Water Resources Center

The Water Resources Center is affiliated with the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences and University of Minnesota Extension.

Urban Ecosystems Symposium

WRC-symposiumURBAN ECOSYSTEMS AND HUMAN WELL-BEING: INTEGRATING SOCIAL AND ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE

When: January 25, 2010, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm

Where: Continuing Education and Conference Center, St. Paul Campus, University of Minnesota

Symposium Program

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Symposium Presentations

Lawrence A. Baker, University of Minnesota, "Developing a research agenda for urban ecosystems and sustainability" (.pdf)

Frances Kuo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Healthy urban ecosystem, healthy human habitat". (.pdf)

Randy Neprash, Boonestro Engineering, "Integrating urban trees with stormwater management: a reason for public works engineers to hug trees". (.pdf)

Sarah Hobbie and Kristen Nelson, University of Minnesota. “Biogeochemical fluxes through urban households: the role of household choice”. (.pdf)

Parwinder Grewal, Ohio State University, “Local self-reliance as an organizing principle for enhancing ecosystem resilience, human well-being, and global stability: the Cleveland ULTRA Experiment”. (.pdf)

Richard Margerum, Oregon State University, "Integrating information through collaboration: opportunities and challenges". (.pdf)

Loren Terveen, University of Minnesota. “Local knowledge sharing systems to facilitate citizen involvement”. (.pdf)

Steve Sheppard, Departments of Forest Resources Management and Landscape Architecture and Jon Salter, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, “Visual planning and climate change visioning: Making community futures tangible with visualisation tools and processes”. (.pdf)

Gayle Prest, Sustainability Coordinator, City of Minneapolis, "Performance measures drive Minneapolis sustainability initiative". (.pdf)

Eric Sheppard, University of Minnesota, “Cities, human well-being, social justice and nature: A research agenda”. (.pdf)

Organizing committee:
Lawrence A. Baker, Water Resources Center, Valentine Cadieux, Dept of Geography, Sarah Hobbie, Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Paige Novak, Dept of Civil Engineering, Kristen Nelson, Dept of Forest Resources and Dept. of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Cons Bio., and Carissa Schively Slotterback, Urban and Regional Planning Program, Humphrey Institute

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