WE BRING SOCIAL CONTEXT
TO OUR WORK.
MULTI-DISCIPLINARITY
IS KEY TO OUR SUCCESS
The Green Infrastructure Performance Lab looks at many branches of knowledge in order to inform effective decision making and meaningful results. We see our everyday landscapes as a mixture of natural and human-affected spaces. GIPL’s interdisciplinary, socio-ecological approach to analysing and designing landscapes integrates humans and nature more holistically and sustainably.
The Green Infrastructure Performance Lab is an experimental lab, pushing the limits of evidence based design, while integrating the arts, humanities, and natural sciences. The GIPL’s team addresses issues surrounding strategic design and planning and multiple scales from urban cities to rural lands. In assessing the benefits these green spaces provide both to people and nature through an inclusive ecosystem services concept.
OUR
TEAM
DR COREY DAWSON
Expertise:
Nature based solutions
Fluvial geomorphology
Resilient surface water management
Hydromorphic terrain modeling
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DR RICHARD leBRASSEUR
Expertise:
Green Infrastructure planning and design
Peri-urbanisation
Environmental psychology
Ecosystem service assessment
Eco-spatial planning and analysis
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DR ROBERT FRANCE
Expertise:
Water sensitive planning and design
Environmental restoration
Regenerative landscape design
Watershed and urban wilds management
Landscape history
Ecological land-use planning
DR KATHLEEN KEVANY
Expertise:
Dr. Kathleen Kevany is concerned with optimizing public spaces and
ensuring coherence in policies and planning for sustainable food,
rural vibrancy, wellbeing and critical consumption mindfulness. She
is interested in co-discovering important clues to facilitating
sustainable development opportunities.
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DR DAVID BURTON
Dr. Burton’s research examines the role of the soil environment in influencing the nature and extent of microbial metabolism in soil. His current research programs involve an examination of the production and consumption of greenhouse gases in natural and agricultural landscapes, sustainable manure management practices, bioremediation of hydrocarbon contaminated soil and the assessment of the quality of the soil biological environment and its influence on overall soil quality. It is the aim of this work to better understand the factors that control microbial metabolism and to use this information to developing sustainable land management systems.
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Expertise:
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STUDENTS
Thomas David-Moore
Rachel Pring
Kunyuan Chu
Taya Kehler
Andrew Huang
Devin Holmes
Tony Teuzel
GIPL's RESEARCHERS ARE IMPACT DRIVEN INNOVATORS, THINKERS and PROBLEM SOLVERS.
GIPL's RESEARCHERS THINK ABOUT COMPLEX LANDSCAPE-INDIVIDUAL PROCESSES IN RELATIONAL TERMS IN ORDER TO CREATE PHYSICALLY, PSYCHOLOGICALLY AND SOCIALLY SIGNIFICANT DESCRIPTIONS OF THE ENVIRONMENTS IN WHICH WE LIVE AND INTERACT.