Publications
Ernst Consulting conducts in-depth research on issues related to climate, health, social justice and public space, and translates the findings into actionable strategies for practitioners. She incorporates innovative case studies throughout her publications and web content to encourage peer learning and replication.
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Active Parks, Healthy Cities distills the findings of the National Study of Neighborhood Parks into recommendations for designing, programming, marketing, and measuring use in order to activate and increase physical activity in neighborhood parks. Recommendations focus on increasing activity for groups found to be underserved by parks, including teen girls and seniors.
A Smart Investment for America’s Health examines the impact of close-to-home parks and trails on human and environmental health, with a focus on the role of parks and green infrastructure in addressing racial and economic health disparities and climate vulnerability.
This report highlights the economic benefits of investing in urban parks, and how investments from the Land and Water Conservation Fund have leveraged significant private investment and generated substantial economic growth for cities.
This report analyses the tools and data currently available to cities for climate change decision support. It identifies the interests, needs and capacity of potential users in local governments and nonprofits, and is intended to help inform the development of more effective decision support tools for climate planning.
This workshop curriculum synthesizes extensive research on cross-sector and cross-agency partnerships and describes the ten principles key to creating effective and sustainable partnerships.
Principles of Successful Park Partnerships
The Equitable Park Funding Hub is a searchable online resource library with information on funding for parks and green infrastructure in under-resourced communities. The hub includes detailed information on funding for brownfields, climate resilience, community development, conservation and stormwater management and includes case studies and links for further information.
The Source Protection Handbook is the manual for implementing many of the policy recommendations in Protecting the Source. It brings together lessons learned during years of field work by TPL staff and AWWA members and presents some of the best practices for protecting drinking water sources.
Protecting the Source: The Future of America’s Drinking Water provides a strong case and a set of best practices for using land conservation as a drinking water protection strategy. The report includes original research by Caryn Ernst on the link between land conservation and drinking water treatment costs.
