Joan Iverson Nassauer
Professor, University of Michigan, School for Environment and Sustainability
Joan Iverson Nassauer, FASLA works in the field of ecological design. She develops design proposals to improve ecosystem services, and uses social science methods to learn how human experience affects and is affected by landscapes. A Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects (1992) and a Fellow of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (2007), she was named Distinguished Scholar by the International Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE) (2007) and Distinguished Practitioner of Landscape Ecology (1998) by US - IALE. The strategies that she has developed, basing ecological design on strong science and interdisciplinary collaboration, have been applied internationally.