Marianne Krasny
Ithaca
Marianne Krasny is professor in the Department of Natural Resources, Director of the Civic Ecology Lab at Cornell University, and a contributor to Forbes News. Through her research and outreach, she works with community-based organizations to examine how self-organized, environmental stewardship practices in cities contribute to civic renewal, ecosystem services, multi-generational learning, and social-ecological systems resilience. Recent edited books include Trading Zones in Environmental Education: Creating Transdisciplinary Dialogue and Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems: the Role of Learning and Education. Also the book Civic Ecology: Adaptation and Transformation from the Ground Up (ME Krasny and KG Tidball, MIT Press).
More by this author at The Nature of Cities
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Nature-Based Solutions in Education: If the benefits are clear, why isn’t it mainstream?
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Saving a Sense of Place, Saving Our Home / 拯救地方感，拯救家乡
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To whom does a city’s nature belong? Is it a common pool resource, or a public good? And who decides?
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Environmental Education Generates Urban Sustainability
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Climate Change Education
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Common threads: connections among the ideas of Jane Jacobs and Elinor Ostrom, and their relevance to urban socio-ecology
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Practicing Community Environmental Education in Urban Settings
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Capturing Stewardship Stories: The Unlikely Tale of a Massive Open Online Course
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Civic Ecology Meets EdX: An Experiment in Online Social Learning and Action
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Extinction of Experience: Does it Matter?
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Environmental education in cities focuses on youth and community development, restoring ecosystems, building green infrastructure, and more. But is urban environmental education really anything new? What should its goals and practices look like?
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The sky is the limit for urban agriculture. Or is it? What can cities hope to get from community gardens and urban agriculture?