Joan Iverson Nassauer

Joan Iverson Nassauer is an American landscape architect and scholar specializing in ecological design. Her research focuses on how cultural norms and perceptions of care shape the success of ecological landscapes. She has published widely, including Placing Nature (1997), and her work has influenced green infrastructure, watershed management, and ecological restoration. Nassauer is a Fellow of ASLA and CELA and has been recognized internationally for linking design, ecology, and social science. Her research emphasizes the role of aesthetics in making ecological function socially legible and politically viable. Notably, her seminal essay Messy Ecosystems Orderly Frames (1994) is widely cited and remains relevant to this day.

Urban biodiversity? Yes, please! Nevertheless … … Due to the transitional phase of our understanding of nature in the light of the Anthropocene, there are still some important notions, contradictions and misunderstandings that need to be addressed. To do so, we will operate with terms like nature, ecology, biodiversity, landscape, and aesthetics, and we’ll focus […]

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