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Associate Professor, Geography

Vivek Shandas is a faculty member of the Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning; a fellow of the Institute for Sustainable Solutions; and founder of the Sustainable Urban Places Research (SUPR) Lab, working to connect environmental impacts and human behavior to improve decision-making.

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Vivek Shandas is a faculty member of the Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning; a fellow of the Institute for Sustainable Solutions; and founder of the Sustainable Urban Places Research (SUPR) Lab, working to connect environmental impacts and human behavior to improve decision-making.

Present	Professor, Portland State University ‐ Geography
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	Associate Professor, Portland State University ‐ Urban Studies and Planning
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Urban, Community and Regional Planning, Environmental Policy, and Urban Studies

Environmental policy and planning, Environmental justice, Urban ecology and health, and Sustainability

http://www.suprlab.org/

Articles (69)

Exploring the Role of Vegetation Fragmentation on Aquatic Conditions: Linking ...

Landscape and Urban Planning (2009)

Vivek Shandas and Marina Alberti

A controversial issue in managing urbanizing watersheds is determining the scale at which conservation measures should be implemented. Current “best ...

Bailout Strategists: Thinking through Philanthropy in a Time of Troubles

Metroscape (2009)

Vivek Shandas, Marjory Hamman and Mark Holloway

As the global economy spirals into the unknown, fiscal certainty remains hard to come by in the region, especially when ...

Spatial patterns of air toxins in the region

Metroscape (2009)

Linda Acha George and Vivek Shandas

This Atlas draws on the Portland Air Toxics Assessment (PATA) study to explore the regional variation of air quality. The ...

Using Best Available Science to Protect Critical Areas in Washington ...

Urban Ecosystems (2009)

April Mills, Tessa Francis, Vivek Shandas, Kara Whittaker, et al.

Urban development has profound impacts on ecological patterns and processes making the scientific information required for developing environmental ordinances central ...

Rates of Urbanisation and the Resiliency of Air and Water ...

Science of The Total Environment (2008)

Vivek Shandas, Jiunn-Der Duh, Heejun Chang and Linda A. George

Global human population and urban development are increasing at unprecedented rates and creating tremendous stress on local, regional, and global ...

Floodplains: Balancing Nature and Human Needs

Metroscape (2008)

Vivek Shandas and Meg Merrick

For countless years, the interaction between climatic conditions and water flow has forged the rolling hills and rivers in the ...

Good planning, good health: An interview with Rajiv Bhatia

Metroscape (2008)

Rajiv Bhatia, MD, MPH, is the Director of Occupational and Environmental Health for the San Francisco Department of Public Health. ...

Periodic Atlas of the Metroscape: A Geography of Opportunity: Maps ...

Metroscape (2008)

Kenneth Radin, Meg Merrick and Vivek Shandas

Atlas of poverty levels, distribution of wealth, and demographics in the Portland Metro Area.

Fostering Green Communities Through Civic Engagement: Community-Based Environmental Stewardship in ...

Journal of the American Planning Association (2008)

Vivek Shandas and Barry W. Messer

Problem: Urban development can fragment natural habitats, alter hydrologic systems, and modify energy flows and nutrient cycles. The literature on ...

Incorporating Ecosystem-Based Management into Urban Environmental Policy: A Case Study ...

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management (2008)

Vivek Shandas, Jessica K. Graybill and Clare M. Ryan

The worldwide growth of urban settlements affects the management of natural resources and has prompted scholars in the natural and ...

An Empirical Study of Streamside Landowners' Interest in Riparian Conservation

Journal of the American Planning Association (2007)

The importance of riparian vegetation for aquatic habitat is well established in the ecological conservation literature, but urban planning agencies' ...

Effects of Human Choices on Characteristics of Urban Ecosystems

Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America (2007)

Lawrence A. Baker, Anthony J. Brazel, Loren Bryne, Alex Felson, et al.

Most urban ecology in cities remains an "ecology in cities" rather than an "ecology of cities." Accomplishing the latter requires ...

Periodic Atlas of the Metroscape: Geography of Opportunity: Maps from ...

Metroscape (2007)

Meg Merrick and Vivek Shandas

Of the three pillars of sustainability (ecology, economy, and equality), equality has been largely absent from regional development discussions in ...

A Rough Guide to Interdisciplinarity: Graduate Student Perspectives

BioScience (2006)

Jessica K. Graybill, Sarah Dooling, Vivek Shandas, John Withey, et al.

A widely held belief is that only through interdisciplinarity can academics effectively address today's complex ecological problems, because these problems ...

Periodic Atlas of the Metroscape: The Geography of Water

Metroscape (2006)

Vivek Shandas, Alton Straub and Yongxia Kou

Atlas of water districts and water use in the Portland Metro Area.

Periodic Atlas of the Metroscape: The Geography of Water

Metroscape (2006)

Vivek Shandas, Alton Straub and Yongxia Kou

Describes the geography of water in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area: groundwater, rivers, irrigation, water supply, and sewer lines.

Incorporating Science into the Environmental Policy Process: a Case Study ...

Ecology and Society (2005)

Tessa B. Francis, Kara A. Whittaker, Vivek Shandas, April V. Mills, et al.

The incorporation of science into environmental policy is a key concern at many levels of decision making. Various institutions have ...

Interactions Between Vegetation Patterns, Social Preferences, and Stream Biotic Conditions ...

Proceeding of the Georgia Basin Puget Sound Research Conference (2005)

In the Seattle metropolitan region, decades of urban growth have culminated in the federal listing of the Puget Sound Chinook ...

A GIS based Water Demand Analysis for Municipal Application

Proceedings of MapIndia's International Conference on Geospatial Sciences (2003)

Vivek Shandas, Marina Alberti, John Gibson, Steve Moddemeyer, et al.

There is an increasing awareness that water resources exist in limited quantities, and available supply varies considerably during the course ...

Contribution to Book

Forces of Change in Doctoral Education: A Perspective from Four ...

Globalization and Its Impacts on the Quality of PhD Education (2014)

Chapter 2, reflecting the shared perspectives of four early-career researchers (ECRs), examines the forces affecting doctoral education. Given that the ...

Contribution to Book

Communicating Sustainable Development Options - Who Evaluates the Trade-Offs?

Regional Sustainability: Applied Ecological Economics Bridging the Gap Between Natural and Social Sciences (1999)

Vivek Shandas, Sabine O'Hara and Jose Vazquez

The search for models of sustainable development has not been easy. Some concepts and definitions have taken their cue from ...

Toward a Resilient Urban Forest

Toward Resilient Futures (2021)

The urban forest provides myriad benefits for improving the health and well-being of residents. Yet, a rapidly warming planet poses ...

Hydraulic vulnerability of native trees is increased by urban heat

Urban Ecosystem Research Consortium of Portland/Vancouver (2019)

Aaron R. Ramirez, Vivek Shandas, Todd Rosenstiel, Hannah Prather, et al.

While a warming climate has implications on human populations and infrastructure systems, we also need a better understanding of ecosystem ...

Portland-Vancouver ULTRA-Ex: Evaluating Relationships Between Governance and Environmental Quality in ...

Environmental Science and Management Faculty Publications and Presentations (2013)

J. Alan Yeakley, Sally Duncan, Steve Bollens, Connie P. Ozawa, et al.

The Portland-Vancouver Urban Long Term Research Area (ULTRA-Ex) is a multidisciplinary project aimed at understanding the feedbacks between human and ...

The Hydro-ecology of Everyday Life: Assessing the Social and Environmental ...

Systems Science Friday Noon Seminar Series (2010)

Driven in part by the imminent threats of population growth and climate destabilization, recent studies suggest that urban areas face ...