Frank Gallagher

Frank Gallagher is an American ecologist and educator whose career bridges public land management, academic research, and teaching. He has served in leadership roles in New Jersey’s Division of Parks and Forestry and later became Director of the Environmental Planning and Design program at Rutgers University. His research focuses on urban ecological restoration, particularly the sublethal effects of soil contamination on plants and ecosystems. Gallagher has published widely on phytoremediation, ecosystem ethics, and brownfield redevelopment. He remains an influential advocate for linking science, policy, and ecological design.

When we speak of Nature in cities, the question we want to stress is, is nature in cities natural or in fact an artefact? When we speak of natural processes, they of course take place but apart from spontaneous nature, left to random succession, emerging in spaces that Gilles Clément calls the third landscapes, there […]

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