Alex Felson

Ethical considerations of urban ecological design and planning experiments

Diane E Pataki, Carlos G Santana, Sarah J Hinners, Alexander J Felson, Jesse Engebretson

Journal article  |  2021  |  PLANTS PEOPLE PLANET

It is increasingly common for plant scientists and urban planning and design professionals to collaborate on interdisciplinary tea..

Designing (for) Urban Food Webs

Alexander J Felson, Aaron M Ellison

Journal article  |  2021  |  FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Interest is growing in designing resilient and ecologically rich urban environments that provide social and ecological benefits. R..

Engaging the unengaged: Understanding residents’ perceptions of social access to urban public space

W Klein, MR Dove, AJ Felson

Journal article  |  2021  |  Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Social access to urban parks is an understudied phenomenon encompassing the interplay between the physical conditions of urban nei..

The Benefits and Limits of Urban Tree Planting for Environmental and Human Health

Diane E Pataki, Marina Alberti, Mary L Cadenasso, Alexander J Felson, Mark J McDonnell, Stephanie Pincetl, Richard V Pouyat, Heikki Setälä, Thomas H Whitlow

Journal article  |  2021  |  Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Many of the world’s major cities have implemented tree planting programs based on assumed environmental and social benefits of urb..

Positive long‐term impacts of restoration on soils in an experimental urban forest

Elisabeth B Ward, Danica A Doroski, Alexander J Felson, Richard A Hallett, Emily E Oldfield, Sara E Kuebbing, Mark A Bradford

Journal article  |  2021  |  Ecological Applications

As urbanization increases worldwide, so too are investments in nature‐based solutions that aim to mitigate urban stressors and cou..

Mangrove Rehabilitation and Restoration as Experimental Adaptive Management

Aaron M Ellison, Alexander J Felson, Daniel A Friess

Journal article  |  2020  |  Frontiers in Marine Science

Rehabilitated and restored mangrove ecosystems have important ecological, economic, and social values for coastal communities. Alt..

Are American Coasts Under-Protected?

Robert O Mendelsohn, Joseph G Schiavo, Alex Felson

Journal article  |  2019  |  COASTAL MANAGEMENT

This study tests whether potential coastal sea walls would pass a cost benefit test given current risks of flooding. The paper com..

Reimagining the City and Park for a Sustainable Urban Future

Alexander Felson

Book Chapter  |  2019

Suitability of wetland macrophyte in green cooling tower performance

Acheampong Atta-Boateng, Graeme P Berlyn, Corey S O’Hern, Alexander J Felson

Journal article  |  2019  |  Ecological Engineering

Green cooling towers, or thermal green-walls, recirculate hot water flowing through a living plant and porous material. Through co..

Factors driving natural regeneration beneath a planted urban forest

Danica A Doroski, Alexander J Felson, Mark A Bradford, Mark P Ashton, Emily E Oldfield, Richard A Hallett, Sara E Kuebbing

Journal article  |  2018  |  URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Cities around the world are investing in urban forest plantings as a form of green infrastructure. The aim is that these plantatio..