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Joan Iverson Nassauer

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Landscape Architecture
Water
Cities + Mobility + Built Environment
nassauer@umich.edu
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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.

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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).
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