Building a Stronger, Safer, and More Energy-Smart North Carolina—A Workshop Summary
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2025-07-24
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Almost a year after Hurricane Helene poured over western North Carolina, the region is rebuilding—and communities and businesses across the state are reckoning with the increased likelihood of extreme weather events. In June, Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability teamed up with the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality to bring together stakeholders from across the state to develop ideas for rebuilding stronger and safer. This report summarizes workshop insights from expert attendees on the opportunity to build and rebuild better in North Carolina following natural disaster.
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Olander, Lydia (2025). Building a Stronger, Safer, and More Energy-Smart North Carolina—A Workshop Summary. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/33069.
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Lydia Olander
Lydia Olander is a program director at the Nicholas Institute for Energy Environment & Sustainability at Duke University and adjunct professor at the Nicholas School of the Environment. She works on improving evidence-based policy and accelerating implementation of climate resilience, nature-based solutions, natural capital accounting, and environmental markets. She leads the National Ecosystem Services Partnership and sits on Duke’s Climate Commitment action team. She recently spent two years with the Biden administration at the Council on Environmental Quality as Director of Nature based Resilience and before that spent five years on the Environmental Advisory Board for the US Army Corps of Engineers. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and widely published researcher. Prior to joining the Nicholas Institute, she spent a year as an AAAS Congressional Science and Technology Fellow working with Senator Joseph Lieberman on environmental and energy issues. She was a college scholar at Cornell University and earned her Master of Forest Science from Yale University and Ph.D. from Stanford University.
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