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AMNA ALRUHEIL
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KRISHNACHANDRAN BALAKRISHNAN
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My doctoral work is at the intersection of urban planning and water management systems. I’m interested in conjunctive ground and surface water management strategies and its potential role in urban planning. |
Tessa Beach
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My research involves geospatial simulation and analysis of regional energy supply transitions and their potential environmental consequences. My current research focuses on 1) how regional energy planning and policy can evolve to facilitate improved analysis of the ability of decentralized renewable energy generation to meet society’s carbon emission reduction goals; and 2) the effect of primary energy source and energy supply infrastructure transitions on locations and patterns of urban development. |
Scott Elder
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I am interested in how the impulse to commemorate can play out within the disciplines of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design. Particularly when addressing some movement on a vast scale, I am curious how collective memory is crystalized into institutional goals and structures, and also how this scenario might catalyze design decisions at a metropolitan scale. |
Amir Gohar
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Amir has been a tourism and land use planner and sustainable development expert with fourteen years of experience working with municipal governments, international organizations, and private sector firms on site planning, ecotourism strategies, master planning and landscape planning. He always engages local communities in any planning process, especially planning for ecotourism and agro-tourism facilities. He has worked extensively in areas adjacent to national parks and coastal areas that are designated as ecotourism destinations with focus on preservation of natural and cultural resources and he has also worked in upgrading urban areas that rely on tourism as a vehicle to the revitalization of their livelihoods. His recent areas of research focus on the Red Sea coast as a tourism destination and the process of tourism development that occurs in Egypt from the constitution level through policy down to implementation, with specific interest in mapping the entire process and identifying the weak areas in the process in order to propose adequate solutions. He has worked extensively in the MENA region and Africa, with specific tourism planning in the southern region of the Red Sea in Egypt, Agro-tourism planning for different sites in Saudi Arabia, the Cradle of Human Kind Park and the Kalahari in South Africa, and Jebel Akhdar (Green Mountains) in Libya. |
Daniella Hirschfeld
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I am interested in transformations of complex social and ecological systems in the context of climate change. My research generally involves geospatial analysis and climate change adaptation. My current research project focuses on: 1) the identification of harbingers of change; 2) the modeling of niche projects at the regional scale; and 3) analyzing regional strategies that could be used to trigger development path shifts. |
Yang Ju |
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Geospatial analysis, nighttime light remote sensing, vulnerability to environmental disasters. |
Jennifer Natali
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I study the interactions of water, sediment, plants and climate in montane meadow ecosystems of the Sierra Nevada in California. In my research, I hope to inform restoration and planning by revealing underlying processes and mechanisms operating across regional, watershed, and meadow scales. Specializations: geomorphology, hydrology, plant ecology, remote sensing and terrain analysis. |
Marcus Owens
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I am interested in Design Research, Human Animal Studies, Urbanism, Art and the Public Domain, Ethnography, Science & Technology Studies (Biology & Ecology). Professional experience includes consulting with Buro Happold and design field work for Sustainable Exuma. 2011 fellow of the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst in affiliation with the Universität der Künste Berlin. |
Zan Rubin |
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I am interested in the fundamental processes of rivers and watersheds, how humans have and continue to modify those processes, and how we can facilitate dynamic and living rivers in a changing world. |
Alexis Schaffler |
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My interests lie in green economic development paths, valuing ecosystem services and multi-functional infrastructure with a particular focus on developing country cities. |
Wilasinee Suksawang |
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My research interest is focused on exploring people’s perception and interpretation towards ecological aesthetics in order to establish the innovative urban planning strategies that are applicable for maintaining both of ecological and aesthetic functions of landscapes and the cities. |
Kanokwalee Suteethorn
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I am interested in ecological, social, and economic values of urban environments and how humans perceive these values in these rapidly changing societies. My current research focused on cultural values of urban forests. I focused particularly on temple gardens and religious belief and their relationship with culture and nature in local contexts. I explored the way in which religious rituals, spiritual beliefs, and other community involvement activities turn intangible values of trees into the sacredness of places and how the temple landscapes affected urban forests citywide. |
Sophie Taddeo
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In my work, I strive to address challenges pertaining to wetland restoration through the lens of landscape ecology. My chief focus is directed toward finding how long-term resiliency and diversity of restored ecosystems can be better integrated within broader urban and agricultural landscapes. |
JANET TORRES
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