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Conference
2006
Plants as infrastructure
Biographical
Details:
Professor
Joan Nassauer
Joan Iverson Nassauer
is Professor of Landscape Architecture in the School of Natural
Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. She specialises
in landscape ecology and landscape perception, and is interested
in the application of these in the design of settled landscapes.
She has previously chaired the United States International Society
for Landscape Ecology, and has helped to build plans and designs,
at federal, state and local government levels, for the improvement
of ecological health with aesthetic experience. She has worked as
an advisor to United States Senate Committees and is an internationally
respected figure in the field of agricultural change.
Professor Nassauer is
challenged and excited by an interdisciplinary mission to bring
together people from different disciplines to work on landscape
issues, and consequently enables her personal work to deepen.
She is passionate about
understanding the many related factors influencing landscape change
- cultural and natural and their ecological consequences and she
is currently researching several areas of particular interest. These
include the retrofitting of cities - especially brownfield sites
- in order to facilitate ecological function and water quality,
perceptions of ecologically innovative exurban development patterns,
the use of alternative policy scenarios and futures to monitor landscape
change, and watershed planning and management in both agricultural
and urban settings. Joan will speak on a range of these topics during
the conference.
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