Flooding is the most common – and expensive – natural disaster in the United States. The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is key to helping communities manage the costs of severe flooding by providing options for flood insurance. However, climate …
Center for Water Policy Director Melissa Scanlan will be speaking at the Seton Hall Law Review Symposium on Feb. 25, 2022. She will be part of a panel discussion on “Water Infrastructure and the Disproportionate Burden on Marginalized Communities” from …
Melissa Scanlan, director of the Center for Water Policy, will be speaking on a virtual panel about the legacy of the Clean Water Act hosted by the University of Florida on Friday, Feb. 11, 2022. The panel is free and …
Milwaukee’s lakefront is unique, not only in its beauty, but because much of it is actually filled lakebed. WUWM Environmental Reporter Susan Bence interviewed Melissa Scanlan, director of the Center for Water Policy, and Sarah Martinez, water quality specialist, about …
In Milwaukee, the state legislature granted municipal governments the right to build new land along the coastline. These projects on lakebed fill must accommodate the public trust doctrine. Sarah Martinez, SeaGrant Water Science-Policy Fellow with the Center for Water Policy …
Melissa Scanlan talked about ecology and co-ops on Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff, an @Democracy At Work production. On the second half of the show, Prof. Wolff interviews Prof. Melissa Scanlan on her new book showing how coops are …
Melissa Scanlan’s (director of the Center for Water Policy) book, “Prosperity in the Fossil-Free Economy: Cooperatives and the Design of Sustainable Businesses,” was included on a list of Ten Books for Every Transformational Change Bookshelf in Orion Magazine.
What do the past and future entail for the Great Lakes? Dan Egan, Brico Fund Journalist in Residence at the Center for Water Policy in UWM’s School of Freshwater Sciences, spoke with WUWM’s Environmental Reporter Susan Bence on Dec. 1, …
The Nov. 25, 2021, episode of Curious Campus talks with Melissa Scanlan, director of the Center for Water Policy at UW-Milwaukee, about cooperatives and her new book, “Prosperity in the Fossil-Free Economy: Cooperatives and the Design of Sustainable Businesses.” Listen …
State columnist Bill Berry says Melissa Scanlan’s new book on cooperatives offers hope, despite challenges. Read the Book Review Prosperity in the Fossil-Free Economy: Cooperatives and the Design of Sustainable Businesses is published by Yale University Press and outlines how …
