Franco Montalto
Philadelphia and Venice
Dr. Montalto is a licensed civil and environmental engineer with 30 years of research, planning, and design experience in the fields of ecological restoration, green infrastructure, and urban sustainability and resilience. He is a Professor at Drexel University, where he directs the Sustainable Water Resource Engineering Lab, and is also the Founder and President of eDesign Dynamics LLC, an environmental consulting firm based in New York City, with an international portfolio of projects. His practice and research are applied, participatory, and interdisciplinary. He is a co-investigator on the Consortium for Climate Risks in the Urban Northeast, and co-chair of the Fifth NYC Panel on Climate Change.
More by this author at The Nature of Cities
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Strengthening Social Infrastructure for Climate Resilience
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Are Universities and Students Allies in Climate Action?… Maybe.
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Resolving to Act After the 2016 U.S. Election and the United Nations Climate Conference
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Taking “resilience” out of the realm of metaphor. How do you measure resilience in cities? How would you know if your city or your community was resilient?
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Lessons on Post-Resilience from Venice, 2015
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Many believe that better information on the monetary value of ecosystem services is critical for getting cities to adopt more green infrastructure solutions to issues such as storm water management, heat island, storm surge, etc. True? What are the key knowledge gaps for convincing cities to invest in ecosystems services?