Erika Svendsen
New York City
Dr. Erika Svendsen is a social scientist with the U.S. Forest Service, Northern Research Station and is based in New York City. Erika studies environmental stewardship and issues related to hybrid governance, collective resilience and human well-being. She is particularly interested in understanding the spatial, temporal and sacred aspects of stewardship systems. Erika is part of the NYC Urban Field Station, a unique research collaboration founded by the Forest Service and NYC Parks. The Urban Field Station is both a physical place to conduct research and a network of scientists and practitioners dedicated to improving the quality of life in urban areas by conducting and supporting research about social-ecological systems and natural resource management.
More by this author at The Nature of Cities
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Caring in Public: A Framework for Social Infrastructure Visibility in Community-managed Open Space (Part 1)
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Documenting the Pandemic Year: Reflecting Backward, Looking Forward
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Quarantine Fatigue and the Power of Activating Public Lands as Social Infrastructure
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Socially Distant Summer: Stewarding Nature and Community to Meet Basic Needs during a Pandemic
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The View from Our Windows: Our Social Ecologies of Sheltering in Place
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Covid has upended all the normal routines in our lives and work. How do you imagine you might be changed by it, both professionally, but also personally as you negotiate a new post-virus “normal”?
Africa, Awareness, Biodiversity, Climate change, Communities, Conservation, Covid-19, Culture, Disasters/Red zone, Economics, Ecosystem services, Europe, Experiencing Nature, Green Infrastructure, Health, Justice, Livability, North America, Parks, Participation/Democracy, Planning, Pollution, Resilience, South America, Sustainability, Wildlife People Interactions -
How is the concept of “stewardship” and “care for local environments” expressed around the world?
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Making the Invisible Visible: Mapping Civic Environmental Stewardship
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Exploring the Park Edge from a Worm’s Eye View
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September 11, 2015: An Event Ethnography of Living Memorials
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What is the meaning and role of the “sacred” in the design and management of urban green space and the building of cities that are both green and livable?
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Stewarding Memories: Caring for People, Trees, and Land
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Who Cares for the City?
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Rock, Tree, Human