S. Kyle McKay

Oct 1, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Laura Naslund |Daniel Lucien Bühr |Matt Chambers |S. Kyle McKay

1 Introduction Dam infrastructure has been critical to global economic development, but many dams and their reservoirs have exceeded their design lifetimes and are no longer fulfilling their constructed purposes (Gonzales and Walls 2020; Perera et al. 2021). In the United States, decades of disinvestment in maintenance have also led to significant deficiencies, such that the American Society of Civil Engineers rated dams as one of the worst-performing categories of infrastructure (ASCE 2021).

Sep 25, 2023 | nature.com | S. Kyle McKay |Seth J. Wenger

Infrastructure development and biodiversity conservation are often planned and executed in isolation. However, outcomes from these efforts are interlinked, with coordinated actions required to jointly address sustainability challenges. Natural infrastructure — encompassing a spectrum of natural to conventional solutions — is key to the infrastructure–biodiversity connection and should be brought into large-scale application.