Publications

Nature-Based Solutions for Cities

Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

The Summary for Urban Policymakers of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report

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Resilient Urban Futures

2024

Grilo, F., McPhearson, T., Nunes, A., Aleixo, C., Santos-Reis, M., & Branquinho, C. (2024). Where the not-so-wild things are in cities? The influence of social-ecological factors in urban trees at multiple scales. Science of The Total Environment, 172552. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172552

Frantzeskaki, N., Childers, D. L., Pickett, S., Hoover, F.-A., Anderson, P., Barau, A., Ginsberg, J., Grove, M., Lodder, M., Lugo, A. E., McPhearson, T., Muñoz-Erickson, T. A., Quartier, M., Schepers, S., Sharifi, A., & van de Sijpe, K. (2024). A transformative shift in urban ecology toward a more active and relevant future for the field and for cities. Ambio. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-024-01992-y

Pickett, S. T. A., Simone, A. T., Anderson, P., Sharifi, A., Barau, A., Hoover, F.-A., Childers, D. L., McPhearson, T., Muñoz-Erickson, T. A., Pacteau, C., Grove, M., Frantzeskaki, N., Nagendra, H., & Ginsberg, J. (2024). The relational shift in urban ecology: From place and structures to multiple modes of coproduction for positive urban futures. Ambio. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-024-02001-y

Andersson, E., McPhearson, T., & Pickett, S. T. A. (2024). From urban ecology to urban enquiry: How to build cumulative and context-sensitive understandings. Ambio. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-023-01959-5

Pickett, S. T. A., Frantzeskaki, N., Andersson, E., Barau, A. S., Childers, D. L., Hoover, F.-A., Lugo, A. E., McPhearson, T., Nagendra, H., Schepers, S., & Sharifi, A. (2024). Shifting forward: Urban ecology in perspective. Ambio. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-024-02007-6

McPhearson, T., Towers, J., Balk, D., Horton, R., Madajewicz, M., Montalto, F., Neidell, M., Orton, P., Rosenzweig, B., Bader, D., Chen, Z., DeGaetano, A., Evans, C., Golkhandan, M. R., Gurian, P., Kaatz, J., Herreros-Cantis, P., Lo, R., Ortiz, L., Braneon, C., Branco, B., Campbell, L., Dubay, F., Graziano, K., Jiang, L., Johnson, M., Kennedy, C., Kioumourtzoglou, M.-A., Kleyman, J., Kleyman, J., Knowlton, K., Limaye, V., Matte, T., Munoz Perez, S., Reed, D., Shakya, M., Svendsen, E., Tipaldo, J., Zoraghein, H. (2024). New York City Town+Gown Climate Vulnerability, Impact, and Adaptation Analysis Final Report. New York City Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice. (Download Report)

McPhearson, T. (2024). Greener cities: A necessity or a luxury? Nature, 626(8000), 713–715. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00477-y

2023

Mustafa, A., Kennedy, C., Lopez, B., & McPhearson, T. (2023). Perceived and geographic access to urban green spaces in New York City during COVID-19. Cities, 143, 104572. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2023.104572

McPhearson, T., Kabisch, N., & Frantzeskaki, N. (Eds.). (2023). Nature-Based Solutions for Cities. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook-oa/book/9781800376762/9781800376762.xml

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. https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-oa/book/9781800376762/book-part-9781800376762-8.xml

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. https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-oa/book/9781800376762/book-part-9781800376762-13.xml

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. https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-oa/book/9781800376762/book-part-9781800376762-26.xml

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. https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-oa/book/9781800376762/book-part-9781800376762-28.xml

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. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-023-00120-1

Hirye, M. C. M., Alves, D. S., Filardo Jr., A. S., McPhearson, T., & Wagner, F. (2023). Assessing Landslide Drivers in Social–Ecological–Technological Systems: The Case of Metropolitan Region of São Paulo, Brazil. Remote Sensing, 15(12), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15123048

Hoover, F.-A., Meerow, S., Coleman, E., Grabowski, Z., & McPhearson, T. (2023). Why go green? Comparing rationales and planning criteria for green infrastructure in U.S. city plans. Landscape and Urban Planning, 237, 104781. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2023.104781

Wang, J., McPhearson, T., Zhou, W., Cook, E. M., Herreros-Cantis, P., & Liu, J. (2023). Comparing relationships between urban heat exposure, ecological structure, and socio-economic patterns in Beijing and New York City. Landscape and Urban Planning, 235, 104750. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2023.104750

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, 127902. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2023.127902

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, 6(3), 236–250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.02.008

Grabowski, Z. J., McPhearson, T., & Pickett, S.T.A. (2023). Transforming US urban green infrastructure planning to address equity. Landscape and Urban Planning, 229, 104591. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2022.104591

2022

Diep, L., Mulligan, J., Oloo, M. A., Guthmann, L., Raido, M., & Ndezi, T. (2022). Co-building trust in urban nature: Learning from participatory design and construction of Nature-Based Solutions in informal settlements in East Africa. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 4. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsc.2022.927723

Grilo, F., McPhearson, T., Santos-Reis, M., & Branquinho, C. (2022). A trait-based conceptual framework to examine urban biodiversity, socio-ecological filters, and ecosystem services linkages. Npj Urban Sustainability, 2(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-022-00077-7

City of New York. (2022). State of Climate Knowledge 2022: Workshop Summary Report. (Authors: Emilie Schnarr, Holly Bunker, Melissa O. Tier, Jennifer Ventrella.)

Depietri, Y., & McPhearson, T. (2022). Green Infrastructure and Climate Risk in New York City: A Historical Perspective. In J. Heathcott, J. Soffer, & R. Zimmerman (Eds.), Urban Infrastructure: Historical and Social Dimensions of an Interconnected World. University of Pittsburgh Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv30pnvb9 (PDF)

Revi, A., Roberts, D., Klaus, I., Bazaz, A., Krishnaswamy, J., Singh, C., Eichel, A., Kodira, P. P., Seth, S., Adelekan, I., Babiker, M., Bertoldi, P., Cartwright, A., Chow, W., Colenbrander, S., Creutzig, F., Dawson, R., De Coninck, H., De Kleijne, K., Dhakal, S., Gallardo, L., Garschagen, M., Haasnoot, M., Haldar., S., Hamdi, R., Hashizume, M., Islam, A.K.M. S., Jiang, K., Kılkış, S., Klimont, Z., Lemos, M. F., Ley, D., Lwasa, S., McPhearson, T., Niamir, L., Otto, F., Pathak, M., Pelling, M., Pinto, I., Pörtner, H-O., Pereira, J. P., Raghavan, K., Roy, J., Sara, L. M., Seto, K. C., Simpson, N. P., Solecki, W., Some, S., Sörensson, A. A., Steg, L., Szopa, S., Thomas, A., Trisos, C., Ürge-Vorsatz, D. (2022). The Summary for Urban Policymakers of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report. Indian Institute for Human Settlements. https://doi.org/10.24943/SUPSV511.2022

Cook, E., Ventrella, J., McPhearson, T., Parris, A., Tier, M., Muñoz-Erickson, T., Iwaniec, D., Mannetti, L., Green, C., & Tagtachian, D. (2022). NYC Climate Adaptation Scenarios for 2100: Exploring alternative, positive visions for a resilient future. Urban Systems Lab, The New School. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7319637

Grabowski, Z. J., Wijsman, K., Tomateo, C., & McPhearson, T. (2022). How deep does justice go? Addressing ecological, indigenous, and infrastructural justice through nature-based solutions in New York City. Environmental Science & Policy, 138, 171–181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.09.022

Sauter, D., McPhearson, T., & Kennedy, C. (2022, October 10). Ocellus XR: Visualizing Climate Risk, Vulnerability, and Equity in NYC. Public Seminar. https://publicseminar.org/2022/10/ocellus-xr-visualizing-climate-risk/

Balk, D., Tagtachian, D., Jiang, L., Marcotullio, P., Cook, E. M., Jones, B., Mustafa, A., & McPhearson, T. (2022). Frameworks to envision equitable urban futures in a changing climate: A multi-level, multidisciplinary case study of New York City. Frontiers in Built Environment, 8. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbuil.2022.949433

Łaszkiewicz, E., Wolff, M., Andersson, E., Kronenberg, J., Barton, D., Haase, D., Langemeyer, J., Baró, F., & McPhearson, T. (2022). Greenery in urban morphology: A comparative analysis of differences in urban green space accessibility for various urban structures across European cities. Ecology and Society, 27(3). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-13453-270322

Pineda-Pinto, M., Frantzeskaki, N., Chandrabose, M., Herreros-Cantis, P., McPhearson, T., Nygaard, C. A., & Raymond, C. (2022). Planning Ecologically Just Cities: A Framework to Assess Ecological Injustice Hotspots for Targeted Urban Design and Planning of Nature-Based Solutions. Urban Policy and Research, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2022.2093184 (PDF)

Treglia, M., McPhearson, T., Sanderson, E., Yetman, G., & Maxwell, E. (2022). Examining the distribution of green roofs in New York City through a lens of social, ecological, and technological filters. Ecology and Society, 27(3). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-13303-270320

Gilbert, M. R., Eakin, H., & McPhearson, T. (2022). The role of infrastructure in societal transformations. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 57, 101207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101207 (PDF)

Diep, L., & McPhearson, T. (2022). Nature-based solutions for global climate adaptation. Nature, 606(7915), 653–653. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01698-9 (PDF)

Krueger, E. H., McPhearson, T., & Levin, S. A. (2022). Integrated assessment of urban water supply security and resilience: Towards a streamlined approach. Environmental Research Letters, 17(7), 075006. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac78f4 (PDF)

Sauter, D., McPhearson, T., Randhawa, J., Steele, J., Tomateo, C., & Kennedy, C. Ocellus (USL Data Visualization Platform). New York, NY. The New School.

Sauter, D., McPhearson, T., Peng, X. E., Wu, Y., Fan, P., Bowe, E., Outwater, J., & Kennedy, C. Ocellus XR. New York, NY. The New School. (PDF)

Diep, L., Parikh, P., Dodman, D., Alencar, J., & Martins, J. R. S. (2022). Problematizing infrastructural “fixes”: Critical perspectives on technocratic approaches to Green Infrastructure. Urban Geography, 0(0), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2022.2087947 (PDF)

Diep, L., Parikh, P., Duarte, B. P. dos S., Bourget, A. F., Dodman, D., & Martins, J. R. S. (2022). “It won’t work here”: Lessons for just nature-based stream restoration in the context of urban informality. Environmental Science & Policy, 136, 542–554. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.06.020 (PDF)

McPhearson, T., E. Cook, M. Berbés-Blázquez, C. Cheng, N.B. Grimm, E. Andersson, O. Barbosa, D.G. Chandler, H. Chang, M. Chester, D. Childers, S. Elser, N. Frantzeskaki, Z. Grabowski, P. Groffman R.L. Hale, D.M. Iwaniec, N. Kabisch, C. Kennedy, S.A. Markolf, A.M. Matsler, L.E. McPhillips, T.R. Miller, T.A. Muñoz-Erickson, E. Rosi, T.G. Troxler. (2022). A social-ecological-technological systems approach to urban ecosystem services.  One Earth, 5, 5, 505-518. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2022.04.007 (PDF)

Kennedy, C. (2022). Ruderal Resilience: Applying a Ruderal Lens to Advance Multispecies Urbanism and Social-Ecological Systems Theory. Frontiers in Built Environment, 8. https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fbuil.2022.769357

Clinton, J., Hwang, L., Egan, J., Hannon, M. Strickland, C., Abramson, M., Banner, R., Birnbaum, M., Charlop-Powers, S., Donoghue, S., Elam, E., Espinoza, A., Ganser, A., Gates, M., Kennedy, C., Koo, P., Lout, M., Lubov, H., Maxwell, E., McPhearson, T., Pregitzer, C., Roth, K., Sartori, K., Shepard, P., Smith, E., and Van Slooten, A. (2022). Economic Benefits of Parks in New York City.  Trust for Public Land. 

Branny, A., Møller, M. S., Korpilo, S., McPhearson, T., Gulsrud, N., Olafsson, A. S., Raymond, C. M., & Andersson, E. (2022). Smarter greener cities through a social-ecological-technological systems approach. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 55, 101168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2022.101168 (PDF)

Bai, X., Chow, W., Dodman, D., Hamdi, R., Hayward, B., Kılkıș, Ș., Lwasa, S., McPhearson, T., Pathak, M., Pelling, M., Reckien, D., Seto, K., Sharifi, A., and Ürge- Vorsatz, D. (2022). Cross-Working-Group Box URBAN | Cities and Climate Change. In: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [C. Dubeux, D. Ürge-Vorsatz (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, NY, USA. doi:10.1017/9781009325844.008 (PDF)

Parmesan,C., Anshari, G., Buotte, P., Campbell, D., Castellanos, E.,  Cowie, A., Rivera, F. M., Gonzalez, P., Gunn, E. G., Harris, R., Hicke, J., Kerr, R. B., Lasco, R., Lempert, R., Mackey, B., Martinetto, P., Matthews, R., McPhearson, T., Morecroft, M., Mukherji, A., Nabuurs, G., Neufeldt, H., Pedace, R., Postigo, J., Price, J., Pulhin, J., Rogelj, J., Schmidt, D., Schoeman, D., Singh, P. K., Smith, P., Stevens, N., Strutz, S. E., Sukumar, R., Talukdar, G. T., Tirado, M. C.,  and Trisos, C. (2022). IPCC AR6 WGII Cross-Chapter Box NATURAL | Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change. Mitigation and Adaptation (pp. 303–309). In: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [H.-O. Pörtner, D.C. Roberts, M. Tignor, E.S. Poloczanska, K. Mintenbeck, A. Alegría, M. Craig, S. Langsdorf, S. Löschke, V. Möller, A. Okem, B. Rama (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781009325844.008 (PDF)

Dodman, D., B. Hayward, M. Pelling, V. Castan Broto, W. Chow, E. Chu, R. Dawson, L. Khirfan, T. McPhearson, A. Prakash, Y. Zheng, and G. Ziervogel. (2022). IPCC AR6 WGII Chapter 6: Cities, Settlements and Key Infrastructure. In: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [H.-O. Pörtner, D.C. Roberts, M. Tignor, E.S. Poloczanska, K. Mintenbeck, A. Alegría, M. Craig, S. Langsdorf, S. Löschke, V. Möller, A. Okem, B. Rama (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781009325844.008 (PDF)

Lwasa, S., Seto, K. C., Bai, X., Blanco, H., Gurney, K., Kılkış, S. Lucon, O., Murakami, J., Pan, J., Sharifi, A., and Yamagata, Y., Broto, V. C., Chow, W., Churkina, G., Creutzig, F., Dodman, D., Hamdi, R., Güneralp, B., Hayward, B., Hsu, A., Hutyra, L., Kabisch, N., Keller, M., McPhearson, T., Newman, P., Nowak, D., Organschi, A., Pathak, M., Pelling, M., Pregitzer, C., Ramaswami, A., Reback, M., Reckien, D., Shin, J., Westphal, M., White, L., Keller, M., and Ssekuubwa, E. (2022). IPCC AR6 WGII Chapter 8: Urban Systems and Other Settlements. In: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [C. Dubeux, D. Ürge-Vorsatz (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,  UK and New York, NY, USA.

Parmesan, C., M.D. Morecroft, Y. Trisurat, R. Adrian, G.Z. Anshari, A. Arneth, Q. Gao, P. Gonzalez, R. Harris, J. Price, N. Stevens, G.H. Talukdarr et al. (T. McPhearson Contributing Author). (2022). IPCC AR6 WGII Chapter 2: Terrestrial and Freshwater Ecosystems and Their Services. In: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [H.-O. Pörtner, D.C. Roberts, M. Tignor, E.S. Poloczanska, K. Mintenbeck, A. Alegría, M. Craig, S. Langsdorf, S. Löschke, V. Möller, A. Okem, B. Rama (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, NY, USA, pp. 197–377, doi:10.1017/9781009325844.004 (PDF)

O'Neill, B., van Maarten, A., Ibrahim, Z. Z. et al. (T. McPhearson Contributing Author). (2022). IPCC AR6 WGII Chapter 16: Key Risks Across Sectors and Regions. In: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [H.-O. Pörtner, D.C. Roberts, M. Tignor, E.S. Poloczanska, K. Mintenbeck, A. Alegría, M. Craig, S. Langsdorf, S. Löschke, V. Möller, A. Okem, B. Rama (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781009325844.025. (PDF)

Frantzeskaki, N., & McPhearson, T. (2022). Mainstream Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Resilience. BioScience, 72(2), 113–115. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab105 (PDF)

Mejía, G. A., Groffman, P. M., Downey, A. E., Cook, E. M., Sritrairat, S., Karty, R., Palmer, M. I., & McPhearson, T. (2022). Nitrogen cycling and urban afforestation success in New York City. Ecological Applications, e2535. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2535 (PDF)

Grabowski, Zbigniew, Ffion Atkins, Lelani Mannetti, Clair Cooper, Danielle McCarthy, Robert Hobbins, Matt Smit, Yuliya Dzyuban,  Charlyn Green, Yeowon Kim, Hopeland P, Pablo Cantis, Luis Ortiz. (2022, January 18). Embracing Diverse Concepts of Nature-based Solutions to Enact Transformational Change: A Perspective From the Early Career Working Group of the NATURA Network. The Nature of Cities.

World Economic Forum, & Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute. (2022). BiodiverCities by 2030: Transforming cities’ relationship with nature. https://www.weforum.org/reports/biodivercities-by-2030-transforming-cities-relationship-with-nature/ (PDF)

Grabowski, Z. J., McPhearson, T., Matsler, A. M., Groffman, P., & Pickett, S. T. (2022). What is green infrastructure? A study of definitions in US city planning. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2445

Ortiz, L., Mustafa, A., Cantis, P. H., & McPhearson, T. (2022). Overlapping heat and COVID-19 risk in New York City. Urban Climate, 41, 101081. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2021.101081

Ortiz, L., Gamarro, H., Gonzalez, J. E., & McPhearson, T. (2022). Energy burden and air conditioning adoption in New York City under a warming climate. Sustainable Cities and Society, 103465. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2021.103465 (PDF)

2021

Hamstead, Z. A., Iwaniec, D. M., McPhearson, T., Berbés-Blázquez, M., Cook, E. M., & Muñoz-Erickson, T. A. (Eds.). (2021). Resilient Urban Futures. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63131-4

Mannetti, L., Berbés-Blázquez, M., Cook, E. M., Iwaniec, D. M., Grimm, N. B., Lloyd, R., McPhearson, T., & Muñoz-Erickson, T. A. (2021). The UREx Guide to Scenarios. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6884788

Grabowski, Z., McPhearson, T., Wijsman, K., Ortiz, L., & Herreros, P. (2021). The Case of Green Infrastructure in NYC: Ecological spontaneity and infrastructuralization in the context of settler colonialism, capitalism, and white supremacy. In Joan Marull, María José LaRota-Aguilera i Joan Pino (Eds.), Regió Metropolitana de Barcelona - Reptes i Oportunitats de la Infraestructura Verda Metropolitana. l’Institut d’Estudis Regionals i Metropolitans de Barcelona, Barcelona. (PDF)

Zhou, W., Huang, G., Pickett, S. T. A., Wang, J., Cadenasso, M. L., McPhearson, T., Grove, J. M., & Wang, J. (2021). Urban tree canopy has greater cooling effects in socially vulnerable communities in the US. One Earth, 4(12), 1764–1775. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2021.11.010 (PDF)

Andersson, E., Borgström, S., Haase, D., Langemeyer, J., Wolff, M., & McPhearson, T. (2021). Urban resilience thinking in practice: ensuring flows of benefit from green and blue infrastructure. Ecology and Society, 26(4). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12691-260439

City of New York. (2021). State of Climate Knowledge 2021. https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/orr/pdf/publications/CKE_Report.pdf (Authors: Adam Parris, Allison Bridges, Carlos Piedad, Anna LoPresti. Contributors include: Sophia Ahmed, Jesse Braun, Nathan Farrell, Nancy Holt, Radley Horton, Arthee Jahangir, Erika Jozwiak, Leesa Ko, Arianna Menzelos, Lauren Micham, Sarah Oppenheimer, Chris Parent, Lei Pei, Davis Surface, Jennifer Ventrella)

Grêt-Regamey, A., Switalski, M., Fagerholm, N., Korpilo, S., Juhola, S., Kyttä, M., Käyhkö, N., McPhearson, T., Nollert, M., Rinne, T., Soininen, N., Toivonen, T., Räsänen, A., Willberg, E., & Raymond, C. M. (2021). Harnessing sensing systems towards urban sustainability transformation. Npj Urban Sustainability, 1(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-021-00042-w (PDF)

Nagatsu, M., Raymond, P. C., Tuomisto, H., Ruotsalainen, L., Soininen, N., Thoren, H., Stojanovic, M., Horcea-Milcu, A.-I., Lehtinen, S., Mazac, R., Lamuela Orta, C., Korpelainen, N.-H. P., Vainio, A., Toivanen, R., & McPhearson, T. (2021). Bridge over troubled water: Managing compatibility and conflicts among thought collectives in sustainability science. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-021-01068-w (PDF)

McPhearson, T. (2021). COP-26: Make Nature-Based Solutions a Top Adaptation Priority. Buildings and Cities. https://www.buildingsandcities.org/insights/commentaries/cop26-nature-based-solutions.html

Spotswood, E. N., Benjamin, M., Stoneburner, L., Wheeler, M. M., Beller, E. E., Balk, D., McPhearson, T., Kuo, M., & McDonald, R. I. (2021). Nature inequity and higher COVID-19 case rates in less-green neighbourhoods in the United States. Nature Sustainability, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00781-9 (PDF)

Lopez, B., Kennedy, C., Field, C., & McPhearson, T. (2021). Who benefits from urban green spaces during times of crisis? Perception and use of urban green spaces in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 127354. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2021.127354 (PDF)

Chester, Amy, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, Cynthia Barton, Kate Boicourt, Matthijs Bouw, Sarah Charlop-Powers, Joyce Coffee, Danielle Feld-Spiegal, Adam Ganser, Daniel Goedbloed, Teresa Gonzalez, Klaus Jacob, Lot Locher, Timon McPhearson, Deborah Morris, Gita Nandan, Thad Pawlowski, Betsy Plum, Julie Pullen, Caleb Stratton, Carter Strickland, Joseph
Sutkowi, Jason Volk. “An Anthology Of Ideas After Hurricane Ida,” Rebuild by Design, New York. September 21, 2021.

Matsler, A. M., Grabowski, Z. J., & Elder, A. D. (2021). The multifaceted geographies of green infrastructure policy and planning: socio-environmental dreams, nightmares, and amnesia. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 23(5), 559–564. https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2021.1976565

Downey, A. E., Groffman, P. M., Mejía, G. A., Cook, E. M., Sritrairat, S., Karty, R., Palmer, M. I., & McPhearson, T. (2021). Soil carbon sequestration in urban afforestation sites in New York City. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 65, 127342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2021.127342 (PDF)

Galaz, V., Centeno, M. A., Callahan, P. W., Causevic, A., Patterson, T., Brass, I., Baum, S., Farber, D., Fischer, J., Garcia, D., McPhearson, T., Jimenez, D., King, B., Larcey, P., & Levy, K. (2021). Artificial intelligence, systemic risks, and sustainability. Technology in Society, 67, 101741. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2021.101741

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 1, 100003. doi:10.1016/j.nbsj.2021.100003.

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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.104228

Pelling, M., Chow, W. T. L., Chu, E., Dawson, R., Dodman, D., Fraser, A., Hayward, B., Khirfan, L., McPhearson, T., Prakash, A., & Ziervogel, G. (2021). A climate resilience research renewal agenda: learning lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for urban climate resilience. Climate and Development, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2021.1956411

Wijsman, K., D. Auyeung, P. Brashear, B. F. Branco, K. Graziano, P. M. Groffman, H. Cheng and D. Corbett. 2021. Operationalizing resilience: co-creating a framework to monitor hard, natural, and nature-based shoreline features in New York State. Ecology and Society 26 (3):10. https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol26/iss3/art10/

Kyrkjebo, N., Parris, A., Barnes, J., Azaroff, I., Balk, D., Baptista, A. I., Braneon, C., Calabrese, W., Codrington, T., Colon, J., Gandhi, F., George, M., Groffman, P., Gundlach, J., Carr, R. H., Holt, N., Horton, R., Jahangir, A., Ken-Opurum, B., McPhearson, T. … Wagner, G. (2021). Rapid Research and Assessment on COVID-19 and Climate in New York City. Journal of Extreme Events, 2150010. https://doi.org/10.1142/S234573762150010X (PDF)

Tomateo, C. (2021). Indigenous land systems and emerging of Green Infrastructure planning in the Peruvian coastal desert: tensions and opportunities. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2021.1960806 (PDF)

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, 50, 101314. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2021.101314 (PDF)

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, 5(7), e479–e486. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00135-2

Hoover, F.-A., Meerow, S., Grabowski, Z. J., & McPhearson, T. (2021). Environmental justice implications of siting criteria in urban green infrastructure planning. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2021.1945916

Herreros-Cantis, P., & McPhearson, T. (2021). Mapping supply of and demand for ecosystem services to assess environmental justice in New York City. Ecological Applications, e2390. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2390 (PDF)

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 26(2):35. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12411-260235

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 26(2):36. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12445-260236

Derkzen, M., McPhearson, T., Shaka, H., Lacourt, M., and Larios, F. (2021). Including Diverse Voices in Adaptation Planning. The Nature of Cities. (Link)

Rienow, A., Mustafa, A., Krelaus, L., & Lindner, C. (2021). Modeling urban regions: Comparing random forest and support vector machines for cellular automata. Transactions in GIS. https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12756 (PDF)

McPhearson, T., Grabowski, Z., Herreros-Cantis, P., Mustafa, A., Ortiz, L., Kennedy, C., Tomateo, C., Lopez, B., Olivotto, V., & Vantu, A. (2021). Pandemic Injustice: Spatial and Social Distributions of COVID-19 in the US Epicenter. Journal of Extreme Events, 2150007. https://doi.org/10.1142/S234573762150007X

Sauter, D., Randhawa, J., Tomateo, C., & McPhearson, T. (2021). Visualizing Urban Social–Ecological–Technological Systems. In Z. A. Hamstead, D. M. Iwaniec, T. McPhearson, M. Berbés-Blázquez, E. M. Cook, & T. A. Muñoz-Erickson (Eds.), Resilient Urban Futures (pp. 145–157). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63131-4_10

McPhearson, T., Iwaniec, D. M., Hamstead, Z. A., Berbés-Blázquez, M., Cook, E. M., Muñoz-Erickson, T. A., Mannetti, L., & Grimm, N. (2021). A Vision for Resilient Urban Futures. In Z. A. Hamstead, D. M. Iwaniec, T. McPhearson, M. Berbés-Blázquez, E. M. Cook, & T. A. Muñoz-Erickson (Eds.), Resilient Urban Futures (pp. 173–186). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63131-4_12

Ortiz, L., Mustafa, A., Rosenzweig, B., & McPhearson, T. (2021). Modeling Urban Futures: Data-Driven Scenarios of Climate Change and Vulnerability in Cities. In Z. A. Hamstead, D. M. Iwaniec, T. McPhearson, M. Berbés-Blázquez, E. M. Cook, & T. A. Muñoz-Erickson (Eds.), Resilient Urban Futures (pp. 129–144). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63131-4_9

Iwaniec, D. M., Berbés-Blázquez, M., Cook, E. M., Grimm, N. B., Mannetti, L. M., McPhearson, T., & Muñoz-Erickson, T. A. (2021). Positive Futures. In Z. A. Hamstead, D. M. Iwaniec, T. McPhearson, M. Berbés-Blázquez, E. M. Cook, & T. A. Muñoz-Erickson (Eds.), Resilient Urban Futures (pp. 85–97). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63131-4_6

Iwaniec, D. M., Grimm, N. B., McPhearson, T., Berbés-Blázquez, M., Cook, E. M., & Muñoz-Erickson, T. A. (2021). A Framework for Resilient Urban Futures. In Z. A. Hamstead, D. M. Iwaniec, T. McPhearson, M. Berbés-Blázquez, E. M. Cook, & T. A. Muñoz-Erickson (Eds.), Resilient Urban Futures (pp. 1–9). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63131-4_1

Chang, H., Pallathadka, A., Sauer, J., Grimm, N. B., Zimmerman, R., Cheng, C., Iwaniec, D. M., Kim, Y., Lloyd, R., McPhearson, T., Rosenzweig, B., Troxler, T., Welty, C., Brenner, R., & Herreros-Cantis, P. (2021). Assessment of urban flood vulnerability using the social-ecological-technological systems framework in six US cities. Sustainable Cities and Society, 68, 102786. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2021.102786 (PDF)

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, 1(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-021-00024-y (PDF)

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, 1(1), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-020-00008-4 (PDF)

Frantzeskaki, N., McPhearson, T., & Kabisch, N. (2021). Urban sustainability science: prospects for innovations through a system’s perspective, relational and transformations’ approaches. AMBIO. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01521-1 (PDF)

Elmqvist, T., Andersson, E., McPhearson, T., Bai, X., Bettencourt, L., Brondizio, E., Colding, J., Daily, G., Folke, C., Grimm, N., Haase, D., Ospina, D., Parnell, S., Polasky, S., Seto, K. C., & Van Der Leeuw, S.  (2021). Urbanization in and for the Anthropocene. npj Urban Sustainability, 1:6. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-021-00018-w (PDF)

McPhearson, T., M. Raymond, C., Gulsrud, N., Albert, C., Coles, N., Fagerholm, N., Nagatsu, M., Olafsson, A.S., Soininen, N., and Vierikko, K. (2021). Radical changes for transformations to a good Anthropocene. npj Urban Sustainability. 1(5). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-021-00017-x (PDF)

Zhou, W., Pickett, S. T. A., McPhearson, T. (2021). Conceptual frameworks facilitate integration for transdisciplinary urban science. npj Urban Sustainability. 1(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-020-00011-9 (PDF)

Elmqvist, T., Acuto, M., Anderson, P., Larsen, L., McPhearson, T., and Zhang, X. (2021). Urbanization in the Anthropocene: inaugural npj Urban Sustainability. npj Urban Sustainability 1, 1–2. (PDF)

Spotswood, E., Benjamin, M., Stoneburner, L., Wheeler, M., Beller, E., Balk, D., McPhearson, T., Kuo, M., & McDonald, R. (2021). Who has nature during the pandemic? COVID-19 cases track widespread inequity in nature access across the United States. pre-print (PDF)

Mustafa, A., Ebaid, A., Omrani, H., and McPhearson, T. (2021). A multi-objective Markov Chain Monte Carlo cellular automata model: Simulating multi-density urban expansion in NYC. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 87, 101602. (PDF) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2021.101602

Victor Galaz, Miguel Centeno, Peter W. Callahan, Amar Causevic, Thayer Patterson, Irina Brass, Seth Baum, Darryl Farber, Joern Fischer, David Garcia, Timon McPhearson, Karen Levy, Daniel Jimenez, Brian King, Paul Larcey. (2021). Machine intelligence, systemic risks, and sustainability. Beijer Discussion Paper Series No. 274. (PDF)

2020

Cook, E.M., and McPhearson, T. (2020). A Transdisciplinary Urban Ecology Approach to Complex Urban Systems. In Ian Douglas, P M L Anderson, David Goode, Michael C. Houck, David Maddox, Harini Nagendra, Puay Yok Tan (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology. Routledge Publishing.

Rosenzweig, B.R., Cantis, P.H., Kim, Y., Cohn, A., Grove, K., Brock, J., Yesuf, J., Mistry, P., Welty, C., McPhearson, T., et al. (2020). The Value of Urban Flood Modeling. Earth’s Future 9, e2020EF001739. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EF001739 (PDF)

Gamarro, H., Ortiz, L., & Gonzalez, J. E. (2020). Adapting to Extreme Heat: Social, Atmospheric, and Infrastructure Impacts of Air Conditioning in Megacities-The Case of New York City. ASME Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities, 1–52. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4048175 (PDF)

McPhearson, T. (2020). Transforming Cities and Science for Climate Change Resilience in the Anthropocene. In K. Hölscher & N. Frantzeskaki (Eds.), Transformative Climate Governance: A Capacities Perspective to Systematise, Evaluate and Guide Climate Action (pp. 99–111). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49040-9_3 (PDF)

Hölscher, K., Frantzeskaki, N., McPhearson, T., & Loorbach, D. (2020). Capacities for Transformative Climate Governance in New York City. In K. Hölscher & N. Frantzeskaki (Eds.), Transformative Climate Governance: A Capacities Perspective to Systematise, Evaluate and Guide Climate Action (pp. 205–240). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49040-9_6 (PDF)

Hölscher, K., & Frantzeskaki, N. (Eds.). (2020). Transformative Climate Governance: A Capacities Perspective to Systematise, Evaluate and Guide Climate Action. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49040-9

Lopez, B., Kennedy, C., & McPhearson, T. (2020). Parks are Critical Urban Infrastructure: Perception and Use of Urban Green Spaces in NYC During COVID-19. pre-print https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202008.0620.v1

McPhearson, T., Grabowski, Z. J., Herreros-Cantis, P., Mustafa, A., Ortiz, L., Kennedy, C., Tomateo, C., Lopez, B., Olivotto, V., & Vantu, A. (2020). Pandemic Injustice: Spatial and Social Distributions of the first wave of COVID-19 in the US Epicenter. pre-print https://doi.org/10.31124/advance.13256240.v2

Herreros-Cantis, Pablo, Veronica Olivotto, Zbigniew Grabowski, and Timon McPhearson. 2020. “Shifting Landscapes of Coastal Flood Risk: Environmental (In)Justice of Urban Change, Sea Level Rise, and Differential Vulnerability in NYC.” Urban Transformations 2:9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42854-020-00014-w (PDF)

McPhearson, T., Mustafa, A., and Ortiz, L. (2020). Heat and COVID-19 could be twin killers. Nature, 582, p. 32. doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-01627-8 (PDF)

Mustafa, A., McPhearson, T., 2020. Letter to the Editor: Note on published research on the effects of COVID-19 on the environment without sufficient depth of science. arXiv:2005.10303 [physics]. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.11784.24324/5 (PDF)

Amer, M., Hamdy, M., Wortmann, T., Mustafa, A., Attia, S., 2020. Methodology for design decision support of cost-optimal zero-energy lightweight construction. Energy and Buildings 110170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.110170 (PDF)

Mustafa, Ahmed & Teller, Jacques. (2020). Self-Reinforcing Processes Governing Urban Sprawl in Belgium: Evidence over Six Decades. Sustainability, 12(10), 4097; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12104097 (PDF)

Grilo, Filipa, Pedro Pinho, Cristiana Aleixo, Cristina Catita, Patrícia Silva, Nuno Lopes, Catarina Freitas, Margarida Santos- Reis, Timon McPhearson, Cristina Branquinho. (2020). Using green to cool the grey: Modelling the cooling effect of green spaces with a high spatial resolution. Science of The Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138182 (PDF)

Olivotto, Veronica, Pepe, A. Cavalleri, M. Best, B. Cantiello, M. (2020). Scientific collaboration in the era of COVID-19. Authorea. (Link) 

McPhearson, Timon, & Jones, N. The Liveable City. Our Future on Earth 2020. Future Earth. (PDF)

Lopez, Bianca, Minor, E., & Crooks, A. (2020). Insights into human-wildlife interactions in cities from bird sightings recorded online. Landscape and Urban Planning, 196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2019.103742 (PDF)

Mustafa, Ahmed, Bruwier, M., Maravat, C., Teller, J., Pirotton, M., Erpicum, S., Archambeau, P., & Dewals, B. (2020). Influence of urban forms on surface flow in urban pluvial flooding. Journal of Hydrology, 582. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.124493 (PDF)

2019

Childers, Daniel, Paul Bois, Hilary Hartnett, Timon McPhearson, Genevieve Metson, Christopher A. Sanchez. “Urban Ecological Infrastructure: An inclusive concept for the non-built urban environment.” Elementa Elem Sci Anth, 7(1): 46 http://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.385 (PDF)

Grabowski, Z. J., Chiapella, A. M., Alattar, M. A., Denton, A. D., Rozance, M. A., & Granek, E. F. (2019). Trade-Offs by Whom for Whom? A Response to Calow. BioScience, 69(12), 954-955. (PDF)

Langemeyer, Johannes, Diego Wedgwood, Timon McPhearson, Francesc Baró, Anders L Madsen, David Barton. “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)

Tomateo, Claudia, Juan Santamaría, Rubén Segovia, Jorge Silva. 2019. “Searching for a New Urban Paradigm” in City Design, Planning & Policy Innovations: The Case of Hermosillo. Inter-American Development Bank: Washington DC. (PDF)

Bai, Xuemei, M Lisa Colbert, Timon McPhearson, Debra Roberts, Jose Siri, Brenna Walsh, Bob Webb. 2019. Networking urban science, policy and practice for sustainability. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 39, pp. 114-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2019.08.002 (PDF)

Razzaque, Jona, Ingrid Visseren-Hamakers, Ambika Prasad Gautam, Leah Gerber, Mine Islar, Md Saiful Karim, Eszter Kelemen, Jinlong Liu, Gabriel Lui, Pamela McElwee, Abrar Mohammed, Eric Mungatana, Roldan Muradian, Graciela M. Rusch, Esther Turnhout, Meryl Williams (Timon McPhearson, Contributing Author). 2019. “Chapter 6. Options for Decision Makers” in Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. E. S. Brondizio, J. Settele, S. Díaz, H. T. Ngo (eds). Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) (PDF)

Mustafa, Ahmed, Mohamed Amer, Shady Attia. 2019. “Conceptual framework for off-site roof stacking construction.” Journal of Building Engineering 26, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2019.100873 (PDF)

Garrah, Juno, Barbara Frei, Elena M. Bennett. 2019. “Bright spots among lakes in the Rideau Valley Watershed, Ontario.” Ecology and Society 24 (3): 22, https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11073-240322 (PDF)

Ariana M. Chiapella, Zbigniew J. Grabowski, Mary Ann Rozance, Ashlie D. Denton, Manar A. Alattar, Elise F. Granek. 2019. “Toxic Chemical Governance Failure in the United States: Key Lessons and Paths Forward.” BioScience, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz065 (PDF)

Raudsepp-Hearne, C., G. D. Peterson, E. M. Bennett, R. Biggs, A. V. Norström, L. Pereira, J. Vervoort, D. M. Iwaniec, T. McPhearson, P. Olsson, T. Hichert, M. Falardeau, A. Jiménez Aceituno. 2019. “Seeds of Good Anthropocenes: Developing Sustainability Scenarios for Northern Europe.” Sustainability Science, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-019-00714-8 (PDF)

Andersson, Erik, Johannes Langemeyer, Sara Borgström, Timon McPhearson, Dagmar Haase, Jakub Kronenberg, David N. Barton, McKenna Davis, Sandra Naumann, Lina Röschel, Francesc Baró. 2019. “Enabling Urban Green and Blue Infrastructure to Improve Contributions to Human Well-being and Equity in Urban Systems.” BioScience, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz058 (PDF)

Ortiz, Luis E., Jorge E. González, Radley Horton, Wuyin Lin, Wei Wu, Prathap Ramamurthy, Mark Arend, Robert D.  Bornstein. 2019. “High-Resolution Projections of Extreme Heat in New  York City.” International Journal of Climatology, https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6102 (PDF)

Hölscher, Katharina, Niki Frantzeskaki, Timon McPhearson, Derk Loorbach. 2019. “Capacities for urban transformations governance and the case of New York City.” Cities 94, 186–199, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2019.05.037 (PDF)

Frantzeskaki, Niki, Timon McPhearson, Marcus J. Collier, Dave Kendal, Harriet Bulkeley, Adina Dumitru, Claire Walsh, Kate Noble, Ernita van Wyk, Camilo Ordóñez, Cathy Oke, Laszlo Pinter. 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)

Rosenzweig, Bernice, Benjamin L. Ruddell, Lauren McPhillips, Robert Hobbins, Timon McPhearson, Zhongqi Cheng, Heejun Chang, Yeowon Kim. 2019. “Developing Knowledge Systems for Urban Resilience to Cloudburst Rain Events.” Environmental Science and Policy 99: 150–159, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2019.05.020 (PDF)

Rozance, Mary Ann, Ashlie Denton, A. Marissa Matsler, Zbigniew Grabowski, Wendy Mayhugh. 2019. “Examining the Scalar Knowledge Politics of Risk within Coastal Sea Level Rise Adaptation Planning Knowledge Systems.” Environmental Science & Policy 99: 105–14, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2019.05.024 (PDF)

Wijsman, Katinka, Mathieu Feagan. 2019. “Rethinking Knowledge Systems for Urban Resilience: Feminist and Decolonial Contributions to Just Transformations.” Environmental Science & Policy 98: 70–76, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2019.04.017 (PDF)

Elmqvist, Thomas, Erik Andersson, Niki Frantzeskaki, Timon McPhearson, Per Olsson, Owen Gaffney, Kazuhiko Takeuchi, Carle Folke. 2019. “Sustainability and resilience for transformation in the urban century.” Nature Sustainability 2: 267–273, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0250-1 (PDF)

Robin, Enora, Clémentine Chazal, Michele Acuto, Rocio Carrero. 2019. “(Un)Learning the City through Crisis: Lessons from Cape Town.” Oxford Review of Education 45 (2): 242–57, https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2018.1551197

Carrero, Rocio, Michele Acuto, Asaf Tzachor, Niraj Subedi, Ben Campbell, Long Seng To. 2019. “Tacit Networks, Crucial Care: Informal Networks and Disaster Response in Nepal’s 2015 Gorkha Earthquake.” Urban Studies 56 (3): 561–77, https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098018810606 (PDF)

Grabowski, Zbigniew, P. Zion Klos, Chad Monfreda. 2019. “Enhancing urban resilience knowledge systems through experiential pluralism.” Environmental Science & Policy 96: 70-76 (PDF)

Iwaniec, David M., Elizabeth Cook, Olga Barbosa, Nancy B. Grimm. 2019. “Framing urban sustainability transformations: More than just big change.” Sustainability 11,573, https://doi.org/10.3390/su11030573 (PDF)

Keeler, Bonnie L., Perrine Hamel, Timon McPhearson, Maike Hamann, Marie Donahue, Kelly Meza Prado, Katie Arkema, Gregory Bratman, Kate Brauman, Jacques Finlay, Anne Guerry, Sarah Hobbie, Justin Johnson, Graham MacDonald, Robert McDonald, Nick Neverisky, Spencer Wood. 2019. “Social-ecological and technological factors moderate the value of urban nature.” Nature Sustainability 2: 29-38 (PDF)

Creutzig, Felix, Steffen Lohrey, Xuemei Bai, Alexander Baklanov, Richard Dawson, Shobhakar Dhakal, William F. Lamb, Timon McPhearson, Jan Minx, Esteban Munoz, Brenna Walsh. 2019. “Upscaling urban data science for global climate solutions.” Global Sustainability 2, e2, 1-25, https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2018.16 (PDF)

González, Jorge E., Luis Ortiz, Brianne K. Smith, Naresh Devineni, Brian Colle, James F. Booth, Arun Ravindranath, et al. 2019. “New York City Panel on Climate Change 2019 Report Chapter 2: New Methods for Assessing Extreme Temperatures, Heavy Downpours, and Drought.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1439 (1): 30–70, https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14007 (PDF)

Holscher, Katharina, Niki Frantzeskaki, Timon McPhearson, Derk Loorbach. 2019. “Tales of transforming cities: Lessons on capacities for transformative climate governance from frontrunner cities New York City, U.S. and Rotterdam, Netherlands.” Journal of Environmental Management 231:843-857 (PDF)

2018

Ilieva, Rositsa T., Timon McPhearson. 2018. “Social media data for urban sustainability.” Nature Sustainability 1:553–565 (PDFs of article and supplement).

Treglia, Michael L., McPhearson, Timon, Sanderson, Eric W., Yetman, Greg, & Maxwell, Emily Nobel. (2018). Green Roofs Footprints for New York City, Assembled from Available Data and Remote Sensing (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1469674

Hamstead, Zoé, Carson Farmer, Timon McPhearson. 2018. “Landscape-based extreme heat vulnerability assessment.” Journal of Extreme Events 5:1850018:1-23, https://doi.org/10.1142/S2345737618500185 (PDF)

Depietri, Yaella, Khila Dahal, Timon McPhearson. 2018. “Multi-hazard risk in a coastal megacity.” Natural Hazards and Earth Systems Sciences 18:3363-3381, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-3363-2018 (PDF)

Elmqvist, Thomas, José Siri, Erik Andersson, Pippin Anderson, Xuemei Bai, Pranab Kishore Das, Tatu Gatere, Andrew Gonzalez, Julie Goodness, Steven N. Handel, Ellika Hermansson Török, Jessica Kavonic, Jakub Kronenberg, Elisabet Lindgren, David Maddox, Raymond Maher, Cheikh Mbow, Timon McPhearson, Joe Mulligan, Guy Nordenson, Meggan Spires, Ulrika Stenkula, Kazuhiko Takeuchi, Coleen Vogel. 2018. “Urban tinkering.” Sustainability Science, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-018-0611-0 (PDF)

Locke, Dexter, Timon McPhearson. 2018. “Urban areas do provide ecosystem services.” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 16:203-205, https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.1796 (PDF)

Andersson, Erik, Timon McPhearson. “Making sense of biodiversity: affordances and functional ecology.” Frontiers in Psychology, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00594 (PDF)

McPhearson, Timon, Madhav Karki, Cecilia Herzog, Helen Santiago Fink, Luc Abbadie, Peleg Kremer, Christopher M. Clark, Matthew I. Palmer, Katia Perini, Marielle Dubbeling. 2018. “Urban Ecosystems and Biodiversity”, pages 259-320, in Rosenzweig C, Solecki W, Romero-Lankao P, Mehrotra S, Dhakal S, Ali Ibrahim S (eds) 2018. Climate Change and Cities: Second Assessment Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781316603338

Elmqvist, Thomas, Bai, Xuemei, Frantzeskaki, Niki, Griffith, Corrie, Maddox, David, McPhearson, Timon, Parnell, Sue, Romero-Lankao, Patricia, Simon, David, Watkins, Mark (eds) 2018. “Urban Planet: Knowledge toward sustainable cities.” Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781107196933 (PDFs of full book and individual chapters)

Parnell, Sue, Thomas Elmqvist, Timon McPhearson, Harini Nagendra, Sverker Sörlin. 2018. “Introduction: Situating knowledge and action for an urban planet”in The Urban Planet: Knowledge towards sustainable cities, (eds: Elmqvist, T., Bai. X., Frantzeskaki, N., Griffith, C., Maddox, D., McPhearson, T., Parnell, S., Romero-Lankao, P., Simon, D., Watkins, M.), Cambridge University Press (PDF)

Alberti, Marina, Timon McPhearson, Andrew Gonzalez. 2018. “Embracing urban complexity,” in The Urban Planet: Knowledge towards sustainable cities, (eds: Elmqvist, T., Bai. X., Frantzeskaki, N., Griffith, C., Maddox, D., McPhearson, T., Parnell, S., Romero-Lankao, P., Simon, D., Watkins, M.), Cambridge University Press (PDF)

Bai, Xuemei, Thomas Elmqvist, Niki Frantzeskaki, Timon McPhearson, David Simon, David Maddox, Mark Watkins, Patricia Romero-Lankao, Sue Parnell, Corrie Griffith, Debra Roberts. 2018. “Synthesis: new integrated urban knowledge for the cities we want,”in The Urban Planet: Knowledge towards sustainable cities, (eds: Elmqvist, T., Bai. X., Frantzeskaki, N., Griffith, C., Maddox, D., McPhearson, T., Parnell, S., Romero-Lankao, P., Simon, D., Watkins, M.), Cambridge University Press (PDF)

Pereira, Laura M., Elena Bennett, Reinette (Oonsie) Biggs, Garry Peterson, Timon McPhearson, Albert Norström, Per Olsson, Rika Preiser, Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne, Joost Vervoort. 2018. “Seeds of the future found in the present,” in The Urban Planet: Knowledge towards sustainable cities, (eds: Elmqvist, T., Bai. X., Frantzeskaki, N., Griffith, C., Maddox, D., McPhearson, T., Parnell, S., Romero-Lankao, P., Simon, D., Watkins, M.), Cambridge University Press (PDF)

Creutzig, Felix, Steffen Lohrey, Xuemei Bai, Richard Dawson, Shobhakar Dhakal, William Lamb, Timon McPhearson, Jan Minx, Esteban Munoz, Brenna Walsh. 2018. Upscaling urban data science for global climate solutions.” Cities IPCC Conference, Commissioned Paper, Cities IPCC Steering Committee (PDF)

Depietri, Yaella, Timon McPhearson. “Changing urban risk: 140 years of climatic hazards in New York City.” Climatic Change 148:95-108, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-018-2194-2 (PDF). 

Donahue, Marie, Bonnie L. Keeler, Spencer A. Wood, David Fisher, Zoé A. Hamstead, Timon McPhearson. 2018.  “Using social media to understand drivers of urban park visitation in the Twin Cities, MN.” Landscape and Urban Planning 175:1-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2018.02.006 (PDF)

McPhillips, Lauren E., Heejun Chang, Mikhail V. Chester, Yaella Depietri, Erin Friedman, Nancy B. Grimm, John S. Kominoski, Timon McPhearson, Pablo Méndez-Lázaro, Emma J. Rosi, Javad Shafiei Shiva. 2018. “Defining extreme events: a cross-disciplinary review,” Earth’s Future, doi: 10.1002/2017EF000686 (PDF)

Hara, Yuji, Timon McPhearson, Yuki Sampei, Brian McGrath. 2018. “Assessing urban agriculture potential: A comparative study of Osaka, Japan and New York City, United States.” Sustainability Science 1-16, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-018-0535-8 (PDF)

Hamstead, Zoé, David Fisher, Rositsa Illeva, Spencer A. Wood, Timon McPhearson, Peleg Kremer. 2018. “Geolocated social media as a rapid indicator of park visitation and equitable park access,” Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2018.01.007 (PDF)

Kabisch, Nadja, Dagmar Haase, Thomas Elmqvist, Timon McPhearson. 2018. “Cities Matter: Workspaces in Ecosystem-Service Assessments with Decision-Support Tools in the Context of Urban Systems.” BioScience,do doi:10.1093/biosci/bix153 (PDF)

Elmqvist, Thomas, Xuemei Bai, Niki Frantzeskaki, Corrie Griffith, David Maddox, TimonMcPhearson, Sue Parnell, Paty Romero-Lankao, David Simon, Mark Watkins. 2018. “New Integrated and Actionable Urban Knowledge for the Cities We Want and Need.” The Nature of Cities, https://www.thenatureofcities.com/2018/04/30/new-integrated-actionable-urban-knowledge-cities-want-need/

Berbés-Blázquez, Marta, David Iwaniec, Nancy Grimm, Timon McPhearson. “Positive Visions for Sustainable, Resilient, and Equitable Cities,”The Nature of Cities, https://www.thenatureofcities.com/2018/04/21/positive-visions-sustainable-resilient-equitable-cities/

Lodha, Ruchika, Timon McPhearson. 2018. “Nature Atlas: Exploring Multi-scalar Methods for Mapping Urban Environments,” The Nature of Cities, https://www.thenatureofcities.com/2018/03/05/nature-atlas-exploring-multi-scalar-methods-mapping-urban-environments/

McPhearson, Timon, Dagmar Haase, Erik Andersson, Nadja Kabisch. 2018. "Humans are components of ecosystems: a response to '100 articles every ecologist should read.'" Ecological Society of America, Ecotone, https://www.esa.org/esablog/guest-posts/humans-are-components-of-ecosystems-a-response-to-100-articles-every-ecologist-should-read/

McPhearson, Timon, David Maddox. 2018. "An ecology for the Anthropocene." The Nature of Cities, Global Roundtable, https://www.thenatureofcities.com/2018/01/29/one-thing-every-ecologist-know-urban-ecology/

McPhearson, Timon. 2018. “What is one thing every ecologist should know about urban ecology.” The Nature of Cities, https://www.thenatureofcities.com/2018/01/29/one-thing-every-ecologist-know-urban-ecology/

2017

Z. J. Grabowski, Matsler A., Thiel C., McPhillips L., Hum R., Bradshaw A., Miller T., & Redman, C. Infrastructures as Socio-Eco-Technical Systems: Five Considerations for Interdisciplinary Dialogue. J. Infrastruct. Syst., 2017, 23(4): 02517002. 10.1061/(ASCE)IS.1943-555X.0000383. (PDF)

Elmqvist, Thomas, Timon McPhearson. 2017.  "Urban Earth."  RE.THINK, https://rethink.earth/urban-earth/

McPhearson, Timon. 2017. "Hurricanes: enlist nature's protection.” Nature 550:43, doi:10.1038/550043c (PDF)

Ilieva, Rositsa T.  2017. “Urban Food Systems Strategies: A New Tool for Implementing the SDGs in Practice?” Sustainability, 9(10), 1–35 (PDF)

McPhearson, Timon, Katinka Wijsman. “Transitioning Complex Urban Systems: An Urban Ecology Approach to Urban Sustainability Transitions.” Urban Sustainability Transitions (eds: Dirk Loorbach, Niki Frantzeskaki, et al.), Springer (PDF)

Bai, Xuemei, Timon McPhearson, Helen Cleugh, Harini Nagendra, Xin Tong, Tong Zhu, Yong-Guan Zhu. 2017. “Linking Urbanization and the Environment: Conceptual and Empirical Advances.” Annual Review of Environment and Resources 42:12.1–12.26, doi:10.1146/annurev-environ-102016-061128 (PDF)

Elmqvist, Thomas, Timon McPhearson, Erik Andersson, Owen Gaffney. “Sustainability and resilience differ.”  2017. Nature 546:352, doi:10.1038/546352d (PDF)

McPhearson, Timon, David Iwaniec, Xuemei Bai. “Positives visions for guiding transformations toward desirable urban futures.”  Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability (Special Issue), doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2017.04.004 (PDF)

Romero-Lankao, Patricia, Timon McPhearson, Debra J. Davidson. 2017. “The food-energy-water nexus and urban complexity.” Nature Climate Change, 7:233-235, doi:10.1038/nclimate3260 (PDF)

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)

Cole, Laura, Timon McPhearson, Cecilia Herzog, Alex Kudryavtsev.  “Urban Green Infrastructure,” in A. Kudryavtsev and M. Krasny (eds), Urban Environmental Education Review, Cornell University Press (PDF)

2016

Hamstead, Zoé, Timon McPhearson, Adam Glenn.  2016.  "Climate Resilience Means Meaningfully E􏰻ngaging Vulnera􏰹ble Communities in Urban Planning Processes."The Nature of Cities, https://www.thenatureofcities.com/2016/12/07/climate-resilience-means-meaningfully-engaging-vulnerable-communities-urban-planning-processes/

Olander, Lydia, Gregory W. Characklis, Patrick Comer, Micah Effron, John Gunn, Tom Holmes, Robert Johnston, James Kagan, William Lehman, John Loomis, Timon McPhearson, Anne Neale, Lauren Patterson, Leslie Richardson, Martin Ross, David Saah, Samantha Sifleet, Keith Stockmann, Dean Urban, Lisa Wainger, Robert Winthrop, David Yoskowitz. 2016. "Data and Modeling Infrastructure for National Integration of Ecosystem Services into Decision Making: Expert Summaries." National Ecosystem Services Partnership, Working Paper 16-02. (PDF)

McPhearson, Timon, Sue Parnell, David Simon, Thomas Elmqvist, Xuemei Bai, Owen Gaffney, Debra Roberts, Aromar Revi. 2016. "Building Urban Science to Achieve the New Urban Agenda." The Nature of Cities, https://www.thenatureofcities.com/2016/10/24/building-urban-science-to-achieve-the-new-urban-agenda/

Johnson, Katie, Yaella Depietri, Margaretha Breil.  2016. Multi-hazard risk assessment of two Hong Kong districts. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 19, 311–323, doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2016.08.023 (PDF)

Groffman, Peter, Mary Cadenasso, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Daniel Childers, Nancy Grimm, Morgan Grove, Sarah Hobbie, Lucy Hutyra, Darrel Jenerette, Timon McPhearson, Diane Pataki, Steward Pickett, Richard Pouyat, Emma Rosi-Marshall, Benjamin Ruddell. 2016. “Moving toward an Urban Systems Science.” Ecosystems, doi:10.1007/s10021-016-0053-4 (PDF)

McPhearson, Timon, Sue Parnell, David Simon, Owen Gaffney, Thomas Elmqvist, Xuemei Bai, Debra Roberts, Aromar Revi. 2016. “Scientists must have a say in the future of cities.” Nature, 538:165-166 (PDF)

Bennett, E.M., M. Solan, R. Biggs, T. McPhearson, A. Norstrom, P. Olsson, L. Pereira, G.D. Peterson, C. Raudsepp-Hearne, F. Biermann, S. R. Carpenter, E. Ellis, T. Hichert, V. Galaz, M. Lahsen, M. Milkoreit, B. Martin-Lopez, K. A. Nicholas, R. Preiser, G. Vince, J. Vervoort, J. Xu.  2016. “Bright Spots: Seeds of a Good Anthropocene.” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 14(8): 441–448, doi:10.1002/fee.1309 (PDF)

Laura Cole, Timon McPhearson, Cecilia Herzog, Alex Russ. 2016. Accessing Urban Environmental Education Opportunities Via Green Infrastructure." The Nature of Cities, https://www.thenatureofcities.com/2016/07/03/accessing-urban-environmental-education-opportunities-via-green-infrastructure/

Larondelle, Neele, Dagmar Haase, Zoé A. Hamstead, Peleg Kremer und Timon McPhearson. 2016. “Eine neue Stadtstrukturklassifikation zur Analy- se der Beziehung zwischen ökologischer Funk- tion, Bebauung und Bodenbedeckungsstruktur: Eine vergleichende Studie von Berlin und New York City.” Stadtforschung Und Statistik 2:65-77 (PDF)

Gittleman, Mara, Carson Famer, Peleg Kremer, Timon McPhearson. 2016.  “Estimating Stormwater Runoff for Community Gardens in New York City.” Urban Ecosystems, doi:10.1007/s11252-016-0575-8 (PDF)

Frantzeskaki, Niki, Nadja Kabisch, Timon McPhearson. 2016. “Advancing urban environmental governance: Understanding theories, practices and processes shaping urban sustainability and resilience.” Environmental Science & Policy (PDF)

Kremer, Peleg, Zoé A. Hamstead, Timon McPhearson.  2016. “The Value of Urban Ecosystem Services: A Spatially Explicit Multicriteria Analysis of Landscape Scale Valuation Scenarios in NYC.” Environmental Science & Policy (Special Issue), doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2016.04.012 (PDF)

McPhearson, Timon, Dagmar Haase, Nadja Kabisch, Åsa Gren. 2016. “Advancing understanding of the complex nature of urban systems.” Ecological Indicators, doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.03.054 (PDF)

Kremer, Peleg, Zoé Hamstead, Dagmar Haase, Timon McPhearson, Niki Frantzeskaki, Erik Andersson, Nadja Kabisch, Neele Larondelle, Emily Lorance Rall, Gina Avlonitis, Christine Bertram, Francesc Baró, Erik Gómez-Baggethun, Asa Gren, Rieke Hansen, Anna Kaczorowska, Jaan-Henrik Kain, Jakub Kronenberg, Johannes Langemeyer, Pamela Muehlmann, Stephan Pauleit, Katrin Rehdanz, Maria Schewenius, Chantal van Ham, Annette Voigt, Daniel Wurster, Thomas Elmqvist. 2016. “Key insights for the future of urban ecosystem services research.” Ecology and Society, 21(2):29, doi:10.5751/ES-08445-210229 (PDF)

McPhearson, Timon, Steward T.A. Pickett, Nancy Grimm, Jari Niemelä, Marina Alberti, Thomas Elmqvist, Christiane Weber, Dagmar Haase, Jürgen Breuste, Salman Qureshi.  2016. "Advancing Urban Ecology Toward a Science of Cities." BioScience, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biw002 (PDF)

McPhearson, Timon, Michael Feller, Alexander Felson, Richard Karty, Jacqueline WT Lu, Matthew I Palmer, Tim Wenskus. 2016. “Assessing the effects of the urban forest restoration effort of MillionTreesNYC on the structure and functioning of New York City ecosystems,” in Urban Forests: Ecosystem Services and Management (J. Blum, ed), Apple Academic Press

2015

Hamstead, Zoé A., Neele Larondelle, Peleg Kremer, Timon McPhearson, Dagmar Haase. 2015. “Classification of the heterogeneous structure of urban landscapes (STURLA) as an indicator of landscape function applied to surface temperature in New York City.” Ecological Indicators (PDF)

McHale, Melissa R., Steward TA Pickett, Olga Barbosa, David N Bunn, Mary L Cadenasso, Daniel L Childers, Meredith Gartin, George Hess, David M Iwaniec, Timon McPhearson, M. Nils Peterson, Alexandria K. Poole, Louie Rivers III, Shade T Shutters, Weiqi Zhou. 2015. “The New Global Urban Realm: Complex, Connected, Diffuse, and Diverse Social-Ecological Systems.” Sustainability (Special Issue), 2015, 7, 5211-5240. doi:10.3390/su7055211 (PDF)

Kremer, Peleg, Erik Andersson, Timon McPhearson, Thomas Elmqvist. 2015. “Advancing the Frontier of Urban Ecosystem Services Research.” Ecosystem Services (Special Issue) 12:149-151, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2015.01.008 (PDF)

McPhearson, Timon, Erik Andersson, Thomas Elmqvist, Niki Frantzeskaki. 2015. “Resilience Of and Through Urban Ecosystem Services,“ Ecosystem Services (Special Issue) 12:152-156, doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2014.07.012 (PDF)

Andersson, Erik, Timon McPhearson, Peleg Kremer, Erik Gomez-Baggethun, Dagmar Haase, Magnus Tuvendal, Daniel Wurster. 2015. “Scale and Context Dependence of Ecosystem Service Providing Units.“ Ecosystem Services (Special Issue) 12:157-164, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2014.08.001 (PDF)

Andersson, E., Maria Tengö, Timon McPhearson, Peleg Kremer. 2015. “Cultural Ecosystem Services as a Platform for Working Towards Urban Sustainability.” Ecosystem Services (Special Issue) 12:165-168, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2014.08.002 (PDF)

Hansen, Rieke, Niki Frantzeskaki, Timon McPhearson, Emily Rall, Nadja Kabisch Anna Kaczorowska, Jaan-Henrik Kain, , Martina Artmann, Stephan Pauleit. 2015. “The uptake of the ecosystem services concept in planning discourses of European and American cities.” Ecosystem Services (Special Issue) 12: 228-246, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2014.11.013 (PDF)

McPhearson, Timon, Victorial Marshall. 2015. “Micro_Urban: The Ecological and Social Potential of Small-Scale Urban Spaces”. The Nature of Cities, http://www.thenatureofcities.com/2015/01/03/micro_urban-the-ecological-andsocial- potential-of-small-scale-urban-spaces/

2014

McPhearson, Timon, Zoé Hamstead, Peleg Kremer. 2014. “Urban Ecosystem Services for Resilience Planning and Management in New York City.” AMBIO (Special Issue) 43:502–515. doi:10.1007/s13280-014-0509-8 (PDF)

Larondelle, Neele, Hamstead, Zoé A., Peleg Kremer, Dagmar Haase, Timon McPhearson. 2014. “Applying a novel urban structure classification to compare the relationships of urban structure and surface temperature in Berlin and New York City.” Applied Geography 53: 427-437, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2014.07.004 (PDF)

Haase, Dagmar, Neele Larondelle, Erik Andersson, Martina Artmann, Sarah Borgström, Jürgen Breuste, Erik Gomez-Baggethun, Åsa Gren, Zoé Hamstead, Rieke Hansen, Nadja Kabisch, Peleg Kremer, Johannes Langemeyer, Emily Lorance Rall, Timon McPhearson, Stephan Pauleit, Salman Qureshi, Nina Schwarz, Annette Voigt, Daniel Wurster, Thomas Elmqvist.  2014. “A Quantitative Review of Urban Ecosystem Services Assessments: Concepts, Models, and Implementation.” AMBIO (Special Issue) 43:413–433, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-014-0504-0 (PDF)

Schewenius, Maria, Timon McPhearson, Thomas Elmqvist. 2014. “Opportunities for Increasing Resilience and Sustainabilityof Urban Social–Ecological Systems: Insights from the URBES and the Cities Biodiversity Outlook Projects.” AMBIO (Special Issue) 43:434-444, doi:10.1007/s13280-014-0505-z (PDF)

Falxa-Raymond, Nancy, Matthew I. Palmer, Timon McPhearson, Kevin Griffith. 2014. “Foliar Nitrogen Characteristics of Four Tree Species Planted in New York City Forest Restoration Sites.” Urban Ecosystems 1-18, http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11252-014-0346-3 (PDF)

McPhearson, Timon. 2014. “The Rise of Resilience: Linking Resilience and Sustainability in City Planning”. The Nature of Cities, http://www.thenatureofcities.com/2014/06/08/the-rise-of-resilience-linkingresilience-and-sustainability-in-city-planning. Republished on GetResilient.com, SustainableCitiesCollective.com, and UrbanTimes.com. 

McPhearson, Timon. 2014. An Urban Ecology Approach to “The Future We Want”. Revolve Magazine 11:18-24, http://www.revolve-magazine.com/home/2014/06/20/urban-ecology-anapproach-to-the-future-we-want/ (PDF)

Haase, Dagmar, Timon McPhearson, Anna Kaczorowska, Niki Frantzeskaki. 2014. “Ecosystem Services in Urban Landscapes: Practical Applications and Governance Implications.” Urbanization and Global Environmental Change: Viewpoints, Spring 2014 (PDF)

McPhearson, Timon. 2014. “How much should we worry about exotic species in urban zones?” The Nature of Cities, http://www.thenatureofcities.com/?p=6501

McPhearson, Timon. 2014. “Many believe that better information on the monetary value of ecosystem services is critical for getting cities to adopt more green infrastructure solutions”. The Nature of Cities, http://www.thenatureofcities.com/?p=5792

Pickett, Steward T.A., Kenneth T. Belt, Geoffrey Bukley, Timothy Carter, Edward J.Doheny, Erle C. Ellis, Peter M. Groffman, Gordon M. Heisler, Brian P. McGrath, Timon McPhearson, Katalin Szlavecz, Jonathan M. Walsh. 2014. BES UrbanLexicon: Concepts for the Interdisciplinary Study of Urban Ecology. Baltimore Ecosystem Study, ISBN 978-1-312-39712-5 (PDF)

2013

McPhearson, Timon, Peleg Kremer, Zoé Hamstead. 2013. “Mapping Ecosystem Services in New York City: Applying a Social-Ecological Approach in Urban Vacant Land.” Ecosystem Services 5:11-26, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2013.06.005 (PDF)

Kremer, Peleg, Zoé Hamstead, Timon McPhearson. 2013.  “A Social-Ecological Assessment of Vacant Lots in New York City.” Landscape and Urban Planning 120:218-233, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2013.05.003 (PDF)

Crossman, Neville, Benjamin Burkhard, Stoyan Nedkov, Louise Willemen, Katalin Petz, Ignacio Palomo, Evangelia G. Drakou, Berta Martín-Lopez, Timon McPhearson, Kremena Boyanova, Rob Alkemade, Benis Egoh, Martha Dunbar, Joachim Maes. 2013. “A blueprint for mapping and modelling ecosystem services.” Ecosystem Services 44-14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2013.02.001 (PDF)

McPhearson, Timon, David Maddox, Bram Gunther, David Bragdon. 2013. “New York City Biodiversity, Green Space, and Ecosystem Services”, In, Cities and Biodiversity Outlook: Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities, (eds: Thomas Elmqvist, Michail Fragkias, Julie Goodness, Burak Güneralp, Peter J. Marcotullio, Robert I. McDonald, Susan Parnell, Maria Schewenius, Marte Sendstad, Karen C. Seto, Cathy Wilkinson), Springer Netherlands, pp.355- 383, doi:10.1007/978-94-007-7088-1_19 (PDF)

McPhearson, Timon, Roger Auch, Marina Alberti. 2013. “Urbanization trends, biodiversity patterns, and ecosystem services in North America,” In, Cities and Biodiversity Outlook: Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities, (eds: Thomas Elmqvist, Michail Fragkias, Julie Goodness, Burak Güneralp, Peter J. Marcotullio, Robert I. McDonald, Susan Parnell, Maria Schewenius, Marte Sendstad, Karen C. Seto, Cathy Wilkinson), Springer Netherlands, pp.279-286, doi:10.1007/978-94-007-7088-1_14 (PDF)

Gómez-Baggethun, Erik, Åsa Gren, David N. Barton, Johannes Langemeyer, Timon McPhearson, Patrick O’Farrell, Erik Andersson, Zoé Hamstead, Peleg Kremer. 2013. “Urban Ecosystem Services,” In, Cities and Biodiversity Outlook: Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities, (eds: Thomas Elmqvist, Michail Fragkias, Julie Goodness, Burak Güneralp, Peter J. Marcotullio, Robert I. McDonald, Susan Parnell, Maria Schewenius, Marte Sendstad, Karen C. Seto, Cathy Wilkinson), Springer Netherlands, pp.175-251, doi:10.1007/978-94-007-7088-1_11 (PDF)

McPhearson, Timon, Keith G. Tidball. 2013. “Disturbances in Urban Social- Ecological Systems: Niche Opportunities for Environmental Education” In, Trading Zones in Environmental Education: Creating Transdisciplinary Dialogue, (eds: Marianne Krasny, Justin Dillon). Peter Lang, New York (PDF)

McPhearson, Timon. 2013. “Getting Beyond Plant PR: Accounting for Both Services and Disservices of Urban Green Infrastructure.” The Nature of Cities, http://www.thenatureofcities.com/?p=3425 

McPhearson, Timon. 2013. “Wicked Problems, Social-ecological Systems, and the Utility of Systems Thinking.” The Nature of Cities, http://www.thenatureofcities.com/?p=2180 


2012 and Earlier

McPhearson, Timon. 2012. “Cities as Highly Functional Socio-Ecological Systems: Solving the Environmental Crisis with a Tree?” Scapes 8: 30-37 (PDF)

McPhearson, Timon. 2012. “Vacant Land in Cities Could Provide Important Social and Ecological Benefits.” The Nature of Cities, http://www.thenatureofcities.com/?p=656 

McPhearson, P. Timon. 2011. “Toward a Sustainable New York City: Greening Through Urban Forest Restoration.” In, The Triple Bottom Line: Sustainability Principles, Practice, and Perspective in America’s Cities (M. Slavin, editor), pp181-204, Island Press, Washington, D.C. (PDF)

McPhearson, P. Timon, Mike Feller, Alex Felson, Richard Karty, Jacqueline Lu, Matthew Palmer, Timothy Wenskus.  2010.  “Assessing the Effects of Urban Forest Restoration Effort of MillionTreesNYC on the Structure and Functioning of New York City Ecosystems.” Cities and the Environment 3(1): Article 7, 21 (PDF)

Campbell, Lindsay, Cristiana Fragola, Marianne Krasny, Gina Lovasi, Jacqueline W.T. Lu, David Maddox, Simon McDonnell, P. Timon McPhearson, Franco Montalto, Andrew Newman, Ellen Pehek, Ruth A. Rae, Megan Shane, Richard Stedman, Erika Svendsen, Keith G. Tidball, Lynne Westphal, Tom Whitlow (authors listed alphabetically). 2010. "MillionTreesNYC, Green Infrastructure, and Urban Ecology: Building a Research Agenda," MillionTreesNYC Advisory Board Research & Evaluation Subcommittee, NYC Department of Parks & Recreation, New York City, NY (PDF)

Horning, Ned, P. Timon McPhearson, Osman C. Wallace. 2009. "An Introduction to Remote Sensing." Network of Conservation Educators and Practitioners, American Museum of Natural History, New York (PDF)

McPhearson, P. Timon, Stuart P.D. Gill, Robert Pollack, Julia E. Sable. 2008. “Increasing Scientific Literacy in Undergraduate Education: A Case Study from ‘Frontiers of Science’ at Columbia University.” In, A Vision of Transdisciplinarity: Laying Foundations for a World Knowledge Dialogue (Eds. Frédéric Darbellay, Moira Cockell,Jérôme Billotte, and Francis Waldvogel), EPFL Press, Switzerland. (PDF)

Johnson, Elizabeth A., P. Timon McPhearson. 2007. "Protecting Nature in Your Community." Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History, New York (PDF)

McPhearson, P. Timon, Osman C. Wallace. 2007. "Application of Remote Sensing to Biodiversity Conservation." Network of Conservation Educators and Practitioners, American Museum of Natural History, New York (PDF)

McPhearson, P. Timon. 2006. Contributing author to Legacy: Conserving New York State’s Biodiversity (eds Johnson, E.A., D. Smith). American Museum of Natural History, New York State Biodiversity Research Institute, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, New York Natural Heritage Program, and The Nature Conservancy, Albany, New York (PDF)

McPhearson, P. Timon. 2004. "The Complexity of Cooperation in Ecological Communities." Ph.D. Dissertation. Rutgers University. New Brunswick, NJ (PDF)

McPhearson, P. Timon, Peter J. Morin. 2003. Review of “The importance of species: Perspectives on expendability and triage,” P. Karieva, S.A. Levin (eds). Integrative and Comparative Biology 43:603 (PDF)

Petchey, Owen L., Tim Casey, Lin Jiang, P. Timon McPhearson, Jennifer Price.  2002.  “Species richness, environmental fluctuations, and temporal change in total community biomass.” Oikos 99: 231-240 (PDF)

Petchey, Owen L., P. Timon McPhearson, Tim M. Casey, Peter J. Morin. 1999. “Environmental warming alters food-web structure and ecosystem function.” Nature 420:69-72 (PDF)