Joan Iverson Nassauer works in transdisciplinary teams to develop and test ecological designs for their cultural sustainability. At scales ranging from continental implications of agricultural practices to neighborhood implications of green stormwater infrastructure, her work emphasizes human interactions with alternative designs for urban biodiversity and watershed infrastructure and management. As Co-Editor-in-Chief of Landscape and Urban Planning (2014-2021), she led it to become the world’s top-ranked refereed journal in urban studies and planning. She is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects (1992), Fellow of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (2007), Distinguished Practitioner of Landscape Ecology in the US (1998), and was named Distinguished Scholar by the International Association of Landscape Ecology (2007).
