Salvesen, is a research associate with the UNC Institute for the Environment and the director of the Sustainable Triangle Field Site. Christian Kamrath is a graduate student in the UNC Department of City … Read more
Connecting University Research to Policy
By Steve Wall Steve Wall is a policy research associate with the UNC Institute for the Environment and the North Carolina Policy Collaboratory. In the summer of 2016 the North Carolina General Assembly established and funded the North Carolina Policy … Read more
Solar Financing in a Changing Renewable Energy Landscape
By Heather Payne  Heather Payne is the Assistant Director for the Center for Climate, Energy, Environment, and Economics (CE3), and an Adjunct Professor of Law at UNC School of Law In late June as the legislative session was winding down … Read more