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Citing NATURA publications

You include this preferred method of acknowledgement in your NATURA publication: "This work was supported by National Science Foundation Grant #1927468 and #1927167, the NATURA network of networks."

You should cite NATURA in your publication acknowledgements if: 

  • NATURA funding of any kind (student research awards, learning exchanges, in-person TWG meetings, etc.) was used in research design, data collection, analysis, and/or manuscript preparation

  • Any NATURA staff or postdocs are authors on the publication

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  • This was research undertaken specifically to achieve research objectives stated under the NATURA proposal

  • The current paper is based on past research supported by NATURA in any of the ways stated above


Publications

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

2023

Grabowski, Z., McPhearson, T., Pickett, S. (2023). Greening Equitably Through Positive Transformations: addressing legacies of injustice with community engaged research to action. Ecological Society of America Meeting. Portland, OR.

Branny, A., Andersson, E., McPhearson, T. (2023). Nature-based solutions and their cooling performance: a real-time case study from Stockholm. Ecological Society of America Meeting. Portland, OR.

McPhearson, T., Andersson, E. (2023). The Role of Traits in Urban Social-Ecological-Technological Systems. Ecological Society of America Meeting. Portland, OR.

Diep, L., McPhearson, T. (2023). Finding Pathways for Urban Nature-Based Solutions Across the World Regions. Ecological Society of America Meeting. Portland, OR.

Tiernan, R., Diep, L., Pierson, N., McPhearson, T. (2023). The Global State of Nature-Based Solutions Knowledge: Where Are We? Ecological Society of America Meeting. Portland, OR.

Marques, T. and Diep, L. (2023). Opportunities and Challenges to Multi-Scalar Nature-Based Solutions for Cities in Latin America & the Caribbean. Ecological Society of America Meeting. Portland, OR.

Grimm, N. (2023). “50 years in the US Southwest: changing landscapes and changing climate” as well as a presentation on the Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research Program (CAP). Ecological Society of America Meeting. Portland, OR.

Cook, E. (2023).  “Cultural ecosystem service provision in diverse New York City green spaces”. Ecological Society of America Meeting. Portland, OR

2021

Elizabeth Cook, Nancy Grimm, Timon McPhearson, and Yeowon Kim, 2021. NATURA Network: What worked? Presentation at the National Science Foundation Accelnet meeting. Virtual.

2020

Elizabeth Cook, Nancy Grimm, Timon McPhearson, and Yeowon Kim, 2020. INS 7- Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Resilience in the Anthropocene (NATURA). Session at the ESA Annual Meeting, Virtual.

Nancy Grimm, Timon McPhearson, Elizabeth Cook, and Yeowon Kim, 2020. Nature-based solutions for urban resilience in the Anthropocene: Introducing the global NATURA network. Presentation at the ESA Annual Meeting, Virtual.

Timon McPhearson, Elizabeth Cook, Nancy Grimm, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, and Chingwen Cheng, 2020. A SETS approach to urban nature-based solutions. Presentation at the ESA Annual Meeting, Virtual.

Yeowon Kim, Nancy Grimm, Elizabeth Cook, and Timon McPhearson, 2020. Visioning for a network of networks facing future challenges with nature-based solutions. Presentation at the ESA Annual Meeting, Virtual.

Marissa Matsler, 2020. Say what you mean! Organizing the promises of green infrastructure with the Eco-Techno Spectrum. Presentation at the ESA Annual Meeting, Virtual.

Lauren McPhillips, 2020. How well does green stormwater infrastructure work and how can we do better?. Presentation at the ESA Annual Meeting, Virtual.

Zbigniew Grabowski, Timon McPhearson, and Steward Pickett, 2020. Deep dives on equity in US green infrastructure planning. Presentation at the ESA Annual Meeting, Virtual.

David Maddox, 2020. Every effort in nature-based solutions includes deep veins of justice and equity. Presentation at the ESA Annual Meeting, Virtual.

Ossola Alessandro, 2020. Making nature based solutions work in a 50°C world. Presentation at the ESA Annual Meeting, Virtua

Books and Book Chapters

2023

McPhearson, T., Kabisch, N., & Frantzeskaki, N. (Eds.). (2023). Nature-Based Solutions for Cities. Edward Elgar Publishing. (link)

Elmqvist, T., X. Bai, N. Frantzeskaki, C. Griffith, D. Maddox, P. T. McPhearson, S. Parnell, P. Romero-Lankao, D. Simon and M. Watkins eds. (2018). Urban Planet: Knowledge Towards Sustainable Cities. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781316647554.

Grimm, N. B., Y. Kim, J. R. Sauer, and S. R. Elser. (2023). Chapter 2: Nature-based solutions and climate change resilience. Pages 13-28 in T. McPhearson, N. Kabisch, and N. Frantzeskaki, editors. Nature-based solutions for cities. Edward Elgar Publishing. (link)

McPhearson, T., Kabisch, N., & Frantzeskaki, N. (2023). Nature-based solutions for sustainable, resilient, and equitable cities. In Nature-Based Solutions for Cities (pp. xviii–11). Edward Elgar Publishing. (link)

McPhearson, T., Andersson, E., Grilo, F., Lopez, B., & Zein, N. (2023). Urban ecological resilience: Ensuring urban ecosystems can provide nature-based solutions. In Nature-Based Solutions for Cities (pp. 49–81). Edward Elgar Publishing. (link)

Kennedy, C., Irons, E., & Watts, P. L. (2023). Ecological art in cities: Exploring the potential for art to promote and advance nature-based solutions. In Nature-Based Solutions for Cities (pp. 316–339). Edward Elgar Publishing. (link)

McPhearson, T., Kabisch, N., & Frantzeskaki, N. (2023). Towards mainstreaming nature-based solutions for achieving biodiverse, resilient, and inclusive cities. In Nature-Based Solutions for Cities (pp. 363–375). Edward Elgar Publishing. (link)

Journal Articles

2023

McPhillips, L., Berbés-Blázquez, M., Hale, R., Harms, T. K., Bisht, V., Caughman, L., Clinton, S. M., Cook, E., Dong, X., Edmonds, J., Gergel, S., Gómez, R., Hopkins, K., Iwaniec, D. M., Kim, Y., Kuhn, A., Larson, L., Lewis, D. B., Martí, E., ... Ye, L. (2023). Learning from arid and urban aquatic ecosystems to inform more sustainable and resilient futures. Journal of Hydrology. (link)

Chester, M. V., Miller, T. R., Muñoz-Erickson, T. A., Helmrich, A. M., Iwaniec, D. M., McPhearson, T., Cook, E. M., Grimm, N. B., & Markolf, S. A. (2023). Sensemaking for entangled urban social, ecological, and technological systems in the Anthropocene. Npj Urban Sustainability, 3(1), Article 1. (link)

Grabowski, Z. J., McPhearson, T., & Pickett, S.T.A. (2023). Transforming US urban green infrastructure planning to address equity. Landscape and Urban Planning. (link)

Ghermandi, A., Langemeyer, J., Van Berkel, D., Calcagni, F., Depietri, Y., Egarter Vigl, L., Fox, N., Havinga, I., Jäger, H., Kaiser, N., Karasov, O., McPhearson, T., Podschun, S., Ruiz-Frau, A., Sinclair, M., Venohr, M., & Wood, S. A. (2023). Social media data for environmental sustainability: A critical review of opportunities, threats, and ethical use. One Earth. (link)

Pineda-Pinto, M., Kennedy, C., Collier, M., Cooper, C., O’Donnell, M., Nulty, F., & Castaneda, N. R. (2023). Finding justice in wild, novel ecosystems: A review through a multispecies lens. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. (link)

2022

Frantzeskaki, N., and McPhearson, T. (2022). Mainstream nature-based solutions for urban climate resilience. Bioscience. (link)

Frantzeskaki., N., Oke, C., Barnett, G., Bekessy, S., Bush, J., Fitzsimons, J., Ignatieva, M., Kendal, D., Kingsley, J., Mumaw, L., and Ossola, A., (2022) A transformative mission for prioritising nature in Australian cities. AMBIO. (link)

Frantzeskaki, N., Ossola, A., & Bush, J. (2022). Nature-based solutions for changing urban landscapes: Lessons from Australia. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. (link)

Kim, Y., Carvalhaes, T., Helmrich, A., Markolf, S., Hoff, R., Chester, M., Li, R., & Ahmad, N. (2022). Leveraging SETS resilience capabilities for safe-to-fail infrastructure under climate change. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 54, 101153. (link)

Lampinen, J, García Antúnez, O, Olafsson, AS, Kavanagh, KC, Gulsrud, NM & Raymond, CM (2022). 'Envisioning carbon-smart and just urban green infrastructure', Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, vol. 75, 127682. (link)

Gulsrud, NM & Steiner, H 2022, 'Justice and the Pandemic City: How the Pandemic Has Revealed Social, Urban, and Data Injustices, and How a Narrative Approach Can Unlock Them', Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, vol. 4, 838084. (link)

Branny, A, Møller, MS, Korpilo, S, McPhearson, T, Gulsrud, N, Olafsson, AS, Raymond, CM & Andersson, E 2022, 'Smarter greener cities through a social-ecological-technological systems approach', Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, vol. 55, 101168. (link)

Diep, L., & McPhearson, T. (2022). Nature-based solutions for global climate adaptation. Nature, 606(7915), 653–653. (link)

McPhearson, T., E.M. Cook, M. Berbés-Blázquez, C. Cheng, N.B. Grimm, E. Andersson, O. Barbosa, D. Chandler, H. Chang, M. Chester, D.L. Childers, S.R. Elser, N. Frantzeskaki, et al. 2022. A Social-Ecological-Technological Systems Framework for Urban Ecosystem Services. One Earth. (link)

2021

Pineda-Pinto, M., Herreros-Cantis, P., McPhearson, T., Frantzeskaki, N., Wang, J., & Zhou, W. (2021). Examining ecological justice within the social-ecological-technological system of New York City, USA. Landscape and Urban Planning, 215, 104228. (link)

Spotswood, E. N., Benjamin, M., Stoneburner, L., Wheeler, M. M., Beller, E. E., Balk, D., McPhearson, T., Kuo, M., and McDonald, R. I. (2021). Nature inequity and higher COVID-19 case rates in less-green neighbourhoods in the United States. Nature Sustainability. (link)

Pierce, J. R., Drill, S., Halder, M. D., Tan, M. M. J., Tiwari, A., Guijosa, P. A. L. (2021). Scaling Biodiversity Conservation Efforts: An Examination of the Relationship Between Global Biodiversity Targets and Local Plans. Global Urban Biodiversity and the Importance of Scale. (link)

Venter, Z. S., Barton, D. N., Martinez-Izquierdo, L., Langemeyer, J., Baró, F., & McPhearson, T. (2021). Interactive spatial planning of urban green infrastructure – Retrofitting green roofs where ecosystem services are most needed in Oslo. Ecosystem Services. (link)

Lin, B. B., Ossola, A., Alberti, M., Andersson, E., Bai, X., Dobbs, C., Elmqvist, T., Evans, K. L., Frantzeskaki, N., Fuller, R. A., Gaston, K. J., Haase, D., Jim, C. Y., Konijnendijk, C., Nagendra, H., Niemelä, J., McPhearson, T., Moomaw, W. R., Parnell, S., … Tan, P. Y. (2021). Integrating solutions to adapt cities for climate change. The Lancet Planetary Health. (link)

Andersson, E., S. Borgström, D. Haase, J. Langemeyer, A. Mascarenhas, T. McPhearson, M. Wolff, E. Łaszkiewicz, J. Kronenberg, D. N. Barton, and P. Herreros-Cantis. (2021). A context-sensitive systems approach for understanding and enabling ecosystem service realization in cities. Ecology and Society. (link)

Kronenberg, J., E. Andersson, D. N. Barton, S. T. Borgström, J. Langemeyer, T. Björklund, D. Haase, C. Kennedy, K. Koprowska, E. Łaszkiewicz, T. McPhearson, E. E. Stange, and M. Wolff. (2021). The thorny path toward greening: unintended consequences, trade-offs, and constraints in green and blue infrastructure planning, implementation, and management. Ecology and Society. (link)

Zhou, W., Pickett, S. T. A., McPhearson, T., (2021). Conceptual frameworks facilitate integration for transdisciplinary urban science. npj Urban Sustainability. (link)

Andersson, E., Haase, D., Anderson, P., Cortinovis, C., Goodness, J., Kendal, D., Lausch, A., McPhearson, T., Sikorska, D., Wellmann, T., (2021). What are the traits of a social-ecological system: towards a framework in support of urban sustainability. npj Urban Sustainability. (link)

Frantzeskaki, N., McPhearson T., Kabisch, N., (2021). Urban sustainability science: prospects for innovations through a system’s perspective, relational and transformations’ approaches. Ambio. (link)

Egerer, M., Haase,D., McPhearson, T., Frantzeskaki, N., Andersson, E., Nagendra H., & Ossola, A., (2021). Urban change as an untapped opportunity for climate adaptation. npj Urban Sustainability. (link)

Wendling, L., Garcia, J., Descoteaux, D., Sowińska-Świerkosz, B., McPhearson, T., Frantzeskaki, N., et al. (2021) Editorial: Introduction to the Nature-Based Solutions journal. Nature Based Solutions. (link)

2020

Herreros-Cantis, P., Olivotto, V., Grabowski, Z.J., McPhearson. T., (2020). Shifting landscapes of coastal flood risk: environmental (in)justice of urban change, sea level rise, and differential vulnerability in New York City. Urban Transformations 2, 9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42854-020-00014-w (link)

Hobbie, S. E. and N. B. Grimm. (2020). Nature-based approaches to managing climate change impacts in cities. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 375(1794):. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0124. (link )

2019

Langemeyer, J., Wedgwood, D., McPhearson, T., Baró, F., Madsen, A.L., Barton. D., (2019). Creating nature-based solutions where they are needed - a spatial ecosystem service-based decision analysis of green roof potentials in Barcelona. Science of the Total Environment, 707. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135487 (PDF)

Frantzeskaki, N., McPhearson, T., Collier, M.J., Kendal, D., Bulkeley, H., Dumitru, A., Walsh, C., Noble, K., van Wyk, E., Ordóñez, C., Oke K., Pinter., L. (2019). “Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Change Adaptation: Linking Science, Policy, and Practice Communities for Evidence-Based Decision-Making.” BioScience 69 (6), 455–466, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz042 (PDF)

Makido, Y., D. Hellman and V. Shandas. 2019. Nature Based Designs to Mitigate Urban Heat: Efficacy of Green Infrastructure Treatments in Portland, Oregon. Atmosphere 10(5):282. DOI: 10.3390/atmos10050282. (link )

Childers, D. L., Bois, P., Hartnett, H.E., McPhearson, T., Metson, G.S., Sanchez, C.A. (2020) Urban Ecological Infrastructure: An inclusive concept for the non-built urban environment. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene (link)

2017

Depietri, Yaella, Timon McPhearson. “Integrating the grey, green, and blue in cities: Nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation and risk reduction,” in Nature-based Solutions to Climate Change in Urban Areas (Nadja Kabisch et al., eds), Springer (PDF)

Andersson, Erik, Sara Borgström, Timon McPhearson. 2017. “Double insurance in dealing with extremes – Ecological and social factors for making nature based solutions last,” in Nature-based Solutions to Climate Change in Urban Areas (Nadja Kabisch et al., eds), Springer (PDF)





policy briefS

2022. The Urban Butterfly Effect: How nations can accelerate the contributions of local governments to global transformative change. Urban Biodiversity Hub. (link)