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Marianne Eppig

Marianne Eppig is the senior director of resilience for ULI’s Urban Resilience program. She leads research and publications, training, technical assistance, and educational activities on resilience topics to support and enhance environmental performance, economic opportunity, and social equity in real estate and land use. She is the lead author of Water Wise: Strategies for Drought-Resilient Development and Surge: Coastal Resilience and Real Estate.

Surge: Coastal Resilience and Real Estate, a ULI research report, documents the challenges associated with coastal hazards such as sea level rise, coastal storms, flooding, erosion, and subsidence, and provides best practices for real estate and land use professionals, as well as public officials, to address them.
Since 2022, five ULI district councils—ULI Colorado, ULI Los Angeles, ULI New York, ULI Louisiana, and ULI Philadelphia—have participated in a long-term effort to tackle climate resilience, equity, and land use issues through the second Resilient Land Use Cohort (RLUC2), hosted by ULI’s Urban Resilience program.
ULI has been establishing dialogue between real estate professionals and climate risk data analytics firms that can help advance the interests of both parties. Enhanced collaboration and understanding between these two sides should continue to improve this evolving space, potentially improving both financial and climate-risk outcomes. As part of these efforts, ULI collaborated with First Street Foundation, a research and technology nonprofit with expertise in assessing physical climate risk at the property level in the United States.
Since potable water is in increasingly limited supply, reducing demand for water through water conservation, efficiency, and reuse generates social, environmental, and economic benefits for people, buildings, and communities.
ULI’s Urban Resilience program is excited to announce that five U.S. District Councils have been selected to participate in the second Resilient Land Use Cohort (RLUC). RLUC is a growing network of District Councils, including ULI staff, community representatives, and local ULI member advisers who advise on immediate resilience needs through technical assistance or advisory services and engage in regular peer-learning opportunities over an 18-month period to share strategies, resources, and best practices.
A new ULI report, Water Wise: Strategies for Drought-Resilient Development, features best practices and case studies for incorporating water-saving measures into real estate development projects, alongside policy recommendations for integrating land use and water management.
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