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Joan Iverson Nassauer

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Landscape Architecture
Water
Cities + Mobility + Built Environment
nassauer@umich.edu
(734)-763-9893
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Joan Iverson Nassauer is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Landscape and Urban Planning. She is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects (1992), Fellow of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (2007), Distinguished Practitioner of Landscape Ecology in the US (1998), and was named Distinguished Scholar by the International Association of Landscape Ecology (2007). She develops and tests ecological designs for their cultural sustainability in human-dominated landscapes, with a long-time emphasis on watershed and water infrastructure design and management.  Her teaching and research apply this approach to metropolitan and agricultural landscapes – ranging from continental scale implications of agricultural practices to neighborhood scale implications of green stormwater infrastructure.

Publications

  • Nassauer, J. I. 2017.  Greening Sprawl:  Lawn Culture and Carbon Storage in the Suburban Landscape.  In Infinite Suburbia.  A. Berger & J. Kotkin, eds.  Princeton Architectural Press.  
  • Visscher, R. S., Nassauer, J. I., Brown, D G , Currie, W. S. and Parker,  D.C.  2014. Exurban residential household behaviors and values: Influence of parcel size and neighbors on carbon storage potential. Landscape & Urban Plan 132:37-46.
  • Nassauer, J. I. 2013. Landscape as medium and method for synthesis in urban ecological design.  In  Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design. S. Pickett, M. Cadenasso, B. McGrath, eds. Springer Press. Pp.79-98.
  • Nassauer, J. I. & Raskin, J. 2014. Urban vacancy and land use legacies: A frontier for urban ecological research, design, and planning. Landscape & Urban Plan.  125: 245-253.
  • Nassauer, J. I. 2011. Care and stewardship:  From home to planet. Landscape & Urban Plan. 100: 321-323.

Read more publications here.

Research
  • 2016-19   University of MI Water Center:  Erb Family Foundation. $1,116,999. Improving water quality and well-being in Detroit: A multidisciplinary partnership to design and assess socio-environmental performance of green infrastructure on vacant land.
  • 2014-16  University of MI Water Center. $284,993. Improving water quality and well-being in Great Lakes post-industrial cities: A multidisciplinary partnership to assess Detroit’s green infrastructure (with sponsor-PI Natalie Sampson).
  • 2014  Argonne National Laboratory. $66,671. Socio-economic sustainability of biofuel production in Central Illinois.
  • 2011-13   National Science Foundation.  Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center. Annapolis, Maryland. $27,500,000. (PI Margaret Palmer, U of MD). (Sub Award for Social Science Innovation Director, JI Nassauer, Uof MI,$138,000.)
  • 2008-12 National Science Foundation CNHS collaborative grant. $1,166,066.Spatial Land-Use Change and Ecological Effects: Interactions of Exurban Land Management and Carbon Dynamics. (with D. G. Brown, W. Currie, S. E. Page, and D. Parker).
Education

MLA, Iowa State University (landscape architecture)

BLA, University of Minnesota (landscape architecture)

Affiliations
  • Co-Editor-in-Chief, Landscape and Urban Planning
  • Steering Committee, US EPA Final Ecosystems Goods and Services.
  • Chair, US- IALE Taskforce on Public Policy (2010-2013).
  • Secretary, National Academy of Environmental Design (2009-2012).
In the News
A map developed by First Street Foundation that provides a national overview of properties with substantial flood risk

SEAS alumnus Mike Kaminski helps homeowners understand their environmental risks

Know your home’s risk factors. That’s the premise of riskfactor.com, a free online tool developed by First Street Foundation where you can enter your home address and...

SEAS Professor Joan Nassauer Receives ASLA Professional Award
October 5, 2021

SEAS Landscape Architecture Faculty Receive ASLA Professional Awards

Professor Joan Nassauer, FASLA, and Lecturer Amanda Szot (MLA '01), who teach in the Landscape Architecture program in the School for Environment and Sustainability, have...

Women's History Month: 'Much remains to be done before women in the United States and globally experience the self-determination and equity necessary for sustainability'
March 1, 2021

Women's History Month: Much remains to be done before women experience the self-determination and equity necessary for sustainability

As SEAS celebrates Women’s History Month, I urge that we think across scales—from our experiences at the University of Michigan to the United States, where women won the...

Knot landscape architects focus on pro bono projects with lasting local impacts
December 16, 2020

Knot landscape architects focus on pro bono projects with lasting local impacts

SEAS Master of Landscape Architecture alumni Marilee Hanks (BS ’97, MLA ’99) and Michael Yun (BS ’97, MLA ’08) are the founders of Knot, a firm in Portland, Oregon. To...

October 1, 2019

Joan Nassauer lands on Design Intelligence Most Admired Educators List

Landscape Architecture — Most Admired Educators Each year, DesignIntelligence honors excellence in architecture and design education, and education administration, by...

In the Media
06/07/2022
Joan Iverson Nassauer
The reef fish people find ugly more likely to be endangered, study finds (The Guardian)
05/03/2022
Joan Iverson Nassauer
SEAS alum Nat Lichten joins Erb Family Foundation as associate program officer for Great Lakes
11/11/2021
Joan Iverson Nassauer
Reduce Flooding From Backed up Sewers? There’s an App for That (Bridge Michigan)
10/20/2021
Joan Iverson Nassauer
The fight against flooding: How the median on your street can keep your basement from flooding (WXYZ Detroit)
10/12/2021
Joan Iverson Nassauer
Loss of wetlands in metro Detroit could be playing major role in flooding (WXYZ-TV)
06/15/2021
Joan Iverson Nassauer
Lawn Culture: Top of Mind with Julie Rose (BYU Radio)
05/18/2021
Joan Iverson Nassauer
Green Infrastructure: Cities around the Great Lakes plan for a changing future (Great Lakes Now)
01/01/2018
Joan Iverson Nassauer
Ilitches can maximize parking money thanks to favorable city ruling on LCA lot designs
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