Mark Hostetler
Gainesville
With over twenty years of experience in urban wildlife and green development issues, Dr. Mark Hostetler conducts research and outreach on how urban landscapes could be designed and managed, from small to large scales, to conserve biodiversity. He has extensive experience in working with homeowners, developers, and policy makers on ways to manage and design residential developments for biodiversity. Dr. Hostetler co-founded University of Florida’s Program for Resource Efficient Communities and collaborates with an interdisciplinary team of scientists and graduate students. Dr. Hostetler works with policy makers, developers, and homeowners to establish natural resource conservation strategies in communities that are billed as “green” developments. In particular, he conducts a national continuing education course on conserving biodiversity in subdivision development, and he has recently published a book titled, The Green Leap: A Primer for Conserving Biodiversity in Subdivision Development.
More by this author at The Nature of Cities
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Can Neighborhoods Provide Breeding Habitat for Interior-Forest Specialist Birds? Yes
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Can we enable better decision-making when it comes to urban plant selection and preparation? Does urban ecology and the horticulture industry need to be better engaged with each other?
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What actions are successful in activating cities to implement urban biodiversity conservation policies, campaigns, and projects?
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For Urban Sustainability, What Research Do We Need Now?
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Cues to Care: Are City Landowners Willing to Make Eco-friendly Landscapes?
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An urban planner and an urban ecologist walk into a bar. They chat about how (and maybe whether) “ecology” could play a bigger role in planning…
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Let go of some urban domestication: How would you convince the mayor to re-wild the city?
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Lessons Learned: What Does it Take to Create a More Natural Stormwater Pond?
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Imagine an “ecological certification” for urban design. What are such a certification’s key elements?
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The Devil is in the Details: Wild Design, from an Ecological Point of View
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You say po-TAY-to. What ecologists and landscape architects don’t get about each other, but ought to.
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Building for Birds: An Online Tool to Evaluate How Different Development Designs Impact Forest Bird Habitat
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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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Why Conserve Small Forest Fragments and Individual Trees in Urban Areas?
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An explicitly urban Sustainable Development Goal has been adopted by the UN (#11). Now what? Where could it go wrong?
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Green Form and Function versus Green Nativism: In changing urban spaces full of novel ecosystems and natural assemblages, is native purity a viable option?
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10 scientists and 10 practitioners walk into a bar…what would they talk about? How can research and knowledge generation be co-created to better support practitioners and evidence-based decision making?
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How Can We Engage Residents to Conserve Urban Biodiversity? Talk to Them
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What Do Developers Think About Managing for Biodiversity in Conservation Developments?
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Do urban green corridors “work”? It depends on what we want them to do. What ecological and/or social functions can we realistically expect green corridors to perform in cities? What attributes define them, from a design and performance perspective?
