Steward Pickett
Poughkeepsie
Steward T.A. Pickett is a Distinguished Senior Scientist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York. He was awarded a PhD by the University of Illinois in 1977. His research focuses on the ecological structure of urban areas and the temporal dynamics of vegetation, including primary forests, the post-agricultural oldfields in the Eastern U.S., and riparian woodlands in South Africa. He co-directs the Baltimore Ecosystem Study Long-Term Ecological Research program. He has produced books on ecological heterogeneity, humans as components of ecosystems, conservation, bridging ecology and urban design, the philosophy of ecology, and linking ecology and ethics. He served as President of the Ecological Society of America from 2011 to 2012.
More by this author at The Nature of Cities
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Plaidoyer for Transdisciplinarity, Local Agency, and Creative Co-Creation in Horizon Europe and the New European Bauhaus
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Story. Telling. If you had a project from science or practice and wanted to make it a better story — one that could reach into new audiences — what would you do?
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Nature for All: How can we uproot structural inequity in the provision of nature and its benefits to people?
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Two Reflections: Thinking About Blackness, Ecology, and Architecture in the United States
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Beyond equity: What does an anti-racist urban ecology look like?
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What I Know Now: The Need for “Good Trouble” to Build an Anti-Racist Science of Ecology
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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 -
What did you read in 2018 that moved you?
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What is one thing every ecologist should know about urban ecology?
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Ecosystems for everyone: Who should have access to the myriad benefits of ecosystem services and urban nature? Everyone. Does everyone? No. How will we achieve this moral imperative?
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Are cities ecosystems—analogous to natural ones—of nature, infrastructure and people? Does thinking about cities in this way help us think about urban design?
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Tracing Contemporary Landscape Architecture to Sound Ecological Foundations
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What are the unifying elements of an urban ecology of the Global South and geographic south? Are they different than those in the north?
